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[insaner6]

Thank you for the 2xp event.

1st will the lag that 100% will show up, be taken care of in advance?? Get more servers or whatever is needed??

2nd is there new content coming in?
If yes, is it just 50lvl content locked with quests?

3rd 72 hours means that ppl in the west USA wont be able to play during sunday evening, while ppl in Asia will have a full weekend.. 2xp should be 96h to be fair to everyone...

[Pardoux]

Thank you for the 2xp event.

1st will the lag that 100% will show up, be taken care of in advance?? Get more servers or whatever is needed??

2nd is there new content coming in?
If yes, is it just 50lvl content locked with quests?

3rd 72 hours means that ppl in the west USA wont be able to play during sunday evening, while ppl in Asia will have a full weekend.. 2xp should be 96h to be fair to everyone...

 

1. I think you know, as well as everyone else does, that we'll get the "lag will be minimised as much as possible" whilst, in reality, it will be the bane of peoples lives (depending on when they hunt)

 

2. I'm fully expecting 100 levels of new content - hope I won't be disappointed there.

 

3. I was gonna say 72 hrs is plenty for anyone to hunt, but after looking at the wiki, it seems the last 3 2xp events (in Dec 2014, June 2015 and Dec 2015) were all 96 hrs - So, yes, I guess 96 should be the duration ..

Edited by Pardoux, 18 June 2016 - 22:36.

[cucullainn]

You know what? Lag has always been part of certain events, true.
I always expect it anymore. My problem is I don't wish to take a bunch of epic pots, and then have the game go off line. Lag you can deal with. However back between May 5th and May 11th the game went offline twice. Then again on June 5th the game went off line for about four hours. Thats enough time for Epic pots to run out. The post on the home page after it came back online. "Our host had some problems with our hardware that have now been resolved." Let's all keep our fingers crossed, and pray that the host doesn't have anymore problems.
I hope we all have a great time and enjoy the Event

[Gutie]

I'd urge considering extending the event out to 96 hours. Given lag being a possible issue to boot, I think ensuring people in NA aren't concentrated on the last 36 hours of the event giving that extra time can reduce this being as much of an issue.

[Ringhal]

HCS has in the past extended the duration of the event and/or buffs if there had been lag or server down time. They may or may not do it again this time if there are server issues.

[Egami]

HCS has in the past extended the duration of the event and/or buffs if there had been lag or server down time. They may or may not do it again this time if there are server issues.

Indeed they have and I thought it was a great idea.

Personally, I think if it's longer than an hour, they should probably extend buffs remove pot-skills that were drunk within the first hour (random amount, could be two) before down time and replace those pots.

I know that would be a programming nightmare to check, but I don't really feel a simple skill extension was sufficient.

Again, I did think it was a nice gesture, but if the game is down for over an hour, it's likely that some people would have to go to work, go to bed, go dance a jig, what have you. ,oP

[EpicPiety]

HCS has in the past extended the duration of the event and/or buffs if there had been lag or server down time. They may or may not do it again this time if there are server issues.

I don't think it stands as a question that the servers are going to have issues. They will and they always have and they always will.

[Kbyte]

There is surely new players that will participate for the first time on the exp event that will happen june 30th, and they may not be to used to the lag old players are already aware and used to, so I'll add here an video from youtube that could clarify the effect of lag on our lives .... but instead showing how it would be if happening when we doing real life stuffs => but you can bring the perception you get from that video to playing the game when the game be lagging a lot due all players hunting almost at the same time in an type of MMOL [Massively Multiplayers Online Lagging]

 

In fact it makes it more funny when you need to challenge against the lag making an efford to do your hunt as fast as possible to don't let buffs expire .... an nice experience when you succed in it lol.

 

I liked that on all exp events we had on fallensword even with the lag, we could manage to make ours full hunts during the event. [not having issues that could let the game offline -> and still even when it did had issues it was given extra time]

 

J

 

Just pay attention to how damaging lag could be lol

Edited by Kbyte, 19 June 2016 - 22:05.

[BigGrim]

Hey there.

 

We'll reinforce the servers to try to minimise any possible lag.

 

~ Grim

[Pardoux]

Hey there.

 

We'll reinforce the servers to try to minimise any possible lag.

 

~ Grim

 

Love the optimism there with "possible lag" LOL