Guild Wars 2

I realise that technically they shouldn’t be needed. But there appears to be a growing number of DE’s and skill points bugging out on the Piken Square EU server. I don’t know what it’s like on others.

Other games reboot their servers often on a regular (weekly basis). Regular server reboots could possibly help to provide temporary fixes, allowing people to progress in the game.

Maybe Anet should consider doing this whilst they attempt to bug squash.

And if they are already having weekly reboots, perhaps they should be even more frequent until more permanent solutions are actually patched in.

Yup… so many times I go to a skillpoint, and it’s just not there. Or an event NPC is taking a freaking nap. One zone, I couldn’t even get the armour I wanted from the karma vendor because an event is going on forever and he’s like ‘no, screw you, I can only sell after this is over’ even though I’ve done his own stupid quest (a skillpoint there is all that keeps me from completing the map, too). If they can’t fix the problems, they should at least reset the things so we can actually use these parts of the game occasionally.

Precisely.
It’s the same with events, missing bosses either those to escort not proceeding.

They have been rebooting weekly on a Monday night or Tuesday morning, but having it reboot more often might be a simple band-aid fix for some of the bugged events and skill points until something more reliable can be put into place.

Weekly? I think daily at this point is warranted.

The tendency for events and skill points to bug out has become increasingly obvious and fun-destroying the further we get out from the hotfixes and associated resets during the game’s launch. It’s seriously a problem, running through Gendarren Fields or Lornar’s Pass and running by 3 bugged events out of 4, or not being able to complete a zone because a skill point is bugged out AGAIN.

We get it’s not an elegant, permanent solution and not what ANet would like. But we really need a band-aid right now.

Ari Kagura.9182:

They have been rebooting weekly on a Monday night or Tuesday morning, but having it reboot more often might be a simple band-aid fix for some of the bugged events and skill points until something more reliable can be put into place.

Ari, if they ARE rebooting them on a weekly basis it isn’t actually having any effect on the “bugged” state of certain DE’s and skill points. My thoughts are that they aren’t rebooting the servers at all, simply because they don’t need to reboot them when they launch a patch (apparently the technology allows them to do this). If that is true, then that explains how the DE’s and skill points remain in a “bugged” state even after patches have been launched.

Now, yes rebooting the servers is a “band aid” fix. That’s the whole point. it’s obvious that certain issues with the game cannot be fixed within a week time frame. However, during that time in which the devs are presumably working on it, server reboots may help those who want to progress in the game.

As Zyrhan so rightly puts it, the tendency for events and skill points to bug out has become increasingly obvious and fun-destroying.

Tarkaroshe.8370:

Ari Kagura.9182:

They have been rebooting weekly on a Monday night or Tuesday morning, but having it reboot more often might be a simple band-aid fix for some of the bugged events and skill points until something more reliable can be put into place.

Ari, if they ARE rebooting them on a weekly basis it isn’t actually having any effect on the “bugged” state of certain DE’s and skill points.

Problem is that insofar that it has an effect on bugged content, it bugs out again very soon (within one or two days) after. That’s why some people say daily resets are in order as a temporary workaround until the actual bugs are fixed.

helladoom.4317:

Tarkaroshe.8370:

Ari Kagura.9182:

They have been rebooting weekly on a Monday night or Tuesday morning, but having it reboot more often might be a simple band-aid fix for some of the bugged events and skill points until something more reliable can be put into place.

Ari, if they ARE rebooting them on a weekly basis it isn’t actually having any effect on the “bugged” state of certain DE’s and skill points.

Problem is that insofar that it has an effect on bugged content, it bugs out again very soon (within one or two days) after. That’s why some people say daily resets are in order as a temporary workaround until the actual bugs are fixed.

I agree.