On my server, I noticed that sometimes an event is just missing in the Calendar, like for example the present Hallow's End one. This was quite frequent the last week, with approx. 1 of 3 logins the event just wasn't there, sometimes it comes up after 15 minutes or so, sometimes it comes up never.
As a result, Candy Buckets will be deactivated, not Candy Bucket's fault ofc, it just thinks there is no ongoing event.
To work-around that, I have deactivated all calendar-related checks in my core.lua, so that it is just enabled all the time for Hallow's End. This is OK, as I load Candy Buckets only if a relevant event is on, it is not part of my "normal" setups.
Assuming that I am not the only player with this issue, I propose to add a possibility to force-enable Candy Buckets in such cases. This could be something simple like /candybuckets force hallow
or /cb force h
, you get the idea. Just as an emergency for the current session if the client fails to load the events correctly, nothing to be stored in an SV file.
What I've said was experience from the last week of 9.2.7, let's see if this has improved somehow with 10.0.
But in any case, I think a 'force' command should be there. Never rely on Blizz, at least not until you can spot signs on the horizon that indicate that they might have begun to understand the meaning of the word "quality" ;) 1
Thanks for considering,
– Tom