Player point of view (from the GDB)
y, a recurrent topic reared its head on the General Discussion Board, one that comes up with regularity every few months: immortal maintenance time, the grueling period between 7 am and 5 pm PST. Asking why can't this be changed, why it's Saturday of all days, and so on and so on and so on. It's something different people have tried to answer at many times, and someone has to keep bringing it up. Investigating why it comes up so often, I thought I'd try to add a little more to the discussion by describing a typical mortal day.
Usually I get booted from the mud in the morning. It involves being up at 6:45 am on a Saturday, which is usually fairly unpleasant, but since I'm too tired to fall asleep at that point, I don't usually notice. I wince at the system message that Armageddon is shutting down, asking people to log out, and then swear because my movement isn't regenerating fast enough to get me to a quitsafe. The staff are generally good about giving enough time if you're still logged on, but sometimes you get stuck in the wilderness anyway, and when you next login, a gith eats you.

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