#294 - April 28, 2016, 5:49 a.m.
just lock leaderboards when the new patch goes into effect.
04/26/2016 01:49 PMPosted by
Set Just move the era transition to today if you're so hung up on patch day having to be a Tuesday, or just patch on Thursday with the era transition.
Unlike Seasons, when an Era ends, the next one
immediately begins. Simply put, there is no such thing as Era downtime. “Pausing” the Era leaderboards wasn’t an option. In addition, as a byproduct of the tech that allows us to launch patches without maintenance, there was a window in which some players could still be on Patch 2.4.0 for
up to 24 hours, potentially creating the same issue of unfairness but in perhaps a less obvious way. In order to put everyone on the same playing field, ending the Era after the patch was the best option to ensure all players had access to the same circumstances.
04/26/2016 03:44 PMPosted by
kneo24 Over a year later they still haven't been able to define what an era is.
Eras haven’t been very well defined, and that’s a fault that lies with us. They’ve become something different from our original intent primarily because we’ve had a lot of game and build changing patches back-to-back. Eras function differently than Seasons at both a fundamental and technical level. This is why we never explicitly planned to have them coincide and, when they were originally conceived, we believed we would reset Eras very rarely, possibly as little as once per year.
The original intent with Eras was to only reset them when
significant balance changes occur. Perhaps a better choice would have been not to reset the current Era until a later time. However, we felt the changes to multiplayer groups was enough to warrant it in this situation. This was definitely a matter of taking the less of two not-ideal options, and we hope the definition of Eras is more clear now.