Runes of Magic US / AU

Quoted from "ghostwolf82"

I meant to take away the festival, like they will be doing eventually anyways.

Yeah, but GF can't do that even if they wanted to, AFAIK. And RW would not want to, either.

It is not clear that this is festival effect anyway. It is too unpredictable and sporadic, so we are guessing. Circumstantial evidence at best.

There were cases when it was a lot clearer that festival was the issue - like the time when festival broke Envoy of Dragons line. Nothing else could've done it since nobody else is touching anything around TH or around that range of game IDs. And the quest line came back as soon as festival was off. And even then, the festival run full time anyway.

Don't see it happening. It is not New Coke.

Quoted from "vfwiffo"

Don't see it happening. It is not New Coke.

If "New Coke" was introduced in 1985, and has been around for about 30 years now, how long before it loses that title?

Quoted from "ghostwolf82"

Really simple way to test if it is the pumpkin festival or not... remove it, if the problems go away then you know the solution is to never run the festival again unless RW fixes it. If the problems persist even with the festival gone, then it is something deeper. That is the only way to really test this theory, even though those of us who have been here the last couple years already know it is the festival since this is a recurring pumpkin festival issue.

Ghost, Saito has already stated that the Pumpkin Festival has nothing to do with the recent server issues, and I concur. Logic dictates that if it was the source of the problems, all of our servers, US, AU, and EU alike, would have been affected.

The only festival which has consistently caused game issues has been the Fire Festival, which routinely screws up Siege, and across all servers. The only inconsistency is that randomly, a handful of players have been able to enter Siege, while others cannot. In fact, those who are unable to enter Siege find that nearby NPCs tend to fade out and disappear, the client becomes unresponsive, and then drops to the login screen. You have to exit the client completely, sometimes wait for 15-30 seconds, and then log back in. And if you do get into Siege and should happen to crash, you cannot re-enter Siege upon logging back in--the client behaves as if you were unable to enter Siege in the first place. Makes it hard on a guild whose Herald has crashed--nobody else in that guild can become Herald. Unless none of the opposing guild managed to get in, of course.

One hopes that RW will figure out what part(s) of the Fire Festival interfere with Siege and will make corrections.

Quoted from "Drakkarsdad"

Quoted from "vfwiffo"

Don't see it happening. It is not New Coke.

If "New Coke" was introduced in 1985, and has been around for about 30 years now, how long before it loses that title?

/off topic

According to Wikipedia, New Coke was introduced on April 23, 1985. "Old" Coke--the original recipe--was re-introduced on July 10, 1985 after The Coca-Cola Company had been pounded by fans and the media. New Coke was renamed "Coke II" in 1992, and discontinued in 2002. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke and specific citation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#Coke_II )

April 23, 1985, a date that will live in infamy...

And I don't even drink Coke. If I can't get Dr Pepper or Vernors, I'll settle for Pepsi (Pepsi Throwback, if it's available.)

/end off topic

sorry for he off topic Kalvin, but seriously, you had to google it? I lived thru it..

And yes, I prefer any of the Pepsi product throwbacks. I would rather have the sugar than the corn syrup myself.

Quoted from "Drakkarsdad"

sorry for he off topic Kalvin, but seriously, you had to google it? I lived thru it..

Kalvan's old enough to have lived through it nineteen and three quarter times!

Quoted from "Yrcanos"

Quoted from "Drakkarsdad"

sorry for he off topic Kalvin, but seriously, you had to google it? I lived thru it..

Kalvan's old enough to have lived through it nineteen and three quarter times!

Oh, my...

Quoted from "Kalvan"

Ghost, Saito has already stated that the Pumpkin Festival has nothing to do with the recent server issues, and I concur. Logic dictates that if it was the source of the problems, all of our servers, US, AU, and EU alike, would have been affected.

The only festival which has consistently caused game issues has been the Fire Festival, which routinely screws up Siege, and across all servers. The only inconsistency is that randomly, a handful of players have been able to enter Siege, while others cannot.

I knew there was another one that messed things up, but I didn't wan't to mention it without being able to recall correctly which one it was. The fact that the Fire Festival doesn't affect everyone exactly the same goes to show that in some cases certain circumstances need to be met in some arbitrary fashion for the errors to occur. This may also be the case with the pumpkin festival, it may be that enough people need to log in to the server for the errors to occur, since it seems that the errors were fixed and then randomly have been coming back, and has only been happening since the pumpkin festival was put into place. This is all just my guess and speculation, and it may be true that the pumpkin festival has nothing to do with these errors, but it all looks to point to that as the culprit.

And now Artemis, Grimdal, Indigo and Govinda are not available....

Surprise maintenance!

In case the CMs, FMs and _Ms haven't noticed. This is kinda a problem if it is occurring this frequently

indigo and artemis and 2 other servers are unavailable right now. I entered my house on indigo and was getting buffs from housekeepers, got disconnected and cannot log back in , server select screen shows 4 servers as unavailable.

Palenque houses down again.

US Artemis
US Govinda
US Grimdal
US Indigo




All not available. plz fix!!

Quoted from "Lemurk"

Palenque houses down again.

and guild castles, but ah, mail and instances/mini's appear to work for now...and only 1 channel available.

the IT team is aware and hopefully this will be resolved soon,we will give info when we can.

Yea Fix it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the IT team is aware.

i refer you to Server Crashes 9./10. November ~7pm/10pm/4am (Pacific/Eastern/German)
sorry for any inconvenience this may have cause.

200% dias sale and a dbl xp weekend for our troubles on THALIA please

Quoted from "L33tOfLag"

200% dias sale and a dbl xp weekend for our troubles on THALIA please

i wouldn't expect any compensation...so don't get ur hopes up...

20 minutes my ass. also 4 servers?? what about that other server yall picked up and moved you clearly don't give a shit about... still 1 hour on from the servers will be back up in 20 minutes post

I think he means the forgotten server, Thalia. FIX IT!

You can log in fine, then enter world, gotta go to Pioneers.

200% dias sale, dbl xp for a week sounds like suitable compo for Thalia. Since Gameforge is so nice and all, and loves its customers.