Let's talk about D2's maintenance schedule (Destiny)

by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Friday, November 03, 2017, 10:20 (2656 days ago) @ Xenos

Couldn't they just shift the time based on the server? I mean, they don't apply it to every server at once do they? I understand the consequences... for 12-24 hours every week, the version would be different on the servers so you wouldn't be able to play with those people...

I guess it's just not worth the effort.

Yeah I imagine that'd be a bigger headache since you can play with people on different servers in different regions. With something more simple (like a file server) that's not a big deal because it doesn't really matter what version the server you're connecting to is, but with a game that could get really complicated. I'm sure it's possible, but man I wouldn't want to be in charge of programming the code to let the servers and clients handle that well.

Yeah, but how is a version number any different than say a console type?
If Player1.version != Player2.Version OR Player1.ConsoleType != Player2.ConsoleType
Then don't match them together

It's just one more logic statement. I'm also entrenched in code right now so this is how my brain is working.