[Posting] Re: Scedule change shall be scedule change and not host run
From:streu
Thread:Scedule change shall be scedule change and not host run
Forum:Bugs
In reply to:Scedule change shall be scedule change and not host run
Date:Thu, 2019-10-17 20:03 GMT

Personally I find it highly irritating, that the game page tells you about a scedule change on day x hour y but what it is actually doing is a host run at exactly that time. Scedule changes should happen right after the usual hostrun-time never ever right before to avoid this very problem.

"Schedule change after a host run" doesn't make sense: if a schedule change is planned on Thursday, and host runs Wednesday 12:00, should I already change it? What if another host runs Wednesday 18:00? What if host doesn't run at all until Thursday? What is the usual hostrun-time during a pause? I find this hard to put into words, and even harder to put into code.

I always set the end of a host pause interval to exactly a host date. This means that, in general, a host runs at that time.

However, you are absolutely right that the display on the game page is not optimal. It just displays the scheduler's next action, which is the schedule change, but that's an unnecessary technicality that you're not interested in. You want to see the next host date.

I know the system has some limitations here. The other big one is that the schedule details view cannot "look across" a host pause.

I use your message to increase the priority of improving the host time prediction displays :smile:

--Stefan

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