Saxxon wrote:Plazek wrote:If it is important that people play on official servers then you really should attempt to improve the playing experience.
At this rate I doubt many people will keep playing. After all, this last weekend, the weekend being when most people get to play their shiny new game, several of the servers were almost down 24 hours/day.
People that want to play their shiny new game have (and I am guessing at this number) over 1000 dedicated private servers to choose from with hundreds of rulesets and playstyles.
People that want to test and improve the game and help us the developers by playing on official servers giving us data will do that.
When explained that way it is not as quite as dramatic eh?
Well, there I disagree.
If I play on an official server is because I want the safety of knowing the server will not vanish one day because the owner decides to close it down and lose everything, or the owner abusing his powers, etc.
That's why in every game you have official servers. What's the problem in this game? Official servers are taken down without any notice, they can go down for 2 minutes, 2 hours, 2 days, whatever. If you really want to use these servers for debugging purposes, then use the designated server with a DEBUG word written in their description. As far as I know, the server #10 is not a debug server and as such I feel that you are not doing the right thing by taking it down for 15+ hours whenever you please. I'd like to know when you are going to do this maintenances, because I have wasted 3 mornings already waiting for the server to show up on the server list and it is really frustrating. Just let us know, ''Hey, the server will be down for 5 hours'', and I can do something else while I wait instead of wasting my time.