Advancing In Rank

2007-06-24 06:54:37

#1

dr31: Member; +2|6641|canada eh!!

I will admit that i'm new to this and to dam old to learn new tricks. but i need a little help.
when i log onto bf2 and check my history i have been at 18433 for ever. i'v been playing as much as i can to try to advance to my next ranking
but nothing. can some one give me a little advice please and thanks.
also how do score points on here ( b.f.2.s)

happy playing and thanks in advance

2007-06-24 06:55:58

#2

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6758|N. Ireland

stats were down / still are down

2007-06-24 06:59:08

#3

floodgate: Member; +2|6453

and probably aint coming back

2007-06-24 06:59:18

#4

dr31: Member; +2|6641|canada eh!!

thanks just after i posted this i read a post explaining it
this sucks

2007-06-24 07:03:03

#5

Titch2349: iz me!; +358|6617|uk

dr31 wrote:
thanks just after i posted this i read a post explaining it
this sucks

It does, but there is nothing we can do about it, and neither do we know what is going on, because EA / DICE / Gayspy have released next-to-nothing information wise.

2007-06-24 07:04:08

#6

Raphi: Banned; +354|6523|Basel, Switzerland

That's called GaymeSpy-

2007-06-24 07:07:16

#7

Airwolf: Latter Alcoholic; +287|6985|Scotland

Ersguterjunge wrote:
That's called GaymeSpy-

lmao

2007-06-24 07:13:18

#8

~[_-=*Hanma*=-_]~: Member; +16|6754

Leave them alone, EA and the rest are doing what they can. Obviously if they haven't said anything they are working around the clock. Patience children.

2007-06-24 07:18:05

#9

Titch2349: iz me!; +358|6617|uk

~[_-=*Hanma*=-_]~ wrote:
Leave them alone, EA and the rest are doing what they can. Obviously if they haven't said anything they are working around the clock. Patience children.

chuyskywalker wrote:
Krupp23 wrote:
I also wish they would keep is informed how far they are on their repairs...

Like the BF2s.com site owner did some time ago.

For example (I do not know about the stat server architecture, just guessing):
*Day 0: Stats are down
*Day 1: We are aware of the stats being down and are searching for reason...
*Day 2: Reason found: 2 hard drives corrupted, approx. 200,000 player accounts affected, trying to restore with backups...
*Day 4: Stats-master server is up and running again with backups from June 14th, waiting for the slave servers to apply changes...
*Day 6: Stats are completely synced again, have fun playing...
This is one of the points in which EA/DICE/GameSpy/IGN really, really fails at. For those who don't know, the term is "Transparency" and it is vitaly important in this day and age with your hardcore (like here) audience. For causual players they probably won't even notice the stat servers being down for a week -- but for those who do notice, it's really important to have a clear line of "who knows about this, and what are they doing about it" reporting. Even if the reporting is "We have found the issue and are repairing it, but we're waiting on XYZ which should be here in 24 hours" it would be wonderful.

While they have Violet reporting in the official forums about the issue, you can see by reactions that it's not close enough to the source really.

Krupp23 wrote:
I can't imagine they did not make any backups.
Let's imagine a 1.000.000 Player (only for the worst case, maybe even less) accounts with more than 0 Points with 1.000 Bytes of Stat data (cannot imagine it's more, but if: let's assume another 500bytes). That makes "only" 1.0-1.5Gb to backup.

VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF DATA for an enterprise...

And they had only one stats server and that server crashed? So they cannot restore? No redundancies? No way!
Your estimate is probably a bit small -- my databases use about 31gb of space and I would hope I'm tracking less than they are. Even still, I would put the max amount of data they track at any given time for the entire system at less than 100gb, which would still be pretty easy to backup since it's most likely in a MySQL/Oracle/OtherDB system which usually offers slave write backups and such. Of course, if they only have one machine doing this... -_-;

2007-06-24 07:26:22

#10

Airwolf: Latter Alcoholic; +287|6985|Scotland

interesting

2007-06-24 07:31:06

#11

Hurricane: Banned; +1,153|6895|Washington, DC

Chuy or krupp or whatever, the point is, EA's rich enough to own a 20TB backup (if that even exists).

2007-06-24 08:07:22

#12

killer21: Because f*ck you that's why.; +400|6856|Reisterstown, MD

ermm?

2007-06-24 08:13:28

#13

Undetected_Killer: Le fuck?; +98|6551|FIYAH FIYAH FIYAAAAAAH

20TB = i think 2000GB

Last edited by Undetected_Killer (2007-06-24 08:13:57)

2007-06-24 08:19:46

#14

BeerzGod: Hooray Beer!; +94|6835|United States

It's EA though... since when haven't they not been greedy with money?? Their stats server is probably running from an old 200GB Dell system from 1999.

2007-06-24 09:26:08

#15

Havok: Nymphomaniac Treatment Specialist; +302|6940|Florida, United States

Undetected_Killer wrote:
20TB = i think 2000GB

Close. 20TB = 20,000 GB (makes your harddrive look reeeeal small doesn't it?).

2007-06-24 09:50:33

#16

StormsGathering: Member; +2|6681|Center of the US

This is the perfect place to post a "my girlfriend says it's a good size" post, buuuuut I think I'll pass.

2007-06-24 10:14:07

#17

Lieutenant_Jensen: Your cops are corrupt.; +200|6656|fåking denmark

Havok wrote:
Undetected_Killer wrote:
20TB = i think 2000GB
Close. 20TB = 20,000 GB (makes your harddrive look reeeeal small doesn't it?).

Uhh quite small ..

2007-06-24 10:18:54

#18

Zimmer: Un Moderador; +1,688|7021|Scotland

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dr31 wrote:

Ersguterjunge wrote:

~[_-=Hanma=-_]~ wrote:

chuyskywalker wrote:

Krupp23 wrote:

Krupp23 wrote:

Undetected_Killer wrote:

Havok wrote:

Undetected_Killer wrote:

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