Battle for Ashenvale Updates December 16 - Season of Discovery
Blizzard has made an additional change to Layers regarding Battle for Ashenvale in Season of Discovery, this time re-enabling the auto retire feature of Layers. This should help the progression rate of the next event start during offpeak hours.
Aggrend: With a hotfix tomorrow we will no longer be dynamically retiring layers. This means that late at night or early in the morning there will be more layers than are needed and the world may feel more empty.
Wanted to take a moment and let everyone know that as a follow-up to the statement above, we’ve been watching things unfold for the past few days since we disabled the automatic layer retirement system. While it’s reduced instances of being layered suddenly, it’s also made the world feel a bit less populated in certain situations.
We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from you about this since then we made this change and we don’t want to get into a situation where the fix is worse than the issue we are trying to solve, so we are going to go ahead and re-enable the auto-retire feature. This means its possible that you could get put onto a new layer suddenly if your layer starts to shut down. This also means that the percentage needed to start a new Battle for Ashenvale should fill up at a more consistent rate during offpeak hours, when there are fewer layers in the pool.
This auto-retire system has been re-enabled on all realms in all regions as of about a half an hour ago but it may not become immediately noticeable, especially if your realm/region is in peak hours right now with the most amount of people playing.
We really appreciate your patience as we turn the dials and fine tune on these systems. We want the same thing all of you do, a fun, smooth experience and we
