And yeah, thanks for giving the whole story, whereby our latest planned maintenace was both delayed (I was ready to do it immediately, Saturday) and then announced all over in game, irc, forums. Wiz was instant with his "nah, wait a bit even though it's critical" just to be nice to the playerbase.
I'd say he and the rest of staff do all we can to NOT fudge your FREE playtime. There are several that work on some aspect of the game pretty much nonstop. Por nada. So any amount of whine or fuss pretty much doesn't jive with any of us.
Feel free to go start your own server, code it as well as Wiz has, fund it yourself for years...I could go on. Or, just shuttup works too.
Haphesto said:
If there is planned maintenance of the server, and it is indeed planned ahead of time as the name implies, there should be a thread that lists when these times will be.
That is all, thank you.
Back to the thrust of the thread, the exact answer is that everyone on staff either has a full-time job or is a full-time student, etc. We cannot plan out many actions days, weeks or months in advance. Usually hours to days warning is phenominal. Sure, in a real company, with paid employees, lots of investment and all day to work on these things, we'd sit down on a conference room, brainstorm, plan it all out, set milestones and deadlines and have lots of management and staff help for all to share.
It's just us, at the moment. Someone hire me a secretary, gorgeous blonde, who makes stunning coffee. Oh and wiz wants a spare coder. And liam was asking for a 10x8 scanning whiteboard. That should do it for now.