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Originally Posted by Mistwraith

it was an error that would posssibly have caused 1 tick of downtime ... while the error was fixed

But it didn't cause less than one tick of downtime did it?

so by that rule it should have been contigency 1 that would have been put in place, but that would mean continuing onwards with no attacks out and defences running !

at which point i think the universe would have rioted, alliances would be up in arms and for the 1st time in a long while everyone would have been unhappy with the outcome.

Appacco could have chosen contingency 1, but he didn't.

He chose contingency 2. And once he chose to bring the game down for more than one tick, he committed himself to a recall according to the downtime policy.

He chose to ignore that policy instead.

I am not saying the downtime policy is a good policy. Or that from a game perspective Appacco made the wrong decision. That is very debateable.

But how can you deny that they are violating policy? They initiated the rollback procedure and ignored the mandatory recall.