Server will shut down in 10 min

@batriz-vordgrim
U can't grind forts because respawns are broken and you have to fight versus enemy ships every 5 mins.
Now u can't grind voyages because game server has been shut down.
Unlucky game...

@x1-two Vote on a merchant voyage, collect coops, then vote to cancel. Rinse and repeat, then go around collecting animals while only doing the voyages with gold animal turn ins.

@x1-two Before we started voyages we invested money in many voyages so we collected just cages and put them on our ship and we start new voyages then untill we were satisfied with the number of cages we want to use. You can also find many cages on various island. It's always better to have some extra empty cages on deck just in case.

@touchdown1504 After we saw the announcement we decided to go to the nearest Outpost ASAP, we arrived 1 min before server was shut down and we manage to sell just few of them. We even didnt park ship properly like we always do, we just hit the outpost on full speed and start sellinig, it was to late anyway... :(

Ha-ha-ha. I don't feel bad, join the club.

@the-trolol-face It's not about feeling bad or not. It's about shutting down servers in the middle of action with an announcement just 10 min before. It's very unprofessional and unacceptable behavior unless a game is free to play, but it's 50 pounds. For us it was very bad luck but I am sure other ppl were fighting on skeleton forts or doing voyages and many of them probably lost their treasure as well. It cannot be announcement about shutting down a server just before 10 min. Why should I start longer voyages if I never know when they are going to shutdown the server?

@batriz-vordgrim Feels bad man , hopefully Rare will see this and change the 10 minutes to at least an hour like you said. I lol'ed at the picture though ;) you seem to be making the best out of the game !

@batriz-vordgrim Maybe do one voyage at a time like they're meant to be done, rather than exploiting the system for extra cages.

@the-trolol-face We play the game as the developers designed it. We do one voyage at a time but we want to have a ZOO on our ship cause it's much faster and smarter way but more dangerous because someone can sink your ship with tons of animals on deck or steal them.

Anyway it's not about how you play the game it's about shutting the server without prior notice. If you are in the middle of the sea 10 min is even not enough to get to a nearest outpost sometimes.

@zyrkal said in Server will shut down in 10 min:

@batriz-vordgrim
You get what you deserve. Do you know the servers are not all shuting down at the same time ?

It only happen when there is a proble in it, so... with so many cages on your ship, maybe you were the reason why the server has shutting down.

You are wrong. I've been talking with friends of mine and their servers were shout down as well in the middle of a fight at a skeleton fort.

@x1-two If this was a planned outage, sure they should have provided more warning. But you also realize that many would consider cage-hoarding an exploit that should be fixed, and not have much sympathy for you, right?

I've not encoutered the "server will shut down in 10 min" yet.

Once we did just start a fort and got the notification saying: The server will shutdown in 30 minutes.

I think we got a world record finishing that Fort. (ofcourse there were no infinite sloop respawns trying to sink us).

@zyrkal Absurd

This just happened to my crew and I while fighting over a skull fort. We fought off 2 galleons and had the 2nd trying to keep us from finishing and getting our loot. Over an hour and a half later of fighting them and doing the fort we got the key then got in another fight with a ship, taking them down with us. We went back got the key again and then the server message came up that it was shutting down in 10 min. Just as we get back to the fort to get the loot the other galleon comes back and they just do nothing but try to fight it out and trash talk that we wont have time before the server restarts. RARE you owe me the loot average for my character or compensation for my time due to your garbage server issue. There was no scheduled maintenance and I was able to jump right back onto another server. The fact that there is no warning prior to your 10 min message. Fix your s**t.

@batriz-vordgrim said in Server will shut down in 10 min:

We've been collecting animals for Merchant Alliance quests for around 3 hours and we were about to sell all of them. We had around 30 snakes and around 50 chickens. On the middle of the see we see this announcment: Server will shout doown in 10 min!

Why you're tell us just 10 min before shut down the server? It has to be AT LEAST 1 hour before! This is ridiculous and very unprofessional! Why there is no announcment on twitter before or anywhere? I am so dissapointed and discouraged to play it anymore. This is not the first time. Yesterday in the middle of collecting animals we were kickd out frome the server because of merging them.

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As far as announcing it they have been all week, scroll to bottom and see where it says maintnance window. Also never have that many animal cages. During beta high numbers of cages were causing crashes and its a problem they have yet to fix.

@alavna91 the time stated for the maintenance was 9 am BST and that is 15 min from this post. Our server kicked us over an hour and a half ago.

@threezool got kicked well over an hour and a half before 9am BST. So now we have to predict early shutdowns? My clairvoyance must not be kicking in like all the others I guess.

@threezool I would say your understanding of time and use of the wording "right before" is questionable. You might feel like you have something to say to make the issue seem less important or deflect to some off the wall reasoning that you shouldn't be playing even before a stated time, but you're wrong, and not offering anything to the conversation here. The fact is, server kicked when there wasn't a scheduled maintenance. Mind you this is not the 1st time this has happened as can be seen from the OP. This is just the most recent. When selling a service that requires a connection to a server to received said service there should be no questioning of when or not one should be able to connect. It is not good for business and something that should be addressed. So I could give 2 peg legs on how you usually avoid maintenance or other possibly irritating situations in your life.

@coolerbravo Maybe normally but not always, we completed a fort which took us about two hours since we repelled many sloops, after killing the boss and picking up the key, we got a Server will shut down in 5 minutes. Needless to say no one was happy.