Display maintenance alerts

GSTAR21GSTAR21 Member Posts: 168
Maintenance is a pain and a very costly one at that. Someone may buy a 60% single revive and a few level 5 health potions and go into a fight only to have their champion KO'd by maintenance.

Now I'm aware that of the in-game mail messages about scheduled maintenance a day in advance but a lot of people forget and usually don't think they have to check whether the game is randomly going to go down or not.

So a simple solution that a lot of server based RPG MMO's use is a message in the game chat (global) and a pop up message such as: "Server maintenance will begin in 10 minutes". A few pop up reminders over the course of the hour before maintenance would certainly help players as they would know not to attempt hard content in this period. If this could also happen for emergency maintenance (even though it is not always predictable) then the outrage over servers being down and revives/items being wasted would be significantly less.

(TLDR; Have in-game reminder pop-ups before servers going down over the course of an hour).

Let me know what you guys think, I reckon this would be an enormous improvement for the communication between Kabam and the players.

Comments

  • GSTAR21GSTAR21 Member Posts: 168
    Just bumping this up due to the recent server issues
  • RogueKing13RogueKing13 Member Posts: 188
    There has been an in game alert when scheduled maintenance is about to happen. There is a banner at the bottom of the display that covers the chat rooms. Not sure if it's still active as I don't usual play that "late" in the day.
  • GSTAR21GSTAR21 Member Posts: 168
    There has been an in game alert when scheduled maintenance is about to happen. There is a banner at the bottom of the display that covers the chat rooms. Not sure if it's still active as I don't usual play that "late" in the day.

    I have never seen this, and have been affected by both scheduled and emergency maintenance several times. I believe you that it exists, perhaps if they made it more obvious and had it pop-up then it would catch the attention of more players.
  • MjolinarMjolinar Member Posts: 157 ★★
    It literally covers the entire bottom scroll during the game and is an obnoxious color.
  • Danger_Ross14Danger_Ross14 Member Posts: 42
    Not everybody can see it. Several in my alliance have never seen it. Working as intended?
  • GSTAR21GSTAR21 Member Posts: 168
    Mjolinar wrote: »
    It literally covers the entire bottom scroll during the game and is an obnoxious color.

    I've still never seen it, maybe I should move this thread to the bugs and feedback section lol
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