Curse

Tender Wolf · Jan 01, 2008, 07:22 PM // 19:22

Some people lost their hats? That bites. I saw some fall on the ground and random people were picking them up, but I thought the original person just dropped it, since it's customized. *checks mine*

IlikeGW · Jan 01, 2008, 07:41 PM // 19:41

if you don't want to lose it go to the festival hat person with it right away.

geekling · Jan 01, 2008, 07:51 PM // 19:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by IlikeGW

if you don't want to lose it go to the festival hat person with it right away.

With the mostly +100k pings we had before getting kicked off. You wouldn't even have made it halfway to the festival hat NPC in that window between getting the hat and getting the error.

mr_groovy · Jan 01, 2008, 08:02 PM // 20:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

Those of you who report you have lost a hat or items, can you give me details?

Did you attend more than one event?
Was the loss from the event you had just attended? 11:00 GMT Euro La Dist 13
What did you lose? Had cc gained, and gifts won.
What territory and district were you in? 13
Were you present, or AFKing? Present
Did you leave immediately after the hat was given? If you stayed for a while after the hat was given, for approximately how long did you stay? Staying to pick up gifts about 5 mins before error 7/doh
Did you put the hat on, or just see it in your inventory? (And I assume you did verify it was in the inventory?) Nope

Did attend also the 2pm gmt event in La dist 1. Got the hat, then it became laggy again. I warped out to kamadan. Got an error, but i kept everthing luckily. I think I warped before things got messy a second time through

udoh · Jan 01, 2008, 08:05 PM // 20:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

Did you attend more than one event?
Was the loss from the event you had just attended?
What did you lose?
What territory and district were you in?
Were you present, or AFKing?
Did you leave immediately after the hat was given? If you stayed for a while after the hat was given, for approximately how long did you stay?
Did you put the hat on, or just see it in your inventory? (And I assume you did verify it was in the inventory?)

1. I didn't have time I was booted from the event I was in.
2. Everything was reset, I lost my hat and my gifts and my shards were returned to my storage.
3. See 2.
4. Lions Arch Europe D5 (11:00 GMT event)
5. Present.
6. I tried to stay but the ping climbed from a normal ping when I got a hat to a ping of 115k (I have a screen shot), when the presents started to drop. I got an error 007 and then 040 when I tried to log back in.
7. I tried it on, and then put my normal hat back on.

Age · Jan 01, 2008, 08:11 PM // 20:11

The same for me as well my ping was at 15000 to 45000 and everyone had thier minis out.There were 2 Warriors who got ressed on the ledge and couldn't get down.My FPS was about 2.

Redvex · Jan 01, 2008, 08:29 PM // 20:29

The worst event of ever, now i'm try to connect but too lag

Oukanna · Jan 01, 2008, 08:34 PM // 20:34

Well i was in Lions arch europe district at 11am GMT
Server went down aeound 11:10 i think, i lost that rounds presents, the hat and some cc shards but i cant remember how many.
Ive attended another one now so i got the hat luckily.

I am now in Kamadan and the lag has started again, just like earlier :-(
I can hardly pic up anything -_-

Lawliet Kira · Jan 01, 2008, 08:35 PM // 20:35

after i got my hats i left to do some farming and i still had major lag >.>"

Shakti · Jan 01, 2008, 08:39 PM // 20:39

I did the warp to guild hall thing again, left after like 4 pressies. This time I stayed connected, still had hat etc. The gh thing worked both times now, I have both hats. You lose a few pressies but meh, least you get to keep the hat. Hope it helps!

Dark-NighT · Jan 01, 2008, 08:39 PM // 20:39

Last year we had prezzies dropping on the floor, no big lagg issues at all.

Now people say not to chat, put minipets away and dont rankspike, dance or do any other emote, i was like LOL wtf, there are just LOADS and LOADS of people, servers are flooded big time, that server in germany sure as hell got its butt kicked this time.

That dragon fest that gone wrong was because of a malfunction on their end, this though, is because of the massive number of players.

But anyways i've got my hats, im happy and done with wintersday, now its off to general pve again.

genofreek · Jan 01, 2008, 08:43 PM // 20:43

I'm happy to report that the lag issue was much better for me this time around.

Only about 10k ping, LA, US D75.

It really helps if you can get off the rings right away and stand in an obscure corner, I think. Gretches don't kill you (if Grenth wins) and my ping's only gone above 30k twice.

Hyper Cutter · Jan 01, 2008, 08:55 PM // 20:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miss Presler

Last year we had prezzies dropping on the floor, no big lagg issues at all.

The first event at 3:00 AM was fine too, nothing like the one that just ended...

Kern Wolf · Jan 01, 2008, 08:56 PM // 20:56

The lag seems to be about the same as last year, which is frustrating to everybody. I think Anet has a problem that they can't fix, technically....

Qwertyfied · Jan 01, 2008, 09:06 PM // 21:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kern Wolf

The lag seems to be about the same as last year, which is frustrating to everybody. I think Anet has a problem that they can't fix, technically....

I don't recall this amount of lag last year, correct me if i'm wrong.

Belicosos Finos · Jan 01, 2008, 09:07 PM // 21:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

Those of you who report you have lost a hat or items, can you give me details?

Did you attend more than one event?
Was the loss from the event you had just attended?
What did you lose?
What territory and district were you in?
Were you present, or AFKing?
Did you leave immediately after the hat was given? If you stayed for a while after the hat was given, for approximately how long did you stay?
Did you put the hat on, or just see it in your inventory? (And I assume you did verify it was in the inventory?)

First event I attended. 11 am event (gmt), Lions Arch
Lost hat, candy cane shards won, and presents I was able to pick up
Europe - English - District 8
Present.
Tryed staying to collect presents. 5 mins or so.
verified hat was in inventory (took screen shot) but didn't put it on.

Crom The Pale · Jan 01, 2008, 09:07 PM // 21:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

Those of you who report you have lost a hat or items, can you give me details?

Did you attend more than one event?
Was the loss from the event you had just attended?
What did you lose?
What territory and district were you in?
Were you present, or AFKing?
Did you leave immediately after the hat was given? If you stayed for a while after the hat was given, for approximately how long did you stay?
Did you put the hat on, or just see it in your inventory? (And I assume you did verify it was in the inventory?)

As you know, we can't replace lost items, but I do want to see if we can figure out why this happened, so I will pass along your input to the team.

Yes I was at more than one event so I managed to get both hats on the first 2 I attended.

Yes the loss of items was only from the event I was just in.

Lost unkown number of presents(wintersday gifts)

American, Dist 3, Kamadan 12:35pm eastern standard time(aproximately)

I was present, could not move to pick up gifts once Grenth+grentchs started to kill people.

As seen in my earlier posted screen shot, I was in the dist untill after Grenth stopped killing people and left, aproximately 60 seconds later everyone in the district was kicked out. I was sent to loggin screen for only a moment, then straight back to exact same district. Upon return I found all gifts gone and all people in that dist were talking about the exact same thing.

Inventory window was open the entire time, hat and 3 gifts(won from rings) were in inventory.

I was lucky enough to aquire the hats in previous events early this morning, so I'm not really upset since I only lost a few gifts.

I feel very bad about those that were attending this event for the first time as it must have been extremely frustrating and disapointing.

HayesA · Jan 01, 2008, 09:15 PM // 21:15

Barely made it through a farming run. In an unpopular place to do it, too. (dead sword farm in Elona). Was lagging pretty badly, topping at just over 30,oooMS ping. Twas fun, should have took a camera to keep the memories.

Servers do seem a bit... overloaded at this point. Poor buggers.

Not The One · Jan 01, 2008, 09:17 PM // 21:17

What did I get for Wintersday? Error code 40 Error code 40 Error code 40
Error code 40 Error code 40 Error code 40 Error code 40.no hats...no presents...GG

Croco Clouds · Jan 01, 2008, 09:27 PM // 21:27

I had a terrible lagfest (>55,000 ms ping) in Kamadan dis 17, electrified/avalanched by Grentchies but I got all item, not much to complain.