End of Summer Feast event poorly executed

xenotorch

In a no doubt calculated and brilliantly thought-out move, the last Summer Feast event for the Summer Festival ended at exactly the same time as the festival. I know, I was waiting at the priestess to hand in my Summer Celebration task once the event clock wound down. And was unable to as there was zero chance, the event ended but no results and straight to Protector's Enclave.

Why was this the case? Why start the Summer Feast event if NO-ONE could claim it? There was a gap of 4 minutes between the previous event and the Summer Feast starting, does it not seem reasonable to have cut that to three minutes to allow the Summer Feast to count for something and allow people to collect the task? This was sloppy and poor scheduling. The same happened at daily resets, the event tasks finished a minute or so after reset.

Ten minutes gametime wasted today and I would not have tried to complete in my gametime available if I'd known this. So ten minutes plus the time for the other 2 events counting towards task completion, let's be generous and say another 15 minutes. So, 25 minutes wasted of my available limited gametime - yes I'm sore about that as a dungeon run could have been done easily.

Suggestion - please look at the timings of events and ensure that they do not: a) exceed daily reset but finish at least 1 minutes before and b) finish at least one minute before the entire event does.

wylonus

we were told last thursday, it was suppose to end, but they extend until monday, we all were warn to get stuffs wrap up before that new deadline.
then why holding on when it is so close to closing the festival?

treesclimber

Last year we had a store for all the items untill the next thursday, so why dont we have a ticket trade store this year too? I dont know, maybe devs know still many people can get rewards and dont want them to reclaim them.

xenotorch

Congrats on totally missing the point. I play during the time I can, today on returning from work that meant arriving home to play with little time left. Gee, apologies for wishing to get one last celebration in before the event ends - my bad.

The point is this would have been totally and completely possible - but for poor timing and organisation on Cryptics part. Why even have that last event if there was no way of finishing it? People wasted time and effort on that event thinking they would have time to hand it it - they didn't.

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beckylunatic

magenubbie said:

Without disrespect, I think you're the one missing the point. Events don't start by hand, they are automated. At x.10> start event Z, at X.25> start event Y etc. It was mere coincidence that allowed you to be in a new event and only because the summer event ends on the .00 mark. It's not like they planned to "ruin" your last part of the event or anything.

Yup, this is just an automated cycle. It's unfortunate that you didn't realize that you were going to run out of time, but offsetting the summer event contests from their current schedule would be worse for people's time management over the entire course of the event. If you know stuff ends on quarter-hour markers, it's much easier to make a point of catching some of them.

namelesshero347

The event ran for 25 days. With three events per hour, that's a total of 1800 events. You whining about one event that got lost?