Fleet Carriers Update - Downtime

[fnfalg1]

New to the game but really ancient in development. ETA's are best guesses. The unintended and unexpected are almost guaranteed so the best practice is to use the Scotty method of handing user expectations. Take the amount of time you expect the task to take, add a 4x multiplier and tell your customer that is the best time you can provide. If you get done early you're a hero but at least you have a buffer.

 

[Oddy-B]

So 37mins mins from now, servers come up.
38mins from now, servers collapse under weight of people logging in.

I would say 46mins when everyone hit the purchase button

 

[MarkAusten]

I'm fine, thanks.

Not sure about that. If the roll back and such is going to take longer than the remainder of the update, then I'd press on. Personally I always qualify my update times with "maybe" and "about" and "if everything goes well" and so on and so forth since the bigger the update and the bigger the server farm, the bigger the chance of something unexpected going wrong.

Sometime pushing on is the lesser of two evils.

 

[MarkAusten]

New to the game but really ancient in development. ETA's are best guesses. The unintended and unexpected are almost guaranteed so the best practice is to use the Scotty method of handing user expectations. Take the amount of time you expect the task to take, add a 4x multiplier and tell your customer that is the best time you can provide. If you get done early you're a hero but at least you have a buffer.

We call them WAGs not ETAs

 

[Cheris]

So 37mins mins from now, servers come up.
38mins from now, servers collapse under weight of people logging in.

I suspect this may be avoided by the large client update everyone will have to download before logging in, spreading out the logins. But that's just speculation.

 

[Paulie Wotsit]

And a 30 seconds before 17:00 4.5 million F5 keys will be repeatedly pressed at about 5Hz and crash the FD servers.

This!

 

[DaveB]

New to the game but really ancient in development. ETA's are best guesses. The unintended and unexpected are almost guaranteed so the best practice is to use the Scotty method of handing user expectations. Take the amount of time you expect the task to take, add a 4x multiplier and tell your customer that is the best time you can provide. If you get done early you're a hero but at least you have a buffer.

Murphy lives in the data centre.

 

[maehara]

I suspect this may be avoided by the large client update everyone will have to download before logging in, spreading out the logins. But that's just speculation.

PS4 client update is already downloaded & installed. I'm ready.

 

[[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99]

@Tim Smith tell the cleaner to hurry up and finish disinfecting the server

All good, more than happy to wait!

Thanks for keeping us informed, stay safe!

o7

 

[Tessa R Act]

PS4 client update is already downloaded & installed. I'm ready.

you maybe have to do again.... (but just speculation)

 

[SirRavesalot]

Have we got confirmation that there is a client update or is that speculative?

Ah, guess so. Helps if I pay attention huh?

Well it IS 2:38am here, that's my excuse and I'm gonna stick to it.

 

[MarkAusten]

Have we got confirmation that there is a client update or is that speculative?

Wait 25 minutes and your question will be answered.

 

[Cheris]

PS4 client update is already downloaded & installed. I'm ready.

Lucky you! Sadly, the PC one doesn't seem to be available yet.

 

[Cheris]

Have we got confirmation that there is a client update or is that speculative?

It's just speculation. But there was one for the beta and they are adding some stuff that wasn't in the game before, so I don't see how they wouldn't be one?

 

[Wasp0]

PS4 client update is already downloaded & installed. I'm ready.

I suppose there must be some reason to play this on anything other than a PC, i can't seem to think of any other reason to own one of those boxes at all.

 

[Darth Ender]

I suppose there must be some reason to play this on anything other than a PC, i can't seem to think of any other reason to own one of those boxes at all.

god of war.

 

[Tessa R Act]

I suppose there must be some reason to play this on anything other than a PC, i can't seem to think of any other reason to own one of those boxes at all.

me neither - a PC you at least can use for other things too....

 

[Cheris]

Also speculation, but it's possible that it's easier to roll-back a client updated on PS4 than PC, which might be why they've release the update on one and not the other.

 

[Wasp0]

god of war.

Yeah, i'll just rush out and buy one.....Errr NOT!

 

[DøømHåmstër]

It's just speculation. But there was one for the beta and they are adding some stuff that wasn't in the game before, so I don't see how they wouldn't be one?

If it works like it did during the beta, the "play" button in the launcher will just change to "Update" without any need for relaunching the launcher or steam or anything so we'll know as soon as it is available.