Somewhere around 100% of us I would assume. The servers are down for maintenance = no characters.
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Good point. Didn't think they were all pointing to the same database. Makes sense now
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We should get someone doing the deploy to just answer this speculation
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Even if they weren't pointing to the same database, there would have to be a service layer for the application to connect through that accesses the data and pushes it out to the device. This service would most definitely be down during maintenance as they wouldn't want any access to any data while they're making changes.
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You sound like you are talking about a very specific scenario. It would be possible to bring the system down and leave the database up. Database is separate. At my company we can bring down the system and still run reports off our database. We do that everyday with cycles. My guess is they might use the same service for both the app and game but it wouldn't necessarily have to be that way. There are ways around it.
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Yes, I'm aware of how a database works as I'm a software developer and a DBA. I'm sure the database is actually still up and functioning fine as I don't imagine they would shut it down for some code maintenance. However, the service that sits between the database and the internet would most likely be hosted as a service on the server they do have offline for maintenance, was my point. Or it could even just be a safety precaution to disallow read access during these windows as well.