Currently, the Daily Alpha Injector has a 24-hour cooldown period after use, and you must wait for the 24-hour timer to end before you can use it again. I have an idea to change the cooldown mode from a 24-hour countdown to only being able to use it once a day before daily server maintenance.
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Alpha - nope.
if you wanna skip the 24 hour timer, buy larger injectors
I think 24h cooldowns are problematic, if only because it drifts later and later on the day as players won’t activate it exactly every 24h, but 24h and a few minutes (or hours if they’re late).
Eventually you’ll have to miss a day due to sleep, even though the clear intention of these cooldowns is that you can use it once a day.
A 23h cooldown or 22h cooldown would solve that issue and give players a bit more freedom to use their daily cooldown without such drift.
Once a day before server maintenance also works, but has the downside that it again solidifies ‘server maintenance’ as a thing in EVE, which is what CCP is trying to get away from. And causes potential issues when there are secondary maintenances on a day for hotfixes.
I agree, change the cooldown of daily alpha injectors. Change it to 23h if it isn’t 23h already.
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23h isn’t unrealistic.
moved from Issues, Workarounds & Localization > General Issues this into EVE Technology and Research Center > Player Features & Ideas as this is not an issue, but idea.
You said what I was thinking. It is true that we cannot accurately activate the next Daily Alpha Injector immediately after the 24-hour countdown ends. There will definitely be a delay, which will cause the activation time to become later and later.
There are currently three solutions:
- Only one Daily Alpha Injector can be used before and after the daily maintenance of the server.
- Set a new restriction mode, which can only be used once a day at UTC time, and the restriction will be automatically reset the next day at UTC time.
- Shorten the cooldown time. I suggest changing it to 23 hours/23 hours and 30 minutes.
One Daily Alpha Injector per calendar day (ingame / EVEtime) is the simplest. 
I feel like it used to be per calendar day. And there was a reason it was changed
This was how they were originally implemented.
No, the developers had a system then changed it to be more annoying, so by its very definition is an issue and not an idea.
I know this because I used to do an alpha before downtime and then an alpha after on a friday every fortnight before buying a weekend fleet pack when I wanted to PvP and also ‘steer’ CCP by voting with my dollars.
Probably why they changed it. They dont want people doing it that way
So CCP developers didn’t pay attention to this post?
I don’t think anyone should comment on this unless they’ve tried to use 2 Alpha injectors in a row.
A good solution seems to be reset them at downtime.
I think ut should be tied to the Downtime.
A lot of other things are timed that way, i.e. Daily Goals etc.
Make it so.
They may read it, but do not always post. You could also post it in the Little things / Small QoL suggestions thread for extra visibility.
Why are you trying to gatekeep this thread with nonsense requirements? Please go away.
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You are right, someone who has never used a alpha injector two days in a row might have some insight to share on the issue. Not /s
The OP clearly described what happens when you try that, so we all are on the same page:
Currently, the Daily Alpha Injector has a 24-hour cooldown period after use, and you must wait for the 24-hour timer to end before you can use it again.
So I ask again, why are you trying to gatekeep the topic?
If you have extra information that has not been shared here that is relevant to the topic, why not share it?
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