There's thing thing, it's called the weekend, and it's that time where a lot of our development team spend time with their families after working long hours all week.

It's been 4 years since WotLK. Since September 2012, the WoW you know doesn't exist anymore.

There's no caps.

The world you know has been expanded to the point of those you play with aren't on your realm.

You goto Icecrown and the players there now are split from a dozen realms. So a limit in the zone wouldn't matter, because they physically play on their own realm, but virtually connected to other realms.

5.4 patch it's virtually merging 10+ realms together including the AH. At this rate, WoW will be EvE as a one world Azeroth, but on independent realms in different datacenters around the country, nowhere connected physically.

I play both games. What's your excuse? Scared of a goblin hurting your pee pee?

Considering the content, yep!

Honestly, I've been trying to research it because I left before they even implemented the original form of CRZ, where you had to be invited to a raid from someone already on the realm. While I couldn't find any concrete documentation on how it works, nor could I find documentation that shows how many players it is capable of supporting, I found plenty of documentation on how much it sucks and how it lags with more than 50 players in one location.

I play both games. What's your excuse? Scared of a goblin hurting your pee pee?

Hey guys,

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Do you have to connect the two in every post you make?

Finally, there were questions regarding Internal Affairs involvement in investigating what happened. Since the issue was immediately spotted, investigated and confirmed as a mistake, this negates the need for any IA investigation at this point.

This is all that can be said right now, so I hope this answers the bulk of the questions.

Bullshit, Find out if this GM has any previous history with any player alliance and if so were they are on Test's side if they were he deserves to be let go for meddling.

Do you have to connect the two in every post you make?

Hey guys,

I've been through this thread and gathered a few questions, which were then forwarded on to everyone involved. What can be answered will be outlined briefly and directly in this post.

Firstly, there were a lot of questions about our reboot and node remapping mechanics in terms of aggression/log off timer persistence. Right now, there is no plan to change how this works. Had everything gone to plan this would have not been a factor, which means the key priority here is to identify the root cause of what happened and either enact change or put new systems in place to prevent a re-occurrence.

On Tuesday, we held a multi-disciplined postmortem of the chain of events that led up to the mass disconnect, and as a direct result we are making changes to our internal policies and our tools to ensure that this does not happen again. However, these changes do not include alterations to game mechanics that would lead to ships remaining in space, or changes that would lead to a solar system resuming the exact state it was after such an event.

In terms of addressing the costs associated with dedicating more computing power to meet the requirements of large fleet fights, we are always looking at avenues to improve server performance. However, in the same respect we recognize that as soon as performance is improved, our players will of course test the new limit and continue to push against it. This is a continuous battle for us, and something we remain heavily committed to.

There were also questions raised regarding how we move systems from one node to another, in terms of why persistence occurs for drones and wrecks, but not for ships. This is a simple matter of players being governed by log off timers that cause their removal from space. Wrecks and drones do not have a logged in player tied to them.

Finally, there were questions regarding Internal Affairs involvement in investigating what happened. Since the issue was immediately spotted, investigated and confirmed as a mistake, this negates the need for any IA investigation at this point.

This is all that can be said right now, so I hope this answers the bulk of the questions.

Don't comapre WoW and Eve.

You will never experience a large World PvP fight in WoW. During classic the fight of 40 Shamans Vs. 40 Paladins has crashed down the server. WoW is not designed for World PvP and Blizzard was constantly killing World PvP since BC(January 2007).

Hey guys,

I've been through this thread and gathered a few questions, which were then forwarded on to everyone involved. What can be answered will be outlined briefly and directly in this post.

Firstly, there were a lot of questions about our reboot and node remapping mechanics in terms of aggression/log off timer persistence. Right now, there is no plan to change how this works. Had everything gone to plan this would have not been a factor, which means the key priority here is to identify the root cause of what happened and either enact change or put new systems in place to prevent a re-occurrence.

On Tuesday, we held a multi-disciplined postmortem of the chain of events that led up to the mass disconnect, and as a direct result we are making changes to our internal policies and our tools to ensure that this does not happen again. However, these changes do not include alterations to game mechanics that would lead to ships remaining in space, or changes that would lead to a solar system resuming the exact state it was after such an event.

In terms of addressing the costs associated with dedicating more computing power to meet the requirements of large fleet fights, we are always looking at avenues to improve server performance. However, in the same respect we recognize that as soon as performance is improved, our players will of course test the new limit and continue to push against it. This is a continuous battle for us, and something we remain heavily committed to.

There were also questions raised regarding how we move systems from one node to another, in terms of why persistence occurs for drones and wrecks, but not for ships. This is a simple matter of players being governed by log off timers that cause their removal from space. Wrecks and drones do not have a logged in player tied to them.

Finally, there were questions regarding Internal Affairs involvement in investigating what happened. Since the issue was immediately spotted, investigated and confirmed as a mistake, this negates the need for any IA investigation at this point.

This is all that can be said right now, so I hope this answers the bulk of the questions.

And it's non-instanced, open world (just like the Sha boss). You can see Galleon from near Halfhill (main hub in the region), and the raid in the process from that distance. Same with the Sha. Each of these bosses also doesn't have the vanilla/TBC loot nightmare of 40mans too.

Keep it civil and on topic, and cut the bad language.

If you want to rumor monger with absolutely no evidence to back up wild accusations, then feel free to do so elsewhere. If you feel you have evidence of developer bias, contact [email protected].

It really is that simple.

Nobody cares.

So the root cause of what happened isn't developer/sysadmin error (with a typo) and your system being flawed in accepting an erroneous entry and moving everything without proper precautions?