new way to perform restarts

[Joleia]

Firstly, I'm not sure wherther this could be implemented or not. Secondly, why change it? Afaik, the whole "ion storm" idea is purely a mechanism to cover the restart.

You know the old saying: If it aint broke, don't mend it.

I thought it would be a nice effect to add in the game.

It sounds like a whole lot of work for something that will have next to no effect.

When the server restarts, it's only down for 1-3 minutes or something like that; it's not like for instance EVE's daily 30 minute downtime.

I thought it would be a nice effect to add in the game.

The game does not run "by systems" so I do not think this is possible.

i know that's why i said if it can be implemented.

That's not how the server works. Ion Storms are not an in-game feature - they're just a name you can use if you need to reference a server shut down (as vaguely as possible) when roleplaying. The server hosts every system in Sirius simultaneously - when the server shuts down, the entire game is offline.

i know they aren't an in-game feature but if they were able to do the restarts like this it would add a nice effect to the game that could become a in-game feature.

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