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First we had the Robot event then we had the Eomon-mulmin LT events now we have Primordial Longu event ..
We had soon have six month of events. whay MA events all the time.:scratch2:
 
valentin said:
First we had the Robot event then we had the Eomon-mulmin LT events now we have Primordial Longu event ..
We had soon have six month of events. whay MA events all the time.:scratch2:
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Take a wild guess. :)
 
valentin said:
First we had the Robot event then we had the Eomon-mulmin LT events now we have Primordial Longu event ..
We had soon have six month of events. whay MA events all the time.:scratch2:
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They're Calypso events, not run by the Platform Managers (MindArk).
As to why, well it keeps people on Calypso and brings people in.
More customers, more income.
 
Theren Strange said:
Is the iron challenge temp as well, or just the reward event?
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sighlentz said:
Is this a permanent mob, meaning will be around for a long time or a temporary mob, meaning a few months at best?
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This seem still be unanswered... will the mob be extinct again on the 22nd, or will be given ample time to finish the whole Iron Mission?

Paul
 
BlueEyes said:
This seem still be unanswered... will the mob be extinct again on the 22nd, or will be given ample time to finish the whole Iron Mission?

Paul
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the mob will not go away it will stay in the game after the event is not story line mob like eomons who migrate every summer that mob DNA escaped the secret lab so it will stay for ever probably.
 
Looted a spike yesterday at Scylla :yay:

From a Guardian, non global
 
Event over for about 14 hours now - still no info from Caly-Team about the handling?!
 
Ends midnight, that's another 6 1/2hrs by my clock.
 
The event will last until midnight Monday 22st October 00:01 UTC, at which point the rewards will be handed out.


I think this is the night from Sunday to Monday 00:01 not the night from Monday to Tuesday.

Tuesday 00:01 is the 23st
 
Yeah, i think they've worded it wrong. I'm sure if u ask anyone when midnight on monday is they'll say 24:00 ( which is technicaly tuesday)
 
Score another one for the clear communications specialist of MAFPC.
 
The event was over at 00.01 UTC the night between Sunday and Monday.
 
Ahh, so you've just been ignoring us for the whole day :silly2:
 
Kim|Calypso said:
The event was over at 00.01 UTC the night between Sunday and Monday.
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That would be Sunday 2359 to eliminate confusion for the future because Sunday 0000 or 0001 could mean from Saturday to Sunday or Sunday to Monday. If the miltary can figure it out why can't Sweden (who uses the 24 hour time scale) figure it out?

~Danimal
 
midnight Monday 22st October 00:01 UTC

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both 00:00 (midnight) and 00:01 are the same day, so I wasn't confused by this.
 
Note in the EU Client launcher:

22 Oct 2012 16:47 UTC

The Imperial Zoological Scouts wish to extend their thanks to all colonists who assisted in collecting samples of the mysterious Primordial Longu.

The following colonists were fortunate enough to loot a Primordial Longu Claw and should contact the support department to claim thier reward, choosing any one part of unlimited Lion armor. Please be sure to specify the gender of the desired part in the support ticket.

Titof Greenwood Aries
TheRock Animalcommander RockY
Bigfot Tomten Painkiller
Snake Slither Hellfire
funkyfishy bangfap lootswirlie
Kamonpach BKK Empress
Durakk Durakk Jung
Mo Mo Irons
Joe Mr-Joey Force
Praug Praugster Redbear
In addition, 40 Primordial Longu Spikes were recovered. Within the next 24 hours those Spikes will be exchanged for an EWE LC-200 Scout (L), pre-tiered to Tier V. There is no need to submit a support case for these rewards, they will be handled automatically. Those who own more than one Spike will receive one EWE LC-200 scout for each Spike.

Congratulations!
 
danimal01 said:
That would be Sunday 2359 to eliminate confusion for the future because Sunday 0000 or 0001 could mean from Saturday to Sunday or Sunday to Monday.

~Danimal
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I'd say Sunday 24:00 :laugh:

But I guess any way you write it it would be source of confusion.

In the original post it said:
The event will last until midnight Monday 22st October 00:01 UTC
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which should be pretty clear except that the word "midnight" probably confused a few people - maybe writing "00:01 in the morning" would have been less confusing ,)
 
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midnight Monday 22st October 00:01 UTC

So that's 00:01 on Monday the 22nd of October. It's not that confusing. Even if 00:01 was meant to be 00:00, it is just one minute different. The only possible source of confusion I can see is if 22st was actually meant to be 21st (twenty first) rather than 22nd (twenty second). But we are used to these types of mistakes from MA. It finished exactly when I thought it would.
 
Kim|Calypso said:
The event was over at 00.01 UTC the night between Sunday and Monday.
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I really don't understand the difficulty in reading the first minute of Monday the 22nd in the announcement. However I do believe the event stopped way earlier when all the allocated parts where already looted.

The only thumbs down is for not having me loot one of them.:mad:
 
So I spent last night hunting Plongus for nothing? luverly :(


The message had the words "midnight", and "Monday". To me that meant last night.

Lame MA, lame.
 
Jimmy B said:
midnight Monday 22st October 00:01 UTC
So that's 00:01 on Monday the 22nd of October. It's not that confusing. Even if 00:01 was meant to be 00:00, it is just one minute different.
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I think they did chose 00:01 on purpose so people would get a sense on which side of the "dateline" it was (as writing "Monday 00:00" could by some be read as either beginning of monday or end of monday).

From Wikipedia:
The use of "12:00 midnight" or "midnight" is still problematic because it does not distinguish between the midnight at the start of a particular day and the midnight at its end. To avoid confusion and error, some U.S. style guides recommend either clarifying "midnight" with other context clues, or not referring to midnight at all. For an example of the latter method, "midnight" is replaced with "11:59 p.m." for the end of a day or "12:01 a.m." for the start of the next day. That has become common in the United States in legal contracts and for airplane, bus, or train schedules, though some schedules use other conventions.

The 24-hour clock notation avoids these ambiguities by using 00:00 for midnight at the start of the day and 12:00 for noon. From 23:59:59 the time shifts (one second later) to 00:00:00, the beginning of the next day. In 24-hour notation 24:00 can be used to refer to midnight at the end of a day.

I think MA specified the time as good as they could have done it.

As some people at sunday afternoon start asking to buy the bones/claws, I guess those people had a feeling that the "drop spree" was over.
 
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