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Did I miss something?  The only times I've been unable to log in I remember was for "maintenance" I thought was around expansions.  But this morning (~8-8:30am EST) the client now shows "Scheduled downtime every day between 11:00  and 12:00 GMT".  How can you have daily downtime on a shardless world?

They've had daily downtime since the game launched.  Need it for stuff like respawning asteroid fields and no doubt lots of hidden housework.  Gives everyone a chance to swing their dicks on Eve-O anyway.

I am intrigued as to why you think shardlessness means no daily maintenance.  When SWG shrinks to a single server they will be shardless.  But they'll still have memory leaks you could fill a bath with.  An, erm, memory bath.  Of some sort.

nothing, was just surprised.  Don't mind waiting.  I suppose whether it's a cluster of one apparent world or set of app server shards it's the same.  Carry on.

Going down for a bit daily is one of the reasons they can avoid a lot of the crazy server problems that games like WoW have. Which would you rather have, downtime during work in the UK/Europe and at the crack of dawn in the US every day or six-hour downtimes once a week and memleaks and the like?

Heh well just to be provincial, at GMT -6 the downtime is right when I'd like a nice quiet hour sipping coffee and mining rocks while catching up on my NPR.  At least on sharded worlds I can pick a time shifted server.

Not moaning - is what it is.

It's perfect for me tbh. Severs go down just in time for lunch :P