Runes of Magic US / AU

I honestly dont recall this festival being buggy like this in previous years. Cmon people this is way freakin different than the festival not workin properly. And look at my join date i have been around a little while. Wtb stable server so i can get my housemaid buffs and guild castle buffs when i want them.

Quoted from "timthum"

I honestly dont recall this festival being buggy like this in previous years.

maybe i am just forgetful, or have "selective memory", but i'm in the same boat as matron...

Artemis
Grimdal
Indigo
Govinda

sunday 17-11-13 / 4:27 CEST

was in sardo, bet we all died =/

Thalia AU is also down
Sunday

Everything should be online now.
Please read Server restarts Nov 17

~ Beren

Ayen Poole and Overlord Pumpkins deactivated
Dear RoMmunity,

As a result of noticed client instabilities of game client, today we've decided to take down immediately the following NPCs present in Silverspring:
Ayen Poole
Overlord Pumpkins

The game client instability was obviously related to these NPCs. Together with the game developer, Runewaker Entertainment, we will be working on solution.
We would like not only to apologize for the whole occurence, but also thank for cooperation in finding this bug. Everyday, together, we try make this game better. Thank you!

Best regards,
Your RoM Team

OK then, let me get this straight.. we had several cm/gm/fm people tell us that the festival did NOT cause the issues multiple times. NOW, you say that parts of the festival DID cause the issues. Not to be mean, but is that crow tasty?

is it known what is causing the zones to go down and such?

Houses and guild castle are shut down on Palenque. It says "Zone not open" if you try to enter. Also only 1 channel available in every zone.

Quoted from "Lemurk"

Houses and guild castle are shut down on Palenque. It says "Zone not open" if you try to enter. Also only 1 channel available in every zone.

Hi,

We are aware of the issues and are currently creating a report to be sent to those who can rectify the situation.
Again, please be patient and we will get this sorted as soon as we can. We too are as frustrated as all of you.

You know, Frogster ran this much better. Just saying, GF can't seem to keep these servers up for a weekend. Considering how much server populations have dropped, these kinds of service interruptions shouldn't happen. I can remember during chapters 1, 2 & 3 having so many people on, you had to fight for mobs. Yet the servers would run for the whole week between patches. Now pop is down to almost nothing (at least it feels that way), and you can't keep these things up for a weekend. I want to play!

Just saying. But art is still kaput. Du Haust Meinch ? I only know that because of Rammstien

I keep hearing the tune from jeapordy in my head while staring at the server select screen waiting for servers to come back online. yea, its raining outside, has been for three days and I just want to grind. they should just do maint on weekend. since its down seems like every weekend for a period of time.

back to waiting.....QQ

Quoted from "poyznelf"

You know, Frogster ran this much better. Just saying, GF can't seem to keep these servers up for a weekend. Considering how much server populations have dropped, these kinds of service interruptions shouldn't happen. I can remember during chapters 1, 2 & 3 having so many people on, you had to fight for mobs. Yet the servers would run for the whole week between patches. Now pop is down to almost nothing (at least it feels that way), and you can't keep these things up for a weekend. I want to play!

um no just no lol if they ran it better they'd still have rom under they belt and not a dead company

Just curious how much longer. Frustrating not being able to play on a day off. Why does Artemis keep going down so much? I remember the population being much bigger too (in agreement with fighting for mobs and basically standing on top of each other) I played the other day and saw only two other players.

I am going to respond to the comment about Frogster ran it easier than GF. Here is the reason I think this is the case:

Some background:
Servers only have so much space/resources. As a game grows like this one where new zones are introduced, new NPCs, and new mobs they need more server space. This is the reason that I believe zones are losing channels. Real easy to free up bandwidth by taking low population zones, removing a few channels to free up the resources of new zones. However, you can see where you will eventually hit a tipping point where there is only 1 channel for each zone, instances have been limited to the minimum numbers allowed at a time....and they still need more space. This is when you start to have zones crashing cause you are hoping you can share resources across them.

So Frogster could keep the game up and running more because the game was probably (conservative guess) 1/3 to 1/2 smaller than it is now (better wording, it was 66% to 50% the size, not 33% of the size it is now). This means that the blame does not rest on all the GF employees, merely the ones making the decisions to NOT expand the server hardware in hopes to save more money on the games running cost. The Employees that are keeping them running and doing all they can to fix the problems are then doing a BETTER job than Frogsters cause they are fielding more problems and getting them fixed in better time.

Therefore, I suspect it is not GF that is the problem but their "bottom line" guy and his choices... Which our buying of diamonds... or lack thereof .... contribute to. It is a pretty pickle that they are facing.... If I was that bottom line guy though, I would poney up the extra money, explain to the game community that this is being done and why, and try to restore some faith in their business decisions. But that is just me.

ahh interesting. interwebs troubles all around. looks like everyone is having problems. but why can you not discuss it?

edit. nah. just rom. can say its whatever but its the same servers as last week.

I'm guessing this is related to the DDoS that the server facility is unable to mitigate?