Server Downtime

Oso Major wrote:

The exact compensation is still to be determined, and I do not want to say anything that will be twisted into a promise, but it should be decent compensation for your lost time in the game.

If you want to give us something, please make it HC time.

I like the HC time. Plus it is good marketing. Expose your customers to a feature they have not tried before. They might get a taste for it.

Gorneylin wrote:

If you want to give us something, please make it HC time.

Also, Sadly, I still have no information on if a rollback will be put into place, or not.

So, please give it to the gamemaster, that in this situation a rollback ist the only usefull option to prevent massive damage to the players community.

In many games players who had made their turns a short time before this downtime overwhelmed other countries of players who aren't able to react in time.

This caused unbalanced games in many cases, a great loss of gamefun, great dissappointment, being defeated through no fault of their own and never the less wasted gold and lifetime for a lost game.

It would be a quite lesser frustration for all players, even if they are not affected, if a rollback will be announced for tomorrow night, same time as today, to repeat this day without any downtime.

So daychange could be happen in the exact manner and at the same time except the date is reduced by one day.

If announced early enough, every player can be prepared.

Please excuse my bad english

HC time is pointless. It is in no way shape or form a replacement for the MONEY that I spent. I already pay for HC time, so I dont need more of that. HC time does not help me recover my lost units that I PAID FOR... Just a thought

i already bought HC time.. no use to me if everybody else just get it.. it should be the players who buy gold should be compensated.. due to spending money on this amazing game keeps it running for everybody to enjoy.

I am in. Lost my air force, but could have been worse, at least they turned the tide on the artillery duel before they died. What a waste though, you send in an air force to take theirs down and gain air superiority, thinking you can pull it back out of harms way of AA guns once the mission is completed. Result? Supposedly air superiority for many many battles to come.

SERVER CRASH

Result now? Back to square one rebuilding an air force with limited oil and trying to gain air superiority against 4 strong enemies at once. ARRRGGGG

well thanks. I'm going to lose an entire stack to offshore bombardment thanks to this nonsense.

I'm already down 4 Infantry, and it's going to take 1day, 3 hours just to get some subs to the location to attempt to break the attack.

5000 Gold won't cover my loses. Chances are, I will never pay to play this game.

BloodEagle wrote:

1day, 3 hours just to get some subs to the location to attempt to break the attack.

Redd Baron wrote:

I am in. Lost my air force, but could have been worse, at least they turned the tide on the artillery duel before they died. What a waste though, you send in an air force to take theirs down and gain air superiority, thinking you can pull it back out of harms way of AA guns once the mission is completed. Result? Supposedly air superiority for many many battles to come.

SERVER CRASH

Result now? Back to square one rebuilding an air force with limited oil and trying to gain air superiority against 4 strong enemies at once. ARRRGGGG

Simon.Templar wrote:

HC time is pointless.

I bought 12 months not so long ago, but heck, add me a number of months. Then I won't have to think of it so soon again

BloodEagle wrote:

well thanks. I'm going to lose an entire stack to offshore bombardment thanks to this nonsense.

I'm already down 4 Infantry, and it's going to take 1day, 3 hours just to get some subs to the location to attempt to break the attack.

5000 Gold won't cover my loses. Chances are, I will never pay to play this game.

instead of Gold, and as a future compensation, this is what I think the player base would be more appreciative of.

When servers go down,

1. Freeze troop movements. Require player re-start to have them move again could be a possibility- maybe have a forum poll to see if they would like it.

2. Allow resources to continue to accumulate. Build times continue to run, research clock continues to run.

the main issue is getting troops caught in situations that could have easily been avoided. I'm losing a stack to a cruiser bombardment that I could have easily avoided last night. I'd gladly exchange that 5000 Gold for the ability to retreat from this combat.

and _Pontus_ I did, 2 days ago. 3 day travel time. This was a reconnaissanse force to identify the 'convoy' that I was 5 minutes away from being able to move away. 5 minutes, and the servers crashed. waited about 3 hoours (until 3am my time)

if you decide to rollback do it now

because already spent hours issuing commands

if you rollback later you will piss off 99% of the players vs. 1% of the players that lost stuff due downtime

p.s. i suspect a rollback is now out of the question, hours passed since servers were up again

all your cookies belong to bytro,

just lost everything, great.

Figgy27 wrote:

Shame on you, how am I expected to be okay and fun funwhen you literally set me backa whole week in a 14 fay old game? FU

Shame on you...

I just added it up, since I started playing I've spent $111 on this game. That's starting to seem like a foolish investment.

Unreliable servers = well that's just how life works, so your enemies totally beat you due to a glitch? Suckitup and play another! Pay more money for gold, that''ll make them better off and prevent this stuff from happening!

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I swear if anybody rolls in here with that type of garbage I will flip a table...

Gold will not bring my units back, only a rollback will.

...And because of this down time, I've just lost 50% of my country on my biggest game... Not... happy...