January 2012 ToH Appreciation Thread

[Former-GM-Circe]

We hadn't had this situation happen before. As such, we simply weren't aware of exactly how it would effect it.


Theoretically, it could have also worked fine from the new wave. Glyph would reset the timer upon starting a new wave, and previous one had had well past their 2 minutes and had exited, even though the announcement timers hadn't activated.

However, it comes back to the the DC broke it. Even if we had not attempted the next wave, we'd have still been in the exact same position. A broken ToH.
Attempting to continue is not what broke it. Even if wave 3 worked fine, or didn't happen at all, round 2 still had issues from the DC-crash.
As the DC happened while the wave was still in progress, if you exited the room alive, or killed all mobs and exited alive in the ~1min between (and remember this is phase 4. This is very likely), then those people would not have received their points.
Thus, it was broken right from the DC-crash.



While hindsight is 20-20, it's exactly that. Hindsight.


If the situation were to occur again, as it did, if we knew not to try and continue and had explicit knowledge about how every part of the script worked, it would have still come down to the same result - calling Panda in when she was available.



Thsi is all beginning to sound ridiculously conspiracy theorist. I'm not sure how it even got to a "GMs are secretly blaming a DC when it wasn't!" level. Glyph DCed. Timer broke. Tada. o.o