From the time the Winter Event started I set myself a goal to get both ships on all my chars (meaning collecting 2000 pictures each during the event). This goal as well planed and doable, however the many bugs present in this race have screwed me more than once so I ask for you guys to please fix those as soon as possible or even better change the way the timer works for the cooldown.
For example when my 20h cooldown to retake the mission is up, I log in and pickup the mission for all my chars (22 in total), this process takes from 10 to 15 min and at least for me, no matter what time it is (4am, 8am, 12pm, 4pm, 8pm, 12am, etc) its pretty doable, so after I pickup the mission I can go back to whatever I was doing (sleeping, working, studying or maybe it was during my regular daily gaming times). This way during the rest of the day and whenever I have some time to actually play I just go back to that char and race the event and upon successful completion I just go to the racing official and collect my prize.
However some bugs present on the race itself, like when you signal the race official almost at the same time as someone else, this makes either one of the players to stay outside the track and never gets teleported inside the racing track, this makes the char to fail the mission and has to re-take it, but upon re-take the 20h cooldown timer also resets, and if I'm doing this race, for example, like 10h after i picked it up (meaning 10h left of cooldown), then fail and re-take it, then I lost 10h of the cd timer, meaning I can no longer pickup the mission again whenever the other chars that successfully completed the race could do it.
So pretty much no matter how you fail the race, be it the bug i just described, be it because some lag rubber-bands your char back or forward, pushing it outside of the track or be it because you suck at staying on track, that cooldown time shouldn't reset back to 20h. Please fix that timer so when you accept the mission it starts the cd timer but if you need to re-take it because you failed at the race it doesn't reset it.
If none of that is possible: 1. Fixing the timer or 2. Fixing the annoying bugs that makes you fail the mission out of nothing. Please consider extending the event at least a week so it compensates for all this horrible bugs present.
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