Server is up again, but....
It would be nice when Inno could give us a statement what happened. Ok, the "Maintenance" message says that it usually lasts no more than 10 minutes, so if the maintenance takes e.g. 8 or even 15 minutes maybe nobody would be too annoyed. But imagine what happens (and what a player thinks) when the maintenance takes hours:
The following lines reflect approximately my thoughts etc. when this happened AGAIN yesterday:
- ...collecting 1 hour productions, .... aha, no green "+" numbers in the upper right corner, number of supplies not changing.
--> browser refresh --> grrr, maintenance page, saying "usually no more than 10 minutes".
- Click to forum, no statement from Inno, so maybe normal maintenance?
- ~10 minutes later: Browser refresh, still maintenance page.
- 5 more minutes later: STRG-F5, no change, still no statement from Inno.
- ...browser refresh goes to loading page, a happy moment, maybe it works now?
- but no, loading gets stuck at 55%. The old bug? Clearing browser cache etc. (at least the 20th time since 1.19 was released to beta), got browser error message
- posted this bug message...
- several minutes later, tried again browser refreshes, which took me back and forth between error message, loading page which gets stuck at 55-58% and... again mainteneance message. Still no message from Inno.
- etc....
- one and a half hour later: It was quite late in the evening at my location at that time, last try before going to bed. Still stuck loading page, error message and maintenance message. Still no message from Inno. Going to sleep, somewhat annoyed because I know that I would find my supply productions decayed because I could not collect them and start 8 hour productions...
@Inno: So what happened? Is there a serious problem with the servers? Is version 1.19 THAT instable that it crashes every day? If a maintenance takes substantially longer than the ~10 minutes announced in the Maintenance message (and that happened at least two times in the last two days) it would be nice if Inno could give a short statement in the forum (e.g. saying that there is a problem, which might take some time - and a second message when the server is up again) - so we would have an idea what's going on - and wouldn't put unnecessary load to the server by retrying to log in after half an hour, 35 minutes, 40 minutes etc. in the hope that whatever maintenance work would be finished...