ArenaNet:Developer updates/20080201

Minor Favor Update – 1 February 2008
As you may be aware, players accrued a substantial amount of Favor of the Gods during the weekend of January 18 - 20. The numbers actually exceeded the coding ceiling, because in truth we never anticipated that players would accrue so much Favor in such a short period of time! When the ceiling was reached, the Favor count was reset to zero, but quickly rose to over 28,000 within 24 hours.

In working on the code for tracking Favor, one of our programmers accidentally added approximately 7,000 minutes to the then-current Favor total. These 7,000 were not Favor minutes that had been gained by players; the addition was the result of a simple human error. The programmer working on the "Favor Counter" is going to remove the 7,000 unearned minutes sometime today, February 1, 2008. We wanted to alert players about this minor change so that they do not become unnecessarily concerned when the Favor numbers change. Thank you for your understanding concerning this adjustment.