GMOTD Weekly Strike Targets Updates

[Stripes5]

So, just out of curiosity, who is in charge of updating the Weekly Strike Targets in the Global Message of The Day? This info is:

- Almost never adjusted on Sunday night when the strike targets change,

- Usually updated at some point on Monday, 12-24 hours after the inaccurate information greets every player on login or /gmotd command,

- And this week, still wrong well into Tuesday?

 

Could this responsibility be automated, or turned over to a community team that might have more interest in keeping it accurate and correctly updated?

[SonicTHI]

Saw a lot of confusion over this once again yesterday on excelsior... it is also still not updated a day later.

Can we solve this once and for all and remove the manual WST updates from the GMOTD?

Instead put a link to the forum thread about it and a notice:

 

To see the WST check LFG in the chat panel.

WSTs are marked purple and change every week at 04:00 UTC every Monday morning.

[CU_Krow]

Here is a link to know the current and future weeklys:

 

 

I do not disagree what this thread is proposing, I do believe consistency with the weeklies is nice.

 

Keep in mind a couple things though:

1) The people updating this are all volunteers. I'm amazed at what they have already done within less than a years time.

2)  I could be wrong about this, but the gmotd updates come along with other maintenance/patch updates, so it is usually more than just a little edit implementations (if I'm wrong about this, then ok.-if a Dev wants to come and educate on the programming process).

3) Given how a schedule is already up (see above), I assume it's either A) Possibly automatic or B) It is manual,  but again due to the above two points, not as simple as flipping a switch.

[Jimmy]

14 hours ago, CU_Krow said:

1) The people updating this are all volunteers. I'm amazed at what they have already done within less than a years time.

2)  I could be wrong about this, but the gmotd updates come along with other maintenance/patch updates, so it is usually more than just a little edit implementations (if I'm wrong about this, then ok.-if a Dev wants to come and educate on the programming process).

3) Given how a schedule is already up (see above), I assume it's either A) Possibly automatic or B) It is manual,  but again due to the above two points, not as simple as flipping a switch.

The actual changeover in-game is automated, but updating the message of the day was manual. We've now just done this:

 

 

So manually updating it is no longer required - that shortlink will take you to the forum thread with the entire schedule.

[SonicTHI]

I would add that you can check LFG for WSTs as long as your character is the level and alignment required - many people do not know that. If you dont want that in the GMOTD you can just put it into the forum post.

Also a side note: heard someone mention the purple is hard to see for them so you might consider making it more visible or adding an icon - maybe a merit. That would probably require coding though.