I noticed it with 12 minutes remaining.
Was in a storm fighting a meg, then a ghost ship spawned on me and I had a large haul of loot onboard.
Just made it to Port merrick with 2 minutes to go attempt the fastest cash in ever! All the while yet another ghost ship was attacking me, multipludes of sharks swarming my boat.
Do us a favour. If your going to spring these last minute warnings on us. Tone done the PVE content beforehand to give us a fighting chance of ending the session.
@needsmokes
I lost a ton of loot because of this before, they should make the notice at like 30mins before taking the server down, 15mins is not enough if you're far from an outpost to be able to sell your stuff.
As someone said here that is bad luck
I agree they should probably limit skeleton ship or megalodon encounters when the servers are about to go offline
but if you plan accordingly, and check their social media, you'll find they give you warnings an hour before the servers go offline. So you have plenty of time to travel to an outpost and sell
@guildar9194 said in Server about to shut down notice.:
I...don't think they can just 'limit spawns' or 'tone down' the content on a live server, prior to a shut down or not...
They could just shut them down altogether.
@coffeelight5545 said in Server about to shut down notice.:
@guildar9194 said in Server about to shut down notice.:
I...don't think they can just 'limit spawns' or 'tone down' the content on a live server, prior to a shut down or not...
They could just shut them down altogether.
You missed my point; I don't think they can adjust the spawn rates of a live server.
Normally, changes being pushed to the live game or, in this case, server-side content like spawn rates, requires an update of the server. Which would interrupt your game session anyways.
I didn’t miss your point. Rare can literally do anything to their servers INCLUDING limiting OR disabling PvE events such as megs and skeleton ships!
The problem is, will Rare actually do this?
The truth is that we can easily loose all of our hard earned loot to a skilled PvP crew. It doesn’t matter if it’s lost in combat or lost by a server shutdown. The result is the same, We lost our treasure!
I have lost countless treasures including loosing a Chest of Fortune in a fleet because it sank before I could retrieve it. It’s best not to focus on what you loose and simply enjoy the game for what it is.
@coffeelight5545 said in Server about to shut down notice.:
I didn’t miss your point. Rare can literally do anything to their servers INCLUDING limiting OR disabling PvE events such as megs and skeleton ships!
The problem is, will Rare actually do this?
The truth is that we can easily loose all of our hard earned loot to a skilled PvP crew. It doesn’t matter if it’s lost in combat or lost by a server shutdown. The result is the same, We lost our treasure!
I have lost countless treasures including loosing a Chest of Fortune in a fleet because it sank before I could retrieve it. It’s best not to focus on what you loose and simply enjoy the game for what it is.
Rare can literally do anything to their servers INCLUDING limiting OR disabling PvE events such as megs and skeleton ships!
Yes, they can. But most games cannot be altered while running. This is why they shut them down for large updates.
Give me any proof to back up your claim that Rare can alter the spawn rates live, other than because you assume so.
I don’t work at Rare. I’m not a game developer. I don’t have any proof. At the same time prove to me that Rare CANT shut down random events in the game!
The server shutdowns occur because they are CHANGING the servers. They aren’t altering what already exists! Rare can disable PvE events!
@coffeelight5545 said in Server about to shut down notice.:
I don’t work at Rare. I’m not a game developer. I don’t have any proof. At the same time prove to me that Rare CANT shut down random events in the game!
The server shutdowns occur because they are CHANGING the servers. They aren’t altering what already exists! Rare can disable PvE events!
I don’t work at Rare. I’m not a game developer. I don’t have any proof.
So you're just assuming Rare can alter the PvE events on the fly, whenever they want, without shutting down the servers. Just so you can complain that Rare should do that.
At the same time prove to me that Rare CANT shut down random events in the game!
Ask any game developer. The vast majority of games can't push an update live without first taking the game offline, if it's an online game.
Try to alter a file on Windows while, at the same time, running that file; Even Windows will say something along the lines of 'Error: Program is in use. Please close it down and try again.'
They aren’t altering what already exists! Rare can disable PvE events!
Rare cannot alter PvE events on a server that is online and being used! That's not how programming works!
You are literally whining about an issue you created because you don't know the first thing about programming!
Rare. Cannot. Alter. The. Spawns. While. You. Are. Playing.
They cannot just push code that turns off PvE events and have the servers update while being run.
The server shutdowns occur because they are CHANGING the servers.
Or, you know; CHANGING the GAME on the servers.
The same thing CHANGING the SPAWNS would do; Require an update and restart.
You are literally saying "I don't know how game programming works! Therefore, I will assume Rare can wave their magical developer wand and change PvE spawns live, and demand they do just that before updates to make me happy!"
Do you work for Rare? Do you know how their servers work?
The answer is you don’t know anything. Stop assuming that you do. Rare CAN do it, they just refuse to do so.
@coffeelight5545 said in Server about to shut down notice.:
Do you work for Rare? Do you know how their servers work?
The answer is you don’t know anything. Stop assuming that you do. Rare CAN do it, they just refuse to do so.
Do you work for Rare? Do you know how their servers work?
Having done some programming as a hobby; I know enough to know that pushing changes on a live program is a massive headache.
The answer is you don’t know anything.
I clearly know more than you.
Stop assuming that you do.
It's not 'assuming' when I actually have knowledge to back it up.
Rare CAN do it, they just refuse to do so.
Rofl. You admitted you know 0 about programming, then tell me to 'stop assuming' and then...make your own 100% uninformed assumption.
I am now going to say something you won't want to hear:
No, they can't. You're wrong. Deal with it.
I don’t care if I’m wrong but you are being very rude. The forums are for friendly discussion. Yes, people will disagree and sometimes some people are wrong but as per the forum rules,
You must be respectful!
I’m not moving the goal post as you say. I’m clearly talking to a brick wall with you. Personally, you are not worth my time.
I will also remind you that the forum rules require you to be respectful to others.
@coffeelight5545 said in Server about to shut down notice.:
I’m not moving the goal post as you say. I’m clearly talking to a brick wall with you. Personally, you are not worth my time.
I will also remind you that the forum rules require you to be respectful to others.
I’m not moving the goal post as you say.
You are moving the discussion from your erroneous demand that the devs magically lower PvE spawns before an update to my attitude. Because I proved you wrong.
Personally, you are not worth my time.
Which is why you keep replying?
I will also remind you that the forum rules require you to be respectful to others.
I have done nothing disrespectful.
Proving you incorrect after you told me I don't know anything is not being disrespectful.
