Time Zone (US) [Maintenance Discussion] 11/03/18 - Complete

Hmm, this is a tricky one. I would like a group event/Instance to have a NPC that doesn't get taken out early during maintenance from a GM before it's actual date and time. That would be so nice :O

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nene#6448 wrote: »

Chivalry was reset without the option to claim your items. Also I think faction talents got reset too.

EDIT: Faction Goals got reset.​​

looks like Loyality Points and Loyality Fund got reset too. This mean the work of a whole week is just gone. I'm curious what the Daylight Savings save because i only see things got lost .

I'm fairly sure it affected all factions, at least on Twilight Temple. Bases were simply reset entirely.​​

Can confirm that everything faction related in my faction was reset. Faction is on Twilight Temple.

So the DST maint has worked as a Monday faction points reset as well. The fact that faction points are reset gives people very little time to gain 1000 points before the Monday reset comes into effect. That means that with the new week a lot of factions (who can't pull 1k points from nowhere) will have to re-open their base without the boost from Goals to make the easy 600 points, which means a need for greater toon variety in runs and, let's face it, runs which are full of toons which might not be much use in there.

Many factions will have a tough time with this, active or not. It's not like our servers are overburdened by people to invite and flood JFSP with to pull off stuff like what this asks us to do. Any faction with any history at all (and all the ones that have any foundation have some history, PWI is old) can't just find huge numbers of people who would join. In fact most of our recruits lately have been from factions where the leader and director folded due to the base lock / multiclienting and Arc change. We keep our base open, but unlocking it outright from a lock like what's coming... that's annoying and requires people to bore themselves to death spamming the same instance without reward on the same day on the same toons to get someone's alt through it. I must ask honestly, how is that in any way engaging gameplay?

Regardless of how you feel about this deeply unpopular base unlocking requirement, it is ridiculous that no warning was given by staff as to these points resetting in the DST maint (which I'm a little concerned probably means they didn't even know this would happen). This does make a big difference to people's time in game over the next two days if they want that unlock. I understand that the standard over the years has been to never warn of an unpleasant change, but that doesn't mean that we sould stop asking for a decent standard of communication.

Even worse, I suspect this will happen at future DST maints as well, so we'll have to keep this problem in mind for next time.

This sudden, accidental base reset also means that factions will be unable to do their faction trials in the upcoming week unless they get 4250 points within a day. Also, any faction that didn't distribute faction trial rewards before the maintenance happened, lost everything making people's hard work feel wasted.
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@heero200 what is going to be done about this?

heero200 wrote: »

Server n faction please.

Thanks.

Server : Tideswell
Faction: Dynasty

catgirldesu wrote: »

This sudden, accidental base reset also means that factions will be unable to do their faction trials in the upcoming week unless they get 4250 points within a day. Also, any faction that didn't distribute faction trial rewards before the maintenance happened, lost everything making people's hard work feel wasted.
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Well this sucks, didnt even think of that consequence of this reset. I`d say they should just grant ability for every faction to open up to 10 trials next week to compensate for the points disappearing but we all know it would be too sensible solution for PWE. Hoping to get enough points today to open up to 6 trials next week even if it looks unlikely I guess.

laylay wrote: »

Any another slap in tha face. Loosing the Chivalry Points and not being able to do trials for a week plus loosing some trial rewards of this week is really nothing but another disappointment. Would be nice if PWI could compensate for this by sending "bound" Justice Dragon Stones and 5 S-packs ... but well chances are low that anyone cares about it I guess

just seems like another patch/thing not tested just thrown right into our face to mess up our hard work over and over again. they don't care anymore to give us stuff to help with the constant messing up they do they don't care about us or the game

I would even think twice to play in two weeks as they will mess up the same thing again:

March 25th – EU DST + ALL Servers Down
Start – Sun, 02:00 EU Time / Sat, 18:00 PDT / Sat, 21:00 EDT
Daylight Savings Time maintenance for EU servers will be on March 25th.
This process should take about 2 hours during which time you will be unable to access the servers.