yes indeed.

I completely agree with this proposal.

Waiting up to 30 minutes at spawn locations is highly inefficient for anyone looking to farm Dynamic Encounters.
The suggestion about cycling through different worlds doesn't work in practice, because phasing into a different zone or instance completely messes up the timing.

As another user pointed out, the developers have already implemented similar countdown systems for other features in the past, like the Skirmish times in Night Market.

A visible countdown timer for each instance would be a massive quality-of-life improvement. It would prevent players from wasting hours just standing around and staring at a blank screen.

Eldovar wrote: »

While I get where you are coming from, and it is indeed annoying...I think the playerbase made this feature way bigger than it probably was intended by the devs.

The devs saw this probably as something fun you can join in if you are casually doing something else in the zone and happen to pass by.

But the playerbase is so starved for content and reward drops that everyone is farming these scraps with huge crowds.

By the time they implemented the timers everyone probably has the drops and never does them ever again since it's account bound stuff.

I strongly disagree

Yes, need this badly.

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Eldovar wrote: »

While I get where you are coming from, and it is indeed annoying...I think the playerbase made this feature way bigger than it probably was intended by the devs.

The devs saw this probably as something fun you can join in if you are casually doing something else in the zone and happen to pass by.

But the playerbase is so starved for content and reward drops that everyone is farming these scraps with huge crowds.

By the time they implemented the timers everyone probably has the drops and never does them ever again since it's account bound stuff.

The devs linked a house, 2 skill styles, a mythic item upgrade, antiquity leads, and achievements to it. All that was missing was a giant neon sign saying "DO THIS".

I was literally about to same basically the same thing. This content wasn't meant to just be kind of stumbled upon, especially not when they tied something people have been asking for for YEARS (the ability to choose WW fur color regardless of Morph) to one of them. There was no way the devs didn't expect this to be farmed.

Arunei wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Eldovar wrote: »

While I get where you are coming from, and it is indeed annoying...I think the playerbase made this feature way bigger than it probably was intended by the devs.

The devs saw this probably as something fun you can join in if you are casually doing something else in the zone and happen to pass by.

But the playerbase is so starved for content and reward drops that everyone is farming these scraps with huge crowds.

By the time they implemented the timers everyone probably has the drops and never does them ever again since it's account bound stuff.

The devs linked a house, 2 skill styles, a mythic item upgrade, antiquity leads, and achievements to it. All that was missing was a giant neon sign saying "DO THIS".

I was literally about to same basically the same thing. This content wasn't meant to just be kind of stumbled upon, especially not when they tied something people have been asking for for YEARS (the ability to choose WW fur color regardless of Morph) to one of them. There was no way the devs didn't expect this to be farmed.

Especially with the foreknowledge that when folks lose interest and move on after the initial push, players trying to get those items and achievements will have a more difficult time.

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Arunei wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Eldovar wrote: »

While I get where you are coming from, and it is indeed annoying...I think the playerbase made this feature way bigger than it probably was intended by the devs.

The devs saw this probably as something fun you can join in if you are casually doing something else in the zone and happen to pass by.

But the playerbase is so starved for content and reward drops that everyone is farming these scraps with huge crowds.

By the time they implemented the timers everyone probably has the drops and never does them ever again since it's account bound stuff.

The devs linked a house, 2 skill styles, a mythic item upgrade, antiquity leads, and achievements to it. All that was missing was a giant neon sign saying "DO THIS".

I was literally about to same basically the same thing. This content wasn't meant to just be kind of stumbled upon, especially not when they tied something people have been asking for for YEARS (the ability to choose WW fur color regardless of Morph) to one of them. There was no way the devs didn't expect this to be farmed.

Also because the only time I spend in Glenumbra, Auridon, and Stonefalls is when I am doing the Favors, and that only takes a few minutes to complete. The chances of a DE occurring in the instance I am already in while there is extremely small.

I haven't even done a Favor yet lol, so I'm almost never in those Zones unless I'm grabbing a Survey/Map from them. And I doubt most people are spending much time in these Zones for anything else other than the DEs and the Favors, which means there's not much for them to be doing TO stumble across one that's up. Now if they were in more popular Zones like maybe Deshaan, Wayrest, and whatever AD city the Undaunted Enclave is in, well, a lot of people hang around the Enclaves as they wait for Pledges, but they can also do shopping (since for Deshaan and Wayrest at least there are pretty popular Trader Guild hubs in them) while checking the map every so often to see if the DE would be up.

Not only a timer there are a lot of game design problems with them. The droprate of the green gem is nearly inexistent and all you do is wait for respawns.

Is this really a content you are proud of ZOS?

Eldovar wrote: »

The devs saw this probably as something fun you can join in if you are casually doing something else in the zone and happen to pass by.

And what would a "veteran" player even do in Stonefalls? Most players have already completed the quests, and probably the zone story and objectives as well, so personally, I don't see any reason at all to go to Stonefalls. Sometimes when I’m buying something, a trader might have what I want at a good price, so I’ll pop into that zone for a minute, but that’s really rare—which is why the devs’ statement applies, at most, to new players...

So right now, what I want is the Agility Gem and that golden Eel Pie recipe that drops (or will start dropping as of today) from the Encounter in Stonefals, and personally (and I’m probably not alone), I don’t have anything else to do in that zone, so my plan is to park my character at the spot where the event starts, alt-tab out to watch a movie/stream/whatever, and wait for the event to start, then repeat the process. I can’t go do anything else in the game because I don’t know when the Encounter will start, so this is absolutely terrible design, and yes, I’d really appreciate a timer.

Or if I knew that every event starts on the hour and then again at exactly half past, so every 30 minutes at the same time—regardless of the instance—that would be enough for me, too. I’d know it would start at a specific time, and I could do something else in the game and be at the right place at the right time...

Exactly. I mean, they probably got the inspiration for dynamic encounters from the "public quests" of the old Warhammer Online (which actually inspired alot in ESO, especially the AvA), but that public quests had the reset timer!

simple phasing would solve a lot of this...MMO's have literally had this ability for decades

If they didn't want people standing around and just stumbling across them, they shouldn't have added them to the weekly chore list. Or, just asked for 1 completion not 4.

If they continue adding more new Dynamic events they should add a world timer to the game that displays when Events are going to spawn and they should stagger them like 15-20 minutes from each other insetad of them all spawning at once. That way you have the opportunity to go to multiple instead of standing around waiting 30+ minutes.