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OH THE HUMANITY!!!!
Posted on January 21st, 2005 3 comments
Reason #64634 for World of Warcraft being down for the majority of US east coast prime time:
The reason for the maintenance is that we have identified that one of the problems causing multiple disconnects revolves around the boat system in the game. Specifically, the boat that travels between Menethil Harbor and Auberdine was causing errors that impacted stability for the entire realm.
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We continue to investigate other unrelated performance issues, but we believe this measure will help improve stability for our players until we can fully resolve the boat issue and place it back in the game. Thank you for your patience during this time, and we look forward to seeing you back in-game!
Riiight….
3 responses to “OH THE HUMANITY!!!!”
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What what? February 20th, 2005 at 13:14
Hmm, i see you updated the site, but no new posts !! gahhhh
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Sinkilaron February 21st, 2005 at 07:42
Funny that boats always seem to be the bane of MMORPG stability. In the early EverQuest days, the boats were constantly delayed or broken, and actually caused the zones they travelled in to crash at times…
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The last time I had played Everquest they had removed boats and replaced them with portal NPCs. Apparently when they ported their engine to DirectX 9 they couldn’t get collision detection right on something as complicated as a moving floor on a boat. Sad really.
I don’t know if they ever put the boats back in.
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