News Horizons and 1.5 launch - Servers offline

CMDR Ellegon · Dec 15, 2015

mortenfischer said:
do you feel violated?

And what exactly would be your point, if there is any?

Since the dawn of computing, reasonable advance warning of system downtime has been an expected and common courtesy. FD just decided not to follow that practice. Again, two thumbs down.

marcomads · Dec 15, 2015

I have a simple question.
I pre-ordered Horizons but let's say for some reason i would like to postpone the client upgrade to Horizons for a few days. Do i have the option to just download the 1.5 patch (which is mandatory i guess) and continue playing the "vanilla" Elite Dangerous until i decide to upgrade to Horizons?

thanks in advance

morti1702 · Dec 15, 2015

When will the Servers come back? I didn't found the Information, is it anywhere?
Suggestions?

Sincerely Morti

fennster · Dec 15, 2015

babelfisch said:
Maybe not by your definition. The thing is: your definition is wrong.

It doesn't matter if you need to pay or not, beta is purely a stage in the software release life cycle.

By pure definition. Yes. As in Alpha, Beta, Gamma.

Quite where you factor money in any of that, I don't know.

CMDR M Kozak · Dec 15, 2015

CMDR Ellegon said:
And what exactly would be your point, if there is any?

Since the dawn of computing, reasonable advance warning of system downtime has been an expected and common courtesy. FD just decided not to follow that practice. Again, two thumbs down.

You need to take a step out in to the world, get some air - perhaps a cup of coffee tea.
What makes me happy about your post is that your life must be so uncomplicated for the downtime of a computergame to be of any concern to you.

Two thumps up!

fennster · Dec 15, 2015

marcomads said:
I have a simple question.
I pre-ordered Horizons but let's say for some reason i would like to postpone the client upgrade to Horizons for a few days. Do i have the option to just download the 1.5 patch (which is mandatory i guess) and continue playing the "vanilla" Elite Dangerous until i decide to upgrade to Horizons?

thanks in advance

Yes you can choose to install/upgrade the 32 bit Elite Dangerous from the launcher which will include 1.5 but not horizons.

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morti1702 said:
When will the Servers come back? I didn't found the Information, is it anywhere?
Suggestions?

Sincerely Morti

If all goes well 16:00 GMT (6 Hours approx.)

Stormprooter · Dec 15, 2015

Will there be a wipe?

<runs off quickly>

morti1702 · Dec 15, 2015

fennster said:
Yes you can choose to install/upgrade the 32 bit Elite Dangerous from the launcher which will include 1.5 but not horizons.

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If all goes well 16:00 GMT (6 Hours approx.)

Thanks mate

Cedr · Dec 15, 2015

I was also one of the people who were in the middle of a jump when the servers went down. Hope I don't log in to find myself inside a suns corona haha

Knot2clever · Dec 15, 2015

Very wise words commander, some of the earlier FDL ships are fitted with Amstrad computers and components sourced from Tandys.

Ironfist · Dec 15, 2015

Stormprooter said:
Will there be a wipe?

<runs off quickly>

Off course there will, its always been a beta until now

babelfisch · Dec 15, 2015

CMDR Ellegon said:
And what exactly would be your point, if there is any?

Since the dawn of computing, reasonable advance warning of system downtime has been an expected and common courtesy. FD just decided not to follow that practice. Again, two thumbs down.

OK FDEV, you heard it. Ellegon is not happy so please stop the server upgrade immediately and put version 1.4 back online.

Zephyriel · Dec 15, 2015

How people can still find a way to complain when Horizons is about to launch is beyond me.

Great job FD, getting at it right at the start of the working day! Good luck with the update, I hope I will yave the time to play today.

Sn3fru · Dec 15, 2015

Yzangard you've paid for all the "Season" acces. So this is not an Early access, this is Beta and it will be beta each time you'll download the Beta on the season, not an early acces of each patch lol. Understood?

I'm not clear? Sorry, trying to do my best in Learning English, but i know what i've bought

CMDR Ellegon · Dec 15, 2015

mortenfischer said:
You need to take a step out in to the world, get some air - perhaps a cup of coffee tea.
What makes me happy about your post is that your life must be so uncomplicated for the downtime of a computergame to be of any concern to you.

Two thumps up!

What an incredibly imature reply, certainly you do not work in IT management. If you did, you would know that you never ever surprise a customer with unexpected downtime, unless there is no alternative.

Ironfist · Dec 15, 2015

Cedr said:
I was also one of the people who were in the middle of a jump when the servers went down. Hope I don't log in to find myself inside a suns corona haha

...or maybe in witch-space

marcomads · Dec 15, 2015

fennster said:
1955 and you will need to meet the Doc to get to the clock tower for when the lightning strikes.

Best post in the thread so far

atomic7431 · Dec 15, 2015

Zac Antonaci said:
We did, in the newsletter.

not true, re read newsletter and nothing about a time at all.

on a happy note cant wait for my progress to now start to count towards what i do in the galaxy. I couldnt keep off the beta and have not played the 1.41 since horizons dropped hehe.

Knot2clever · Dec 15, 2015

morti1702 said:
When will the Servers come back? I didn't found the Information, is it anywhere?
Suggestions?

Sincerely Morti

Yes try reading this post. I only suggest this as its in this post.

CMDR M Kozak · Dec 15, 2015

CMDR Ellegon said:
What an incredibly imature reply, certainly you do not work in IT management. If you did, you would know that you never ever surprise a customer with unexpected downtime, unless there is no alternative.

So you did not know that Horizon was launching today?