How do timers work?
JohnLeeroy.2769:
Hello,
I was wondering how sites such as gw2stuff and dragontimer are able to figure out timers for world events.
rodadams.5963:
They watch all the events in the chain, including the pre-events and possible “defend” events, and over time, you see patterns such as “the pre-events for this meta event will start somewhere between 3 and 3.5 hours after the final event the time before.”
So they poll events.json regularly, to see when the events come up/down, etc, and go from there.
Each event takes some special knowledge of the triggering events, and looking for what the delay times are, etc.