Will there ever be a chance to roll for rares while playing on weekdays? My work schedule makes it tough to play on the weekends.
Excited for the update and the introduction of rares!
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Imo the choice to do weekends was to allow the largest population of players with free time to compete with those who can do seven days a week. Those who can only play weekdays (like myself/you/TwistedKing) are a minority.
One way I see solving this is having rares drop on weekends for 2 months, and then have them drop on 2 of the weekdays for 2 months. But I don’t actually expect the schedule to change.
Thoughts?
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If it does go this route, it should be available 7 days a week. It’s true that a lot of people don’t adhere to a Monday-Friday work schedule, especially in certain industries. Additionally, it encourages the people who can play during weekdays to not play in that timeframe, as it could just be viewed as “wasted playtime,” depending on how much emphasis individuals place on rares.
A disparity of players online during the week compared to the weekend could be an issue (especially between updates), making the playing experience less enjoyable for those online on weekdays, as they would not only lack the opportunity for rares, but have fewer people to play with.
Exclusively incentivizing weekend playtime feels more like we are leaning into private server territory rather than a preservation server.
So should we all log off right now and wait for the update and stop wasting our time? The game existed before rares, will exist after rares. That’s a crazy mind set that to think people will not play during the week
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You are misinterpreting my post if you believe my point was that people won’t play at all on weekdays. My point was that there would be fewer players online overall because there wouldn’t be that extra incentive to dedicate the playtime. Mind you, I’m only referring to individuals who place an emphasis on rares, something which I made sure to specify.
Is it difficult to believe that more players would come online during weekends for their chance at a party hat?
Before I contributed to the discussion, I tried to think of how this could affect the multitude of players, all with their various circumstances, instead of just speaking from my own (limited) point of view. Just because you couldn’t care less about this method of implementation doesn’t mean others feel the same. I’m just suggesting to think critically about the potential ramifications of a weekend-restricted time window.
Personally, I don’t mind it going ahead as planned, especially if it means pissing off whiteturtle
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I think the plan for the release is creative and will serve its purpose well. I just wish there could be opportunities for weekday players as well.
As it’s set up now there are very few days to roll for rares (weekends over 4 months). They can’t just add more days as that would automatically increase the amount of rares introduced. Rares should be rare right?? But shifting some of those days into weekdays would create a more level playing field across the players.
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The player base is currently in 200’s if they wanted to make this authentic, they should had release rares in their respective holiday dates. Being only on weekends seems unfair. Maybe do 1 weekend and then next week tuesday monday then back to weekend then wednesday thursday. But like i had mention it before if they want this to be “fair” release them for everyone or do it on their respective holiday or add them to hard clues.
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Nope. Haven’t you heard of the sabbath? Rares on weekends is god-ordained.
Seriously though, not sure what the logic is to restricting it to arbitrary days. At least holidays corresponded to holiday items.
“or add them to hard clues.”
Yeah that sounds incredibly authentic. Really going the extra mile doing that.
Never said that adding them to hard clues was authentic. But at least everyone has a fair shot at getting one if they were on clues.
Those are obtained from Combat, pretty bad for people with low Combat and/or aren’t training Combat.
Also whenever someone suggests clues for Rares, it seems implied that they would never be discontinued.
We need rares to also drop on weekdays. At the current rate there will only be 100 to 150 total rares in the game, which isn’t enough. If they are also attainable on weekdays then we will potentially have 500+ in game when the 4 months are up. It seems like the weekend restriction was added so that it’s fair for people that can’t play every day. But there aren’t enough getting added to justify that. We need more distributed to have a trading market and be as authentic as possible.
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We’ve just got to play the game ya’ll.. Eventually you will be able to just buy one from someone if you don’t get lucky 
I’d love to be able to obtain rares during the week! It would give us more opportunity to get our hands on something we might not be able to otherwise if its only on the weekend.
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I’m all for having weekday availability… more rares the better.. Anyone know when exactly the weekend begins and ends for the rares?
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Same - would be much less FOMO. And I feel bad for those who can’t play on the weekends. But it is what it is.. I think there are a bit less than 3 hours left to this weekend’s window. Edit: It’s now been confirmed that the event will go until 3AM EST tonight - so about 5 more hours
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Let me know if anyone’s suggested this already, but having a “long weekend” pattern (72-hour window, e.g. Fri 12am-Sunday 11:59pm) would be a reasonable approach, I think it solves a few problems (assuming they don’t want to change the distribution method/likelihood of rares):
- Players with only free time during the week would now have a day to play for rares. Some might say there aren’t enough weekday-only players to really justify it, but to me including at least part of Friday, e.g. from 2pm ET, is pretty straightforward as for many of us that’s already Saturday morning. Plus it gives everyone a fair go!
- It gives a definite window for when rares are obtainable, and the devs a solid chance to communicate this to us if they want to (I’m unsure if this is a good idea, but can’t think of how else we would find out other than from an official source)
- It increases the number of rares without changing the distribution/likelihood of the event of rolling a rare.
We’ll hopefully get a good estimate after a few weekends just how scarce rare items are, and I’ve seen some people call for them to be made more common but I think the only way this should reasonably be done is by extending the window of opportunity. Keen to hear what others think
TL;DR 3 days Friday-Sun gives players more time to obtain rares without much else changing, weekday only players can join in, devs can communicate the exact window of obtainability, whole weekend for those of us in odd timezones (yay).
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Good points, agree that 2 days each week doesn’t seem like enough.
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I think this is reasonable, only because of your point about players not able to play on the weekends. I have plenty of time on the weekends typically and it gives others a fair shot. Good post
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Rares should be available during the weekdays at reduced “rates”
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