Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

[Murphie]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

Damn kids. Tricksy bastards.

[Aeni]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

I had a good laugh in this thread. I love you all.

[Elwynn]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

Oh great, just in time for me to already be out for the weekend going to a con, and I'm going to another one the week after. They'll probably shut it back down on April 3 or something.

(Yes, that's Pacific Daylight Time)

I'm always facepalming that people in my LS don't know the difference between EST and EDT and keep using "EST" during summer months.

Knowing SE, the client is probably hard coded to connect to one specific server that they used while they were beta testing, and that code is so deeply embedded in other systems somehow that they'd have to start over from scratch to change it.

Not exactly, but during the data center move a couple weeks ago, I was able to tell that apparently the client only does a DNS lookup once after you start it up. I couldn't log in again until I completely quit out of the POL client. Which I didn't actually do until the next morning because I refused to believe they would do something so silly.

So, three more days of forum QQs. Oh goody.

It's good to see they're bringing stuff back up. Now I'm interested to see the QQ threads about how people's plants died and WHY OH WHY SE COULD YOU NOT SAVE MY GRAIN SEEDS.

I'm a little concerned about my campaign medal, but I renewed it a couple days before the shutdown, and then did a few thousand XP of campaign battles, so I'm at least partly covered.

The good news is I'll have 40+ more stones. The bad news is I already had 500, so it won't matter much. But at least I have more time to burn in Abyssea for the sake of skillups. Go go dagger PUP! Gotta get them amber lights!

[Aksannyi]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

Oh ugh I forgot about campaign medals. They never should have made it so you lose your medal.

[Gobo]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

Didn't they make it so your highest stable medal is reflective of your WoTG mission status?

Just looked it up on wiki, it is dependent on your [S] city quest progress, so it is semi-reflective of mission status.

And this start up on Friday is fine with me. I have a Midterm on Thursday. Not that I played much during the week anyway.

[Kailea]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

they start service again right before the 3DS comes out... ouch ;p

[Malacite]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

Yar and Dissidia came out finally. Haven't picked it up yet though, gonna grab it on Friday.


Should I keep grinding for levels & rosetta stones before doing my data transfer?

[Feba]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

actually from my understanding, the Tokyo region had been cut from 40GW to 30GW of power. As of earlier this week, that was up to 34GW, and yesterday 37. In other words, the blackouts aren't being implemented in as many places or as often. Power is still being removed from many nonessential functions, such as lighting and elevators (the ADA would be crying) as part of conservation, but I think at some point it's more of a show of unity and support than it is because it's actually required for the sake of not losing vital power.

Also, TEPCO has stated their aims to make sure that trains don't lose power (so that transportation is somewhat reliable, although they're operating on reduced schedules)-- this also means that certain areas don't lose power, even when their regions do (which is why my house, for example, loses internet access but the power stays flowing). I'm sure they have some kind of emergency support for hospitals in place.

[Aeni]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

Also, TEPCO has stated their aims to make sure that trains don't lose power (so that transportation is somewhat reliable, although they're operating on reduced schedules)-- this also means that certain areas don't lose power, even when their regions do (which is why my house, for example, loses internet access but the power stays flowing). I'm sure they have some kind of emergency support for hospitals in place.
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Airports, TMP, government, harbor ... many, many things that would want uninterrupted power. The plants (4 so far?) in Fukushima has been written off and that's a substantial amount of power that needs to be replaced. Gas turbines, probably, although you'll need petrol for that. Maybe once off shore drilling takes place in the South China Sea, oil would be much less difficult to transport.

[Feba]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

There's no shortage of gas. There is difficulty in transporting it to the places hardest hit by the earthquake and tsunami, but in the metropolitan area nobody is conserving or worrying about gas.

[Balfree]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

I think it's stupid they even turn on the servers while the situation is so unstable...

On the other hand this is a service they're providing and I'm pretty sure not making any money for so long would hurt them too...

[Feba]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

I think it's stupid they even turn on the servers while the situation is so unstable...

It's not like they're hooking their servers up to a nuclear reactor with melting fuel rods or anything. Power is being restored, thus it doesn't need to be conserved as much. Things could change, but there's no reason to believe they will right now.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Restoration of Game Services Mar 25

It's not like they're hooking their servers up to a nuclear reactor with melting fuel rods or anything.

This = Nuclear Taruaru's /w super-powers

I vote in favor of hooking up to a reactor.