Does it ever quake mid week?

[loramin]

Originally Posted by zodium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

nilbog already wrote he was going to automate the quakes ages ago so presumably some technical problem is holding it up.

Well, there's two possibilities. We know this much: Nilbog has already created a way to cause earthquakes.

Knowing nothing about their code or specifics, as a programmer I can tell you that if you have function X, and you want to call X at randomly determined intervals, that is not a difficult task from a technical perspective. I could probably do it in an hour with Node and node-schedule, or maybe a couple hours if I had to write something that edited the CRON tab to trigger it (so that you don't have to leave the process running).

Again, I don't know their details, so maybe there really is something uniquely technically challenging about the problem for them. But, it seems far more likely to me that it's not that Nilbog can't find two hours to do something (that would please every raider on the server) ... it's that the staff has other, non-coding issues to consider (eg. they want to ensure staff support during earthquakes).