We got patch number 11 and that went just fine. The servers opened yesterday right on the predicted time, so I guess the GM team had time to play a little too. That's fair, but it's not all smooth on 9D Germany.

First of all I'm just glad to have the Liaodong map to play on. In most evening hours I have my grind spot all to myself. Vietnam is 6 hours ahead of us in Germany and the Viet players who actually live there typically set up their macros and go to bed around 5 to 6 pm my time. That's on the weekdays of course. On weekends it can be quite different.

For some reason there are very few European based players in my mob range.

The other thing I like about the LD map is the weapon drops. The drop rate isn't any better than the pathetic base rate the rest of the server gets, but the weapons that do drop are worth a lot more. I actually have 3 million gold to my name, but sadly that's still not worth taking to the black market. Maybe on Friday?

As I said though the last day or so hasn't been that smooth and that means there have been map/server problems. Last night the Brotherhood of Thieves map, Taishan went down for the night, and so did the starter map, Zhangzhu. People got trapped and Games Campus didn't find the problem until they showed up for work this morning.

Nobody likes to take work home, but the GM's aren't available 24/7 in the 9D Germany version of the game. It wouldn't hurt if someone could check the forums once or twice in the evening hours. To make things worse we had an unexpected server outage today, with about a 20 minute rollback. I really hope that Games Campus is taking this stuff seriously, and putting in plans to repair problems quickly.

Up until last night Games Campus has been technically superb, as you would expect from a group of Germans in a technology company, but there were 2 failures in less than 24 hours that I wouldn't like to see repeated.

I hate Rollbacks.

- AxtTreiber