**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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Scheduled Maintenance During Prime Hours
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The question is “why was this 8 pm pacific time the time decided for maintenance very time? It seems arbitrary without some explanation. Simply saying that there isn’t a perfect time doesn’t tell us why you settled on 8 pm pacific.
Why do you make comments about things like you are a mod? It’s against the TOS to impersonate a mod. Additionally, we don’t need your speculation—it adds nothing to the discussion. We would prefer to hear from the people that actually know the answer. Thanks.
The 8pm pacific start time is 9pm mountain, 10pm central, and 11pm eastern. Moving it earlier might theoretically make it better for some pacific time zone players, at the expense of making it worse for timezones further east. Many people in the past have argued that 6pm-11pm is "prime time" for players. Even if you accept that to be true, and even if you don't care about any players outside of the contiguous United States, to avoid this block of time you'd have to make maintenance start earlier than 4pm pacific or later than 11pm pacific. That time window is impractical for many reasons. And this presumes that every maintenance window is going to be two hours long. Some maintenance windows have lasted for an extended period of time, and the scheduled start time would need to be advanced to 2pm or earlier to avoid the same window.
When I have any choice at all, all of my scheduled maintenance windows have initiated between 5pm and 9pm local time, between Tuesday and Thursday. The only time they aren't in that window is when there's a mandatory situational requirement for the downtime to occur at some other time. The reasons why are so overwhelming that I consider scheduled downtime outside that window to be extraordinary and require justification, rather than the reverse. In fact, I assume categorically that any IT team that regularly schedules maintenance windows outside that range is probably just not good at it, or lacks operational experience.
Why is the sky blue? Because of (Insert scientific reason to long for me to list right now).
Oh okay. But why is it that color blue
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Bottomline is that maintenance is at the time they select for the reason they need it to be at that time. Its been 5 years and it hasnt changed, its not likely to change as its working just fine. Its a 2 hour maintenance period except for once or twice. It doesnt hinder any progress and its announced a week early.
Just drop it already.
And you generally don't want developers of anything in the office when you're performing maintenance. Not game developers, not enterprise app developers, not web developers, no one that calls themselves a developer, unless they are there to test things after maintenance. And if they have to be in the office, the industry recommendation is to tie them up with nylon rope and glue their hands together with cyanoacrylate glue. Otherwise, they are going to mess up your work.
All you west coasters, kinda get hosed.