It’s some tomfoolery - every day… Yeah, I know it’s coming but the vast majority of my playtime is right around restart time. And if not at that time, then I don’t really have much time to play. Why does there even have to be a restart at all and if it’s a must, why do all the wrecks need to disappear? I spend an hour or two trying to find and create some good wreck sites to salvage and just when I find some good stuff and get a couple of good salvage sites created, restart time - and, “Ha ha ha. You lose all of your dozens of wrecks”. Just another way to dissuade people from engaging in an already pretty neglected activity. Freaking irritating. Lose an hour or two of work for a pointless 5 minute shutdown.
Because the company thinks thats the best compromise between investments, performance and stability. In the last years they were able to reduce the daily downtime from ~1 hour to ~5minutes. If they could, they would remove the DT completely, but so far all the tests to do so have caused problems which they still have to adress by updating software or hardware. And unless you want to pay even more for your sub, the resources to investments into removing even the last 5 mintes are giving quite some diminishing returns.
Because some objects (especially those that spawn in masses, like wrecks) are marked as “temporary” objects and are only kept in memory as long as nessessary. On server restart those are deleted, to free up resources. Sounds logical to me. Since everyone who deals with wrecks should know about this, it is pretty easy to plan your looting/salvaging in a way that you can finish it before the downtime hits. I mean, a simple alert clock set for 15min before DT and start looting/salvaging, isn’t it?
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Salvaging a site doesn’t take long in my experience.
Downtime is very predictable at 11:00 AM EVE time.
Why not plan to salvage your site before downtime?
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How is that CCP’s fault?
Why do I have to pay taxes for roads when I don’t drive?
Sounds like a planning issue.
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They don’t need to disappear at DT. They are just not saved, and the servers are restarted, so wrecks, rats, probes etc are simply forgotten so they disappear.
Ships, anchorable are saved though.
It’s like asking why does that specific point on the board needs to disappear when you wipe it. Your approach makes no sense to start with.
Wrecks have a 2 hour window before they despawn. Either salvage and loot as you go, or risk what you are already going through.
As far as Downtime, be thankful its only 15 min normally.
Once they figure out how to replenish things without a restart like asteroid belts then we may no longer get a daily DT.
Why do you play around DT anyway?
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Timezones are a thing, some people have time to play around downtime.
I get that. But knowing its the same id plan my playtime differently
Oh same, if I do a site before downtime and want to salvage it I make sure I salvage it before downtime too if possible.
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