Bro… I feel the exact same way. I haven’t played for like 4 years and wanted to come back. Figures the day I come back they roll out new content and a chat system, and they can’t handle the patch with multiple server shutdowns and restarts.
Some events are live, and can’t be rolled back, because they actually happen IRL … so sometimes it’s a hard decision to get those backups out and lose everything that did happen till now. Besides, so much effort has already been put into this that maybe the best decision is to carry on till it does work. It’s easy to complain. Indeed, CCP maybe should consider some form of compensation for the players, I’d quite agree on that, but hey, I’m sure they’re doing their best, and that we might not do any better.
I wanted to fix my local and chat window positions so I undocked… in cheap travel hecates and MWDed straight down from a station undock. Saw people coming and going in Paladins, Golems, Armageddons, Apocalypses… apparently peops getting right back to the mishing, but… wonder if the tick problem is fully resolved or not (Falcon put some strikethrough parts of it but not the whole shebang).
Had finished fixing up my chat windows, was chatting with some peops in various channels… and had turned to making new instaundock bookmarks further out than my existing ones and got the “14 minutes till downtime” message… thought to myself “welp, good thing I didn’t start anything that would suck to have to pause right now” as I saved the bookmark and warped my ships back to station.