One of the unintended consequences of reducing the time between virus stage progressions during Survival this year has been the high turnover rate of people needing bites. Usually it would take 4-5 days before someone would finish their infection and need to ask for bites again. This year it is about 2-2.5 days. This means we are having to bite people twice as much as previous years. Yet, we are plagued by the same long bite timer. You can ask anyone who has been biting at NVLB over the past few days how swamped we are. Our threads have always been efficient and this year has been a struggle.

Right now we can only bite someone every 8-12 minutes. We desperately need a reduction in the bite timer (preferably down to 4-8 minutes) to keep up with this high demand.

I'm not sure how this will translate into future Survival events as the shortened progression times seem quite popular, but if they are here to stay, we need a shorter bite timer to complement them.

Yes please. Available personnel has always been a challenge and the threads have been really busy this year.

Agreed, I definitely think that the shorter progression times need to be balanced with biting timers as well.

Agreed. Waiting 12 minutes to bite someone just to find out you need to wait another 12 minutes is terrible. Especially if its a rare strain and you seem to be the only one biting. That's 2 hours working on one person. 😞

Case in point: spent 1.5 hours biting me I'm pretty sure all alone, and I feel bad. At least two others joined in to give the final bites, but still.

Agreed, would be super helpful and less infuriating :)

i agree. with the way things are now its almost impossible to bite everyone without people complaining about the wait (plus since during the week a lot of us are at work/school). the decreased wait time would be of so much help

and like mentioned, with rare strains you're often biting alone and it absolutely takes about 2 hours to cross just one person off the list

Agreed, we need the bite timer shortened the list is so long it will take hours to get to the ones that ask right now

big agree, especially as while waiting to get a new strain you cant help bite OTHER people who want new strains so it just... adds to the waiting (i have at least 2-3 people right now i could be biting but i dont want to change to a skin and accidentally deter someone from working on me ): )

Yes please! I think it would also be a good idea to up the tier on the biting achievement to maybe get more people interested in biting again. This holiday would not be possible without biters and we are swamped on there right now.

Agreed, this would be great!

Yes please! Many times this year already I've spent over an hour biting someone for one strain. 12 minutes is just too long when you have 20 people in line waiting on bites. Especially when your common biters are the ones waiting on bites. (Clearly, I collect strains, I help out biting when I can)

This would be super helpful! Even if it was like 5-7 min, it would be easier to help people get these infections. I've noticed some of them have taken over a day of waiting to be bitten/and the site hasn't auto bumped into infection stage too. Loving that we can make up some time and get more infections, but this has been a struggle too. :)

Agreed, that would be very nice and fit with the intent to reduce waiting time this year.

Yes please! I have a lot of old skins and want to try to help as many people as I can. Seeing the list keep growing is a bit disheartening when we're trying to bite as much as we can, but it's not enough to keep up. Especially like others said for the less popular strains with only one or two biters, we can only do so much. :c

Adding in my vote for "Yes, please!"

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. It's disheartening when you've bitten one person for well over an hour & they're still not infected.

One year (last year?) we did have shorter bite timers & it was great. So after experiencing both, if it's a choice between bites or stages, shorter stages are exponentially better (at least for me).

An alternate solution though--we can pay a (hefty) fee to be infected immediately, like bribing for unique Moro skins.

Yes, please-please-please-please this!

Yes, please. It doesn't have to be as short as it was last year but we're struggling to keep up. It takes us all day to get the list down to something reasonable but and it's full again by 7am.

I agree with this. We really could use shorter wait times for biting. 12 minutes seems like too much. 10 minutes is enough, really imo that should be the maximum time. Most times I have to wait 10-12 minutes between bites very rarely do I get 8 minutes. That could just be my bad luck, though

Another biter here. I agree with point completely. And I want to add that there is always VERY high demand in bites during morning to day hours subeta time (that is day-evening hours Europe time). With 8-12 min time gap between bites we just can't fulfil it as quickly as we want due to low online at these hours. And here goes long, 20+ list of people who want to get their strain of dream.