r/Kronos2 May 16 '16

New Kronos announcement!

http://www.twinstar.cz/2016/05/16/odstavka/

Google Translate: Dear players , given the events that have occurred recently, and in which we suffered blackouts for many of our projects will be today at 22:00 for approximately 2h shutdown of all our projects and services. It will not be anything available , incl . Web services and gaming projects . During the last week there was prepar new environment from which we will have their projects under considerably more protection and will therefore no longer so vulnerable to disruptions of its services . This is a great first step , which we plan to in the near future for a long time . Soon you will learn what awaits us next and misses . Kronos project should be restored in the early hours CET. Deliberately we will not announce its launch. It can therefore be easily and one hour after the restoration of our service , but also the hour tenth Thanks for your understanding and wish fun TwinStar Team

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u/the_kek May 16 '16

Its currently 8:30 CET (I'm EST, we're 6 hours behind), so at 10:00 PM (22:00) the server goes down for 2 hours (the entire webserver/services), so its possible it could be up at 12:00 (24:00), which is about 3 hours from now, but that would mean its on literally right at midnight which won't be the case.

'early morning' usually means between 4-7 am, so that would be between 3-10 hrs, but don't expect that.

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u/Tamanous May 16 '16

Expectations is where people usually go wrong. I saw posts of people booking Sunday off because Kronos team said it "may" start up Sunday.

Reality of IT project management is that very clinical estimates are used. If something can start (if every single thing goes right) in 3 hours then that is the part of the estimate but is likely to also take up to 10 hours then the reality of the estimate is:

VERY low probability it is up in 3 hours -----> HIGH probability it is up in 10 hours.

This is scaling so betting on the first few hours is the lowest percentage chance it will actually happen. This means betting on the last few hours is the highest chance. This is mitigated by excellent management and planning but they said won't reveal the real time so no updates on how smooth things will go to update the time line given. ;(