I think the Pirates Online official website should post a notice in the "Grog Blog" the day they schedule a time of update/Maintenance/bug fix for the game.
For example, the message on the post would read something like this:
Quote:
- September 23, 2011 - Scheduled Maintenance -
Pirates Of the Carribbean Online will be going offline for a Game Content Update
During this time, you will be unable to login to the game. We appreciate your patience. Due to unforeseen circumstances, server downtime is subject to change:
Start: 4 PM PDT
Finish: 6 PM PDT
Release notes will be posted after the update has been completed.
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Or like example 2:
Quote:
- September 23, 2011 - Scheduled Maintenance -
Pirates Of the Carribbean Online will be going offline for Server Maintenance.
During this time, you will be unable to log in to the game. Due to unforeseen circumstances, server downtime is subject to change:
Start: 6 PM PDT
Finish: 7 PM PDT
We appreciate your patience.
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Notice the bold and underlined terms. They could just replace that word with:
1) Server Maintenance
2) Bug Fix Patch
3) Game Content Update
4) Etc. goes here
At least everyone would know when an update would be coming and/or reason to why the servers suddenly go down.