117111-drop-3-needs-to-come-out-this-tuesday

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Please for the love of God understand just how urgent this drop is and release it. 1 more week, 2 more weeks, hell even a month more of testing will not make that much different. Its polished enough for live.
 
End the suffering, please Carbine	
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			Would be hilarious if it's out Wednesday. :p	
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If I'm honest I'd like them to take in a round of feedback at least...
I don't see this patch getting to us next week, possibly the week after the earliest...	
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			It's not happening no matter how many identical posts you make.	
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It's not happening no matter how many identical posts you make.
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			Why Tuesday of all days too? What's so special about Tuesday?	
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Why Tuesday of all days too? What's so special about Tuesday?
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Why Tuesday of all days too? What's so special about Tuesday?
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Monday: Well Chua be honest here....is Monday....
Tuesday: Ideal day of week. Nasty Monday gone, whole week to fix things.
Wednesday: Well, cubs have half day. Need wildstar to keep cubs occupied.
Thursday: Is bit late to do big thing now, only have Friday left to fix
Friday: End of week, Chua think most Humans already in party mode.
Weekend: Working on weekend? No No No
There. Chua given Scientific facts why Tuesday best day.
 
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Chua has cubs?!
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"Carbine Studios Staff 
LocationOrange County 
 
 
Posted Yesterday, 11:59 AM 
 
 
Hello All,
 
 
 
Next Tuesday 10/28/14 at 3:00am PDT/7:00am UTC; all NA servers will be brought down for approximately 13 hours. This is due to in real life server maintenance. We need to physically consolidate rack space across NCSOFT. Meaning, we had too much hardware on too many racks and now we’ll have less hardware in less racks inside our data center."
 
Question, what exactly does "rack space" mean? 
 
I picture adding more boobs? ;) that would be so AWESOME!!	
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"Carbine Studios Staff
LocationOrange County
 
 
Posted Yesterday, 11:59 AM
 
 
Hello All,
 
 
 
Next Tuesday 10/28/14 at 3:00am PDT/7:00am UTC; all NA servers will be brought down for approximately 13 hours. This is due to in real life server maintenance. We need to physically consolidate rack space across NCSOFT. Meaning, we had too much hardware on too many racks and now we’ll have less hardware in less racks inside our data center."
 
Question, what exactly does "rack space" mean?
 
I picture adding more boobs? ;) that would be so AWESOME!!
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			^What the smelly chua said.	
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It's doubtful that they'd launch such a large patch at the same time as they're working on physically moving servers around and such.  They really do need to just make small, non-impacting changes in weekly updates and launch Drop 3 at this point, but I'd guess within the next couple weeks.  Ideally next week, with Warlords of Draenor launching the weekend after that.  Many players are on Wildstar because they're bored with WoW and the last actual content patch* having been more than a year ago.  Not wise to compete with an expansion launch when you're facing problems with player retention, as it is.
 
*the pre-patch isn't necessarily a content patch	
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			If my experience with the PTR the other night is the same as others, the patch is not ready for prime time. Logged in and crashed to desktop, logged back in and I was falling through the air for about a minute when I finally hit the ground and died. For some reason I was in the far south west corner of Whitevale. Res at nearest holocrypt and crashed to the desktop. Logged back in and for some reason I was now at Tremor Ridge in Algoroc. Huh? Ported to Thayd and crashed to the desktop. As much as I want this to drop, I would rather another week or two and have them work it out a bit more. 	
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My money is in Mid-NOVEMBER
 
If it was coming out this week, you know Carbine would be hyping it days before it's release.
 
It's really dead quiet on their end, so no go.	
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https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/117052-scheduled-downtime-102814/
 
13 hours of downtime.
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@Oliver
 
Thank you for explaining that! 
 
I still like my idea racks = boobs
 
;)	
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The problem is that many players, that haven't mentioned anything about WOW till now, starts to do so. For some of them it will be subscribe next month in WS or buy WOW expansion, if drop3 hits earlier, than their final decision could differ (at least for this 1m - still some revenues for Carbine to make game better in the future). Not to mention that other players playing with them (not interested in other MMO) can simply loose their roosters and will be forced to find another guild or quit.
 
From PTR testing drop3 is not anything game-breaking anyway, so I would not expect wave of come backs. From current experience I am also not expecting, that WS will be a game it should be on release till drop5-6	
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Rack Space is the physical space you take on a server rack.
Every server takes one to more slots. In most datacenters you pay per slot you're taking up.
So if they can consolidate the amount of space they need now with the megaserver technology, they should as it will safe them quite a lot of money.
To give you an example of Rack Space:
 
 
Now imagine you don't need half of that because it's all handled by lesser servers.
If you remove it and just store the hardware somewhere or use it in other NCSoft products, you can lower your expenses.
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This is only true if you are being hosted at a colocation. It's been my experience that most large companies own their data centers. There are plenty of good reasons to be hosted at a third party data center; Disaster recovery requirements or remote presence in an area where you have no physical assets or you need better network connectivity by being closer to the internet backbone. These are just a few, the third option is most likely for a company hosting large game servers. Third party hosting can also be cheaper than building your own data center but it depends on the scale of your operation.
 
If they use a colocation then physical space has a significant cost associated. If they own their data center, there is no monetary cost for the rack space only opportunity cost; in that space could be used for a different project. The real price would be power consumption for running excessively redundant/unused hosts.
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Yeah, I agree. It would make sense for them to use co-location in the EU for a lot of reasons. In the US where the large maintenance is happening I would expect NCSoft to have their own data center or at least dedicated space in a co-lo facility. Like you mentioned a room or a cage, where they wouldn't pay by unit but full rack or floor space. The burden of geographic limitation and real estate cost are less of an issue states side but it is as you said, we are in the dark. It's so aggravating to see this amazing game constantly impeded by road blocks while all we can do is sit back and watch. 
 
Something about the level of transparency rubs me the wrong way. I can't put my finger on it but when they release information I always feel like we aren't getting the whole truth. Almost like they want to give us more... but not too much. With some extra information we get a bit of extra spin to go with it.	
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Please join the campaign to not release Drop 3 on Veterans Day.
 
Thank you.
 
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	Edited October 29, 2014 by Chillia	
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Please join the campaign to not release Drop 3 on Veterans Day.
 
Thank you.
 
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Monday: Well Chua be honest here....is Monday....
Tuesday: Ideal day of week. Nasty Monday gone, whole week to fix things.
Wednesday: Well, cubs have half day. Need wildstar to keep cubs occupied.
Thursday: Is bit late to do big thing now, only have Friday left to fix
Friday: End of week, Chua think most Humans already in party mode.
Weekend: Working on weekend? No No No
There. Chua given Scientific facts why Tuesday best day.
 
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Game has an international audience, seems rather weird to politicize the day of a patch release according to an American holiday that's not free of controversy itself...
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			No people are just being squirelly	
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Has there been some kind of announcement that they're dropping it on that day I didn't hear about?
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Please join the campaign to not release Drop 3 on Veterans Day.
 
Thank you.
 
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Please join the campaign to not release Drop 3 on Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day.
 
Thank you.	
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			I am ready for D3 whenever(hopefully real soon) Carbine decides it ready to go live. On whatever day it shall fall on.
			
				
	Edited October 29, 2014 by BusterCasey
	
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			Hopefully it's coming soon, but I don't reckon Tuesday. Mid - late November.	
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Please join the campaign to not release Drop 3 on Veterans Day.
 
Thank you.
 
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Considering it's a national holiday, and devs are going to want to be in the office ...
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Considering it's a national holiday, and devs are going to want to be in the office when Drop 3 is released, it's probably not going to be released on Veterans' Day.
 
Also, you might not want to use the Ebola virus as an avatar if your message is that we should respect the sacrifices others have made.
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drops are generally on thursdayscougar said 2 weeks from the day it goes to ptr, though that post is very buried at this point
the other drops didn't seem to incorporate any feedback at all before going live so likely same thing herewith that said, the 6th is the likely prediction	
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My message is that I don't want 12 hours of downtime on my day off.
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			I disagree that it has to be Tuesday, any day next week would be fine.	
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