CKE PVE EQ CLASSIC server...

[Sicpric]

Jenco speaks! Forgive my doubts master...

[Sicpric]

Can we get some updates? I'm curious as to how the progress with the server is coming, would love to play my toons again =x

[aendain]

Yes, please update us, and also put the boards back up... No one is going to flame you, we all just want to know what is going on. There are probably some people who still do not have a clue why the boards and server are down.

[Throttle]

Well, this is the first time I feel fully justified in criticizing Jenco. He has done a few somewhat questionable things before while I've played on his server, but this is really disappointing. You don't just bring a server down for several days without letting the playerbase know until they inquire on a different forum (here). Are you really just "fixing some lag"? From Tuesday to Friday, and who knows how much longer? Taking down the forums as well in order to avoid flames? We don't pay to play, but this is poor service none the less.

[Cvinion]

Originally Posted by Throttle

Well, this is the first time I feel fully justified in criticizing Jenco. He has done a few somewhat questionable things before while I've played on his server, but this is really disappointing. You don't just bring a server down for several days without letting the playerbase know until they inquire on a different forum (here). Are you really just "fixing some lag"? From Tuesday to Friday, and who knows how much longer? Taking down the forums as well in order to avoid flames? We don't pay to play, but this is poor service none the less.

You arte right, you don't pay, and from the work jenco has put into this project I think he deserves eight thumbs up, amazing work and if he has tot ake downt he server let him, it is his sandbox.

Sorry to sound rude I just hate when people getting a free game to play almost every single day are mad because they think they feel as if they are owed something instead of just enjoying the great thing they have at their fingertips 99% of the time.

[Tantalar]

I think that what everyone is thinking is that over the time that we have all spent on the server we have all become friends and while I don't really know Jenco and we dont have conversations... It seems that in this situation I think most people expect him to say something like "Hey guys, I just wanted to let you all know that I am going to be taking the server down until I am able to fix the severe lag problem. It might take a few days or even longer but I can't tell you an exact date."

This sort of makes it feel like we are on a server with a guy who is in charge of running the show instead of just some dude hosting a server who wants nothing to do with the people playing on it and doesn't care at all about them.

I didnt come here to bash him but I think if he doesnt tell people that he is taking down the server even then a lot of people will think very poorly of him and the server population will go down. I really dont want that to happen! I don't see why he would want a smaller population, so none of it makes any sense to me either.

[Throttle]

To clarify, I'm not dissatisfied that he needs to bring the server down to fix something; I'm questioning the prospect of doing it for an extended period of time without telling the players anything until they come here and ask. That is extremely inconsiderate, and it appears to be a trend in Jenco. It's usually acceptable because it's not that huge a deal, even if it's a bit of a nuisance that you log in one day to see your spells wiped and your char placed in a tutorial zone which then takes an hour to fix so you can leave and another couple of hours before the spell merchants are actually loaded, to pose a similar example. This is different, though - if noone had come on here and asked, I would have thought that Jenco had pulled the plug on the server. When you're administering a server of any kind that has a userbase, you're expected to let those users know if you're bringing the server out of service for any significant length of time. Especially since Jenco has a previous case of GMing a server and just one day vanishing, as seems to be the case according to reports from players of that server.

We all appreciate the work that Jenco puts in, and I have very few complaints about him as a GM, but I wish he wouldn't leave us in the dark like this. I hope that next time he makes some major change, he warns the players a day or two in advance so that they're not caught by unpleasant surprise too often. I don't currently play, but I intend to return at some point so I follow the server's status. It should make no difference whether or not I am currently active, and I believe my point goes for any player on Jenco's server. It would have been completely unacceptable if we had been paying customers, and even though we aren't, I think that anything which doesn't go with paying customers is something you should do your best not to do in any case. If he wants to keep a playerbase, that is.

[malaldil]

Jenco is not offering you or anyone else a "service" by hosting a server, he is allowing you the priviledge of playing on *his*.
Build, code, and maintain your own EQemu server if you are that hard up to play.
I find it ridiculous to criticize someone who spends his own time and money to give you and anyone else a free server.