I don't remember last year very well, most information like that gets dropped after a few weeks unless I read about it again.

It may be planned that way but they never expected that many people in the queue at one time so it takes longer? idk. I don't think it's a great design if there's a 2-18 hour spread.

Why do we even have to wait to be infected? Isn't that what biting is for? I mean, I could be reading this entirely wrong, I tend to have super dumb moments. But are you saying that the reason why some people take so long to get to stage 1 is because they're standing in line to get infected? Because if that's the case then literally what is the point of biting??????

I just feel like ... except in the case of the VERY FIRST infection, there doesn't need to be any wait for anything. Let people pick, whether a specific one or random, and go find someone to bite them.

Yeah, I guess I was stupidly optimistic in hoping something would work right on Subeta.

Fooled me twenty-five times, Subeta, shame on me.

Pretty much this.

We probably were a lot less people this year than last year, because last year was the first year you could cherry-pick an infection. And the site crashed a lot, and was buggy, but at least, it worked.

I don't remember this being the case in years past, so can I ask why it was changed to work this way? I don't recall anyone complaining about the times in past events really.

Yep, pretty sure these long, long, long wait times are new. I remember them being in the 8-12 hour range, not a day plus. Survival is my favourite holiday, but this is about tied for the year we had the temporary vials as far as, well, being boring to me. Granted, at least those developed rather quickly. I'm an impatient person as it is, but I've tried to be patient because I know stages take a while to develop. I wasn't expecting a day and a half or more between stages though.

- So how does the queue work? Because reading the comments here and elsewhere on the forums, there are people who signed up as soon as the VIP thing started and they still have 2-3 stages before their first viruses are complete. I waited until the third stage was out before getting infected, and I'm not far behind some of those people who claim to have signed up on day 1.

I'm assuming it processes people in order, or you wouldn't be calling it a queue. Does it only process a handful of people an hour or something? Because that sounds horribly inefficient for the number of people participating.

Otherwise it sounds like something could be glitched, and preventing people from progressing on time.

Or at least three or four skins in the two or so weeks that this event lasts, which getting the same infection twice REALLY hinders.

haha. i just called it as i see it. current year infection looks real buggy and a lot of hassle, so why don't just wait a year, pay slightly higher, and get other people to bite in less than one hour. looks more practical.

Because people are not going to bother to come back to a buggy site next year, while the competition is more practical and actually works.

I'm stage 7, I picked my virus within the first hour of the newspost. at 7pm maximum, i had my glowing infection chosen and paid for.

Haha! I can't deny the practicality, from a user's perspective, of deliberately planning on things not working. I just also think the SPTB can't possibly intend for us to take that as the lesson here. "It's not going to be fun the first time around, so just wait until next time," isn't the most practical business decision. :P

XD I resemble that remark.

And I am totally one of those 18 hours behind and really frustrated. Not so much at the length of stages (though they do seem longer this year) but having joined within 30 minutes of the start and being about 18 hours behind in advancement. It just seems wrong.

I did get 4 skins last year. Not so much this year. Not sure if it ran longer than is planned this year or if the time between stages was really that much less. Or a combination of both.

I think at the very least, a way to cure an in-progress infection would be a fantastic idea to implement. Contracting the same virus twice in a row sucks hardcore.

I checked at what time I chose to get the infection.

It was before 6:58pm on monday night. So, in the first hour (and not half-hour of the event, like i thought) of the event.

Had to wait 18 hours.

lmao

- Yeahhhh... See, I'm stage 6, and if my estimate is right I should be hitting stage 7 in the next couple hours. This doesn't make sense at all unless the queue is skipping people or there's some other factor they're not telling us.

Edit: Actually I hit stage 6 at midnight last night, so I'm a few hours overdue for stage 7 based on what we had been seeing the past week.

Apparently it was stage 5 last night, so I'm not as behind as I thought.

Yups, expecting to hit stage 8 during the night, or tomorrow morning.

I double-checked the moment i was infected, and it was prior to 7pm on monday the 15th, so indeed in the first hour of the event.

NOT IMPRESSED.

If it has to be a queue system it would have been interesting for the page to show a "you are in line" sort of thing on the page. That way it would be clearer to users that there is a queue system in place (I would've had no idea without hearing about it on the forums), and then even if it's taking a long time to get infected you could at least see your number going down and feel assured that you were making progress towards getting infected. I'd like that a lot better than the grossly inaccurate expected wait time that's currently there. You could even compare numbers with people on the forums to try and figure out who you're next to in line.

And agreed that even if it is a queue it should be scaled better so that you don't get some people taking 20 hours after signing up to get infected. Some wait is okay, but that long was ridiculously frustrating.

I don't mind the waiting really, it's always been fun to see how the strains progress and all that.

However when the page said 3 hours, and 16 hours later I still wasn't infected-- I minded. I assumed the site broke (because why would this site ever work correctly), so I opted out and went with the random option because hell, it had to work right?

Plus side, random did work. Down side, apparently the timer was a lie.

Bonus plus side, we now officially have step one for figuring out the meaning of "soon" in terms of subeta time!!

3 hours = roughly 12-18 hours. Soon = ???

The math is finally starting to reveal itself, aha!

No really though, if the wait time was intended to be 12 hours, then just effing say 12 hours? Or put more time in between stages. Saying 3 hours and meaning 12 hours to mimic a doctor's office is one of the worst choices I've heard in a while.

Who the hell likes going to the doctor and sitting in that cold, bland, white room with some random basic channel playing just loud enough to be annoying but not actually catch anything while a kid sits two chairs down coughing and hacking like a veteran Marlboro smoker-- only to watch the clock go 5 minutes past your appointment.... 10 minutes... 15 minutes...

People suffer that because yeah, they're there for a reason. People are on subeta for fun, not because their life depends on it. Food for thought.

Finally I'm stage 8, now onto the next strain I want.

I signed up within the first 10 minutes of the event and didn't get the start to my strain until others were already on stage 2. The problem I'm honestly starting to have with Subeta is that I blame myself. Like that's how predictable and broken events are. I feel like I should have known it would have been glitched and I should have waited (but at the same time I guess I took my chances in case it was a good glitch, like those who got multiple strains.) It's just not a good feeling to have, to think every event that I have two choices: gamble and hope the inevitable glitch benefits me, or wait until the glitch is fixed and only bother once it's running the way it should, but miss out on potentially crucial event time.