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Rabenschwinge
10.12.2012 , 12:59 PM | #551
Quote: Originally Posted by warriorcat View Post
well sorry about the serious responce but this could not happen reason being

lets say 4 departments HR / Tech support / board of director / test ( and 6 routers 4 switches 2 routers acting as a back up or to increase speed on the transfer of packet ) (1 switch for each department) this means they can program the routers for this one whole sector without bringing down the network... therefor let the irish drink
Routers have the nasty habit of propagating errors - a router that is simply failing is not a problem, since another will automatically take over. But a router who sends half the packages to the wrong next hop might send half the packages into the nirvana and causes a serious overload on the network (because every package gues through a given route five times before its time to live has ended). And to program a router you need to reach it first...

And if you have configured a bad AS route you might be in trouble, because every autonomous system on the world has the wrong information already.

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warriorcat
10.12.2012 , 12:59 PM | #552
Quote: Originally Posted by overname View Post
i understand servers going down for awile and all...but i only joined TOR today.........other MMOs ive played solve this stuff in maybe an hour? thease servers have been down for 4 almost 5 hours.........this happen often? not the best thing for me to see on my first day on the game.
lucky you on the 30 day free bit atm dont worry the game only gets better
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Evensong
10.12.2012 , 12:59 PM | #553
Quote: Originally Posted by overname View Post
i understand servers going down for awile and all...but i only joined TOR today.........other MMOs ive played solve this stuff in maybe an hour? thease servers have been down for 4 almost 5 hours.........this happen often? not the best thing for me to see on my first day on the game.
This is first time it happened on my server and I play from launch.
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Redcorn
10.12.2012 , 01:00 PM | #554
Quote: Originally Posted by Evensong View Post
I guess that's why they don't talk, they fix it.... just sayin
This happens all of the time and people do not necessarily loose their jobs or get fired. If you follow the 80-20 rule you will be much happier in life.

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Kowack
10.12.2012 , 01:00 PM | #555
Quote: Originally Posted by overname View Post
i understand servers going down for awile and all...but i only joined TOR today.........other MMOs ive played solve this stuff in maybe an hour? thease servers have been down for 4 almost 5 hours.........this happen often? not the best thing for me to see on my first day on the game.
Cancel now while you are ahead haha

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Moonglum
10.12.2012 , 01:01 PM | #556
Quote: Originally Posted by overname View Post
i understand servers going down for awile and all...but i only joined TOR today.........other MMOs ive played solve this stuff in maybe an hour? thease servers have been down for 4 almost 5 hours.........this happen often? not the best thing for me to see on my first day on the game.
It's actually quite rare. So rare, in fact, that this is the first time I've seen something like this happen. And I've been playing since before launch.
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Miflett
10.12.2012 , 01:01 PM | #557
I imagine server structure engineers solving problems by donning a tron suit and killing faulty programs with their light cycles.
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overname
10.12.2012 , 01:02 PM | #558
fingers crossed the servers will be back soon i was a big kotor fan thus why i got this game was about to finish coursant and blam server died =c

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Hekati
10.12.2012 , 01:02 PM | #559
Quote: Originally Posted by overname View Post
i understand servers going down for awile and all...but i only joined TOR today.........other MMOs ive played solve this stuff in maybe an hour? thease servers have been down for 4 almost 5 hours.........this happen often? not the best thing for me to see on my first day on the game.
[Turns off snark.] Like others, I've played since launch and have never experienced this. [Snark back on.]

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Vonbodom
10.12.2012 , 01:02 PM | #560
This is exactly what happened. they intended to patch the servers while they are still online yet.......


a 1 and a 0 have been mixed up somewhere in the process now they have to go back through lines of code and figure out where this 1 and 0 are and rewrite it so it works. Simple programming gone wrong by the fat guy with sausage fingers.