Would you like to see 20 hour timers changed to once a day timers?

xXSilverDragonXx

Would you like ESO to change the 20 hour timers (mounts, RND) to once a day timers? I know it has been said this is a performance thing but really, they could make the timer set for 4am EDT as they do with the maintenance if it would work the best for players and the system.

FluffyBird

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

I prefer once a day timer, because that way I need memorise one time: the daily reset time, and also have the option to do things when I want to do them during the day without "I played in the evening yesterday and in the morning today, so now I have to either remember to log in in the evening or skip today's stuff"

EramTheLiar

I want to keep the 20 hour timers as they are

I don't know. The Legerdemain timer is 24 hours and it's really annoying because it's also a fixed 11PM EST. I frequently find myself wishing it were on a 20 hour timer so I could have more control over what time the timer expires the next day, and better plan when to log in to sell/launder everything.

The way I see it you're not *obligated* to log in every 20 hours, so if you wanted to save all your mount training etc activities for when you're also addressing your 24 hour reset actions the 20 hour timer wouldn't affect you at all.

rysc

I wish the daily reward was once a day AT NIGHT. (and extra points if they did it based on your time zone) Its annoying with work and such that I log in every day but since the thing flips in the evening - I can lose out on three or four. Nothing else works like that.

runa_gate

I want to keep the 20 hour timers as they are

Simple solution: just wait 4 more hours and log in when you want, ta-da it's been 24 hours.

vincentxavier

I want to keep the 20 hour timers as they are

I prefer the 20 hour timers, some of the 24 hour timers mean you have to log in later and later each day. I find that really annoying. I'd settle for 23 hours and 59 minutes if I had to.

kojou

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

That and the hireling mails need to be at a fixed time too.

joerginger

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

Nobody asked for a 24 hour timer. So I'm lost regarding the point of your message. This was about changing everything to the global reset time when e.g. daily quests reset.

majulook

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

Everything resets at a specific time every 24 hours globally for everyone.

merpins

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

Time of day timers are my preference. Being able to just log on the same time every day and do all my dailies is convenient. It's less convenient if you decided to log-in earlier to do something a day ago and now the timer is off for certain activities.

Of course I'm on the west coast of the USA. With the current state of daylight savings, it means right now, 11:00 at night is when writs reset. I work at 9 each morning, so I go to bed around 1, so it's a bit annoying that the timer is so late at night, and would be nicer around 8:00 pm.

xXSilverDragonXx

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

vincentxavier wrote: »

I prefer the 20 hour timers, some of the 24 hour timers mean you have to log in later and later each day. I find that really annoying. I'd settle for 23 hours and 59 minutes if I had to.

This isn't how they should work if daily. The idea is that they would work exactly like writs. Set reset time every day. Then every day you log in and do whatever the tasks is at ANY TIME during that 24 hour cycle. And you would never be stuck with timers messing up anything because once a day they reset.

You would not be forced to wait it out the next day because some absurd 20 hour timer means you cannot do it until it resets. Nor would you have to skip days because you want to reset the timer to a more reasonable time. You would never have remember what time it was when you did the task the day before. You would just login and do it because it is a new day.

Danikat

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

I'd like things to reset at the same time every day, it doesn't matter much to me when that is but the current daily reset time would seem logical.

I'm one of those people who can't be online at the same time every day, even if I wanted to. I often have a short window of time when I can log in and that's not the same time of day each day, so 20 hour timers mean I frequently miss days because one day I do something in the evening and the next day I can only log in during the morning.

I imagine the 20 hour timer works ok if you can log in whenever you like, or you're always online at the same time every single day...or if you don't care about missing days whenever your schedule doesn't line up with the one ZOS expects you to have. But even then a fixed reset time wouldn't make a big difference, you'd still be able to do things once per day when you log in.

Gorø

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

I would LOVE to see one day timer instead of the 20 hours timer. Everything resetting at the same time would make more sense.

ApoAlaia

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

Yes please.

A global daily reset for everything, including merits/proofs, Bequeather, the works.

Weekly global reset for trials/arenas as well.

Currently there are way too many timers to keep track of.

Sarannah

I want to keep the 20 hour timers as they are

This long maintenance has shown why exactly 24h limited timers are bad!
If for some reason you log in after the 24h window is up, you miss out on a daily. Whereas with the 20h minimum window you can still do todays right after maintenance, and tomorrows after the 20h window is up. Which might not be ideal, but it will still allow you to do both days. A 24h limited set window does not provide the same luxury.

Simple math!

xXSilverDragonXx

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

Sarannah wrote: »

This long maintenance has shown why exactly 24h limited timers are bad!
If for some reason you log in after the 24h window is up, you miss out on a daily. Whereas with the 20h minimum window you can still do todays right after maintenance, and tomorrows after the 20h window is up. Which might not be ideal, but it will still allow you to do both days. A 24h limited set window does not provide the same luxury.

Simple math!

Actually, it's showing how bad the current system is. Get it done later tonight and if you can't do it later tomorrow you are forced to miss a day. But if you get it done later tonight on a daily timer with standard global reset, it could be done tomorrow early instead of waiting yet again or having to miss that day because it conflicts with life.

Iselin

No but 12 hour timers I could get behind.

Hapexamendios

Don't have any string feelings either way. Current system works so would a 24 one.

Amottica

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

A fixed reset time makes much more sense than the 20-hour timer. Such a standard time is common for MMORPGs and it is very player friendly.

ForzaRammer

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

Yes, just change everything to some fixed UTC time, simplify you spaghetti code zos

PlagueSD

I want to keep the 20 hour timers as they are

20 hour timer is fine. I log in around the same time every day. Having the extra 4 hour "slush" allows slight schedule changing without the "time creep" of a 24 hour timer. I've always hated 24 hour timers as the time creep eventually causes you to lose a day to "reset" it.

DreamyLu

I want to keep the 20 hour timers as they are

I prefer the 20 hours.

Main reason: I dash in this game due to lack of time. Regularly, it means to login before 24 hours are over. If the writs become based on 24 hours, it would cause me to lose one day at writs every times that happens.

Second is that I prefer when the reset is based on an amount of hours starting from last action, rather than on a fixed timing, because it's then adapted to my own gaming schedule.

ApoAlaia

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

DreamyLu wrote: »

I prefer the 20 hours.

Main reason: I dash in this game due to lack of time. Regularly, it means to login before 24 hours are over. If the writs become based on 24 hours, it would cause me to lose one day at writs every times that happens.

Second is that I prefer when the reset is based on an amount of hours starting from last action, rather than on a fixed timing, because it's then adapted to my own gaming schedule.

The writs are, and always have been, 24 hrs and fixed reset time.

You will find that the opposite is also true, and timers that reset x hours from the last time the action was performed dictate your schedule as much as fixed reset timers do if not more.

orgin_stadia

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

Yes a fixed daily reset time for these activities please.

The 20 hour thingie just messes everything up for me. I can either play early in the morning or in the evening with a 9-10 hour gap in between. Which means that if I can't finish everything I want to do in the morning I will have to do it in the evening, with the twist that I have to do the activities in the evening the next day if I want to do them. In this situation I often just give up and decide not do them so I can do stuff in the morning the day after.

So please, change it to a daily reset instead so that I can choose when to do stuff without it affecting when I can do stuff the next day.

Or at least make it optional with the ability to change it with a 31 day timer. (That is, if you change it you have to wait 31 days to change it again to prevent abuse)

orgin_stadia

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

kojou wrote: »

That and the hireling mails need to be at a fixed time too.

And not be a mail at all and just end up in the crafting bag automatically (if on eso+). Opening those damn mails every day is just so stupid.

Sarannah

I want to keep the 20 hour timers as they are

xXSilverDragonXx wrote: »

Sarannah wrote: »

This long maintenance has shown why exactly 24h limited timers are bad!
If for some reason you log in after the 24h window is up, you miss out on a daily. Whereas with the 20h minimum window you can still do todays right after maintenance, and tomorrows after the 20h window is up. Which might not be ideal, but it will still allow you to do both days. A 24h limited set window does not provide the same luxury.

Simple math!

Actually, it's showing how bad the current system is. Get it done later tonight and if you can't do it later tomorrow you are forced to miss a day. But if you get it done later tonight on a daily timer with standard global reset, it could be done tomorrow early instead of waiting yet again or having to miss that day because it conflicts with life.

Even in your example, you would miss out on the first day's daily completely. And you wouldn't have four extra hours to complete the second day's daily. Think about it!

drsalvation

I want to keep the 20 hour timers as they are

a 24 hour timer just means you have to wait longer and your upgrades are pushed back.
A 20 hour timer means you can do the upgrade sooner and pulls upgrades forward
If you want a 24 hour timer, you can still do it without forcing the clock to reset at 24.

I don't get the logic for wanting to do a static 24 hour timer...
I just got done doing horse upgrades for all my alts at 4am, and I'm probably gonna upgrade them again around the same hour, I don't need to wake up sooner to upgrade them at 12am, I can upgrade them again at 4am or maybe at 3am...
If there was a 24 hour timer, I'd most likely end up upgrading AFTER 4am even if by 1 second.

I just don't get the logic behind wanting to make them 24 hours instead of 20.

orgin_stadia

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

drsalvation wrote: »

I just don't get the logic behind wanting to make them 24 hours instead of 20.

The OP isn't saying saying 24h instead of 20h. What is being said is that it resets at a fixed time (say 2am) every day. That way it doesn't matter when on a given day that you do an activity, it won't affect the time you can do it the next day.

With the current system: Let's say that you do all your RND's in the evening one day, that means that the next day you won't be able to do it in the morning, but have to wait until the 4h window. Which, if you are at school or work all day won't help.

With a daily reset, you can do it whenever you feel like it each and every day.

npuk

I want to keep the 20 hour timers as they are

Iselin wrote: »

No but 12 hour timers I could get behind.

12h timer for mount training would be a really good ESO+ incentive imo

Iselin

npuk wrote: »

Iselin wrote: »

No but 12 hour timers I could get behind.

12h timer for mount training would be a really good ESO+ incentive imo

Yeah.

I'm not against predictable set times. it's increasing the timer for those things that are already less than 24 hrs to 24 I don't like.

Having those things that are already 24 hrs stay that way but bringing all the shorter timers to a standard twice daily schedule would be nice in that they'd have a shorter timer and also happen at predictable times each day.

emilyhyoyeon

I want to change to once a day timers like the writs

20 hour timers mess up my schedules way more than a fixed 24 hour timer does