Reboot
There are two kinds of reboot. Scheduled maintenance, and game updates. In both cases, there is a warning 30 minutes before the reboot, after which point brigands no longer spawn. There are further warnings at 20 minutes, 15 minutes, 10 minutes, 5 minutes and 2 minutes until reboot time. "Delayed by one minute" messages occasionally occur if the server needs time to complete an action prior to shutdown, and are not manually controlled. An Ocean Master or Ringer can manually schedule or postpone reboots if there is a very good reason for doing so.
Scheduled Maintenance
Periodically the server is rebooted. This only affects the ocean for that server, and the ocean is usually unavailable for ten minutes at the most. These reboots are timed to happen between 4am and 6am server time (depending on the ocean) but do not happen everyday, and never on weekends. The text warning for a maintenance reboot is always as follows: "The server will be rebooted in XX minutes. This is a regularly scheduled maintenance reboot. It will be available as soon as possible."
If a blockade is running at a time when a server is scheduled to reboot, the reboot will either be delayed, or not happen.
- Viridian and Midnight, 4 AM PT
- Hunter and Cobalt, 5 AM PT
- Sage and Malachite, 6 AM PT
Game Updates
The server is taken down while the game update is released onto the server. This can take seconds or minutes, depending on the complexity of the update. The text warning for a game update is generally written by the developer taking the server down.
Game updates may also include fixes to problems noticed by the Ringers, such as tournaments not giving correct outcomes or incorrect seedings.
