Better Communication of downtime of smaller gamemodes (so we know it's temporary/admins are aware)
Submitted by redstoneisgreat
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I think that when a gamemode goes down (even if unplanned), this should be communicated/acknowledged. I'm sure this is already the case for RPG, but I think it should be the case for the smaller/less popular gamemodes too.
In my opinion, if a gamemode is down, we shouldn't have to ask what the status of it is. If you can give an estimate for when it's back up would be nice, though I realize this isn't always realistic. (just confirming that the downtime is temporary is a good step). It should be acknowledged once admins become aware of it, at least if it's not fixed after maybe a few hours-a day of the issue becoming known. This also lets us, the playerbase know you are aware, so we aren't making a bug report for an issue you are already aware of.
I also think that this would be a small thing that wouldn't take much time, but would show that the admin team cares about keeping the smaller gamemodes in a playable state, even if they aren't the top priority, do not have updates planned short term, and are low priority for bug fixes.
1. If there is planned/expected downtime, this should be announced in some way. (may already be the case?)
2. If there is unplanned/unexpected downtime, this STILL should be acknowledged in some way. If you don't want to ping for it, either make a post in the updates channel with no ping, or in that gamemode's specific discussion channel.
When the Network Overhaul went live, SG and Challengers went down. Factions was up, but in an arguably unplayable state. I assume this may have all been unforseen (given that it wasn't announced before the network went down), but regardless, I still think it would have been nice if the downtime was acknowledged once the admins became aware.
I think Factions was down for ~1-2 days It did say the server was "whitelisted" I think, which is good as it at least suggests the admins are aware, unlike SG/Challengers
SG was down for maybe ~5 days?
Challengers has been down for close to 2 weeks and counting.
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