Time never stops

[Dranul]

I would just like to extend a certain finger in SOE's general direction, for deciding that Time was way too good or something, and broke it during DoDH's launch.

Months of trying rebuild after the WoW/EQ2 exodus, months backflagging and getting into a cohesive grove with new recruits again, and we finally make it to Time! And this after months of my own time, not guild time, spent grinding level and level and AA after AA, in order to get to this point.

Yay, sound the trumpets, throw out the banners! But lo and behold, only a month or two later, ever single fucking time we clear Phase 1 and 2, 3 decides to not open. We get no emotes, nothing. And the only way to fix it? Drop the expedition and redo Phase 1, but without loot this time. Drop another off your real life time to raid, skippy, because the dev's somehow fucked up Time.

I'm sick and tired of it, I really am.

[controller]

just to tell you time is not broken we did it on the last 2 fridays. so im not sure whats up with that

[Dranul]

Then you're probably a rarity. Lots of guilds have been exepriencing this wonderful undocumented feature.

[Ankhe]

Was no problem with Plane of Time on Stromm this weekend, we did all phases also. /shrug

[Zandramadass]

Did P1 thru qaurm last night on Quellious no problems.

Even had a shm MT Bert tho not for long we did give him an A for effort and stepping up. Guess that will show him not to volunteer for stuff he isnt suppose to :lol:

[Dranul]

Oh, sure, rub it in! :lol:

[Zandramadass]

Ok, since you asked me too.... I got a back and face upgrade last night... yet another night short on caster gear tho...

No, the changes arent reflected in my magelo now but as you can see I really needed them. :lol:


Edit... Damn I just updated this 2 weeks ago and it is already 6 slots behind for upgraded gear and 30AA behind.

[Mallakith]

Just a shot in the dark.. could it be you're taking too long in P2?

Im not sure how it works now time is instanced but as ppl have posted Ive not seen this happen (tho we dont do time much now)

[Fayed]

yea u only got an hour + what ever time u had left over from P1.

[Dranul]

You know, it's funny, people assume that a lot, it seems. No, when you keep getting zone emotes that say "A big ass clock appears in the distance. You have blah minutes left." I don't think we're out of time.

I'm talking just sitting at the P3 clock and trying any number of ideas of getting through for the reminder of our time, which is usually abut 30-45 minutes for us right now. Wizard got an Eye through last time, said there were no mobs, so P3 is simply not spawning.

[Mallakith]

that emote is wrong these days past p3 tho )

We got emote after Inny of "you gain an additional 3 hours" (or 4 cant remember) then immediately got "your expedition will end in 15 mins".

PS P1 down right as i type so we'll see how it goes ere )

[Xelgadis]

That's the instance preparing to end, but Time is still running the same time mechanics that it always has.

[Aryse Andenter]

Since people seem to doubt this is a real issue...


http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/board/...ssage.id=121622 (http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/board/message?board.id=Veterans&message.id=121622)

I'm assuming your guild has already posted there Dranul.

[Dranul]

Originally posted by Aryse Andenter@Oct 4 2005, 11:26 PM
Since people seem to doubt this is a real issue...


http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/board/...ssage.id=121622 (http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/board/message?board.id=Veterans&message.id=121622)

I'm assuming your guild has already posted there Dranul.
Ieldar would be my Boss man, yep.

[Jebasiz]

So PoTime isn't recognizing that P2 is complete? I know they changed it to be completely instanced, but goddamn. It's like they invent news way to fuck old shit up.

I guess this is the price WE pay, for having programmer turn-over akin to that of McDonalds.

[Schaeffer]

Originally posted by Jebasiz@Oct 12 2005, 02:09 AM
I guess this is the price WE pay, for having programmer turn-over akin to that of McDonalds.
If they forget to ask us if we want fries with that do we get a month free?

[Dranul]

Well, luckily, the last two raids have been bug free and we broke Phase 5 for the first time, last Wednesday, with a repeat performance Sunday. Hopefully, tomorrow will mean at least an attempt if not success on Quarm.

/crosses fingers for no bugs.

[Jebasiz]

In my experience, Inny was the most difficult mob in PoTime. Quarm was kinda "ho-hum". The Zeks in P4 were kinda hard at 65, without all the nifty AA from GoD and "augments" that Ldon brought us.

It's completely different now..First day in potime tanks have 10k hps unbuffed, before you used to have to clear it a few times before you could have that type of tank in front of you.

[Xislaben]

I've had to redo p1 4 times recently due to p2 bugging and not letting us into p3...

[Fayed]

a few time raids ago ( i stoped counting) we wernt able to make it into P3. Did P1 but then the door never opened and time run out.

[Xislaben]

Originally posted by archerphate@Oct 12 2005, 02:10 PM
a few time raids ago ( i stoped counting) we wernt able to make it into P3. Did P1 but then the door never opened and time run out.
In that case (happened to me too) wait the 12 hours and redo p1 and go right to p3.

Love the bugs, but it's better than having a rotation.