A question about raid settings
Does the raid launch after the join period has ended, regardless of what time is set in "launch time"?
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Raid join period starts @ whatever time you set the raid to start and goes for as long as you set the join period. After the join period ends, the 2day timer starts.
No clue if that answers the question though (it should, as that's the whole process)... I really couldn't understand what you were asking.
Yes
If you hit the launch button it will launch immediately regardless of settings.
Maybe a dumb question, but did you have the required tickets to launch?
Are you certain you didn't set it for 10pm. One of are officers just made the same mistake, we usually run a raid at 8 pm, but today one launched at 8 am
I don't know if that's how it's intended, but from direct personal experience that's how it works!
I am positive.
Yes we did.
I am just trying to figure out why it did not launch. We are ok with rancor and tank launching automatically.
This happened to me as well, before reset I set a raid for 2pm local time. At reset we earned enough tickets to launch the raid. 2am pasted by with no raid, which eliminates the am/pm problem. At 2pm the next day the raid did not auto launch. We had the raid set with no jion time, yet when I manually launched the raid it auto 0ed me and started a join time. So basically everything it could do wrong it did wrong.
Side note, I would appreciate more flexibility with launch times. We run our FFAs at xx:30 so the auto launch is pretty useless.
I agree with this also as we used to launch a raid on the half hour as well. However, I feel the auto launch function isn’t working properly.
How many times have you run them in a 7 day period?
Auto refers to a final unattended launch or opening of the raid for attacks. But yeah, it's confusing.
You choose launch time, then join period (if any) and click confirm. Then to put it all in motion, you hit "Launch". If all goes well you will see a countdown timer. If no timer, it is not going to launch at the end of the join timer.
Example: We will set 3 raids to start on Wednesday Evening at 8pm EDT. We do so by choosing the open time. Then the Join timer. We hit confirm. Next we double check all, then hit "Launch" we now walk away and DO NOT need to do anything more as long as we have enough raid tickets.
This is less of a problem than I thought it'd be. I thought the two day countdown timer would start when the Join thing started. Nah, it waits until the Join period is over and then the countdown begins. So, yeah, you don't *want* your start time to be when no one's around, but it's not that bad if it is, either, since you still get the full time.
If you set a launch time, it will launch automatically at that time. You do not need to hit "launch." We ran several raids last week like this and it worked perfectly every time.
I assumed if you hit "launch" it will launch immediately regardless of time set, but I'm not willing to test it out for obvious reasons.
I can also confirm that when you manually launch one, the Join Timer you set for automatic starts also still happens. I don't know if that's intended or not, but it's what happens.
We normally start our raids at 6:00 and get our tickets at 7:30. The day the feature went live, we would have capped out on raid tickets if we waited until 6:00 the next day. So we set the auto feature, then manually started one at a weird time (like 7:21 or whatever) and no one could attack until 7:21 (or whatever) the next day, which really played hob with timing because it's a lot harder to plan around 7:21 than 7:00...
(Also we accidentally set the raid to automatically start at 6:00am instead of 6:00pm, which is co-incidentally how I can also confirm you still get the full 2 days no matter when the damage phase opens up. EDIT: And by "we accidentally set" I of course mean "I accidentally set.")
UTC … text just confuses the issue. Text explaining (in raid panel) times set are relevant to the server time of your shard would have made more sense.