I just looked up at the top of my home page to see that I have earned "0" points today. The left hand block on the home page showed it was 11:54 CST. My computer showed 12:54 DST. We're in agreement as far as the time goes.

However, does the FT day end and the next one begin at MY midnight (as it seems to have done) rather than what you show as 12:00?

Obviously, I know the answer from what I've seen but since it's so different from what I expected (and no, I'm not usually up checking the times at this time of night/morning), I just wanted to check.

Since I'm playing FT I would think I would still be on FT time and therefore could still me earning points for 7/2. But, it seems to me that the FT day changes for me at MY time. Correct?

Thanks for allowing me to ask a dumb question.

Lee

The day (in regards to scoring) finishes at 11.50pm - scores are reset from this time. There is a reason for it (I remember reading ages ago) but I don't want to spend ages trolling through old threads to resurrect what you are looking for

Getting used to the timings takes a while, and I don't think I've got there yet. In the UK, reset time is currently about 7 a.m., so if I come on here before then it's still yesterday. That's enough to scramble my brain for the whole day.

Lones, the reason for it ending at 11:50pm is simple... Because there is so much going on at that hour.... Hourlies ending, dailies ending, it is just easier for the server to not do so much at once, so it is scattered over those several minutes to make it easier on the server.

I can't remember precisely why (it's been this way for years and years), but having it finish before midnight solves a lot of issues.

Terry, don't you remember? The server was the issue. Nowadays, it wouldn't be a problem; you solved that years ago because the server was old, and instead of replacing it, you made things easier for the server to run. :P It was too much for your "dinosaur server" to score people, add the points to their day's tally, finish the hourlies and dailies and start fresh ones, then add the class bonus points, then scroll over to the next day at 0.


That was a lot of work for the ancient server, so you fixed it. I wouldn't be able to find where you said all of that, but you did, I remember that much. :P