Bandit, we have scheduled restarts which usually result in a 5-10 minute downtime. In the online chart there are also occasional "spikes" where it shows the population going down to 0 and then immediately back to what it was before - that's a result of UOPortal not obtaining a reading within that hour. On UOGateway.com they show "offline" or "unreachable" with a different color to denote that there isn't a reading from that time, rather than to show "zero online". If there is an unannounced downtime, players usually ask on the forums - this thread has a somewhat official record of when we were really offline http://uoex.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=789&start=2040

jaja, still failing. five more crashes this week and you have fake player bots jump right back up to fake 200 player count. you really has only have 25 real players with many accounts, empty and sad shard. staff playes and bad for real players. all corruption

I check in to see if you still lie this week! Still sad, still bad, your shard will fail and the population will get small. your players will leave from bad staff. greedy and fake

Hug this Brambas Here is just a sample of the forum posts from Nyx demonstrating very rude behavior to players: by +Nyx on Thu Sep 10, 2015 11:26 am "We spent entirely too much time responding to these constant economy threads." "there's not really any point in screwing around with the shard economy" "there's no use stopping what we're already working on to try and putz around with something that in all likelihood will work itself out" "All economies go through ups and downs, it's just part of life. An economy like ours here on uoex is very fluid, and can change drastically in a matter of months. So, as always, yes we are aware of your collective complaints/grievances/issues. And no, we're not going to do much about it" "Every few months we have one of these grouchy posts about the economy and its always pretty much useless. Nothing comes of it - nobody convinces anybody on the "other side" of anything, wisdom gets ignored, butts remain hurt." "All in all, the economy would do just fine if everyone just stopped trying to micromanage it in either direction." "Bottom line: Newbs aren't getting messed over, vets aren't tanking the economy. The sky is not falling." "Everybody just needs to keep their pants on and their economic-based-gripes to a minimum in the mean time" "there was just one of these same kinds of threads about 2 weeks ago. And another one a month or so before that, and one awhile before that, and so on into infinity. We see them all the time, and it's always essentially the same complaints" "So, these threads popping up every few weeks just ends up being a waste of time and frustrates the staff because we've already said we're working on it" "It'd be nice if folks just held their horses awhile and let things play out instead of constantly starting these same threads. *Lundberg voice* that'd be grrrrrreaaaattt...." "Staff = working on it. Everyone locate their towel and chillax in the mean time." "The constant negativity and "fix it fix it" gets old" "On top of that, there's no actual fix for the economy. There just isn't." "Now, remember - we are volunteer staff, and it's a free shard. Reading these threads this often just makes me not want to do anything about it because it's irritating as heck to interrupt my day replying to them" "Basically, constantly trying to micromanage the economy, constantly worrying about it, getting upset over it - it is a complete waste of everyone's time." "I don't see the need to get worked up over these things on the forum" Well let me tell you Nyx, there is a need to get worked up, and there is a need to fix the economy! By taking real money from your players and then talking down to them and being dismissive will leave you playing with yourself on an empty, old shard Nyx, this should shut you up for good! Try and defend all of this garbage, they are all your words! Brambas, If you don't believe Excelsior is circling the drain, you are not being honest with yourself! And the cherry on top is that I am CAN post this on every forum and posting location I can find and there is NOTHING Nyx can do to erase the truth!

Pain why don't you go to another shard and bash them. If you don't like Excelsior then so be it stop bashing and being hateful. Nyx has never been a dictator she has always been courteous. +C is always on the shard and there has been no crashes lately restarts yes but no crashes. So go somewhere else and spread your hatefulness there!!!! Maybe you just need a hug