Patch Message 2/18/04

[Lothay]

Update 2/18/04
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Headlines
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Favor points adjustment
Improved server stability



Tribute System
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- You may see a change to your accrued favor points as we implement the second change to the Tribute System. As you know, many items were overvalued and have since been reduced. Now we will be adjusting the accrued favor pool to reflect the amount you should have received for items turned in prior to the changes. We know that this may take away some of your accrued points and for that we apologize, however this change will bring the system more in-line with our intentions. We hope that you agree that it was a reasonable and necessary change.



Server Stability
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- We have made some coding changes to the front end to improve connectivity and stability and reduce the number of 1017 errors.

The EQ team apologizes for the server instability in the past week. This instability occurs at peak times, and is seen to our users as "1017" errors. Normally within a few minutes these users are able to log back in, but on some servers this problem has occurred more than once in a single evening.

We're working to address the problem, and expect that in the next couple of days we'll have everything resolved. In the meantime, there's a chance you'll run into this problem if you're on a crowded server during peak times - if you do, you can normally get back onto the servers within 15 or 20 minutes.

Gates of Discord has been immensely popular - many of our old customers have been coming back to try it out, and many new customers have arrived to give EQ a try. Our simultaneous usage numbers are quite high, but in addition the people who are online are also playing more and for longer than usual. Gates of Discord introduced many new instanced zones, high level content, and re-introduced the casino - this type of content is particularly taxing on our servers, and coupled with the unusually high usage, we're seeing a resulting instability during our peak times.

Our first effort was to remove the casino, which improved our server stability. Since then, we've been working on two different fixes, the first of which will go live at the 3am patch Wednesday morning (Tuesday night). The second will be later this week. Both of them are meant to improve performance during peak times and address the 1017 errors that you may be experiencing. Each of them we expect to be an improvement on connectivity, and we expect our second fix to resolve the problems.

We apologize for our service instability in the past week; we're working hard on this problem - it's cutting into our play time too.

We'll give you another update in the next day or two as we make progress, and let you know how things are coming.



Items
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The following items had their "Cleave" effect removed due to stacking issues;

Bracer of the Heartstriker
Bracer of Exploration
Bracer of the Stoutheart
Vadd's Chestplate of Elite Combat
Rayin's Chestplate of Abhorrence
Pressl's Tunic of Balance
Kizash's Tunic of Savage Heart
Luvwen's Chestplate of Melody
Nadien's Chainmail of the Archer
Nodnol's Chainmail of the Scoundrel
Harlad's Chainmail of Fury
Trimdet's Chestplate of Chivalry
Gem-Studded Band of Struggle
Glowing Spiritstone Necklace

[Itzena]

Sic transit gloria Tribute System.

[Xenephex]

Sic transit gloria Tribute System.

and

Caveat Emptor

still waiting for a Mea Culpa.

[eniamn]

a glorious farewell?

not even guessing.

wow at least i think its latin.

[Furyrpied]

So glory of this world passes away

Or at least thats what google says.. Hehe

Too bad my disk is sitting at EBGames waiting for payday...

/cry

[KyrosKrane]

The original form of the expression is "sic transit gloria mundi." From the Wikipedia:

Sic transit gloria mundi
"Thus passes the glory of the world". A tradition during papal coronations is for a barefoot monk to interrupt the procession three times, holding a burning tow and after it goes out saying "Pater sancte [Holy Father], sic transit gloria mundi" to remind the new Pope that, despite the grand procession, he is still a mortal man.

So I guess in this context, it would mean, "Thus passes the glory of the tribute system."

[Itzena]

Correct.

I wasn't expecting this many replies to my reply, though. You all need to practice your Combine language skill, clearly.

[KyrosKrane]

Originally posted by Itzena
You all need to practice your Combine language skill, clearly.

What do you think we're doing? Everyone knows you get skillups for using a language over and over.

Veni, vidi, vici.
You have become better at Combine Tongue! (12)

Mea culpa. (For Xenephex)
You have become better at Combine Tongue! (13)

[Keqen]

Non illegitimi carborundum.

That's about all i know besides the basics. ^_^

[eniamn]

in vino veritas (spell should be right)

in wine there is truth.

edit hehe i said should. i can say it still though.

[Lilosh]

Originally posted by eniamn
in vino verta (spell should be right)

in wine there is truth.

My latin is horrible, but I could have sworn it was

In Vino Veritas.


-Lilosh

[Sanna]

nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

it's been a few years since sr english and The Handmaid's Tale, but that's pretty much all the Latin I know. Probably spelled wrong, and you know, I wonder if the filters will catch that 3rd word... /ponder.




you know, i'm actually happy that the dev peopleses are TELLING us they're working on stuff. I would MUCH rather them say, 'yes we know there's an issue and we're working' than letting it sit silently for a while, then suddenly they pop their heads over their cubicles and say, 'oh, btw, we fixed this' and duck down again.

also, it tells us what they know, and what they don't know. Which are always handy things to know. Yay for on-the-ball dev people.

You know, now that I've said that, Someone's Law* will dictate that they must fall off the ball now. Durnit, I jinxed em, didn't I.

-- Sanna
*Murphy? Anderson? Maslow? Boyles? Too many names... o_0

[Breez]

Ad Astra Per Aspera

“To the stars through difficulty”

Any other Bored folks from Kansas avoiding work here?

[eniamn]

yep Kansas here too.

what did the "cleave" effect do anyway?

[andyhre]

Cogito ergo sum