What happened? queues are more than 30 min now.
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They split the BGs into East and West Coast battlegroups.
Is there more information on this? What problem were they even trying to solve?
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Sounds like they should make queues server only.
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BG weekends.
They start & end 3 hours earlier in the east, and apparently it was a limitation for calculating rep & honor gains if you had players from east/west in the same game during the 3 hour windows when one coast should get the bonus and the other shouldnt.
Yeah! That’d fix it for sure.
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Hi Blizz
Please move Heartseeker over to the west coast realms… We’ll gladly take Blaumeux as an even exchange.
Holiday start times being unequal.
My guess is the system couldnt well handle bonus honor properly as written in the bgs for separate time zones. But they wanted to start the bonus honor weekend at the same clock time, not same instantaneous time.
That would have led to mixed east and west coast being in the same bg while one was supposed to be on bonus and the other was supposed to be over. How does the system handle that with regard to bonus honor? It can’t, as written, because that was never a situation that would have arisen in Vanilla.
Except on EU servers where they managed it.
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No please don’t, I play east coast servers for a reason.
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Apparently the EU servers handle it just fine.
Again, EU servers use one single time zone. US servers use 2.
Did not know that.
Bump. Forever
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Bump again, until its fixed
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Doesn’t matter a bit. We’re on a Retail client and server architecture, with some modifications to run Vanilla data and behaviors.
Blizzard just wants to do a simple solution of making big buckets to keep the cases down. The right thing to do would be to make a BG weekend a per-server thing, apply the bonuses when a person leaves it and returns to their server.
So keep BG completely the same and the bonus weekends are a bit more code to hook on to leaving the BG. probably a bit more complicated than handling it on a whole BG basis but less disruptive to the players.
I seriously worry about how they’ve engineered the game if they keep having to come up with such clunky and disruptive solutions.
Terrible solution, like chopping off your arm because you had a bruise
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horde has good queues West coast plus easy games 
No, they dont.
Nice try though.
Next poster.
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