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Source. (http://forums.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=2104031&postcount=1)

Just putting it here. Doesn't really warrant discussion or anything.

As such:
EST: 12PM
CST: 11AM
MST: 10AM
PST: 9AM
Copenhagen: 6PM
Melbourne: 4AM
Addis Ababa: 8PM
Estonia: 7PM

If anyone cares, the servers for the U.S. are in New Jersey.

Just so you know, the title says 1pm est and your post says 12pm est

I aim to confuse.

I bet it's because of Global Warming.

I blame that for the entire game.

Just an FYI, after patching less than 2 hours ago, I loaded up the launcher 'just to see'.

There's another 220MB patch ready for you to download.

Incoming, or can we get it now?`

You can get it now.  Sorry for the confusion.

Word.

Doesn't look like there's a patch for me, just a small 25mb one earlier today.

I did notice that one of the patches finally enabled Direct X 10.

All patched and ready to go.  I'll be working when servers open but a few hour wait is probably for the best anyway

FYI - Just now downloading 18mb and 13mb patches, wasn't available a couple hours ago .. at least for me. They have a pretty darn good connection for these patch files, seeing them done in 10-15 seconds.

There's more then that, last patch I saw before I wandered off was approx 250mb, speed was approx 500kbs.  As you say, nice patching servers.

Now I'm past the opening cinematic and to the authentication screen, but I'm not able to get in.

Yeah, damn servers aren't up yet  :ye_gods:

You people need to figure out this whole timezone thing! I mean, really!

If I could find a tutorial for you, I'd post it.

I'm hanging in the TS server Schild set up. At least I think I am. Its lonely.

This is what happens when we let foreigners make our MMOS  :awesome_for_real:

It *should* be up in 11 minutes.

Now I really wonder if it will....

OFFICIAL DELAY!

2 hours more for "final tweaking and testing".
Up at 8pm GMT.

Link your source, sir!

My source is the client.

When you launch the patcher, it says so (now).

It's 3 hours, by the way.  Get specs.

Omg.. taking a nap now.   :grin:

Ok. So 1PM Phoenix time. Word.

I seem to have the power to put people to sleep!  Yay?

Right 3 hours. I was trying to steal one.

Odd. The forums said early access was sold out but on my launcher it said "Welcome to Early Access" or somesuch in big bold letters before it changed to "Yoink, we're delaying the servers". Maybe I can sneak in and Funcom won't notice?   :drill:

Yeah, probably not.

The forums are up.  http://forums.ageofconan.com/  It's rather lonely because people are bitching that they can't get in.  It's all sort of amusing.  I was hoping to see the clusterfuckery from the inside out, but I guess I'll have to settle for the outside in.  In any case, I'm roasting a nice lamb shank today, baby potatoes, a nice spring salad mix.  And iced tea.

hrm forums don't work for me.  Brings me to a login page, which apparently isn't the same login as my aoc login. 

Nevermind, forgot I set my EA forum password and username different than my game one.

Now it won't let me download the new patch.  I don't know why I was foolish enough to try for Early Access, I'll probably get a day out of the three at most between various server problems. 

Patch server is down, meaning they are loading up a new patch onto it.  That's why you can't patch atm.

Do you not get that message on the loading screen, Triforcer?  It's delayed three hours which is ten more minutes from right now.  If you have that black screen thingymabuggy, I think there might be a fix for that on the forums which most people can't seem to get to. 

Hope that helps!   :grin:

I can't get to the official forums anymore, either.  Good.  Buncha whineybutts there.

I am incredibly annoyed. I want the server (just mine is ok) up. Now. Now. Now. Shit.

I'm just stuck on the "Downloading Patch Information" screen (where it shows the delay).  But thanks for the tips. 

I acquired infinite patience after the SWG launch.

woo.. couple hours rested.. and I probably could have slept more!   :grin:

I'm not incredibly annoyed, as it has been pretty clear that they would fuck this up.  I'm midly surprised to find that I am annoyed (just not incredibly annoyed)

You know.. at least I was able to play SWG at the time they said, even if the servers went down like 10 minutes later.  lol

One hour past their their rescheduled start time and its still down.  Looks like the indignation has killed their new forums too.  Poor Funcom :/

It's not one hour past, it's 4 minutes past.

I think we should sponsor a "Time zones for Dummies" online training class..

Or, try this: http://www.google.com/search?q=current+time+gmt

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=23&month=12&year=2005&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=0

I make it to be 9:00 GMT on my sidebar clock

edit : hmm my gadget is messed up I think, its showing two different GMT's right next to each and 1 hour apart...thats not right is it?

Rumour is they delayed it one more hour. Can't enter the official forum myself to confirm it.

I hear too much stress makes your nipples pink.

PS  they disabled the forums for now

My nipples are exploding. My rage is terminal.

I am too old for this shit. I need a computerless era.

I'm playing Pixeljunk Monsters on the monitor next to mine. I can pixeljunk and you should too. I'd kill for a European to let me download Dark Mist though.

Patch screen is now playing a "We've toiled for five years! Welcome!" message now.   But still no patching for me.

No patching for me, either.  I hope Falconeer doesn't pass away.  I'd miss his little pink self.

That's funny Schild. As I noticed that Dark Mist was available on PSN I though: "Mmmh I should ask Schild if this is worth it..."

patch up

Falconeer SNARL SNARL GNASH GNASH, It's a shmup + dungeon rush Zelda game.

1.2kbps.

yep downloading patch now

Patching!

EDIT: At 186 BYTES/sec.

Also, Dark Mist is punishing.

Patch just failed at 1.62MB.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnd patch server inaccessible.

"Could not connect to patch server. Can not continue"

Bah, cannot connect to patch server.

Edit: connected now, 5.32 MB @ 50kb/s

I'm almost done patching.. woot woot

"Can not connect to patch server. Thanks for the $5. Now fuck right off. By Crom!"

I can't say I expected that.

Triforcer is hogging all the bandwidth

Suckers.

DAMN YOU FUNCOM

And what are you playing today, Rasix?

Meh,

5.32 MB installed and it re-opens the Patcher! Back to 'Downloading patch information...."

Me too!  Its like a raid with fast respawns!

Oh hay.

Look at that, they called themselves Galley Slaves.

I guess that's a cut above QA Gimp.

btw i'm on teamspeak if anyone wants to lol in full surround sound

I haven't spammed the Login Screen like this since EQ1!! What fun! :drill:

Edit: Oh wait...I'm not even on the Login Screen yet...just the updater still..

Made it to new 18 MB patch.

EDIT: And a 13 after that.

Playing.

Damnit.

Same...

go go go 600kb/sec till BOOBIES!

grr I can't get the 2nd patch

*edit* IN!

Grand Theft Auto 4?

Sorry, I suppose I shouldn't troll.  But really, the amount of rationalization and self delusion is just hilarious, especially from you, hombre.

Enjoy playing AoC.  :awesome_for_real:

Edit: Damn this thread moves fast. There are baby quail playing in my backyard. 

Yes! Playing.

My nipples are relieved.

I'm in.. woot woot.

I got in, too.  But now I don't feel like playing.   :ye_gods:

I wanted to make a couple of characters but you have quit the entire thing to do that, don't you?  It deflated me.

Shouldn't /camp bring you back to character select/creation?

Maybe.  I don't remember.  I didn't remember my password for ages either. 

On the flipside, the fact that it is him may be a good sign.

Well... I know he's at least as jaded as me. So if he's playing, I'm curious.

For some reason I'm not getting the beach intro option though I got it on the Wiccan server.

Also, /camp just is the same as quit now.   :uhrr:

Couldn't hear voice the first time, one of my characters sounded like a retard.

Character Deletion doesn't seem to work for me.

Ok, /camp doesn't take you all the way out, just to login, but not to char selection.  I can now opt out of the beach tutorial, don't know why I couldn't before.  I think it's just laggy or broken or fucked up or sommat.

the dx10 client looks quite better than the dx9 one, even on low settings.

You can opt out after watching it once.

My god. The game runs perfectly. Like 60FPS nearly maxed out. (I don't dare turn AA up all the way).

Unreal.

Got to lvl 7.  Having fun.  Ganked a lot in White Sands.

Miracle patch FTW?

Edit: Funcom added an additional PVP server to both NA and Europe. Have to admit I'm rather stunned at the apparent success so far.

Hm.

Dare I say, I like it. I wonder how much content is actually filled out like Tortage seems to be.

How do you opt out? I keep getting the quest..

Oh you still get the quest, you can opt out of the cut scene.

Called it :)

So its not total clusterfuckary in game yet? Or is it due to the single player being first (brilliant IMO, get the people hooked before they get to the real messed up parts/server issues/lag)

Still stutters now and then for me.  I think they still have a memory leak or something, too.  I'm running low and it's playable, not great though.

It's running a hell of a lot better than the open beta, I'm enjoying myself so far.  Only thing that bothers me is the low res textures popping to the high doesn't happen quickly enough but there are options to mess around with that.

Not having a quit to character selection after five years in development is amateur hour though.

Yea, but talk about your minor annoyances and only because I wanted to steal a bunch of names.

My gripes, right now, at level 10, are minor.

Roasted iced tea? Sounds interesting? Smokey?

I am jealous I probably won't even get a chance to play till like Wednesday :(

What is the total size of patch downloads before you can start playing? And will this correspond to the size of download needed for a client installation from an off-the-shelf copy of the game?

People seem to be saying they downloaded several gigabytes' worth of patches - or maybe that was just for the beta. It's significant in my country where internet access is sold based on monthly download limits.

Good launch, much better than I expected. I played for several hours without a single glitch.

After 6 hours of playing non-stop, my graphics card decided to get a little hot. Not shocking as it's a piece of shit. Nonetheless, it's been uhmmm... perfect. Other than boss mobs dropping way too little loot for the effort (easy fix, get the fuck on it Funcom!)

My 8800 GT video card is handling the game fine, but no kidding, its getting HOT in that box. Fan is going at max nearly from the word go. Granted, today it was in the high 80s in Seattle, and of course, no AC here.

None of it.

So it sounds like y'all are in your 20's?? How long does that take without catassing? I may pick it up monday or tues.

[edit] Oh, and should it run decently with a 7300gt/Windows XP?

It has taken me 9 hours to get to 18, mostly questing, some solo some grouped, and with lots of dorking around in the meantime.

Details please.

Don't worry. Stray.  I'm so slow you'll zip by me when you finally get the game.  I don't have the inclination to catass games anymore.  A couple of hours is all I do at one time, generally.  I can be the mascot, I guess.

Due to high demand they are opening MORE servers.  I don't remember an MMO launch where they opened new servers the day before, the day of and the day after launch.  I guess they were prepared.

Pretty sure WoW had the same problem.  I don't understand where this high demand is coming from, even if the game did well the early access was capped so they had to know exactly how many servers they would need right?

I think a lot of people are simply ready for a new big budget MMO (especially one with some focus on PvP)... And the fact that WoW has brought in more MMO newcomers in general might mean that the number of people ready to game hop (like we all once did) will be that much more. LotRO might have even benefited from that -- I mean, that game probably would have only done half as well 5 yrs ago.

Possibly they had some servers on 'standby' rather than fully launched in case less people showed up than expected... (and/or to ensure they don't wind up with handful of people sprawled across too many servers they're enabling them in batches) regardless, it sends the "we're wildly popular *and* competent enough to handle it smoothly" message which coupled with reports of good performance makes some nice PR for a change.

Some how people have continually refused to acknowledge that this game has had appeal for quite some time now. I know many people IRL and internet friends anticipating this. The release timing was flawless, but I still expect a bumpy ride and many pissed off customers.

The game is incomplete. I had to /petition 50% of the quests I did post 40, because various parts of them are broken and you can't progress down quest chains. Grinding, while amazingly easy in this game, is super boring. Plus, quest chains is the only area where you'll find any items AT ALL, really.

I had two items I wore in my teens in the 40s and 50s. I had my level 1 hat until I was level 24.

Then there are a lot of bugged spawns and shit in the higher zones, where you'd just walk down a path and 324323 things aggro, invisible monsters, invisible walls, and entire ZONES that have "the wrong collision mapping loaded" where nothing at all is what it seems.

And I'm sure people are in their 20s already. The faster guys in beta could hit max level in 2 days, 10 hours /played.


And on grinding, if you want to set up a macro to just "fire weapon" or cast spell every 4 seconds, you can set an interface option to auto target whatever's in front of you. Look around and you'll find NPCs that walk up and down certain paths, one at a time. I gained 5 levels with a macro that consisted of "press 4, wait 4 seconds, loop" while I was at work one day.

Of course the GM's response to this was "NPC pathing is very complex and I doubt we can address individual complains like this in every instance."


Further, mages are fundamentally broken. I'd not make a mage at all at this point. They are super powerful for sure, but if you just look at the skill trees you'd see that they are all one trick ponies. The demonologist is the one I'm most familiar with. You basically have a fire skill tree and a lightning skill tree. Each of them adds mods and augments a single spell - a lightning one or a fire one. So by the time you've got 30ish points plunked down in that line, it doesn't make sense to use anything BUT that spell. You're running around with 2 hotkey bars full of spells but one is so much better than the rest that the rest are worthless.

If you want to make a mage, wait until spellweaving gets implemented and tweaked.

Question that I'm not sure where to place:

Do all early adopters get the War Mammoth mount?

[edit] What I mean is, I have the card for one... But it's got all of this shit about early access written on it as well -- and I know I'm too late for that. So I'm just wondering if I at least get the mount.

Seriously, how am I supposed to log into the NA servers? Just grabbing the NA client? And no problem with they key/account being from a EU retailer?

I thought you only had to pick the server at login. Huh. The other euros should know. Was playing with a few earlier.

Yeah, just input the code on the account site and it'll generate an account with the Mammoth for you. If you already have an account I think you just need to add it as an upgrade.

Longest install ever.