On December 19th, all game servers will be unavailable while we perform maintenance. Patch 2.5.1a will be implemented during this downtime. Details are as follows:

 

Date: Thursday, December 19th, 2013

Duration: 2 hours

Time: 3AM PST (11AM GMT) - 5AM PST (1PM GMT)

 

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

Is this the "get rid of the cellulite booty" patch?

They'll make snowball thingy a debuff so you won't be able to take it off... : /

Fair go, I look forward to the week we get a patch and it is NOT followed by an "a" patch two days later...

 

Right in the middle of AEST prime time... again... sigh

Fair go, I look forward to the week we get a patch and it is NOT followed by an "a" patch two days later...

 

Right in the middle of AEST prime time... again... sigh

 

Remind me when the last time this happened?

Any chance a patch can be done at 3am GMT ?? So British players can actually play during the day, Tuesdays are usually spent waiting for server launch again

Time to add the cc xmas tauntaun?

Any chance a patch can be done at 3am GMT ?? So British players can actually play during the day, Tuesdays are usually spent waiting for server launch again

 

As nice as that would be for our friends across the pond, there would be players here that would complain about the maintenance cutting into their prime time gaming. But, it's only two hours, and the way BW handles these 2 hour maintenance, I figure it'll be finished in an hour.

How about some patch notes?

How about some patch notes?

 

They don't post patch notes when fixing exploits.

Probably fixing the Gunship thing.

As nice as that would be for our friends across the pond, there would be players here that would complain about the maintenance cutting into their prime time gaming. But, it's only two hours, and the way BW handles these 2 hour maintenance, I figure it'll be finished in an hour.

 

^^^ This. 3am GMT = 10pm EST = 7pm PST.

 

It's better to lose daytime "off peak" hours than prime time hours where a third of their servers are deployed. Be grateful maintenance isn't at 8-10am CST (or later!) to make it convenient to their business hours (meaning people aren't working graveyard shift) which would be 2-4pm GMT. Or, hey, how about noon to 2pm CST and then it can be 6-8pm GMT!

 

No? Didn't think so.

Edited December 18, 2013 by AlixMV

Any chance a patch can be done at 3am GMT ?? So British players can actually play during the day, Tuesdays are usually spent waiting for server launch again

So australian players can't play in the day then? I'm sorry but they don't actually care about anyone but american players

So australian players can't play in the day then? I'm sorry but they don't actually care about anyone but american players

 

Again with this....

Again with this....

It's like the gift that keeps on giving.

It's like the gift that keeps on giving.

 

Wish I had a receipt to return it.... Worst. Gift. Ever.

What is this patch for tomorrow?

What is this patch for tomorrow?

 

To improve the gaming expierience.

 

Any chance a patch can be done at 3am GMT ?? So British players can actually play during the day, Tuesdays are usually spent waiting for server launch again

There's an easy solution to that: Get more people in that time zone to play the game.

 

They take the servers down when the fewest people globally are playing the game.

If enough people were actually playing at 11am GMT, you can almost guarantee that they'd adjust the maintenance times to impact fewer players because inconveniencing 50* people at 11am GMT is a better option than inconveniencing 500* people at 3am GMT.

 

 

*Numbers are for example purposes only and are not meant to reflect the actual population of the game.

Why is there another patch again? What did Tuesday's patch broke this time?

Well, servers are down.

 

Now, what exploit did I completely miss?

i doubt its to fix snow covered parcel trick since you could remove the buff last year and they never did anything, hopefully its to fix the mod stations in the VIP area, can view items but when trying to add augmentation kits the game either freezes or the mod station menu closes and wont let you add kits or augments, as for people complaining about Gunships, there is nothing wrong with them

Well, servers are down.

 

Now, what exploit did I completely miss?

 

Probably they're making, so that you can't click off the snowball debuff. Ah, good thing I've done mine on the first day.

Why is there another patch again? What did Tuesday's patch broke this time?

 

what their patches Don't broke?

i doubt its to fix snow covered parcel trick since you could remove the buff last year and they never did anything, hopefully its to fix the mod stations in the VIP area, can view items but when trying to add augmentation kits the game either freezes or the mod station menu closes and wont let you add kits or augments, as for people complaining about Gunships, there is nothing wrong with them

 

Yeah but fixing the mod stations is fixing a legitimate bug. There's no reason to withhold patch notes so conspiciously for that. Besides, there's no reason to deploy an emergency fix just for the modding tables when they've been broken for like 2 months. If that was the sole fix, they would have waited until Tuesday. There has to be some sort of exploit fixing going on, since there are no patch notes.

 

As for gunships, there appears to be a pretty major bug with them. Apparently, people who have started playing after 2.5.1 are not earning Requisition for their gunships, which was confirmed by the developers in another thread. Since that's a very serious bug, it really warrants an emergency fix but it's also a legitimate one. Again, there's no reason to withhold patch notes if they're only fixing the Gunship requisition bug.

Edited December 19, 2013 by CommanderKeeva