Why Variance is good, something we can all agree with.

[Kergan]

Originally Posted by Pikrib [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What was it like in classic times? It sure seemed like ever couple weeks they would patch, do server maintenance, server splits, etc.

There was a ton of patching in live, way too much to simulate here.

This is a good link just to see the dates in a condensed form:
http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/19992002.php

Not all of those required the server to come down though, I'd have to go through and see. Probably close to twice a month on average. Keep in mind they always did the non-emergency patching at the exact same time and pretty much on the same day so we'd already want to break away from classic in that regard. If this idea were to happen it really should be what we think is best in our situation not what happened back then.