Hello,
Since the update, the world_names.json is broken…
https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/world_names.json
World’s list is incomplete…
[{"id":“1018”,“name”:“Northern Shiverpeaks”},
{"id":“1006”,“name”:“Sorrow’s Furnace”},
{"id":“1011”,“name”:“Stormbluff Isle”},
{"id":“1007”,“name”:“Gate of Madness”},
{"id":“2002”,“name”:"Desolation"},
{"id":“1012”,“name”:"Darkhaven"},
{"id":“1008”,“name”:“Jade Quarry”}]
This can happen during the process of distributing a new patch of the game. That’s what happened in this case — the world names should be ok now. Also, events should have stabilized. Any events not in the list should be considered ‘inactive’.
Should we get in the habit then of interpreting these lists as “items/recipes/events found since the last server reset”, which then, for some relatively rare event chains, could be a day or so before some world discovers it, and I could foresee some being every other week/etc.
No, this is just a side-effect of how the event API works. All types of discovery are persistent; discovery doesn’t reset after a build. During a new patch, some of the APIs can temporarily show fewer results than normal while the new servers come online, but this should quickly resolve itself.
I have a script which dumps all the items and recipes to a local store. When I rerun it, it will download the list of ID’s, and then fetch any objects it didn’t have in the last run. I see 6-10 new items per day in recent days. I’d expect this to be asymptocially zero on non-patch days.
This is a good caching behavior.
