Server Status?

[jstroh]

red message across the top then boom http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[Ether]

Maintenence until 1am EST

[jstroh]

lmfao Maintenance... well at least the US release will probably be smooth.

[Nilot]

~probably~ its only the beginning http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif mmmm extra mode is sounding pretty good right now ;x

[Numnuttz]

yea i wouldnt be surprised if the US version had bugs in it as well. you just never know whats going to pop up in online games such as these.

[Axios-]

What's wrong with maintenance? Wasn't this one scheduled anyways? I like hearing that there's maintenence. It means that there's, well, maintenance!

[vitius137]

Wonder what they're maintenancing (lol, words)

[A2K]

The servers are equipped with State/Maintenance. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[LoneVandal]

Is it up right now? I found the way into it, but it just sits there for a few minutes and eventually gives me what I can only assume to be an "error" messge followed by "try again / give up" options.

This is after I've registered with Segalink and registered PSU. I can get into the Story Mode.

[Cross]

They should be coming up right about now. Try to get on to beat the rush; that's probably the best you can do. See "crisis of PSU" or some of the other threads about the servers for the current situation http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[Inazuma]

hmm, i dont know if the servers are even up rite now. sigh

[LoneVandal]

I see. Thanks ;_;

So when it just sits there it is trying to access the login server? Cause I don't even get a chance to input my Segalink ID.

[Cross]

The official site just updated to say that it's going to be another 15 minutes. It's hard to say whether you'll have better luck then, really.

Edit: Oh, hrm. Misread that a bit. You should be able to get to the screen where you enter your ID and Password. The one after that will give you trouble though, as it starts looking for the patch server (and eventually gives up).

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[Polly]

I guess the maintenence got extended to 14:30.

[LoneVandal]

BTW I'm in Korea. Anyone else here want to buddy up to play in this time zone?

[mike23z]

hurray back on

[LoneVandal]

lol error 51. I guess from the other thread that just means I'm stuck while the server is being flooded?

[LoneVandal]

what the hell. I just got an error code 60 complete with "Segalink ID" mentioned multiple times. I don't get it. I already registered my game code.

[uhawww]

Wow. This is the thrid time I've gotten online within 5 attempts.

[LoneVandal]

I've seen the Terms of Use agreement twice now. Both times I hit "enter" and get a new error code and get booted out.

[LoneVandal]

oh shit I'm in http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif Quick, how do I become an RA?

[LoneVandal]

More importantly, how do I find all of you?

[mike23z]

if anyone wants to find me if u can send messages and such my chars name is goesch right now i'm on universe 4 headed to the weapon shop

[Kyuu]

o_o Triple post.

First thing you should find out is how to use that edit button at the bottom of your posts. Then you can worry about getting online. =P

[LoneVandal]

What matters at this point is finding someone to play with :| I have no idea what I'm doing now that I made a Cast.

[Dark_Heal_v2]

I think they have fixed the servers (hopefully), I just got online with my first try. (3:38pm JP Time)

[Ryoga4523]

I envy all of you http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[ShadowNeo]

I'm hanging at the login, are servers down?

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Yep they're down again....
Scheduled to go back online at 20:00 JST... Which'll probably be all good until they need to do the next emergency maintenance a few hours later XD

[ShadowNeo]

thanks, just noticed the error 38 ^ ^;

How far away is 20.00 JST?

[Ether]

2 hours 15 minutes I think

[FOnewearl-Lina]

2 hours and 20 minutes.

[Spellbinder]

20:00 JST = 8 pm JST = 7 AM EST

[jstroh]

can anyone log in?

[Valkayree]

On 2006-09-07 19:35, A2K wrote:
The servers are equipped with State/Maintenance. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif



Lmao!

[Dark_Heal_v2]

I couldn't login an hour ago (common error 51), but I just got in on first try again.

There are still server problems, at least the seriousness is lightening up quite a bit.

[-STE-]

Now is late in jp you can log in , at evening and early night is very hard log in,,,

[DarkShadowX]

Well it seems Sept. 9 11:00 to 14:00 JST they're doing another maintenance on the servers, so play while you can.

[Saner]

not just maintenance right? they gotta add more servers so there's more room to fit more ppl at once.

[Dhylec]

OK, let's use this thread as a sticky for the status/situation of the servers.. for now.

[Ether]

September 9th (10:45)
This day we have planned, as follows you modify temporary server maintenance time.

Maintenance predetermined timeSeptember 9th (Saturday) 14:00 - 17:00
---
Aka they should be going down again at 1am EST

[mike23z]

hope they arent down today for another 3hrs? if so i'ma go to sleep

[Unknown_PC]

As expected, maintenance extended by 1 hour.

http://202.51.7.36/news/wis/?mode=view&id=55

Servers expected to be up at around 18:00 +9 GMT now

Edit : Up now


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[mike23z]

are the servers down or is there just way to many people on that i cant get in? i'm gettin NO.51

[Mewn]

Servers are up, but it's difficult to login, Error 51 is, for now, sadly pretty normal.

[Tystys]

Well, it's official. Game went from retail to beta, lmao. Good luck importers.

[Dark_Heal_v2]

I managed to login in 1 try this morning, but right now is Saturday weekend night, so everyone will be banging hard on the servers.

The game is indeed pretty fun now that I have a chance to play it even understanding only 20% of the language.

[DarkShadowX]

Just checked http://www.phantasystaruniverse.jp/important/ to see about any new news and it seems another Temp. Maintenence will be done Sept. 10 at 11:00-14:00.

[mike23z]

what time is that by est or jp?

[watashiwa]

It was s'posed to be over 10 minutes ago. It looks like it has been extended because even the patch server is still down.

Just be patient, ya'll/.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Getting No.051 now, guess maintenance is finished for now.

[mike23z]

its back up

[Number6]

Is anyone really back online? Seriously, it seems like I have to memorize who is REALLY playing this game on these boards and who is full of stories and wishes and gumdrops. You know who you are. Like when a simple question like, "Can anyone get in their house?" turns into 2 people jumping up and down raising their hands "Ohh ohhh look at me, of course you can get in when the game comes out, it's YOUR house after all! I love games! I don't actually have the import but I'm gonna answer every question asked on here as if I have it but instead of real answers I will answer with what I wish and hope is in the game and did I mention I really have no clue but I read a lot on the internets ok bye!"

*sigh* I really needed to say that. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but fer cryin out loud, if a game specific question is asked, it's prolly best to let the people playing it answer.

But what was the question again? Oh yeah, can anyone get online right now? The server is back up in theory, but just want to know for sure, so I can stop pressing circle 800 times. Thanks. =)

[mike23z]

ya i got on. took about a million tries but its up.

[Number6]

thanks, I am pressing the button forever, pretty soon chapter 8 calls me though.

[Guntz348]

I got on after a few trys but stupid question, what universe and where are all the PSOW people meeting up at? I need importer friends and cards =P

[Number6]

I am in. I would love to play with some nice people. One of the US people on here came in a game with me took all the rares and left... JERK STORE CALLED they are ALL OUT OF YOU. =)

But seriously, I have only ever seen that one guy on Universe 5, and I always just go wherever I land. If anyone wants to meet up with me let me know, I will be on Universe 23.

[mechatra]

Trying to log on for the first time ever right now.
Getting lots of error 051's.

I'm assuming I just need to keep trying right?

[DarkShadowX]

On 2006-09-10 05:11, mechatra wrote:
Trying to log on for the first time ever right now.
Getting lots of error 051's.

I'm assuming I just need to keep trying right?



Yeah, just keep try and you'll get through.......... eventually.

[mechatra]

Thanks ^_^

I just needed some reassurance.

[Rivercrab]

And we're down again till 18:00 server time...

Was just seconds from beating a mission too. Red message of DOOM! XD

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[mike23z]

most people play on universe 5. or so thats what i've seen. and what time est is that for the maitanence that is.

[Dark_Heal_v2]

servers are back up

[Cross]

The servers are up, logging in is actually pretty easy despite it being Japanese primetime (as in, less than ten tries in my last dozen or so attempts to get in). However, My Room is so fucked that I've had to log in a dozen times in less than an hour, because I get an Error 57 instantly every time I go in.

[farplaner]

Well damn, error 51 for me now http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[Guntz348]

This is like worse then trying to get onto AOL with my lightning fast 28.8 modem back in the mid 90's =P

[DarkShadowX]

Well they just put on the Important Info section, that they're gonna perform another maintenence tomorrow to fix the "My Room" problem, the time of the maintenence is not yet scheduled.



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[Niki]

So that would be maintenance sometime on the 13th, Nihon Local Time?

[Guntz348]

Servers are down now at 14:00 JPN time. I was just on and saw the announcment, and then got kicked off. This was 5 pm HST, which would make it 11 pm EST. Hopefully this will only last a few hours.

[Niki]

So the scheduled (http://www.phantasystaruniverse.jp/important/notice_id_11.html) maintenance started late?

[mechatra]

So I'm guessing the servers are down atm for maintenance? All I'm getting is error 51's and rarely I get through for about half a minute to get a error 52 : P

[Kaply]

That 14:00 jpn time was supposed to be when it comes back up(1am EST). I was able to log in and play around 5-6am EST.

[DarkShadowX]

Well just checked the site again and if the translation I got is right, it seems they are planning a maintenence for Sept.14 at 19:00 and they hope to finish by Sept.15 at 15:00. The reason for this long maintenence is because they are installing a new server. Here's a google translation, if someone can provide a better one then please do so.

PHANTASY STAR UNIVERSE official sight

Network mode management official sight of up-to-date work “[huantashisutayunibasu]” of the Sega original RPG series “[huantashisuta]”.
About [huantashisutayunibasusaba] addition correspondence

We apply very annoyance and worry in everyone of everyone of the user and the authorized personnel with the various obstacles which after starting the network service occur, there is no excuse truly. We apologize from heart.

So far, as cause pursuit and investigation of the obstacle which becomes hindrance of network service are done it started executing server addition, but the circumstance which receives the opinion that the game play which even presently login it is not possible, stabilizes is not possible, is continued.

Receiving this kind of situation, when this each time, furthermore it increases the server, it did the server addition which accompanies the addition of the new 'world', the fact that the environment where simultaneously, it assures the drastic improvement of situation and is equal to everyone of the user and utilization can receive network service is constructed as a purpose, to endeavor to circumstance improvement.

Concretely, it directs to the end of test use of service and 'installs world 2 and' ('world 1' making redefine, it receives the former world), to be equal to everyone of the user the place where you offer the environment which utilization, it can receive network service it is existence. No soldier/finishing, that it can receive understanding, we ask may.

Furthermore, placing after the test use ending, according to promise heretofore you execute concerning the free service period extension to 10 ends of the month.

'Play method and additional schedule of the world which is installed anew' are as follows.
About the addition of the new 'world which accompanies server addition'

The offer of smoother game play environment as a purpose, new making 'the addition of the world execute,' we decided that it receives. Because of this, the stress which is in the midst of game playing is lightened and as the play environment which is stabilized is guaranteed, those which can do improvement concerning the circumstance which cannot be connected to the server we have supposed.
In order (however, to increase the server gradually, 20 o'clock concerning the congestion time zone at the time and the like of the ~24 it is supposed to completion of addition. that the circumstance which still login to the game is difficult happens)
'Additional of world' and play method

'The world' becomes the world where each one becomes independent completely. 'In world' between it is not possible to scramble communication, it is possible to select, but in the degree which login is done login it does in which 'world'.

In addition, one account (SEGA link ID and the password) with, 'in the world' every it is possible to 4 bodies to draw up the character data. 'World 2' the character data which is registered to opening is retained 'in world 1', but 'in world 2' login by the fact that you do, it is possible to draw up the character of 4 bodies and the total 8 bodies anew.

The one where we would like to start new and, from as for the one where we would like to raise Sawayama's character, 'we would like you to enjoy the play at of the world 2 which is established anew' know.
Future schedule

September 14th (wood) 19: 00~15 day (gold) 15: 00 extended men tenses
Periodic maintenance schedule is modified and expansion correspondence is done.
September 15th (gold)
As it ends test use, it is the schedule which installs the world and reopens service.
It continues late after the September according to circumstance and starts examining server addition.

It is as follows concerning the correspondence circumstance lapse and cause recognition of former trouble.
Corresponding circumstance of existing trouble

Corresponding circumstance of the trouble which is continued from sale day intermittently
Concerning the below-mentioned trouble, we corrected at 9/11 point in time

* The problem which the character writes and substitutes
* The problem which the character data winds and returns
* The problem where the lock of the character data is not cancelled long haul

The trouble which is in the midst of corresponding

* The problem which login it is not possible
* The problem which cannot be moved to the my room

About the source of trouble

Cause of the trouble which occurs so far has specified above supposing those due to the overflow of the database server with the fact that access concentrates. Originating in this, when writing the character data it substitutes, the winding return occurs, we spread to the trouble of the my room server simultaneously. It started doing the correspondence with program level and the addition correspondence and everyday maintenance execution of the server in order to evade this, but in the circumstance where the access which exceeds everyday that is continued, still drastic improvement of environment had not assured. Therefore, 'the new establishment of the world' in present stage, it executed, to assure the drastic improvement of circumstance.

　As soon as possible, feeling at rest in everyone of the user, it starts endeavoring to the construction of the environment which you can utilize.
Network management sight top page
To SEGA official sight

The fact that it duplicates and reprints regardless of everything such as the document illustration photograph which is published to this site is prohibited

(C) SEGA




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[mechatra]

Wehay I finally got on! I now exsist in the Phantasy star universe : P

Now to start lvling.

[farplaner]

btw, I was able to enter my room 4 times in a row in my first try today. I think they've finally fixed it http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

[GaijinPUnch]

Where were you entering from? I went in twice today by walking into the room, but trying form one of the cube things on other planets, it has always frozen.

[Niki]

From what I experienced last night, the tutorials have been restored. That is, all of my Lv1 characters to that point never had one. After I rerolled a couple, I started off in My Room, was able to leave, and re-enter. I only tried to re-enter twice, and one of those times there was a serious hang-up [about 80 seconds], but ultimately everything loaded. Also, during one of the tutorials i got Error Code 52.

Anyway, I'm not sure if I would call the My Room situation a fix. More like a jury-rig.

[Number6]

Are we down again? I got booted with an error 52 and now I am 51ing all over town.

[Unknown_PC]

On 2006-09-12 22:11, Number6 wrote:
Are we down again? I got booted with an error 52 and now I am 51ing all over town.



Yeah, another maintenance from 14:00~17:00 +9 GMT

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=67

[Number6]

Thank you sir. Back to offline mode.

[farplaner]

I always enter from the cubes. This morning tho, I couldn't get in http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif (jp primetime makes a difference I guess)

[mechatra]

Are the servers down atm? I'm getting non-stop 51's
Im getting the feeling I may be having connection issues.

[Hydra632]

I can't even log on. It stalls at the connection screen and gives me error no.38. No idea what it is.

[watashiwa]

No.38 means the server is DOWN.

EDIT: lol, I'm so wrong, I read this website with the local Osaka time AM as PM.. anyway.. it's only 02:50am now.. it's going to be done at 15:00.. so.. uh.. from the time of this edit.. 12 hours and 10 minutes are left for maintenance.

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[DreamTonight]

Today Sega is adding a new server (World 2) and because this the server (World 1) is still down until tomorrow! I can't wait lol

[Unknown_PC]

Maintenance extended by 5 hours, servers expected to be up at around 20:00 +9 GMT

http://www.phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=69

[Haze2in1]

On 2006-09-14 23:53, Unknown_PC wrote:
Maintenance extended by 5 hours, servers expected to be up at around 20:00 +9 GMT

http://www.phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=69



Cheers for that!! http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

[FOnewearl-Lina]

And it got delayed yet again...

[A2K]

No update on the site, either. Hopefully that means it won't be too much of an extended delay.

Edit: Whoop, spoke too soon. Looks like another two hours.

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[Parn]

What Sega needs to start doing is overestimating server downtime for maintenance. They've underestimated on a consistent basis, and all it's doing is pissing everyone off because it gets people's hopes up. If they overestimate and get things finished before their own established deadline, they're really not going to get anyone upset.

[Haze2in1]

WHY DO THEY DENY ME OF GAMING GOODNESS!!!
http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Well maintenance is over now, but it appears the patch server is kinda overloaded atm http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[DreamTonight]

Easier connecting to World 1 now?

[Hydra632]

I can't connect to world 1 yet. Lots of no.51's.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

No... And seriously, who but the newest of PSUer's would want to start all over on World 2 anyway?
All this maintenance has done is added an extra step where you can get a totally new error (No.021), joy.

[GaijinPUnch]

I login after the maintenance which will supposedly fix the problems. What happens? All kinds of errors, but mainly the same one (51) that prevents you from getting on b/c the servers are too busy I realize people are hammering now to get in (this wouldn't have happened had they finished at 15:00), but it still doesn't put me at ease.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

You didn't unlock the new bonus (No.021) that Sega put into this new maintenance? XD

[Hydra632]

I just asked a friend to translate what no.021 means and I think it just says "patch file downloaded".

[FOnewearl-Lina]

It means the opposite... Why would downloading the patch file give an error? http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif
Anyway, this brilliant solution of theirs does nothing to alleviate the fact that their already overloaded server is getting overloaded again.

[Hydra632]

Er yeah, downloading, my goof on the typo. Very frustrating that its so overloaded http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[uhawww]

I'd give it a couple hours.
8pm was probably the absolute worst time to reopen the servers...

[Haze2in1]

I did!! And I passed it to get the next bonus error 52.............................

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Haha, man you're so lucky! XD Any No.038 yet? http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

Oh and they were supposed to reopen at 8PM, but in fact they did get delayed *again* until 10PM... Being a friday night isn't going to help much either.

[uhawww]

I'm noticing that I'm consistantly getting past the initial server response, then failing at the SegaLink verify.
Probably because everyone and their grandmother is downloading the patch...

[FOnewearl-Lina]

You're lucky then... I've only managed to get the SEGALINK verify like once or twice out of my entire Enter-mashing spree...

[GaijinPUnch]

I got the #52 error twice... one time it actually dragged me on for a good 20 seconds... damnit. I'm hitting the sack. The #21 error boggles my mind. Why does it "fail to download patch" when it doesn't need to? Classic Sega.

[edhangup]

Why da fuck are we home trying to get into the server on a goddamn friday night... I guess we all get nowhere else better to go...

Ｉ am starting a new FO Newman on server #2... If I can beat all 3 big bosses... Lamia21, 51 & 52...

[Haze2in1]

Woot!!
Got error No60!!
Gotta catch them all!!

[uhawww]

Unf.
World 2 online get.
Made new character "Synne".
At least online, everything is running smooth as silk.

[uhawww]

Yes, you are merely selecting which World to login to.

[Haze2in1]

.............getting late...........need sleep...............
I guess Ill try next time.
One question is the message asking you to select which server your old character you want to be tranfered ?, or is it just choose server. So choosing World 2 I would have to make a new charcter..........I hope this makes sense, to tired to write properly...

[Cross]

So their brilliant plan to resolve the handful of remaining minor server problems was apparently... To add more server problems. It was easier to log on two days ago than it is now.

[Lyrise]

Well, it didn't take a network engineer/admin to tell anyone that this wouldn't fix the login problems at all, given the stupid diagram they showed. All it just did was double the strain, since it's still one server handling the SegaLink info, but for twice as many servers.

[uhawww]

I'd wait 24 hours before we determine whether or not the issue was resolved.
They opened the servers at the height of Primetime on a Friday.
There were most likely thousands of people sitting at their PCs and PS2 waiting to the maintenance end announcement...

I know I'm ever the optimist, but let's let the fires settle.

[Hydra632]

Well World 2 is easy to connect to now, still no luck with World 1.

[the_importer_]

Jesus Christ, how many people are playing this game anyway, both worlds (100 Universes) are full, error 51 !

[mechatra]

^ you just wait till world 3 and 4 >_<

[the_importer_]

On 2006-09-15 09:15, mechatra wrote:
^ you just wait till world 3 and 4 >_<




Worst part is that it may end up like this.

BTW, what the hell is Error 52 ?

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[A2K]

On 2006-09-15 09:12, the_importer_ wrote:
Jesus Christ, how many people are playing this game anyway, both worlds (100 Universes) are full, error 51 !


Actually, it appears there are only 36 Universes active in each WARUDO right now. More total than before, I suppose...

[watashiwa]

The No. 51 error has nothing to do with the amount of worlds they add to the server or how many people are currently playing.

As it's been stated before, the No. 51 error is due to the number of simultaneous people attempting to log in at the same time. The SegaLink server can only handle so many people attempting to login and retrieve their character data... the only way the No. 51 error will be resolved is to create multiple login servers to process and off-load requests from the current one or reconstruct how people log in entirely. (Redoing the whole authentication system and redistributing another executable)

All you can do for now is hammer the server or wait until less people are trying to log in.

[Hydra632]

Well everything seems to have settled down for now, login's seem to go through instantly now.

[uhawww]

On 2006-09-15 15:10, watashiwa wrote:
As it's been stated before, the No. 51 error is due to the number of simultaneous people attempting to log in at the same time. The SegaLink server can only handle so many people attempting to login and retrieve their character data... the only way the No. 51 error will be resolved is to create multiple login servers to process and off-load requests from the current one or reconstruct how people log in entirely. (Redoing the whole authentication system and redistributing another executable)


If I'm interpreting the redesign correctly, it's as if they simply cloned the SegaLink server, since the SegaLink verification, Character data Storage, and My Room Information is all handled by the same cluster.

[Cross]

Well, this sure seems like an awesome idea so far. The login server is still boned during peak hours, and still perfect when the Japanese are asleep, My Room is still usually accessible, but it still has long wait times where you look at a black screen for minutes before loading in.

The only difference now is that the game's population is split up, now during peak hours you have to deal with Error 52 as well as good old Error 51, and My Room crashes every half-hour or so.

[watashiwa]

I'm pretty sure it's just one login server still. =P If I get unlazy, I'll reinstall Ethereal on this machine and check out which IP addresses it goes to when authenticating to both worlds.. (Unless netstat will do the job for me..)

[Saner]

waaaaa they gotta fix this and teach SOA the ropes so that it doesnt take this long to smoothen things. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

[Hydra632]

Log on errors galore back in action as the Japanese populace awakes.

[TheStoicOne]

lol! He thinks they sleep. I pee'd a little.

[mechatra]

Anyone else on World 2 at the moment?
World one's error 51+52 locked up, so I've made a new char on world 2, so if anyones looking to party up?

[Parn]

Yeah. I've been playing World 2 since it opened. World 1 isn't worth the hassle of fighting to get in.

[mechatra]

Where abouts are you Parn?

I'll assume you're out on Parum? universe 5?

[Parn]

Yeah, Universe 5. I'll see if I can meet up with you.

[A2K]

On 2006-09-15 20:16, watashiwa wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's just one login server still. =P If I get unlazy, I'll reinstall Ethereal on this machine and check out which IP addresses it goes to when authenticating to both worlds.. (Unless netstat will do the job for me..)


No, I'm pretty sure it's two. The moment you hit "Enter" on the sign-in screen you're presented with a choice of World 1 or 2. I imagine it's waiting for you to determine which login server to forward it to? That's just based on its behavior, though, netstat might reveal something different.

[Kou-Diacyper]

Sigh, World 1 is having a party with error 51 and 52.

[mechatra]

Kou most of us have moved onto World 2 - universe 5.
World 1 isn't worth the hassle it takes to log on.

[Kou-Diacyper]

Aye, I created another character on World 2, incase World 1 goes down.

[ulyoth]

World 1 was fine for me just.

[Hydra632]

Any idea what error no.38 is? Can't seem to log in at the moment.

[Cross]

The servers are down for another hour and a half (give or take a few minutes) for maintenance.

[GaijinPUnch]

(give or take a few minutes)

Yes, a few, meaning somewhere between 60 to 180.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

What do you know, they actually finished on time.
Now to get past No.051 hell...

[Hydra632]

Servers are back up. Have fun logging in though.

[mechatra]

On 2006-09-18 02:03, Hydra632 wrote:
Servers are back up. Have fun logging in though.



World 2 for the win. Clearly.

[GaijinPUnch]

Yeah, was surprised they finished on time this time. I got in (relatively) quickly.

mechatra: You do know your sig is the Japanese version of Engrish, right? What white folks generally laugh at hysterically.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

I do believe they're meant to be song lyrics from... A certain anime opening... http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[GaijinPUnch]

A certain anime opening...

I'm definitely lost then.

EDIT: I see part of this maintenence was to change some item making success rates. I saw mine went up... I thought it's b/c my PM transformed. No?

They also say they fixed the My Room and Login problems. They seem worse now to me. Can anyone else complain?

EDIT: Mother fucker. I'm getting error 52's now when it tries to load my data. Never had that before. Way to go Sega.

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[FOnewearl-Lina]

That would depend on the type of item you were trying to create, and the evolution type of your PM, right? I know the Armor success rate didn't go up by when I leveled the POW to evolve my PM to the next level.

And yes, No.057, 051, 052, 038s everywhere... Don't know what they really fixed http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

'ano hoshi no youni' < *Asterisk/Bleach O.o

[mechatra]

10 points to Lina for the Orange range reference.

[Saner]

ummm like they arent gonna fully fix it until October it seems.

wait is World 2 up yet? hmmm maybe things will get better in Octobervwhen they reset everything.

[Sev]

On 2006-09-18 13:27, Saner wrote:
ummm like they arent gonna fully fix it until October it seems.

wait is World 2 up yet? hmmm maybe things will get better in Octobervwhen they reset everything.





They never said they were resetting anything. They were only going to reset if the same problems happened with character swapping and such... Since right now it's mainly login problems, they have no reason to rollback.

I was actually thinking that when they decided to put world 2 up, they would switch characters around and place some on World 2 but I guess that didn't happen. And I'm pretty sure not many people would be happy about that anyway... It seems that World 2 doesn't have the same problems as World 1 right now. At least I don't see anyone saying so... So it's likely it's still more of the same problem, too many people on World 1.

When I think about it though... I'm not sure how many people they have logged on per WoW server before it's starts Queing you. And I doubt there's more if even 10,000 on any one FFXI server.

[DiosGX]

Regarding FFXI servers, there's an average of 4300 people on the Leviathan Server, at best 5000. Though since PSU came out, the average is 2200 now, ha.

[Kaply]

I think it's funny that I met someone in game who was playing both ffxi and PSU at the same time >.>

[farplaner]

Did the servers just die? It's Tuesday 6:44pm EST at the moment. I was in the middle of a mission and got disconnected, now can't even get through the "looking for patches" state...

[farplaner]

nvm, I just got back online http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif

[Saner]

they'll have things fixed by next month http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Not if they keep coming up with crazy ideas like adding more worlds and forcing people to remake their characters just to lighten server load...

[Number6]

are we down again? error 51.

[Number6]

I hate you. Down every time I want to play. This time til 6:00 AM EST. Whee.

[GaijinPUnch]

Maintenance extended until 19:00 JST -- midnight for me.

[LoneVandal]

I will never puzzle out Sega's maintenance practices. Most companies do this sort of shit at like 2 AM on a monday morning, but no, Sega tries to pull this shit a few hours before everyone gets off work, then SURPRISE, extended.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Extended maintenance a surprise?
Isn't it what you're meant to expect? Delays, delays, and more delays?
And then when the servers finally go up, expect yet another emergency maintenance 2 hours down the line?

[GaijinPUnch]

Sega tries to pull this shit a few hours before everyone gets off work, then SURPRISE, extended.

Nobody gets off work at 19:00 in Japan. Even the ones that do aren't home until 20:30.

[GaijinPUnch]

Servers up. Error 51 hell.

[Hydra632]

So what exactly was done in this maintence, and what did I just end up having to download?

[Ether]

On 2006-09-21 03:22, Hydra632 wrote:
So what exactly was done in this maintence, and what did I just end up having to download?



http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/important/notice_id_23.html

Something about 5* crafting and status effects on monsters

[Alisha]

ORZ http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif


Lightbreaker> scrolling message
<Lightbreaker> ;o
<Kaen> lol
<Kaen> server going down
<Kaen> in 1min
<Alisha> LMAO!

[Hydra632]

Ok, servers back down?

[GaijinPUnch]

Yep. I just got booted.

[GaijinPUnch]

Another hour and a half (scheduled). We all know how that goes.

[Hydra632]

Servers are back up and I miraculously logged in on my first try.

[Spellbinder]

World 1 hates me -_- lots of 51's and 52's. World 2 is just fine though.

[GaijinPUnch]

Am I the only one that can't get in? I'm getting some type of DNS error, yet I can surf the net just fine.

[GaijinPUnch]

It's my fucking internet. There's a lot of sites I can't resolve. Great.... my Saturday fucked. I'll have to do something productive now.

[Lovejuice]

EDIT: Nevermind, fixed it now - it was a connectivity issue thing with the internet on my end. Go /ipconfig flushdns!

EDIT 2: Also, World 1 seems to be letting me in with not much trouble at all tonight. Woo, time to re-roll my Cast!

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[EJ]

nevermind found out that they stop the server for the sega ID link but then how would I be able to play offline then if I have to make a segalink ID?



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[anmato145]

i dont http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[watashiwa]

Well, for the October 5th maintenance, they will be taking down Segalink as well.. they usually don't take down Segalink during maintenance and you can always play offline.. it's only the October 5th maintenance that will be different. (Most likely because of the server optimizations for Segalink ID accessing they spoke of..)

October 5th's is the only maintenance, so far, where Story/Extra mode will not be accessible to users of the PC version of the game. Playstation 2 users will be able to play Story/Extra mode still, no problem.

[A2K]

It seems the servers have gone down just now as well. For what reason I could not be certain. There was a message just before they went down, but there doesn't appear to be an update about it on the JP site right now.



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[uhawww]

Edit:

Oh duh...

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=82

SEGAlink server Maint.
At least 2 Hours of downtime.
Because this is Segalink maint, not just online servers, At any point in time Windows Story/Extra Mode may not be able to authenticate.

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[A2K]

Eh? I thought that maintenance wasn't until Oct. 5th or so?

Edit: I can get into Story Mode just fine?

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[uhawww]

On 2006-09-25 18:23, A2K wrote:
Eh? I thought that maintenance wasn't until Oct. 5th or so?


This is just a short one.
Evidentally, this deals with manually extending the trial periods (enabling the extra free month, so to speak) for those who registered before the initial server stoppage.



Edit: I can get into Story Mode just fine?


For now, as I was able to as well, however, it may fail to authenticate at some point, according to the announcement.


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[uhawww]

FYI:

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/important/20060926/

This Update to the public Network Mode Announcement solidfies October 5th (after the extended maintenance) as the official "relaunch" of network mode.
It also, once again, goes through a brief desciption of the original problem, the addition of the World 2, and the plans detailed for the extended Maintenance starting on the 4th.

As far as it stands, there will not be a character wipe, so people can give that a rest and stop speculating.

[mechatra]

Dammit uhawww!
Get your ass on PSU, I feel like a Shikon - Hakura run.

http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

[uhawww]

I'm at work right now.
Won't be outta here for another 5 hours...

[SoujiSeta]

Is something going on? D:
I can't connect to gameguard ><

nevermind, i got through ><



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[GaijinPUnch]

It's taking me ages to do anything.
Everytime I try to go to My Room... takes a good minute or so.

[mechatra]

Just downloading the latest patch.
If anybody figures out what its effected be sure to post it up ^_^

[SoujiSeta]

Oh well, server down until 5th Oct 5pm ;_;

[GaijinPUnch]

Extended to 18:00. What a shocker.

[SoujiSeta]

It's up!

[GaijinPUnch]

Error 51 hell.
As usual. Great maintence, fucking morons.

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[Cross]

Error 51 ahoy, though.

[SoujiSeta]

Lol i'm in

I'm getting kicked out of the server everytime i enter my room =/

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[hansolox1]

Is anyone playing PSU online right now? I'm on Server1 now. My character name is Solox if anyone wants to play.

[SoujiSeta]

World 1 is a huge place <_<

Maintenence until 6:30pm -.-



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[Ryna]

Since the Japanese server situation seems to have settled down, I am going to desticky this thread and add it to the list of floating stickies. It can be bumped at any time while it remains on the floating sticky list.

[uhawww]

Weekly Maintenance has been extended to 19:00 JST (6:00 am EST)

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Extended for another 2 hours... joy.

[kyori]

21:00 now, http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif its old lady lina.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Guess what?
... No, I'm not even going to say it. Instead, I'm going off to bed, this delay is ridiculous...

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[kyori]

I'M STILL UP!!! And extremely irritated now. 23:00 now folks. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gifats lina:

[SoujiSeta]

Anyone able to get on? o_O
I keep failing to patch the game and timed out.

[Lyrise]

I'm more surprised that people are more irritated by the delays than the fact that there will be NO content delivery until further notice.

For those who haven't figured it out yet, the reason why the delays are increasing is because of today's supposed content update. But since they found out it was causing a lot of new problems, they have to delay it till further notice. If anything it's a safe bet that the delays are related to the time it's taking for them to undo the damage the new content caused.

Forget the server up, I'm more interested in when their announcement for the new content comes.

[Gumbotron]

nope, the update's extend to 23:00 jp time
don't bother trying it too early, and expect the usual 051, 052 and 057s when everyone swarms on;
man... it's a like a bad addiction, sometimes I wonder why I bother

[uhawww]

Arrgh. Dammit.

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=109

We apologize for this great and continued inconvenience.
In the process of implementing the planned content updates, serious problems were encountered.
Due to these events, we will be postponing the update.
We will make an announcement tomorrow October 13, with new information regarding the update.

Urge to kill...
rising...

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[Dark_Heal_v2]

higher expectations lead to bigger disappointments

[Lyrise]

What's even more annoying is that despite botching this maintenance up, they're still going to go on with the one scheduled for today as well.

[Gumbotron]

got on now, no new content
i wonder what else st has to do to get me to drop psu, ha ha

[Velocity_7]

Okay. What kind of asshats are actually running this game?

If it were up to me, I'd do the following:
1. Have a test server running at all times alongside live server; if test server checks out with new content/changes, put it on live server. Then I can guarantee 2-hour maintenances.
2. Use SQL server with relation tables for shops. Searches would run a lot faster compared to using .txt files for shops.
3. Look over the algorithm used for handling users playing all at once.

If SEGA of America hired programmers to work on the PSU database/server stuff I'd join in right away. It's quite clear SEGA of Japan is incompetent when it comes to programming for a PC environment, let alone the server/database itself.

I fear for people who play the Xbox 360 version coming up soon... if it's being programmed by SEGA of America, you guys may have better luck. Otherwise, prepare for the worst...



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[Kamica]

This is quite the shocker to be honest. I cant imagine what could have possibly gone wrong...

I really feel bad for Sonc Team of Japan...this game has probably caused major anxiety for them.

[Saner]

what's stopping them from hiring much better programming staff and stuff? they should be pouring their best resources to maintain these servers.

[uhawww]

I'm kind of wondering, what went wrong.
I'm guessing there's a problem witht he Story Mission Implementation or something to that effect...

There also seems to be a fix patch for those with GameGuard drama available from:
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=106

[Saner]

gameguard....that's messed up companies have to use those things.

[Velocity_7]

There shouldn't be a need to use crap like this. Make your own stuff. :S

[uhawww]

Most companies would rather pay for licensing than pay for Programmers...

[Saner]

licensing? whats that?

[Ryna]

On 2006-10-12 09:05, Velocity_7 wrote:
There shouldn't be a need to use crap like this. Make your own stuff. :S


In most software situations, it is generally cheaper and faster to license (pay to use) someone else's product. Depending on what you are licensing, you are likely to obtain continuing product support from the original maker. Also, it is generally easier to perform quality assurance testing on a known product rather than rolling your own.

[AngelLight]

gameguard is a horrible product...you would of figured that by now Sega would of gave that company the boot by now.

^Gameguard isn't SEGA's direct product, but rather the product of NProtect (I believe that's the company's name).

[uhawww]

On 2006-10-12 09:36, Saner wrote:
licensing? whats that?



Whenever you want to install a program on a computer, you must have a license.

When you purchase an application, you are buying the medium with which to install it (CD/DVD/whatever) and a license to install it (usually on only 1 computer).

Licensing and support is how software companies make money.

For example, I want to setup a farm of databases for something, oh I don't, let's say for an online store. If I want to run Oracle 10g Enterprise on all of them (let's say I have 10 servers), not only do I have to get the software, but I have to pay for each computer I install it on, and then perhaps pay more per year I want service and support for it. For Oracle 10g for example, I can download the software for it free of charge, but to actually run it legally, I have to pay up to $3000 for each machine I run it on, or if I have a whole lot of servers (think Google for example), you can get a site license and pay like $30-50k for unlimited installation rights.

[Saner]

oh okay.

still I wonder if gameguard even helps at all or just hurts it.

[mogshaz]

On 2006-10-12 10:07, Saner wrote:
oh okay.

still I wonder if gameguard even helps at all or just hurts it.





I am suprised it took someoen this long to ask this question. these antihack programs never work and in soem cases make the games work poorly. Anyone here ever play Gunz: The duel? The antihacking program that it uses slows down the servers to a crawl.

[Sev]

On 2006-10-12 10:07, Saner wrote:
oh okay.

still I wonder if gameguard even helps at all or just hurts it.





I think the better question would be to ask if there's any hacking at all? Because an ingame bug, isn't the same thing.

[Saner]

ya this is so stupid, Sega needs to re-educate themselves and realize the waste of money on these gameguard programs.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

http://www.phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=112
Translation:
"Because a 2 hour maintenance was just too good to be true, we've decided to delay it yet again."

[kyori]

Well, looks like we got another maintaince on our hands, to try and get the content going again? Here's hoping! 18:00-24:00.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Hoping is all one can do! http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

[Dark_Heal_v2]

When SEGA says 12am think 2am, in this way your life would be a lot happier.

[SoujiSeta]

^ I second that.

[kyori]

Well.. at least today ill be gone camping out for a Wii preorder so no matter XD Here's hoping regardless!

[SoujiSeta]

Server up people. Enjoy~
I'll be on if anyone wants to play at World 1.
The new stuff are implemented!!!!!

[Lovejuice]

I am getting smacked with error 51 all over the show. And changing block once in game is proving to be a bit of a timeout disaster. Is anyone else having server problems? Blargh! Me wants a FiGunner!

[SoujiSeta]

Do not change universe. A lot of people are logging on right now so it crashes often if you do that.