Criticism: Game down for maintenance during event

Mommasfarm (GB1)

Is there a reason why the game had to go down earlier during the "out of this world" event. Could it not have waited until it was finished? The event is hard enough for some as it is so I hope we are going to get some extra time to make up for the time the game was down!

Farmer Bev

I hate it too, I never get to finish these event in the time limit

RunsWivScissors (GB1)

Mommasfarm wrote: »

Is there a reason why the game had to go down earlier during the "out of this world" event. Could it not have waited until it was finished? The event is hard enough for some as it is so I hope we are going to get some extra time to make up for the time the game was down!

As soon as one event ends the next one starts, so its always going to be during one of them, but at least they are quick. ^^

Nexus_Shadow2

RunsWivScissors wrote: »

As soon as one event ends the next one starts, so its always going to be during one of them, but at least they are quick. ^^

quick? 3 hours and counting... it's 3am here atm, im only awake because i want to set wheat to grow on my 6 fields, cow feed at the mill, 8x humus at compost and 200 fertilizers at the silo, I'm almost done (less than 20) getting herbs for piggles as well.... if i don't get these long productions going before bed that will cost me another 8-9 hours on top of the 3 hours for the maintenance downtime, i also had several stables almost ready to cycle (harvest then restart for dropped items) in the past hours i could have (more than likely) finished the collect evidence photographs task and started the apples production which i could again set before bed... the piggles mini task is only a 2 day challenge.. and yes as soon as one event ends the next starts, but that is by GGames design.. they can just as easily delay the start of the next event until after scheduled maintenance... or at least give in game notice by way of message or popup that the event timer will be paused for the duration of the downtime...

ned (AU1)

this is very true - sure there are times where updates must happen but if it is to be a long one such as this one then delay the events leading up to it we don't mind a break from quests for a day but locking us out when so much is on is ten times worse

RunsWivScissors (GB1)

@ Nexus, yeah I saw they had a problem on AU1 and IN1 so you guys have been down a while... I feel for ya.
The OP is on same server as me & ours was only down for a few minutes, so I was speaking more in the case of an update that runs smoothly. Hope yours is back soon.

farmerjohn 22 (US1)

It's not looking good for poor Piggles!

kbahr007 (US1)

this is one of the many reasons that events are too close together