Cosmic Ultimate Fate thing not good for EU Servers

[Khryseis_Astra]

I will say that OC next week will crater CE’s population so this will become harder and harder to pull off outside of peak periods but I’m not sure how to handle that as OC will suck the life out of basically every area of the game

This. Yet another reason I wish Cosmic had started in 7.1 instead of 7.2. If all the upgrades aren’t finished before OC, it’s going to become a nightmare of failed upgrade fates and 8-hour mech ops/red alert penalties. I’m in there most of my game time right now helping out the progress meter because I’m working on a particular achievement title, but when OC hits, that’s going to be my new in-game home for the foreseeable future!

[Themarvin]

content should happen in the awake hours of servers depending on where the DC's is...

This is as bad as the housing system used to be where you would have several people clicking for days in a row on a plot, would be better for special content to have a lock down during night time for each server region in the world, otherwise you will find unhealthy solutions for people, that may end hoping for that last thing at 1am and ending waiting to 3-4am.

[Stasya]

This. Yet another reason I wish Cosmic had started in 7.1 instead of 7.2. If all the upgrades aren’t finished before OC, it’s going to become a nightmare of failed upgrade fates and 8-hour mech ops/red alert penalties. I’m in there most of my game time right now helping out the progress meter because I’m working on a particular achievement title, but when OC hits, that’s going to be my new in-game home for the foreseeable future!

I do wish cosmic becomes even more unbearable to complete going forward, just so more people, even white knights in shiniest armor, open eyes on how game is in cash cow on rails state.

I was in limsa on phoenix and it was fun to see crafters going there and /shout for people to help them to do next phase fate.

[Daralii]

This. Yet another reason I wish Cosmic had started in 7.1 instead of 7.2. If all the upgrades aren’t finished before OC, it’s going to become a nightmare of failed upgrade fates and 8-hour mech ops/red alert penalties. I’m in there most of my game time right now helping out the progress meter because I’m working on a particular achievement title, but when OC hits, that’s going to be my new in-game home for the foreseeable future!

I'd like to think that they would foresee that and will add some kind of participation scaling in 7.25, but going off their recent(relatively speaking) track record, I'm not optimistic.

[Astronis]

I think it’s more the situation of the fact that the progression fates are based on server progress, it’s not like the game is saying “okay the fates have to be at this particular inconvenient time” it’s just when the bar happens to fill

Yeah this looks like how it happens. Mateus is not a low-population world and we failed a recent FATE because the bar happened to fill up at 5AM PDT on a workday. No one was coming for that. When it happened 8 hours later, we finished it easily. Everyone knew when to be online for it too, so while the lack of mech ops and Red Alerts was annoying, we had plenty of warning when the FATE would start.

I'm not sure how they could change that and still maintain the competition between worlds that Cactaur is currently winning. It's not fun to get locked out of things because the bar filled at a horrible time, but having three cracks at it at a staggered schedule over 24 hours then pity-finishing it isn't the worst solution they could have come up with. Maybe just not canceling the mech ops.

[Remolia]

btw do u receive any rewards if u fail?

[Astronis]

btw do u receive any rewards if u fail?

Yes, if you participate you get a ton of XP and some of the currency.

[Thurmnmurmn]

One way they could do it would be that the fate doesn't spawn the moment the progress bar fills unless there's a minimum of like 100 people per example. That way it won't spawn on dead hours.
And then have it scale by the 100's of people or something.

[ServerCollaps]

One way they could do it would be that the fate doesn't spawn the moment the progress bar fills unless there's a minimum of like 100 people per example. That way it won't spawn on dead hours.
And then have it scale by the 100's of people or something.

í dont know about your server, but my server has max 30-40 people in there at peak times and half of them are probably botting xd

[Thurmnmurmn]

í dont know about your server, but my server has max 30-40 people in there at peak times and half of them are probably botting xd

So just set a different number based on server population. The 100 was just an example.