The current 'meta' is to have essentially close to 0 cooldown at all times in case someone randomly finishes off the donation to start an event (along with even more hoarding of the scarcest resource in the game but that's another matter) which I feel is not great gameplay.

This is unfair on the other players who have donated towards that event as they will likely miss out on part of it and the full benefit only goes to the person who finally 'activates' it on a time of their choosing. Let alone people who happen to be AFK/sleeping IRL (what is sleep?)

Therefore I propose a CD from when the final donation is placed to when the event actually starts (say 24 hours). This would give everyone a chance to prep for it and take full advantage.

Canon wise, the Church would need some time to prepare the <insert X event here> before they would be able to welcome everyone to attend it.

agreed, i suggest just starting the event on 00:00 LPT

Would be happy with the event starting at the time the final donation was placed but 24 hours later (this still leaves some leeway for international players to fix the start time to their choosing but still gives 24 hours notice to everyone else)

or 

The event starts at two 00:00LPT's later than the final donation.

ie if you placed the final donation at 00:01 or 23:59 on a Monday. The event would become live on the Wednesday at 00:00 LPT - this gives a minimum of the original 24 hours notice wanted (theoretically up to 48).

I think I would need to know some perspectives/expecations on something like this.

1. Would it be sufficient for all boosts to start at 00:00 LPT, even if the donation amount was reached 200ms bofore that time (giving no warning to other players)?
2. Would there just always be an x hour warmup to the boost starting so everyone has a fair heads up?

I see both of these kind of suggested here and I am unsure where player sentiment falls. My initial thought is that there would be a 24 hour warmup prior to starting the boosts. This way the person who made the donation will most likely be active when the boost starts, it does give some level of control over start time and it is predictable. I think if we just went with always 00:00 LPT there would still be a cohort of people who feel left out.

I think we both just said almost the same thing :D

I covered your 1st point by saying 2 00:00's in the future.

My preference is for a straight 24 hours after the final donation for the reasons outlined above.


Could also have the persons name in the ticker just for some general #humblebragging ;)

Ah sorry your post was not there when i started typing.

Personally I think it should be a fixed offset plus a random offset. The fixed offset gives notification time for people who aren't online when the donation goal is met, and the random helps tone down what I think is the overpowered ability to have so many buffs running at the same time. (And a little bit of chaos is always good, right?)

I'm against it starting at a set time, since that would mean it would always start in the middle of the night for the same people.