KEEP CALM AND PLAY TOMORROW

seko · Dec 11, 2018

I've just tried to log in, and giving it a miss until tomorrow also. The silver cloud in this, for me at any rate, is that it only took 15minutes to download, normally takes a couple of hours. Thought things were going too well

VR SenseiMatty · Dec 11, 2018

Maybe an idea could be to release the patch in the morning, so in the evening most people already downloaded it and the servers are less loaded. It could also be better to avoid overload from US as most people are still sleeping there.

Mack Winston · Dec 11, 2018

Unfortunately our expedition's long planned end-date is today, to coincide with the Lave Radio live broadcast. It's today or bust!

Maro-Val · Dec 11, 2018

Why should i play tomorow, because they dont want to fix the extra load and we the players have to fix it by not logging in?
Isn't today the release day?

Kellan Fell · Dec 11, 2018

winston said:
Unfortunately our expedition's long planned end-date is today, to coincide with the Lave Radio live broadcast. It's today or bust!

Sorry dude, it's bust then.

Mengy · Dec 11, 2018

winston said:
Unfortunately our expedition's long planned end-date is today, to coincide with the Lave Radio live broadcast. It's today or bust!

Bust it is then!!!

BDelacroix · Dec 11, 2018

lokvette said:
Updating game er launcher...then game can do the do whilst I sleep time for this old fart to hit the hay, ok got the verification: VMABS bro...hey its bad but worth the effort .

Left my machine on so it would update while I was at work. I got home to find that steam "helped" me by scheduling the download for 4pm. ...

Mole HD · Dec 11, 2018

BDelacroix said:
Left my machine on so it would update while I was at work. I got home to find that steam "helped" me by scheduling the download for 4pm. ...

[haha]

Sorry...just snorted coffee down my nose. I wouldn't laugh if It hadn't happened to me more than once

Cervantes01 · Dec 11, 2018

The Librarian said:
from https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/frontier-games/:

"About Frontier Games

Frontier Games is a UK-based video game company. It turned to AWS to develop and host its games, including Zoo Tycoon, Elite: Dangerous, and Coaster Crazy. By using AWS, Frontier Games can scale compute resources easily to handle large spikes in user traffic with popular titles, and is saving up to 30 percent compared to using a traditional technology infrastructure, allowing it to focus financial resources on game development instead of on IT hardware."

I guess Elite is not popular enough then.......

AWS is a platform set up to monetarize the excess capacity of the Amazon cloud when it wasn't peak time like Christmas. I'd like to point out that it's Christmas.

IndigoWyrd · Dec 11, 2018

Steve50 said:
Never ^can^ play on patch day.

Fixed it for ya.

Lightspeed · Dec 11, 2018

Paige Harvey said:
We're working on it Commanders! Thank you for your patience at this time.

Paige, you are FD's voice of soothing calm while everyone else is rushing around like headless chickens !

It brings to mind the fire alarm in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, that uttered the calming voice of "Don't Panic, Don't Panic" while everyone was panicking !

Arnak · Dec 12, 2018

Cannot even verify the game!

Hi,

It's not patch day now.

I cannot even get a verification email to get to the update page thanks to the launcher update.[down]

Cmdr Esteban · Dec 12, 2018

Valorin said:
Let me quote Sigmund Freud here:
"Never play on patch day."

There's a distinct chance that it wasn't Freud who said that. After all:

"Seventy percent of all quotes on the internet are misattributed." - Abraham Lincoln

VR SenseiMatty · Dec 12, 2018

Cmdr Esteban said:
There's a distinct chance that it wasn't Freud who said that. After all:

"Seventy percent of all quotes on the internet are misattributed." - Abraham Lincoln

That's a good one!