OSS preview is up. Not LIT as announced in the new 4* thread. It's 4 days long and it will end on Friday. It will be the 4th 4-day event in a row! Another overlap in sight...
@EddieCL said: OSS preview is up. Not LIT as announced in the new 4* thread. It's 4 days long and it will end on Friday. It will be the 4th 4-day event in a row! Another overlap in sight...
@ice1X - Have the Devs figured out why these are happening yet or when the overlaps will stop/ be fixed?
Operation Spider Silk again might overlap like it did in FFW if there is a PvE event after. Or is this something that we should expect to see going forward in the future now? @IceIX
It's almost like the date is out by a day on either the test or production servers which is why it appears fine in one place and is broken in the other.
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Next event after OSS should be a Boss event, so the overlap (if any, but most likely) will not be so bad.
@_TrashPanda said: Operation Spider Silk is again overlapping with Fight For Wakanda. Or is this something that we should expect to see going forward in the future now? @IceIX
I believe the overlap this time will be with the event starting on Thursday, whether that is a Boss event or another PVE. To overcomplicate schedules further, there will be yet another dual event ending at the end of the week with PVE & PVP ending 1 hour apart.
@Wolvie171 said: @_TrashPanda said: Operation Spider Silk is again overlapping with Fight For Wakanda. Or is this something that we should expect to see going forward in the future now? @IceIX I believe the overlap this time will be with the event starting on Thursday, whether that is a Boss event or another PVE. To overcomplicate schedules further, there will be yet another dual event ending at the end of the week with PVE & PVP ending 1 hour apart.
@Wolvie171 said:
Yeah, sorry, meant to say "OSS again might overlap like it did in FFW if there is a PvE event after". Was looking at FFW and misspoke . If it's a boss event after then will be fine. Was trying to give Devs an advance heads up if for some reason they planned another PvE after OSS given that was said they can't do anything if preview was already up.
Fixed original post now thx
I feel like Dormammu stuck in the time loop with Dr Strange. Someone pls make it stop, I just wanna get back on a regular playing schedule again.
I can't believe we are already talking about another tinykitty overlap right after we got done with this last one. I don't care if it is boss or regular pve. Please please stop the overlapping pves.
Scheduling events is one of the game's most basic and core functions. If the developer (BCS), who is responsible for designing & creating the events, or the publisher (D3/505), who is responsible for marketing & monetizing the events, can't communicate what events are in the pipeline and when they happen, this game is going in the wrong direction. In a very bad way
@Wolvie171 said: Scheduling events is one of the game's most basic and core functions. If the developer (BCS), who is responsible for designing & creating the events, or the publisher (D3/505), who is responsible for marketing & monetizing the events, can't communicate what events are in the pipeline and when they happen, this game is going in the wrong direction. In a very bad way
I'm afraid it is not just that they can't communicate the event dates, they actually seem to be unable to control the dates. The following quote from IceIX from another thread indicates this if I'm reading it correctly.
IceIX quote: "The Event group is checking into all this recent overlap. The tools say one thing, the game is saying another once it's ingested."
@Chipster22 said: @Wolvie171 said: Scheduling events is one of the game's most basic and core functions. If the developer (BCS), who is responsible for designing & creating the events, or the publisher (D3/505), who is responsible for marketing & monetizing the events, can't communicate what events are in the pipeline and when they happen, this game is going in the wrong direction. In a very bad way I'm afraid it is not just that they can't communicate the event dates, they actually seem to be unable to control the dates. The following quote from IceIX from another thread indicates this if I'm reading it correctly. IceIX quote: "The Event group is checking into all this recent overlap. The tools say one thing, the game is saying another once it's ingested."
@Chipster22 said:
Yes, that response was nearly 1 week ago when players first raised a scheduling concern. Has there been any update since?
With OSS this week, it will be the 3rd time events have overlapped. All within a short time span of only 1 month. This is unprecedented.
Hate to say it...but are you guys sure this scheduling stuff is by accident, at this point? This actually isn't totally unprecedented -- I remember in the early days of the game the event scheduling was almost random. It's been like 7 years, but I remember there was a vigorous debate on here about whether people wanted to always have an event running, or if they wanted breaks.
I don't know...is it possible they want it to be this way?
Sure, it's possible that the overlapping of events was intended but IceIX's response implies the opposite. If this becomes the norm going forward, there will be a lot of unhappy players, including myself.
Personally, I've been trying to keep up with all of the scheduling mishaps in the past few months, from the event restarts to the staggering of events and now the overlapping events. Not only as the lead commander for my alliance family, but as the one whose team manages the bracket updates in the Line groups and the MPQ Brackets spreadsheet.
When the scheduling issues first occurred, I almost quit from burnout and stopped all non-essential communications just to maintain the MPQ Brackets spreadsheet. With the overlapping events, we're maintaining multiple spreadsheets and doing double the workload in order to track the bracket updates. All of this work has been done voluntarily by a group of passionate and dedicated players. I fear that this goodwill is running out. I don't want to quit and I don't want to leave the MPQ Brackets spreadsheet in disarray.
Can we please get an update from BCS or D3? @S0kun @IceIX @DevpoolMPQ_BCS
If the scheduling issues can't be fixed in the near term, at least let us know the progress and plan to fix it. I feel that the players' angst and frustrations could be alleviated if the developer or publisher didn't keep players in the dark. This month's What's New is up to 13 pages, with a large percentage dedicated to these scheduling concerns, for good reasons. At this point, it's no longer just a scheduling concern. It's a communication concern for a thread that's designed to communicate what's going on.
@entrailbucket said: Hate to say it...but are you guys sure this scheduling stuff is by accident, at this point? This actually isn't totally unprecedented -- I remember in the early days of the game the event scheduling was almost random. It's been like 7 years, but I remember there was a vigorous debate on here about whether people wanted to always have an event running, or if they wanted breaks. I don't know...is it possible they want it to be this way?
@entrailbucket said: Hate to say it...but are you guys sure this scheduling stuff is by accident, at this point? This actually isn't totally unprecedented -- I remember in the early days of the game the event scheduling was almost random. It's been like 7 years, but I remember there was a vigorous debate on here about whether people wanted to always have an event running, or if they wanted breaks.
I'm pretty sure at least the overlap of regular PVE is not intentional. What's the point in having time slices if you have to go off the one slice that works. I don't care about Boss events overlapping, they can keep that.
Am I losing my mind or did they just change OSS to be 3 days now instead of 4?
Yes, I had joined last night, now had to join again.
@Bowgentle said: @entrailbucket said: Hate to say it...but are you guys sure this scheduling stuff is by accident, at this point? This actually isn't totally unprecedented -- I remember in the early days of the game the event scheduling was almost random. It's been like 7 years, but I remember there was a vigorous debate on here about whether people wanted to always have an event running, or if they wanted breaks. I don't know...is it possible they want it to be this way? I'm pretty sure at least the overlap of regular PVE is not intentional. What's the point in having time slices if you have to go off the one slice that works. I don't care about Boss events overlapping, they can keep that.
@Bowgentle said:
Who knows? They haven't really said much about it, and haven't acknowledged the problems in awhile (if they do still think they're problems). The lack of communication kind of calls the whole thing into question, doesn't it?
Which is more likely, that this has been accidentally happening for however long with no communication, or it's just intended behavior that they haven't commented on yet?
With all the bugs going on with characters, and their compensation for scheduling problems a few days ago, I'm still leaning towards unintentional.
@Bowgentle said: With all the bugs going on with characters, and their compensation for scheduling problems a few days ago, I'm still leaning towards unintentional.
I hope it is! This doesn't really affect me, but I know plenty of folks are upset about it.