Extention

Please, for the love of everything anyone has ever held dear, the US is on Daylight Savings time now, ergo xDT. Eastern Daylight Time. - EDT Central Daylight Time. - CDT Mountain Daylight Time. - MDT Pacific Daylight Time. - PDT That covers the continental US time zones from east (where that big ball of light comes up) to the west (where it goes down) and they are each 1 successive hour apart. 22:00 would be the 22nd hour of a day. A 'day' begins at midnight, right? Right. You've stared at the game clock and noticed that the day changes one game minute after 23:59 right? Right. Same thing. 24-hour time has no AM or PM. If you see a time referenced as anything more than 12 hours, subtract 12 from it and that's your time in Post Meridiem or PM. Otherwise it's AM. So if you REALLY want to know what time maintenance will now end in CST, even though we're not on Standard Time right now, that would be 11pm or 23:00 CST. It's not that damned difficult. /sigh On the server front, I can only assume character data is stored in some form of SQL environment which would take a good amount of time to transfer millions upon millions of rows of character data from one database to another. Not only would new rows be added to a destination DB, but name checks would have to flag new additions if there's a conflict. While that process would be completely automated in a lengthy SQL script, it would still take hours to run with the sheer amount of data I'd expect. One hiccup and the script borks, the whole thing gets to be re-run. But this is why they stopped character transfers early, so they could test the server merges with a consistent data set. Still, I'd love just 10 minutes with the system to see how its structured... maybe 10 more minutes to make a few small modifications.

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On the server front, I can only assume character data is stored in some form of SQL environment which would take a good amount of time to transfer millions upon millions of rows of character data from one database to another. Not only would new rows be added to a destination DB, but name checks would have to flag new additions if there's a conflict. While that process would be completely automated in a lengthy SQL script, it would still take hours to run with the sheer amount of data I'd expect. One hiccup and the script borks, the whole thing gets to be re-run. But this is why they stopped character transfers early, so they could test the server merges with a consistent data set.

Still, I'd love just 10 minutes with the system to see how its structured... maybe 10 more minutes to make a few small modifications.

Regardless of how they're doing it, the game was never developed with the ability to server-merge (or even server transfer) in mind. Whatever they're doing, it's likely a custom-workaround developed in the last few months and never tested in a Live environment before. I've never been hesitant to criticize SE when warranted before, but I think we need to give them a pass on this one.

I thought SE has shut down and merged the older servers before..

Have they? If so, I don't remember it. I could be wrong.

Regardless of how they're doing it, the game was never developed with the ability to server-merge (or even server transfer) in mind. Whatever they're doing, it's likely a custom-workaround developed in the last few months and never tested in a Live environment before. I've never been hesitant to criticize SE when warranted before, but I think we need to give them a pass on this one.

Have they? If so, I don't remember it. I could be wrong.

I thought SE has shut down and merged the older servers before..

Ixion and Kirin merged to Bismarck. Typhon merged to Kujata. They were real servers.

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