Is anyone else having trouble with the new discipline structure?
Many times now - I check it each time I play - I will trigger a discipline that should have a re-use time of 5 mins or 30 mins and the timer goes to 24 hours.
If I pull up the alt+C window the buttons are still showing depressed. If I use the command line /disc resistant for example I get advised I can use it again in 23 hours and change.
The other night I used resistant in PoK to test this and when I checked it was showing reuse in 29 mins. Hooray! they fixed it. I go to the bazaar, come back, check it again - reuse in 22 hours or so.
At 52 all my discs (Resistant, Fearless, Focussed Willie) are on the same timer. I have switched back to default UI.
I've /bugged it each time. Other people seem ok. Any ideas anyone?
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double check your system clock and verify that it is not off. this includes the correct time zone.
this is all SoE is saying, if your clock and TZ are correct, then you will need to post the proper information to the SoE tech site in hopes the new guys can help you.
sadly TSRoger got a promotion to an other department. he was great at helpping ppl, the new guys... well umm.. what can i say. they are new.
this is all SoE is saying, if your clock and TZ are correct, then you will need to post the proper information to the SoE tech site in hopes the new guys can help you.
sadly TSRoger got a promotion to an other department. he was great at helpping ppl, the new guys... well umm.. what can i say. they are new.
Yeah, the system clock was my friend's problem as well. He had reinstalled Windows, never switched it off GMT and was stuck with six hour discipline timers. Fixing the clock solved the issue.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Not sure what we are talking about here.
I use the /time command all the time (watch broken) and it gives me the right time.
Do you mean the Windows clock setting or the motherboard/BIOS setting?
I'll hit them both with a broken bottle and see what happens
I use the /time command all the time (watch broken) and it gives me the right time.
Do you mean the Windows clock setting or the motherboard/BIOS setting?
I'll hit them both with a broken bottle and see what happens
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both. yes the BIOS and the system time need to be correct.
US TIME
use this link to verify that your system time is correct. that site runs off the 2 atomic clocks run by the US military and the gov. to keep extreemly acurate time.
then also verify that you are set to the correct time zone.
US TIME
use this link to verify that your system time is correct. that site runs off the 2 atomic clocks run by the US military and the gov. to keep extreemly acurate time.
then also verify that you are set to the correct time zone.
/em pout But I don't want US time.
I don't quite see how my PC being a few minutes out can cause a timer to malfunction. That is a measure of elapsed time and will only be wrong if it is running fast or slow.
Still if that is their knee-jerk "get rid of the caller not the problem" response I guess I'd better try it before I can go to stage 2.
I actually live within a few hundred yards of the Greenwich Meridian. GMT will do fine.
I don't quite see how my PC being a few minutes out can cause a timer to malfunction. That is a measure of elapsed time and will only be wrong if it is running fast or slow.
Still if that is their knee-jerk "get rid of the caller not the problem" response I guess I'd better try it before I can go to stage 2.
I actually live within a few hundred yards of the Greenwich Meridian. GMT will do fine.
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You mentioned 24 hours in your first post. Could it be that you have the right time, but your date is off by one?
Airif
Airif
You, my good sir, are a genius.
1 day out on calendar.
Now to see if disc timer works better.
Many thanks
1 day out on calendar.
Now to see if disc timer works better.
Many thanks
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Regrettably and despite it showing correctly for some time after testing - right up to reuse in 1 minute 41 secs. I just tried to use one and I got reuse in 20 hours and some.
Date is now correct and time correct as it is going to get. I cannot believe that this feature depends on every EQ player being synchronised with an atomic ****.
Date is now correct and time correct as it is going to get. I cannot believe that this feature depends on every EQ player being synchronised with an atomic ****.
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from what i remember is the servers compaire the system time with a known time to calculate the reset on abilities.
the know time is the time zone you are in and the time/date stamp the SoE servers reside (Mountain Time IIRC they moved the servers to Utah, or Vegas, not sure if that is PST or MST). if there is a discrepency (more then 15min if i had to guess) you will get errors much like you are getting now.
it does not need to be exact to the second, but the closer you are to acurate, the better you will be, and thus less issues you will have with your timmed abilites.
its a bad way for SoE to do this and you are far from being alone in this situation.
being off by 1 day indecates to me that your clock was more then a few min off, but was 12hrs off, thus you were either a day behind, or a day ahead depending on what 12hr cycle it was off by. this will wreck the havoc you are getting.
the sync comes into play every time you zone or log in/out of the servers. this includes out to the char. select screen.
the know time is the time zone you are in and the time/date stamp the SoE servers reside (Mountain Time IIRC they moved the servers to Utah, or Vegas, not sure if that is PST or MST). if there is a discrepency (more then 15min if i had to guess) you will get errors much like you are getting now.
it does not need to be exact to the second, but the closer you are to acurate, the better you will be, and thus less issues you will have with your timmed abilites.
its a bad way for SoE to do this and you are far from being alone in this situation.
being off by 1 day indecates to me that your clock was more then a few min off, but was 12hrs off, thus you were either a day behind, or a day ahead depending on what 12hr cycle it was off by. this will wreck the havoc you are getting.
the sync comes into play every time you zone or log in/out of the servers. this includes out to the char. select screen.
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I cannot believe that this feature depends on every EQ player being synchronised with an atomic ****.
Why not? For example: We already know that a butterfly has to flap its wings in the brazilian rainforest for the Ranger epic to drop in Plane of Hate
Atomic clocks seem easy by comparison
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