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Server downtime: April 3rd 2012

April 2, 2012 by

After a Tuesday free of server downtime, we’re back to normal with a five-hour maintenance window Tuesday evening. For those unaware this maintenance won’t be the one we see the 1.2 update drop.

Here are the time-zone conversions:

AEST: 6pm – 11pm Tuesday 3rd April
AWST: 4pm – 9pm
NZST: 8pm – 1am

The full post from BioWare:

Scheduled Maintenance

Date: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM GMT/9AM CET/7PM AEDT) until 7AM CDT (5AM PDT/8AM EDT/1PM GMT/2PM CET/12AM AEDT)

All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than five hours.

As always we’ll have a post up tomorrow on some alternate SWTOR things you can do while waiting out the five hours.

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Unexpected patch this evening

March 23, 2012 by

Unfortunately your Friday night SWTOR playing time is going to be a little fragmented, with a four hour patch downtime tonight. And no – it’s not the 1.2 update being deployed.

Time conversions:

AEDT: 6pm to 10pm
AWST: 3pm to 7pm
NZDT: 8pm to Midnight

The details from BioWare:

Upcoming Patch

Date: Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/7AM GMT/8AM CET/6PM AEDT) to 6AM CDT (4AM PDT/7AM EDT/11AM GMT/12PM CET/10PM AEDT)

All game servers will be offline during this period. This deployment is expected to take no more than four hours.

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What to do while the servers are down: 20th March 2012

March 20, 2012 by

You’re looking at a five-hour standard downtime this week, which is still plenty of time to browse through an enormous amount of SWTOR stuff we’ve covered over the last week:

1. Have a look through the SWTOR Update 1.2 Patch Notes – to say there’s a lot in there is an understatement.

2. Check out the Combat Log coming soon.

3. Have a browse through the latest instalment of Fleet Pass, our weekly SWTOR forum roundup

4. Jump into our newly minted Oceanic Server forums.

5. Debate the melee vs ranged options for Consulars / Inquisitors

6. Read a fascinating piece on SWTOR haters

7. Finally – if you haven’t already we’d still LOVE you to take part in our Reader’s Survey so we can continue to improve in what we do.

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Server maintenance: 20th March – with time conversions

March 19, 2012 by

It’s maintenance time, so here’s the breakdown:

AEDT: 7pm-Midnight Tuesday night
AWST: 3pm-8pm
NZDT: 9pm-2am

The full details from BioWare (now with built-in AEDT conversion!):

Scheduled Maintenance

Date: Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/7AM GMT/8AM CET/7PM AEDT) until 7AM CDT (5AM PDT/8AM EDT/12PM GMT/1PM CET/12AM AEDT)

All game servers will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than five hours.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

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Server maintenance: 13th March – with time conversions

March 12, 2012 by

This week’s maintenance is a biggie, coming in at 8 hours, which makes me get excited about 1.2 going live, but given it hasn’t hit the PTR yet it’s not going to happen. So let’s assume it’s just an extended maintenance and deal with the time conversions.

AEDT: 6pm-2am Tuesday evening / Wednesday morning

AWST: 3pm-11pm Tuesday evening

NZDT: 8pm-4am Tuesday evening / Wednesday morning

The announcement from BioWare:

For our new players, this weekly maintenance is done in order to make general improvements and to check performance of the game so that we can continue to provide a consistent, quality experience. Quite often (but not always) after a maintenance period there will be a patch to download. After the maintenance, please login via the launcher to download the latest patch. If your launcher was open during the maintenance, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login.

Scheduled Maintenance

Date: Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/7AM GMT/8AM CET/6PM AEST) until 10AM CDT (8AM PDT/11AM EDT/3PM GMT/4PM CET/2AM AEST)

All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than eight hours.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

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Server downtime: things to do tonight

March 6, 2012 by

Four to six hours is a long time without your favourite MMO, so as always we’re here to provide you with a very self-interested list of things to do if you want to stay in the SWTOR mood until Patch 1.1.5 is live and you can jump back in:

1. Take part in our reader survey and go into the draw for a t-shirt

2. Check out the huge amount of details from today’s guild summit, which covered a range of areas including:

a. Legacy system

b. Crew skills and SWTOR economy

c. Roleplaying

d. SWTOR User Interface

e. Anything else discussed related to the game

3. Get some good information on tanking Hammer Station

4. Join the debate on whether SWTOR is hastening a decline in World of Warcraft’s subscriber numbers

5. Put forward your suggestion of the next big thing in SWTOR you’d like changed

6. Check out our SWTOR roundup called Fleet Pass

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Server maintenance: 6th March (with local time conversions)

March 5, 2012 by

This week’s maintenance is a 6-hour one, which means we may see Patch 1.15 hit the servers, but that’s not confirmed as yet. Full details below but here are the time conversions:

AEDT: 7pm to 1am Tuesday evening

AWST: 4pm to 11pm

NZDT: 9pm to 3am

 

Scheduled Maintenance

Date: Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Time: 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET) until 8AM CST (6AM PST/9AM EST/2PM GMT/3PM CET)

All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than six hours.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

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Server maintenance: Tuesday 28th February

February 27, 2012 by

This week’s maintenance is a standard four-hour, Tuesday night one. The local time conversions are:

AEDT: 7pm-11pm
AWST: 4pm-8pm
NZDT: 9pm-1am

The official details:

Date: Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Time: 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET) until 6AM CST (4AM PST/7AM EST/12PM GMT/1PM CET)

All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than four hours.

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Server maintenance: Wednesday 22nd February

February 19, 2012 by

This week’s scheduled maintenance is a day later and three hours longer. coming in at seven hours. Although no details are given I’d be guessing on Patch 1.1.4 going live . Full details below on maintenance times, but the local time conversions are:

AEDT: 7pm Wednesday night to 2am Thursday morning

AWST: 4pm to 11pm Wednesday night

NZDT: 9pm Wednesday night to 4am Thursday morning.

Scheduled Maintenance

Date: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Time: 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET) until 9AM CST (7AM PST/10AM EST/3PM GMT/4PM CET)

All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than seven hours.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

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Weekly server maintenance: 14th February 2012

February 13, 2012 by

One thing I hadn’t realised about BioWare, is that they’re all tragic romantics. That’s why they’ve thoughtfully made this week’s regular maintenance on Valentine’s Day. That way, you can spend some time with the woman / man of your dreams – or at least write a secret admirer note to your favourite SWTOR companion.

Ok, enough silly talk around what’s a normal scheduled maintenance. Here’s the local times you’ll not have game access:

AEDT: 7pm – 11pm Tuesday 14th Feb

AWST: 4pm – 8pm

NZDT: 9pm – 1am

Original details:

Scheduled Maintenance

Date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Time: 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET) until 6AM CST (4AM PST/7AM EST/12PM GMT/1PM CET)

All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than four hours.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

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Patching 1.1.2: more server downtime tonight

February 9, 2012 by

The post 1.1.2 issues with Open World PvP in Ilum has lead to an unexpected extra patch tonight. Full post from BioWare below, but first the time conversions:

AEDT: 7pm – 11pm tonight, Thursday 9th February
AWST: 4pm – 8pm tonight
NZDT: 9pm – 1am tonight

Unfortunately for the AEDT time zone in particular, it knocks out the majority of the evening’s play. While away those hours by having a look through our recent posts, including a beauty from Simon on companions that includes an amazing spreadsheet with every companion’s stats.

We will be bringing down servers for four hours on February 9th, 2012 from 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET) until 6AM CST (4AM PST/7AM EST/12PM GMT/1PM CET) in order to deploy a patch.

This patch will resolve the following:
Killing players on Ilum will now consistently grant Valor and mission credit as intended.

All servers will be offline during this period. This deployment is expected to take no more than four hours.

Upcoming Patch

Date: Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Time: 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET) to 6AM CST (4AM PST/7AM EST/12PM GMT/1PM CET).

All game servers will be offline during this period. This deployment is expected to take no more than four hours.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

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Patch 1.1.2 is live

February 7, 2012 by

Tuesday’s maintenance is all done, so on logging in you’ll see that Patch 1.1.2 is live. We’ve already had a handful of reports that the patch has delivered benefits as far as general playability.

I can even vouch for that after a bit of post 1.1.2 playtime: I’m seeing a lot less lag / ability delay. How about you: are you seeing any issues you’d thought would have been resolved?

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