On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Blair, Keith (Keith Blair) wrote:

>
> If more people played on the actual Test server, things like
> this wouldn't need to be done. However their only option
> was to test it out on a live server. Instead of putting in
> this change (that might be bugged all to heck) on EVERY
> server and upsetting *tens of thousands* of players if it
> didn't work, they're doing the very intelligent thing and
> keeping the test limited.

Mind you, this is a lesson Origin learned with UO about, oh, a
year and a half ago. I thought Verant would've picked up on
that from the beginning. Why does *every* server have to be
down for the entire day when they screw up a major patch? Oh
yeah, their login server can't handle the load if a single
server is down and will prevent people on other servers from
logging in, so the point is moot...

Still, the smart thing to do with *all* patches is to go from
test server -> one live server -> all live servers.

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John H. Kim
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