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Thread: Duration variance anyone seeing this?
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Agent001
Tue May 11, 2004 2:40 pm
#1
your not the first
fortunetly, the discrepency seems to always be in your favor, I.E it seems to always last 10 or so minutes longer than expected
AndersWestlie
Tue May 11, 2004 6:50 pm
#2
I also see another problem quite often.. The buff meter says there are a few mins left on your set, ...but there's not. Killed me a few times while hunting nightsistes... They may be nerfed now, but you don't wanna fight an elder when you have 3-400 health and action 
zda
Tue May 11, 2004 9:52 pm
#3
thats because when you "alt-tab" out of the game the counter stops, still a problem but it helped me deal with it when i found out why 
jaybee2003
Wed May 12, 2004 12:41 am
#4
OK, I'm starting to see a variance in my buff duration, here's the story in a nutshell: I wanted to create some high-duration buffpacks. I managed to hit 12,590 duration on the 5 stats that use avian meat and made some crates to sell. When tested on myself, buffs came out to 3 Hours and 30 Minutes, which is exactly what it should be. Good so far.
Now shortly after that I buff my alt char, and low and behold my buff monitors read 3 Hours 50 Minutes. Same packs, same droid, same Bivoli, etc,etc. Baffled, I asked some of my customers who purchased these buffs to check and see what they are getting for a duration. Most said the expected 3 Hours 30 Minutes, but 2 said they were getting 3 Hours and 50 Minutes. Even more puzzling is the fact that I can't seem to replicate this - however I hand my guildmate the same set of buffs I'm using and he promptly buffs another guy for 3 hours 50 minutes.
Is anyone seeing a variance on their duration? Maybe a better question would be "Are the buff meters working correctly/accurately atm?" I could understand them being off by 2-3 minutes, but this is a 20 minute discrepancy.
AndersWestlie
Wed May 12, 2004 5:09 am
#5
Noticed yesterday, it's even worse when I hunt krayts with two chars in windowedmode.. One of them didn't have a functioning buff window AT ALL, so I never knew when his buffs wore out. Luckily that was the rifleman, who isn't supposed to get hit 
Guess the alt+tab thing explains at least parts of it though... Stupid anyway, that it can't count right
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