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Is It Time For A Longer Training Queue?

During the recent DDOS attacks on CCP's servers, which lasted twenty-four hours, many players had their training queues run dry. Unable to log in, they were unable to update them.

Is there any argument that can be made for the continuing existence of the twenty-four hour training queue? CCP's argument in this area has always been that they want players logging in more often. Yet, if a player is not in the mood to play, yet needs to update his queue, is that going to convince him to actually play for a couple hours? Or is that player simply going to login for five minutes, update, and then log out? Probably the latter. At least, that's what I do. I log in often on alts, simply to update their training queue, then I log off. I do the same on my main, if I'm not in the mood to play. I think the "we want players logging in more often" is a bit of a specious argument.

I think it might be high-time to extend the training queue to some longer length of time. It certainly protects players from unforeseen downtime. And it should create far less angst, directed at CCP, during extended downtimes. This DDOS attack is an excellent example of that. Downtime completely out of CCP's control, downtime that was unforeseen, and downtime that was quite lengthy.

A longer training queue would also save CCP from having to reimburse training points during these types of server outages. It would certainly reduce such calls for training point disbursements. With a three-day or a week long training queue, players would have very little excuse in the event their queue did run dry during a twenty-four outage.

It remains to be seen what CCP's response will be to this outage. Certainly they'll reimburse the lost time to players. Players pay per month, so a single day lost is time that is owed to them. Whether CCP will also hand out free skill points remains to be seen. I personally don't think they have too, even though I have an alt that went through 10 hours of the downtime with an empty queue. Of course, if they do hand out some free skill points, I'm not going to complain about it either.

One day training queues are far too short. I don't think a reasonable argument can be made to keep them that short. It's high time that the training queue was extended. A week would be an appropriate length of time. Or three days, at a minimum.
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