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Posted by timbery30
#126

I believe each badge gets assigned a time regardless of if you log in on time or not. If you bought your badge after noon, then I do believe they get shunted to the back of the line, but if the badge was bought prior to that, then you have the same chance as everyone else.

Posted by sugoiben rayken
#127

the evil lord rayken wrote:
Does anybody know if the downtown hotel are still open?
Someone over on reddit is giving updates on availability every ten minutes or so. According to that, there are still a half-dozen downtown hotels open. 

Posted by fjpicone
#128

How do people get out of block? I tried a few years ago but the hotels wouldn't even consider it?

--FJP

Posted by marimaccadmin timbery30
#129

timbery30 wrote:
I believe each badge gets assigned a time regardless of if you log in on time or not. If you bought your badge after noon, then I do believe they get shunted to the back of the line, but if the badge was bought prior to that, then you have the same chance as everyone else.

That's correct.

Posted by bootylactin
#130

Downtown hotels are gone now. I take that back, a couple just popped back up, or my search was jacked, not sure which.

Posted by rayken sugoiben
#131

sugoiben wrote:
the evil lord rayken wrote:
Does anybody know if the downtown hotel are still open?
Someone over on reddit is giving updates on availability every ten minutes or so. According to that, there are still a half-dozen downtown hotels open. 

Okay cool. I was assuming they'd be available for quite a while considering they are pretty expensive and there's thousands of rooms. 

Posted by sugoiben timbery30
#132

timbery30 wrote:
I believe each badge gets assigned a time regardless of if you log in on time or not. If you bought your badge after noon, then I do believe they get shunted to the back of the line, but if the badge was bought prior to that, then you have the same chance as everyone else.
So the hope is then, that lots of ppl that bought badges are too busy shoveling snow to log in and check their time.

Posted by rayken bootylactin
#133

bootylactin wrote:
Downtown hotels are gone now. 
All of them?!

Posted by dballing fjpicone
#134

fjpicone wrote:
How do people get out of block? I tried a few years ago but the hotels wouldn't even consider it?

Vulturing the hotel sites between 13-11 months before Gen Con, waiting to see if rooms become available in the automated reservation system with the hotel before the local hotel management locks out the majority of the hotel for Gen Con's use.

 

Posted by bootylactin
#135

I take that back, a couple just popped back up, or my search was jacked, not sure which.

Posted by sugoiben dballing
#136

dballing wrote:
fjpicone wrote:
How do people get out of block? I tried a few years ago but the hotels wouldn't even consider it?

Vulturing the hotel sites between 13-11 months before Gen Con, waiting to see if rooms become available in the automated reservation system with the hotel before the local hotel management locks out the majority of the hotel for Gen Con's use. 
Ya, but then you aren't paying the Con rate. Looked into that and some of the downtown ones wanted $450 a night. Ouch!

Posted by lore seeker rayken
#137

the evil lord rayken wrote:
bootylactin wrote:
Downtown hotels are gone now. 
All of them?!

Well, they went after about an hour last year, and that was with that "cutting in line" exploit. So not too surprising.

Posted by rayken lore seeker
#138

father bloodlust wrote:
the evil lord rayken wrote:
bootylactin wrote:
Downtown hotels are gone now. 
All of them?!

Well, they went after about an hour last year, and that was with that "cutting in line" exploit. So not too surprising.

That's weird, because on Reddit they said 10 minutes ago a ton were still open.

Posted by marzulloj fjpicone
#139

fjpicone wrote:
How do people get out of block? I tried a few years ago but the hotels wouldn't even consider it?
--FJP
You can still book many connected downtown rooms outside of the block via the hotel's website. However, you're going to have to pay much more per night to do so.

Posted by cass.christopher dballing
#140

dballing wrote:
fjpicone wrote:
How do people get out of block? I tried a few years ago but the hotels wouldn't even consider it?

Vulturing the hotel sites between 13-11 months before Gen Con, waiting to see if rooms become available in the automated reservation system with the hotel before the local hotel management locks out the majority of the hotel for Gen Con's use. 
yep, I made a reservation for the crowne plaza last August before they blacked out their dates. Knowing how my luck usually goes.

Posted by bootylactin
#141

If I put in Guests: 1, I get some downtown hotels to return.  Guests: 2, I get none.  This is of course for the standard stay of Wed - Sun.

Posted by rayken rayken
#142

the evil lord rayken wrote:
father bloodlust wrote:
the evil lord rayken wrote:
bootylactin wrote:
Downtown hotels are gone now. 
All of them?!

Well, they went after about an hour last year, and that was with that "cutting in line" exploit. So not too surprising.

That's weird, because on Reddit they said 10 minutes ago a ton were still open. I'm not going to believe anything I hear on here, maybe people are trying to get people to leave.

Posted by jolt
#143

That's dumb.  It makes it impossible to plan.  If every badge is a random number then I could've received it the moment I bought the badge.  Then at least I would have known ahead of time that I needed to look outside the GenCon system.  Making people wait until the last minute to learn that you're screwed seems quite arbitrary and malicious.

Posted by droopymccool49
#144

There appears to still be several downtown hotels still available, but only for 2 guests or less.

Posted by del_grande jolt
#145

jolt wrote:
pezhead53 wrote:
jolt wrote:
I'm irritated that it doesn't matter what time you log into the housing system.  I was ready to go right at noon and have an almost 3 hour wait.  A friend logged in 5 mintes ago and has a 15 minute wait.
I thought they were supposed to go to the end of the line if they weren't here at noon.

That's what I thought too but it's definitely not happening.  What the hell's going to be available after 3 hours? That's like saying, "Thanks for buying our $90 badge but don't bother coming."
 

If you're going to require everybody to log in at noon or else be moved to the end of the line, then that's going to result in a gigantic crush at noon that most likely would cause the servers to fill.  What happens when somebody tries to log in, only to get "Server full...Server full...Server full...Sorry, but you logged in too late and your time has been moved from 12:15 to 3:00"?

Wasn't this the problem in 2014 (the portal opened for everybody at the same time, and it became a de facto lottery as to who could get a connection to the server before the downtown rooms sold out) that led to the random times being assigned in 2015 in the first place?

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