Hyper Exp

Posts: 16 Arc User
edited May 2012 in Support Desk
From what I understand the following is true of hyper exp: you can only start one hyper exp session per day, and hyper exp cannot overlap, but exhaustion and buffer time can.

A few weeks ago I used hyper exp and this was true, it worked, however as of the last patch or so, suddenly my buffer and exhaustion times no longer overlap.

As an example I started a hyper exp session yesterday afternoon, my hyper exp and buffer time is now at 0 and i have 10 hours left on exhaustion, even though I haven't started a hyper exp session today and exhaustion should be overlappable, it says I cannot start a new hyper exp session while hyper exp is still active and only one hyper exp session can be started per day.

Is this a bug or has the exhaustion overlapping rule changed?

also: i have not done any pauses, restarts on my hyper exp time.
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  • Posts: 199 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Interesting, do you mind opening a ticket and sending the info you have posted along with some screen shots? This way the GMs in Customer Support can investigate this further and prep it for QA if it is found to be a bug.

    Thank you for reporting this! b:thanks
  • Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    already have, thanks for the reply.

    edit: Here's a cropped version of the screenshot i sent in with the ticket, just in case anyone else runs into this. note the hyper exp timer and buffer timer at 0 seconds.

    bugscreen.jpg
  • Posts: 199 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    You can pause your hyper EXP only ten times in a row. After the tenth time you paused it, you cannot activate any session (Hyper EXP time, Buffer time, or Exhaustion time) or put in a new stone. You have to wait until 24 hours after the moment you paused for the 10th time before your full 10 pauses reset.
    For example, if you started off a hyper at 09:00 on Monday, and paused for the last (the tenth) time at 13:00, you can't just start it up at 00:00 server time that night. You have to wait until 13:00 on Tuesday to be able to use hyper EXP sessions again or put in a new stone.

    Not sure if you're aware so I figured I'd post it anyways. b:thanks
  • Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    thanks, yes, i am aware, that is why i noted in the first post that I have not paused my hyper exp at all. I tested this again today with a new hyper exp session as well and it repeated the same result, 0 on all timers but exhaustion, no pauses.
  • Posts: 3,495 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    thanks, yes, i am aware, that is why i noted in the first post that I have not paused my hyper exp at all. I tested this again today with a new hyper exp session as well and it repeated the same result, 0 on all timers but exhaustion, no pauses.

    It might say 0 seconds of hyper on your screen, but that may just be the client and server side times not matching up. I've had times I lagged and my hypers ended up at 7 seconds on my client, but server recognized it as 0 seconds, and I was allowed to start new hypers even with 7 seconds left of hyper. In your case, it's probably reversed; you have 0 seconds on your client, but server may recognize it as a few seconds left. You'll need to re-log to fix the time difference.

    Hypers actually reset at 5PM server time every day for west coast servers, but you have to re-log in order for the system to recognize your next period of activations. There have been many times I started my hyper session at 2PM server time on my many months of FCC hypering to 103 and 104, I was not able to start a new set of hypers until 5PM server the same day. This was a 3 hour time frame, and the server doesn't actually go off a 24 hour clock, contrary to popular belief.

    Exhaustion and buffer time does stack, assuming you've re-logged at 5PM server time the next day. I've had times I had 1 d:18 hrs of exhaust or so. Simply close your hyper window and re-open it after you've re-logged to start your next session of hypers. This should work, as I've experienced this a couple of times myself.
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  • Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    thanks for the reply, but i've already logged out and back in, as an example the first incident of this i mentioned from yesterday I had used a hyper exp session around 2:30pm PAC , used it until i only had exhaustion time left, logged in the next day (which would have been over the 5pm reset time) and still could not stack my exhaustion time.
  • Posts: 3,495 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    thanks for the reply, but i've already logged out and back in, as an example the first incident of this i mentioned from yesterday I had used a hyper exp session around 2:30pm PAC , used it until i only had exhaustion time left, logged in the next day (which would have been over the 5pm reset time) and still could not stack my exhaustion time.

    When you log in, your hyper window will automatically be opened and you won't be able to start a new session because isn't refreshed yet. But if you close it, and re-open it, it should refresh the time.

    Did you close your hyper window, then re-open it after re-logging?
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  • Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    yes, i did. I usually wait until i've checked my mailbox, stocked up on potions, chosen a quest to go after and arrive where i need to kill things before i start my hyper exp so when it first opens up I always close it out. (i don't like to waste hyper exp on travel time)
  • Posts: 22 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Hi Niryn here from Lost server, This problem with hypers just happened to me and i havnt used all my activations at all only used 1 so far...but ive tryed relogging and closeing game completly and even turning my computer off and on and nothing seems to work. The screen shot of what the person showed is what it tells me too.. Not sure what to do help ty
  • Posts: 22 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Hi, I was wondering if others still having this problem cause its still going on for me, i made a ticket about 5 days ago for same problem with hypers not working and none have gotten back to me. Just wondering if others having same problem still.
  • Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited September 2011
    I am still having this problem this game never ceases to amaze me how a team of devs could go to patch 1 small issue and end up making it not just worse but totally shafting their own players faith in their skills to even be in the profession their in. Ive been a GM in other mmos and I've run servers and have seen player run servers for this game run better by players patched better by players and managed better by players than by PWE.


    Seriously PWE paid a support staff person a full hourly wage to come up with reasons for 4 months why not to give me $20 worth of in game gold i paid for that costs them nothing to create server side.

    Yes i am also experiencing the exp issue and missed 5 fccs today because of it.
    Whats truly sad is when a player base has a higher expectation that they will **** up again before they fix whats already screwed up. b:cool

    Aswell as the number of players in agreement they need to stop spending so much money made in pwi on new games that fail and actually put it back into an already proven product that they instead neglect. It seems PWE's marketing and management dept needs a wake up call and it also seems to appear as the PWI management team has gotten smaller. when seeing as the cash it racks in should be growing. With more intent to upgrade not just zones but already in game things like upgraded textures which btw is not that hard you just create a better .tex or .gfx and swap out the .gfx file in the gfx.pck or corresponding pack and bingo better looking game.

    lets hope this time they get it fixed right up with SP, and we don't go on another magical trip to Rubber Band Land.

    :PS "I never got a souvenir from that trip"
  • Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    So I am very sorry if this was already mentioned, but does activations reset 24 hours after your last pause? Or does it reset like everyday at 5:00/0:00 server time? Really sorry, I just used my first hyper session.
    Check this thread out: pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1607021

    You won't regret it. b:laugh
  • edited May 2012
    I'm pretty positive that it's from your last pause.

    nice necro btw.
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