Combe Forester Event Delayed

[Cordovan]

Due to an issue where the event's timing is getting out of sync on the live game worlds we have been forced to postpone the event. We'll get this issue corrected and bring the event back in the near future. We'll have information about its timing and return once we know more.

 

[Norbert]

It's good that you fix bugs, but it's the second time, if I'm remembering right. Take your time, no need to rush it. It's way better to wait a little more, than having the event constantly postponed.

 

[Orion]

Yes, it was the second time and once we got to the live worlds everything fell out of synch again. In our more controlled environments this does not occur.

I will have a fix for it.

 

[aleczander]

Thanks for all the effort, Orion (and friends)! It sucks that a non-epic event is giving you guys so much grief. We'll happily wait.

 

[Norbert]

Yeah, as I said, it's better to wait more, if it means this time it will work as intended. (Btw, I didn't meant that as a whining or anything, so I hope it didn't come out that way.)

 

[Elmagor]

Well, it's good what we have only 1 spot for event for only 1 profession. Such things will be fixed when we have events for all professions, it's understandable

 

[JennyflurLynn]

I'm glad that it got taken down instead of blatantly ignoring the bug and not fixing it until next patch.
Thank you for your constant effort for new and engaging events!
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[DoRonRon]

During festival events such as the Bree Fireworks it's quite common for a layer to grind to a halt on busy servers. We at least had a chance to ask around for anyone in a working layer to fellow and port to that one. This is the same deal, we just haven't had enough involved to have layers kicking in. That's the problem with not fixing stuff and us resorting to figuring out workarounds all the time; they don't bother to fix what causes the issue. But who is going to wait for them to fix it when we have a work around, no one?

So are we to have this event continue to grind to a halt through lack of server resources because Orion is looking at a hack or heavier handed approach as he puts it. Like every dev is forced to do. Pity, don't praise them!

This particular workaround was for everyone to clear the land block and wait several minutes for it to de-spawn before re-instantiating it on return. Except that was a no go as you'd have peeps arriving and logging in there unless prevented somehow.

 

[Orion]

Once the fix is in, verfiied and hopefully added to a Bullroarer. I'll provide a post that explains, the what, why, how, and where behind the issues happening with the event.

I think it will be good to peel back the curtain a little, to expose the web we weave when building something like this.

For now, thank you for your continued patience.

 

[Findu]

I think it will be good to peel back the curtain a little, to expose the web we weave when building something like this.

This would be exciting and intriguing to peek at! Thanks for your efforts!

 

[DoRonRon]

Looking forward to it.

Perhaps you could show how connected or not it is to the Bree Fireworks coming to a halt many times during the festival event period.

Been a while since MoL revealed something of the issues making stuff work that should work but doesn't in the environment we have to play the game you, as a wider business, provide us.

 

[Rondoe7869]

Once the fix is in, verfiied and hopefully added to a Bullroarer. I'll provide a post that explains, the what, why, how, and where behind the issues happening with the event.

I think it will be good to peel back the curtain a little, to expose the web we weave when building something like this.

For now, thank you for your continued patience.

This reminds me of way back in Asheron's Call of an article publshed by a Dev. about the "invisible men of Hebian-To" and the mechanics (under the hood) type of marks and ticks that were needed to keep quest increments ticking with the player(s) doing quests and the game engine keeping up with them. Well something to that effect. It was a Loooong time ago!

Edit: I think it had something to do with the stages of the Candeth Martine/Gaerlan quest line stages.

Orion-comments? maybe it was you?? well no matter it was a very good article on how things worked in the background and occasionaly could get confused at times.

 

[Orion]

This reminds me of way back in Asheron's Call of an article publshed by a Dev. about the "invisible men of Hebian-To" and the mechanics (under the hood) type of marks and ticks that were needed to keep quest increments ticking with the player(s) doing quests and the game engine keeping up with them. Well something to that effect. It was a Loooong time ago!

Edit: I think it had something to do with the stages of the Candeth Martine/Gaerlan quest line stages.

Orion-comments? maybe it was you?? well no matter it was a very good article on how things worked in the background and occasionaly could get confused at times.

It was me. It was the finale of the Gaerlan arc. A lot of the same underpinnings that drove that event system formed the basis of the event system we use for LotRO, minus the invisible men of Hebian-to.

 

[auximenes]

It was me. It was the finale of the Gaerlan arc. A lot of the same underpinnings that drove that event system formed the basis of the event system we use for LotRO, minus the invisible men of Hebian-to.

SSG doesn't have any rights to the AC IP anymore right, it stayed with Turbine? *sad face*

 

[JennyflurLynn]

Once the fix is in, verfiied and hopefully added to a Bullroarer. I'll provide a post that explains, the what, why, how, and where behind the issues happening with the event.

I think it will be good to peel back the curtain a little, to expose the web we weave when building something like this.

For now, thank you for your continued patience.

Thanks for the update! It's incredibly refreshing that the devs have an open door policy with the community ?

 

[DoRonRon]

SSG doesn't have any rights to the AC IP anymore right, it stayed with Turbine? *sad face*

I believe it was Daybreak choosing not to continue the AC franchise. The tech more aligned with Lotro and DDO than mobile games why would they hang onto it? It wasn't an IP that was comparable to Lotr an AD&D. SSG would need it for the engine.

 

[Cap]

Once the fix is in, verfiied and hopefully added to a Bullroarer. I'll provide a post that explains, the what, why, how, and where behind the issues happening with the event.

I think it will be good to peel back the curtain a little, to expose the web we weave when building something like this.

For now, thank you for your continued patience.

How will we be compensated for missing a day of ribbons? /s

Please take a look at the Serious Business area debuff to make sure it's working as intended, I've seen people say that Beorning and traceries still increase run speed. It was not applying properly to the Mushroom Hunt or Egg Scramble events during Farmer's Faire so I think there's an underlying issue.

 

[Orion]

How will we be compensated for missing a day of ribbons? /s

Almost had me.

Please take a look at the Serious Business area debuff to make sure it's working as intended, I've seen people say that Beorning and traceries still increase run speed. It was not applying properly to the Mushroom Hunt or Egg Scramble events during Farmer's Faire so I think there's an underlying issue.

We will.

 

[auximenes]

I believe it was Daybreak choosing not to continue the AC franchise. The tech more aligned with Lotro and DDO than mobile games why would they hang onto it? It wasn't an IP that was comparable to Lotr an AD&D. SSG would need it for the engine.

Maybe somebody can find some info on it, but I think when SSG first split the only IP's they 'bought' were LotRO and D&D; AC still remained Turbine property.

 

[Duncadda]

Thanks for the update! It's incredibly refreshing that the devs have an open door policy with the community ?

If they could have that door open when it comes to lag as well...