Yes, it's another post concerning daily reset timers
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There are 3 concurrent timers going on in ESO right now. For PC-EU:
- 00:00am UTC for the daily login reward reset (there is a countdown in the crown store UI).
- 06:00am UTC for daily quests, including writs, zone dailies, guild dailies, Undaunted pledges, etc.
- Every 20h for certain activities (Akatosh knows why), including horse training, random dungeons/battlegrounds, and some event stuff such as the gold skulls during the Witches Festival event. Of these, the only one that has a countdown timer is horse training (in the character sheet).
I can understand the daily login rewards resetting at exactly 00:00am, since that makes them coincide with calendar days. But why have a different time for daily quests? If the idea is to have the daily quest reset far away from prime time, why not shift the daily reward reset accordingly for the sake of consistency? Not to mention that every server has players logging in from a number of different time zones, so any particular time will inconvenience someone while being on someone else's sweet spot.
Then there's the 20h reset. I have no words. It's just messy and next to impossible to keep up with unless you log your gaming sessions due to lack of in-game tracking. It causes missed rewards: only able to play a bit later in the day today, and tomorrow you only have the morning free? Say goodbye to tomorrow's reward! The only positive to this system is that you can play it to get rewards more than once a day *on average*, namely by consistently doing whatever action just as the 20h timer is over. But for the majority of players this is inevitably going to clash with your deserved rest, not to mention it forces you to plan your life around the game, which I don't think is healthy at all.
There is also the issue that with timers being all over the place, there is no official information on the subject, as far as I could determine. What there is is a number of threads, which keep being created and sometimes contain wrong or outdated information, and which flood the forums especially around events that rely on said timers.
Given all of the above, my personal opinion is that every single timer should reset at the same time every day, preferably at the same time as the daily login reward, at 00:00am UTC (for PC-EU). As I see it, the pros would include much-needed (and requested by players) consistency, reduced confusion and needless forum threads, and preventing loss of rewards due to inability to play at specific times. The only downside I can think of is that some players who take advantage of the 20h timer to maximize their activities would be down to one per day, but in all honesty the average can't be that far from that. What say you?
Incidentally,
@ZOS_JessicaFolsom and
@ZOS_GinaBruno if you could pitch in with an official position from ZOS I'd be very interested in knowing it.
