Why in god's green Earth do dungeons have a timer?

[Naunet]

I wouldn't want to be in any dungeon for more than 3 hours.

Then... don't? If a run isn't going smoothly and you don't think that's going to change, nothing is stopping you from leaving. Nothing would stop you from leaving if the timer wasn't there, either.

It is detrimental to have the timer, and I've explained precisely why. Not only does it pointlessly interrupt raid nights, it also means none of the instances can be used for roleplay. And even more significantly, it's a sign of SE's poor planning regarding instance server set-up.

[Wolf_Gang]

Dungeon instances take place on a separate global server.

I'm guessing they added the timer to ensure a constant rotation of instance reservations.

[waldo]

Then... don't? If a run isn't going smoothly and you don't think that's going to change, nothing is stopping you from leaving. Nothing would stop you from leaving if the timer wasn't there, either.

It is detrimental to have the timer, and I've explained precisely why. Not only does it pointlessly interrupt raid nights, it also means none of the instances can be used for roleplay. And even more significantly, it's a sign of SE's poor planning regarding instance server set-up.

My advice: take your own advice and don't do it. It is what it is, if you don't like it move on. That's your right. The game has been this way since 2011 on 1.0 release, it's working just fine for the majority and it's very unlikely to change.

[Gaist]

none of the instances can be used for roleplay.

I don't see the problem with this. I went into the dungeon to get loot, not to play "mystical pirate fairy princess", with some shmuck.

[Duelle]

The instance population is one factor, but it's not the only reason.

The timers also used to add difficulty to the dungeons. Back in the early phases of Beta, Tam Tara Deepcroft was a much longer dungeon. About twice as long as it is today. And the Timer was only 60 minutes, not the 90 or 120 it is today.

This created a condition for failure, and honestly I loved it.

The problem is that it's a terrible way to implement "failure" as a possibility. There's a reason I pushed through beta for them to remove the timer and apply it only where it makes sense. Heroic Culling of Stratholme in WoW is a perfect example of how you implement a timer in an instanced dungeon in a way that makes sense. We currently have absolutely nothing in-game that would require a timer.

[Zumi]

SE didn't want those few people who afk in a dungeon maybe after they finished it for a few days sitting there taking up instance server space. Not like it would happen very often but it could still happen. So they put a timer in every dungeon to kick people out when the time runs out.

[Slatervonjager]

I expect SE to learn from mistakes that others have already made. I would rather not have to go through the entire MMO development learning process all over again; there's no excuse for it. Other MMOs have solved instance crowding in far better ways - namely, spreading out the dungeons across multiple instance servers. Aurum Vale does not need the same amount of server resources as Amdapor Keep or the Coil turns.

Please just stop. You and everyone else trying to find a problem with the timer obviously have no actual knowledge as to how servers work, and how things should be managed. So please, just stop already, you're wrong, anyone complaining about the timer is wrong, etc.

FYI, considering the fact that you can blow through AK in 15 minutes or less, you should have no problem standing around doing your "role play" garbage.

[Ricky]

I would say it's a blue earth actually

[Fynlar]

This really is not a thing that happens in other MMOs without a timer. SE needs to stop finding solutions to false problems

Because the dungeon timers are "real" problems?

[VisRalis]

I would say it's a blue earth actually

that and it's not even God's green/blue earth in the first place?
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