Daily Quest - Timing Mechanics

Currently the Daily Oracle quest is use a static 24 hour timer to determine when you can next test yourself.

This plays havoc with those of us with limited play times that do not line up to the same time of day, every day.

Rather than a 24 hour timer, quests need to just use the Server Day value having incremented since your last visit to determine if you can attempt the quest again.

 

Isn't it 23 hours from your last request?

 

Yes, it is and that's the issue. Some folks may not be able to play the game at same time every day. If one night you logged in late and did the quest, you'll be out of luck next day if you get to play at earlier hour..

@Lum the Mad ,Please change the next available quest time from "now +23 hours" to "12 am or pm in NBT."

That would be a huge quality of life improvement for many players.

 

It should be where it resets at midnight Austin time (or 1am or 2am or 3am, whatever) with a minimum of eight hours in between tests. That would avoid the 11:59/12:01 problem and give people some sort of a chance to actually 'move the needle' in between.

 

Just use the Date component of the server time. That solves it quite easily.

They are obviously storing when you last did the quest in some manner.

So store the date, say today. Store 10/17/2016

Then whenever I come to get the quest, simple check if the current date is greater than last completed. Most programming languages let you do such logicals with date values.Depending on their data system they may need to remove the time component before the comparison. Either way it is pretty basic coding, and is easier than fiddling with hours and minutes etc.

 

We're going to do this for R35. The Oracle quest will reset at midnight server time (which I believe is US Eastern due to where the servers are hosted).

 

If nothing else, I've learned that it takes someone else to ask for the same thing I asked for weeks ago. Sigh...

 

It wasn't just this thread! If anything we decided before... this just prompted me to post to let people know.