My sever seems a bit confused as to what the cactpot is running on. The game is telling me it "Draws every Saturday at 10PM"... but it was drawn at 9.
Now I live in the EST Time zone. I showed up before 10 assuming the game corrected it to local like it does many times and if it was drawing at PST I'd be super early.
But it turns out neither is correct. I was about 10 minute LATE.
What time zone is this thing supposed to be running on and why isn't it communicated cleary?
Early Cactpot? What time zone is the drawing?
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03-01-2015, 11:35 AMLego3400Early Cactpot? What time zone is the drawing?
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03-01-2015, 11:47 AMSpawnie
i won 66 mgp LOL
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03-01-2015, 11:52 AMSyrellaris
It gets drawn on Server time, however when you check the board, it will tell you your local time.
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03-01-2015, 12:19 PMSyrehn
It told me 8PM (Earth Time), however, it was not 8PM my time (mst), it was apparently at 7PM (mst). I ended up showing up late as well. -__-;
This is the first time I've had an issue with the local time not reflecting correctly. -
03-01-2015, 12:22 PMTerrini
It tells you clearly when you buy the ticket. The only problem would lie in if your account is not properly synced with your time zone.
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03-01-2015, 01:13 PMFawkes
The NPCs got ready for daylight savings time a few weeks too early.
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03-01-2015, 04:04 PMGrimmel
Silly people.. The drawing is an hour early for those early bird specials. Notice how if you were there an hour early you got bonus MGP. :D
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03-01-2015, 04:40 PMNiwashi
I'm also in the Eastern time zone, and the game told me all along that the drawing would be at 9pm (which it was). My first thought when someone mentioned it telling them a time an hour off was to wonder whether that player's PC/console was set to the wrong timezone, but it seems too many people have had this problem for that to be a likely reason. Surely not many players would have that set wrong.
Could it be a bug in just one platform's software making it adjust timezones incorrectly? I'm on PS4, and it worked right for me. Those of you who saw it an hour off, what platform are you on?
(Oh, and it might be worth also checking your system's timezone settings, just in case.) -
03-01-2015, 04:51 PMSyrehnI'm on PC and my system's timezone settings are correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niwashi
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03-01-2015, 06:05 PMSgtPepperUK
Well, the NPCs in-game said 20:00 but the patch notes say Chaos data centre (which Moogle is part of) draws at 19:00. I went at 19:50 and the draw had been held so I'm thinking the NPCs are incorrect. ST and LT on my system match so that's not the problem.
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03-01-2015, 06:46 PMBreathlessTao
Times should always be indicated properly. Everywhere. Whether it's server time or local time or whatever else. It can get way too confusing, with all the timezones and different reset times and everything else. :/
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03-01-2015, 07:40 PMNiwashi
I hope they fix this problem quicker than they did a previous timezone bug. It was months that the game told everyone worldwide that supply/provision missions would reset at a local time that was only accurate in Japan and areas that share Japan's timezone. We ended up just all having to learn what time it actually reset in our local time and ignoring what the game told us. I guess those affected by this latest bug will have to do the same, just learning the actual time and ignoring the one the game tells you.
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03-02-2015, 03:56 AMmbncd
I'm a Brisbanite (GMT+10, never have DST) playing on PC with all local settings correct and the NPC told me the incorrect time of 5am. 4am is when it was drawn.
Really am hoping that they fix this. Also hoping we can get some actual timers for it. After I bought my ticket, all the GS interface would tell me was that we were waiting for results (with no time frame stated at all), and that was for several days straight. Same for the mini, it'll tell me if I bought one yet that day or not but that's all.
Something a little more specific would've been appreciated, especially for a week long "set it and forget it" system like Jumbo. -
03-02-2015, 11:16 AMLego3400
It seem general consensus that it was drawn an hour early. I'm curious as to why.
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03-02-2015, 12:01 PMGrimmelIt's done an hour early for the early bird MGP bonus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lego3400
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03-02-2015, 12:10 PMNiwashiIt's apparently a bug in the PC version of the software, where it tries (and in this case fails) to adjust the time to match your local timezone. The drawing itself occurred when it was intended to. The time matched the patch notes, and matched what a lot of players' systems were showing. It's just that some other players' systems were displaying it an hour off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lego3400
From the patch notes:
Elemental：
Every Saturday at 4:00 a.m. (PST) / 5:00 a.m. (PDT)
Gaia：
Every Saturday at 4:00 a.m. (PST) / 5:00 a.m. (PDT)
Mana：
Every Saturday at 4:00 a.m. (PST) / 5:00 a.m. (PDT)
Aether：
Every Saturday at 6:00 p.m. (PST) / 7:00 p.m. (PDT)
Primal：
Every Saturday at 6:00 p.m. (PST) / 7:00 p.m. (PDT)
Chaos：
Every Saturday at 11:00 a.m. (PST) / 12:00 p.m. (PDT) -
03-02-2015, 01:36 PMmbncdNope, according to a time converter, Chaos = 5am my time but it was drawn at 4.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niwashi
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03-02-2015, 06:38 PMSynestr
I am in Europe and logged in "my Sunday" morning. Went to collect my winnings and got early bird special ^.^ It was at 10am in Germany. Ended up with 1700 or so MGP for matching the last number, ending up as #4 winner. That was pretty cool. Not sure how my time matches up to early bird, but it did. Going to do again this Sunday to see if the time matches up.
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03-04-2015, 08:37 PMKiat
GMT time sucks. Its like 3am!
Does the early bird bonus pop if you collect your ticket after an hour its drawn? Or if you buy a ticket an hour after its drawn?
Missing out either way with it being so late at night -
03-05-2015, 02:30 AMNiwashiThere must be two different timing issues, then. On Coeurl (and presumably the other Aether and Primal worlds) the drawing was supposed to be at 6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern, and that's when it was. But some players' systems had displayed the drawing time as being an hour later, at 7pm Pacific 10pm Eastern. That part was a software bug (and one that affected some platforms but not others).Quote:
Originally Posted by mbncd
It doesn't matter when you buy your ticket. You have an entire week in which to do that part. The early bird bonus is based on when you collect your winnings. Though you can collect the main part of your winnings any time within the next week after the drawing takes place, you only get the early bird bonus if you do so between the time of the drawing and one hour later.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiat