European extended weekly maintenance: 29th April 2009
by Lesley Smith 
Apr 29th 2009 at 3:30AM
Good morrow, my European companions, it's Wednesday which means only one thing. Yes it's maintenance time once more.This week we're getting yet another patch: 3.1.1a and I'm seriously hoping this will be the end of all of the patch 3.1 chaos. That said, we here in European haven't had such a bad time of it thanks to the American guinea pigs over the pond.
As you've probably predicted by now we're getting downtime until 11am CEST this morning. Hopefully this latest patch will make it all better, eh?
In the meantime, I suggest you make some tea, enjoy a leisurely breakfast and install the patch. You can, of course, also check our posts from yesterday which have fun suggestions of things to do during the downtime.
Filed under: Patches, News items, Europe
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
percinho Apr 29th 2009 3:42AM
Cup of assam and an omlette for me. Were there any problems with the patch stateside yesterday? And there don't seem to be any patch notes after I've installed. Are they just not telling us?
Adam Holisky Apr 29th 2009 3:47AM
No patch notes. =)
percinho Apr 29th 2009 3:56AM
Thanks Adam, I can only assume that nothing at all has changed then. Nothing to see here, carry on now.
And I hope you're up at this unearthly hour because you're raiding/questing/fishing. It'd suck to be up all night just to monitor comments!
Tubbos Apr 29th 2009 3:55AM
'In the meantime, I suggest you make some tea, enjoy a leisurely breakfast and install the patch.'
That sounds awesome. Alas some of us have to work! :P
Lesley Smith Apr 29th 2009 4:02AM
I have work too you know - and a tiny, starving kitteh who WILL NOT LEAVE ME ALONE UNTIL I FEED HER. :)
rakah Apr 29th 2009 4:02AM
Your doing a teriffic job with your posts Lesley, keep up the good work.
daxaar Apr 29th 2009 4:12AM
@rakah
So just to be clear, this is a post to tell us that it's Wednesday and it's a patch day.
Yeah, terrific job!
Lesley Smith Apr 29th 2009 4:24AM
@rakah Much appreciated.
I know these Wednesday patches are tiny but you guys want more EU posts so you're getting them.
I like to think not everyone is hunched over their PCs at 8am in the morning like me and appreciates a round up they can check from work.
harmloos Apr 29th 2009 4:06AM
aargh was not called so didnt have to work today but still im up early. So far 3 hours of random web browsing and waiting for wow to get back online.
rakah Apr 29th 2009 4:21AM
i was referring to her other posts too >_>
Zeroe Apr 29th 2009 5:13AM
A question to the European players out there, please
I just landed here at Aviano AB, Italy for a two year tour in the USAF. Currently putting up with the satellite internet latency (600-1000ms) is killing me playing on my stateside server.
Does anyone know if it would be much improved if I, say, transferred to an east coast server, or even if I just chucked the money down and got a European account?
Thanks in advance if anyone has a suggestion!
Kemikalkadet Apr 29th 2009 5:20AM
Well with satellite net you're going to have an obscene amount of latency whatever server you connect to, and i doubt you'd see any difference at all between east/west coast US servers. Playing a european server will cut the lag down a little, maybe a couple hundred ms latency, but you'll still have the 1k ms+ from the satellite connection.
Karpax Apr 29th 2009 8:17AM
Why the satellite connection?
I used to play on a US server from europe as well, but I used a cable connection through a local ISP. Never had any troubles with lag...
PeeWee Apr 29th 2009 5:12AM
Problem is, servers went kapoof at 0300, not 0500. At least the servers I play on.