Ishgardian Restoration events

[Snapdragyn]

Once again, every single one of these is taking place at times when U.S. players in the Pacific timezone cannot take part. Every. Single. One.

Could you just put in 24 events per cycle, & rotate through which hour they occur (or better yet 48 or some other multiple)? Is that REALLY SO HARD to conceive of?

[testname]

As far as I know, the event Fire as soon as the gauge is filled. Its different than it was before :|

[Ryaz]

Yeah, I didn't get any turn in on our last one even though it started as soon as I appeared in Firmament. There was so much lag and so many people in the way that even after I broke a node, I couldn't see the one I was supposed to pick up. It was terrible.

[tdb]

There's a grace period of 30 minutes between the bar filling up and the event starting. Filling the bar takes way too long though. At the current rate on my server it would take about 40 hours to completely fill it up (as estimated by measuring the rate of advance over about an hour). It undoubtedly varies over the day, so it's difficult to estimate when the event starts until the bar is almost complete.

There's really only two ways to go about events like this. The first is to make the fill-up effort low enough that the event occurs several times per day. That ensures most people will get a chance at a time when they're not sleeping or working. The second way is to orchestrate the event start times so they occur at times when people are likely to be playing on each region. In this case there should also be a long warning period to let players schedule their other activities if necessary.

[Snapdragyn]

The way ours on Faerie is filling today, I don't think we'll get another event this weekend - which means the odds of it happening when people still having to go to work can be on is very low. *sigh*

[Kuroka]

There needs to be a longer timer for when its ready, idm waking up earlier or hurry to the pc if i can during the day, but having 0 chance of planning is unfair. Basically we are supposed to no life till its done? If thats the case they should not hand out the 500 tokken on that >_>

[TW-Luna]

It's been a joke on Mateus so far, with both Concerted Efforts taking place in the 2-4 am timeframe.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

It's the same BS like in phase 1. Whoever thought it would be a good idea to host "hit it or miss it / once in a lifetime"-events in a MMO where you have to to be ready the second it starts or you have missed it forever? I hate it and I don't know why they haven't learned from the previous stage. At least make those fates accessible for like 24 hours so that people who need to work or sleep have the chance to participate too.

It would be so simple: Just set a timer of 24 hours once the fate started and everyone who participats in it for like 10 minutes will get gold and the reward at the end of it.

[Tlamila]

Yeah it's even worse than last time. And the site is not up to date either so you can't keep track unless you live in Firmament (but out of Diadem, so gatherers are screwed) and never sleep.
I looked at the website when I got up and it marked that the fate was yet to be done, instead I logged and it had been done already 6h before.

At least last time we had a few hours before it popped, now it's just 30mins after. Basically, don't hold any hope of ever getting into one unless you're super lucky.

[DrWho2010]

blame the people playing 24/7 instead of living a normal life for filling the bar so fast then i guess? i dunno it's how it is.