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I sadly imagine that one month after the success, the hard work from CCP employees, we will all consider “normal” to have no DT at all.
Children those days …
Every time you, CCP, change something, something else breaks. I’m not happy of that news. Also, why you don’t want reboot allday anymore? lack of personel or what? Tell it clearly, stop being slimy.
Also what about all the other aspects of the game that are centered on / linked to DT, like exploration sites, special NPC spawns, Asteroid belts, etc?
A lot of you know that Blizzard has every wednesday downtime? Asually between 03:00 CET and 05:00 CET, for all their World of Warcraft realms for updates and/or resetting things and their player base is way larger than EVE’s. I know EVE is not the same as WoW but it might not be such a bad idea to have a look how they are doing it. Blizzard do have a mechanism to reset instances and soforth outside of the wednesday downtime that helps to control all that. You get the occasional hiccup that they have to do an emergency reboot of a particulare realm.
Being a high-sec care bear, I don’t like the idea. There is indeed a visible drop in player activity before and after the downtime. At least in my region of space. Less players, means less risk.
So for me this is an ideal transport moment. Move to LowSec just before the downtime and pick your valuable cargo up. Wait for the server to come back and move immediately back to HighSec. You rarely see more then 1 person.
It’s not that I do this on a daily basis, but I would like to keep this helpful moment in the day to overcome my cold water fear of LS. “Downtime” is my Emotional Support Animal !! Hands off!!
I do not think that No DT is beneficial over DT. Instead of having a regular, predictable time of the day where CCP can do maintenance and fix things, these things will now happen randomly and will cause more inconvenience than now.