113456-suggestion-leave-ptr-up-during-maintenancepatches

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PROBLEM
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Servers go down for maintenance on a regular basis. This is necessary and nothing can be done about it.
 
When servers go down, people get bored
 
Public Test Realm (PTR) generally has a very low population of testers due to no rewards or incentives.
 
Lack of testing increases likelihood of missed bugs.
 
Solution
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If Carbine keeps the PTR up during regular server maintenance, players will flock to the PTR out of boredom. Carbine will get a lot more testers, and everyone will be a little less bored.
 
 	
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			normally the PTR is up when the live servers go down.	
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Hi All,The PTR is a separate environment from Live and does not go down when we perform Live maintenance.
 
Cheers	
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			Oh my mistake.. think ive tried on several occasions to log onto the PTR during weekly maintenance and they were always down	
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Oh my mistake.. think ive tried on several occasions to log onto the PTR during weekly maintenance and they were always down
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they cannot for their bring down the systems all mmo's have this and its a time to take a break for a few hours
You WANT them to do this regularly as per WoW or SWTOR etc for it keeps things running well
i so want this game to survive i was late to the scene and it seems alot of people are freaking out and they can alter things to become one of the best MMO's rather than niche market	
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