While the servers are down (dunno if they're up yet, still at work!), I thought I'd share this to inspire jealousy and awe to anyone responsible for maintaining production servers!

Look at the Server up time:  line!

Sorry to burst your bubble but that isn't so unusual. There are computers that have never been turned off since they were turned on. And you dont have 10s or 100s of thousands of users interacting with it simultaneously. "Rock solid" is relative until you have the masses hammer it to expose race condition bugs that exist in almost every OS and Network software in existence. This is how DoS attacks work really attempting to process thousands of requests per tick will kill most systems.

So if you want to compare set it up to allow the masses to use it in some form and see how long it lasts.

Construe this thread with all your might, but you wont take away my feeling that this chapter is going to rock. And I don't know if you noticed, but Rarebit does the key development and 9 does the abilities. There is no Development Team, as such. I'm happy they've pulled their fingers out anyhows.

Just to be clear I dont make anything. I break the Matrix.

Abilities are Dracomets domain.

the /who command may be a bit miss leading for players that haven't read an explanation of how MxO's servers are setup.

The /who command only returns players on your specific region server.

What's a region server, I can hear you asking. Well a region server is an application that supports "part" of a zone. For example all of Richland/Westview is supported by several Region Servers this allows if there is a lot of server/client latency in a specific area it doesn't effect the entire 'zone' or district as we call it.

If you want to get a feel for who is on by using the /who command jump to a hardline in different neighborhoods then use it. While the neighborhoods are not the boundries of the region servers (the RS cover a bit more area than a neighborhood) its good enough.

For reference;

• Richland/Westview is supported by 9 RS
• International is supported by 4 RS
• Downtown is supported by 5 RS

Do you have a map for all these RS so it's even an easier reference to everyone on how to use those /who???

Not explicitly.

However the question is in the details. We did fix an issue in Update 57 where if a state wore off before your ability was executed that relied on it your abilities would break.

So in getting this fixed requires details like;

• What ability, if any, did you or your opponent use prior to DPE?
• What buffs/debuffs did your opponent have on?
• What buffs/debuffs did you have on?
• Did your opponent hit you with an ability in the previous round, If so which one?
• Where you and/or you opponent only using 1 type of abilities (MA,Hacker,MKT,Guns), If so which ones?
• Does it only occur against NPC or Players or both?

Being specific about the circumstances surrounding the problem helps us find the problem. Its an unfortunate reality that sometimes (hopefully rarely) that a problematic bug happens but can't quite be reproduced under "controlled" environment.

9mmfu wall kicked the Kid.  :o

Or Wesker..

As I mentioned in manatiks GM box thread. the timers for disabling the stealth abilities lasts a long time. And well after you finish a box or leave Sati's playground. Relogging clears the timers, but death does not.

Was this intentional or a bug?

 

The length of the stealth suppression was brought up when the content was tested and it was determined that it was the desired duration.

The supression last as long as the encounter does.

Changing organization and faction doesn't matter that much as it did in the past. Today when you change organization it has no consequences. Maybe there should be a timer so that you can only change organization every 3 months?

 

Interesting that Usability wasn't really touched upon or low system specs.

It's not SOE's policy to divulge how many subscribers they have to one particular game.

Last I heard, anyway.

phi wrote:

That chance to get rep points dropping is the bane of my missions. I've been on 126 for years. C'mon nearly 1000 missions and no rep point. >
I live for the day I see "maximum" as my zion rep.

Is it true that if you were ever Merv or Machine previously, you can never achieve max Zion rep?

/as

There will not be any customizable UI for MxO. Heck its hard enough for us that can to do it

When I unsubscribed before the release of WotLK. I stated I thought it was silly for a game to have "warcraft" in its name without any significant RvR in it and that they should change their game's title to World of Grindcraft.