Maintenance Broadcast  (Read 758 times)

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AlbatrosV5

Maintenance Broadcast
« on: 4 Jun 2012, 03:53:13 »
Would it be possible to broadcast a warning at least 15 seconds before the server goes down for an unscheduled maintenance?

It would allow us:
A. to pick up any items still laying on the ground (for example I was just taking down rooflike obbiblocks from above with a lot of the fallen blocks still laying at the ground below and now happily despawning into oblivion once the server gets back on).
B. to get somewhere safe, for example when mining near lava, being inside a mobgrinder or simply diving. Especially since we seem to spawn for the server while the clients are still loading.
C. to get off ladders. Sometimes the clients don`t seem to like it when you are logged out on a ladder and has problems loading the terrain (timing out) when you try to log back in.
D. finish a conversation (especially if it`s longer than 15 seconds).
E. to simply log out ourselfes or at least prepare for the aprupt disconnect. Instead of suddenly staring at the disconnect screen.

[edit] added the underlined "unscheduled", to differentiate it from scheduled maintenances that are already announced (with the time it happens) in the forum.
« Last Edit: 4 Jun 2012, 03:58:31 by AlbatrosV5 »

Foob

Re: Maintenance Broadcast
« Reply #1 on: 4 Jun 2012, 03:56:49 »
Would it be possible to broadcast a warning at least 15 seconds before the server goes down for maintenance?

It would allow us:
A. to pick up any items still laying on the ground (for example I was just taking down rooflike obbiblocks from above with a lot of the fallen blocks still laying at the ground below and now happily despawning into oblivion once the server gets back on).
B. to get somewhere safe, for example when mining near lava, being inside a mobgrinder or simply diving. Especially since we seem to spawn for the server while the clients are still loading.
C. to get off ladders. Sometimes the clients don`t seem to like it when you are logged out on a ladder and has problems loading the terrain (timing out) when you try to log back in.
D. finish a conversation (especially if it`s longer than 15 seconds).
E. to simply log out ourselfes or at least prepare for the aprupt disconnect. Instead of suddenly staring at the disconnect screen.

Will do sorry man, just many issues as of late with these awful lag spikes. The server box had to be restarted and it's getting late here in the UK so I choose to do a quick restart. This won't happen again.

AlbatrosV5

Re: Maintenance Broadcast
« Reply #2 on: 4 Jun 2012, 03:58:55 »
Thanks a lot.