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Excellent!

Expected, the regular asteroid belts were not replenished.

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Before #nodowntime becomes are regular pattern, these sort of issues would need to be resolved.

I’m not sure…

There are no changes to code or content today. We are setting up tests, disabling things that would run at tomorrow’s downtime (if there was one), and informing players and getting them engaged. The primary part of this experiment starts at 11 o’clock tomorrow.

EDIT: I checked with devs. The Caldari Union Day event ended today and there are no other time-limited events currently running. The daily login campaign is active.

There has been a fair amount of comments & questions in this thread on why we are looking at downtime; what’s the problem with a few minutes each day.

The first problem is that it interrupts primary play sessions for players in Asia and Oceania. Downtime at 11 o’clock EVE Time doesn’t affect Europe that much and doesn’t really affect the Americas at all. I covered this in detail in my 2019 dev blog on No Downtime Vol. 1 and the various options if downtime was not at 11 o’clock.

The second problem is that this is a larger impact than a few minutes. Shortly before downtime players start looking at ...

What Geo said – but to find out how all the different systems in EVE respond on this scale, then we are testing what happens.

If there are any daily things that you do or claim today, and then you can’t tomorrow; then please create a bug report and ping me here again with the EBR number.

To engage players to help us test; see e.g. https://twitter.com/KhapriceHeska/status/1435572675171192839

We’re still on day #1, the main part of the experiment starts after 11 o’clock EVE Time tomorrow.

That system needs to be reworked to not depend on a DB job during downtime, before we make fewer downtimes the norm.

For the regular asteroid belts: Confirmed.

There should be. If there are any daily things that you do or claim today, and then you can’t tomorrow; then please create a bug report and ping me here again with the EBR number.

Since you ask; it has happened, on test servers, that devs have put suns into their cargo holds. It was fun.

It has also happened, on TQ, through misbehaving code that has now been fixed, that the Universe Root was put into a structure that was in a ‘Inventory Graveyard’ (inventory items that are deleted are first moved from the main inventory table into graveyards and then later archived). It was not fun, it caused endless loops in the inventory system under certain conditions since the root item now had a parent.

Yes, there was downtime today, Wednesday, and will be downtime again on Friday.

Currently they are actual real items in the inventory system that are replenished during downtime in a DB job while the inventory system is offline. Since the cluster doesn’t go offline then the inventory system is still up-and-running and then the DB jobs must not run.

There are longer-term ideas on how to replace the asteroid belts. Currently they are actual real items in the inventory system that are replenished during downtime (in a DB job while the inventory system is offline) and need to be replaced with sites that spawn based on a distribution and regularly replenished.