Town portal and area reset need countdown timers.

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Asayus wrote:

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Torin wrote:

+1 for timer but +100000 for instances with portal not getting reset.

If 1 were to open a portal in every instance he visits then none of them would close causing more strain for the servers. I myself am fine with the way things are now but if what you are saying gets implemented then it should have a limit of 1 portal open.

There is already a limit of one portal open, the last one. That is why I suggested it.

Yeah, I think the reset timers are a bit fast, always feel rushed every time I go back to town to sell etc.

A few ideas:

Have a portal keep the instance saved either forever, or a longer period of time, (at least 15-30 mins)

have the timer increased to 15-30 mins

or have the latest non-town instance not reset at all or with an extended timer.

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Torin wrote:

+1 for timer but +100000 for instances with portal not getting reset.

+10000000000000 to this

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Z999z3mystorys wrote:

Yeah, I think the reset timers are a bit fast, always feel rushed every time I go back to town to sell etc.

A few ideas:

Have a portal keep the instance saved either forever, or a longer period of time, (at least 15-30 mins)

have the timer increased to 15-30 mins

or have the latest non-town instance not reset at all or with an extended timer.

So, on the opening night of the stress test, I was perusing through the D3 forums and I happened stumble upon a post with a link to a live game demo of POE with Kripp (for those that are not ware, this dude is apparently one of the first people in D3 to beat the inferno level pre-patch/nerf and is apparently well known among the hardcore gaming community) and interview/commentary by Chris J. Wilson (please tell me he isn't related to the other) online.

The show was actually very informative regarding the game. So one of the few challenges of the stress test was the problem with memory overload. With subsequent patch/upgrades, the memory requirement for the servers increased and with so many players joining into the night of the stress test a few changes had to be implemented to prevent the game from crashing. 1) A login que to keep from a massive overload from too many people logging in at once. 2) Town portal/Reset timers were reduced.

The problem is that the game remembers every detail of an area (location of corpses, how many corpses, weapons etc) for 15 whole minutes which is not too bad for a smaller community. The devs. made preparations for the stress test planning out for just a limited number of potential fans loggin in (which backfired since there was a lot more than anticipated). So a 15 - 30 mins time wont be too problematic for the closed beta (even though, I believe, there are a lot more members now) but its definitely not a solution for the Open Beta and hence.

To me, I don't think its the amount of time that is not enough, there is just no indication of any sort that we can keep track of it. I think we can micro manage time efficiently if there was some sort of a visual overhead display whenever a portal is opened or a character dies in an area.

Regarding character death, I would appreciate any input on how the reset timer works when a character dies. There is a resurrect window that pops up on death after a character is defeated in combat. Say, if a user decides to take a bathroom break or smoke a cig before pressing the resurrect option when does the timer start? Does it start immediately upon death or does it start as soon as one presses the resurrect button?

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Torin wrote:

+1 for timer but +100000 for instances with portal not getting reset.

Another +1 to this

TBH... if it came down between laggy servers and resetting instances, i would rather have the smooth servers and instance resets.

a suggestion i might have would be to store any open instances locally on the users machine and delete the info after he logs out of the character... less strain on the server, unlimited amount of time keeping it open

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Fartfinder wrote:

To me, I don't think its the amount of time that is not enough, there is just no indication of any sort that we can keep track of it. I think we can micro manage time efficiently if there was some sort of a visual overhead display whenever a portal is opened or a character dies in an area.

I tend to agree. The time limit doesn't bother me all that much, but some type of countdown clock would very welcome.

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Obviously you have been holding yours in for a long long time and its causing you to get distracted when reading a post or you just don't comprehend texts well. You just repeated what I said and tried to use it as a point against it.