TOPIC: Any sage advise? Event registration

If we wanted to jump into a TD run through the waiting list, what do we need, Origins $2 chips or what to sign up and pay for it.

Donald Rients wrote: If we wanted to jump into a TD run through the waiting list, what do we need, Origins $2 chips or what to sign up and pay for it.

You have to sign into td.events from a device and purchase the ticket. Lori spells all that out in this thread:

www.truedungeon.com/forum?view=topic&defaultmenu=141&catid=611&id=249378&start=12

jpotter wrote:

Donald Rients wrote: If we wanted to jump into a TD run through the waiting list, what do we need, Origins $2 chips or what to sign up and pay for it.

You have to sign into td.events from a device and purchase the ticket. Lori spells all that out in this thread:

www.truedungeon.com/forum?view=topic&defaultmenu=141&catid=611&id=249378&start=12

Thanks for the information. For the free time I have left there, I guess I will need to plan it out and decied if I have time for additional runs.

Donald Rients wrote: Thanks for the information. For the free time I have left there, I guess I will need to plan it out and decied if I have time for additional runs.

If you have 2 hours free, you have time for more runs

TJRat wrote: However, no con is easier to navigate, to walk up to events and join in, than Origins.

I'm starting to wonder how much of that is due to so few people successfully navigating the online system?

Fiddy wrote:

TJRat wrote: However, no con is easier to navigate, to walk up to events and join in, than Origins.

I'm starting to wonder how much of that is due to so few people successfully navigating the online system?

If I did not already know this was a huge convention, I would have assumed this was some college convention with a site put together by their resident Sophomore CS major based on their online ticketing system.

Thank goodness TD has their own site where you buy TD tickets. I can't imagine what it was like the year or so you had to purchase TD tickets on the Origins site.

jpotter wrote:

Fiddy wrote:

TJRat wrote: However, no con is easier to navigate, to walk up to events and join in, than Origins.

I'm starting to wonder how much of that is due to so few people successfully navigating the online system?

If I did not already know this was a huge convention, I would have assumed this was some college convention with a site put together by their resident Sophomore CS major based on their online ticketing system.

Thank goodness TD has their own site where you buy TD tickets. I can't imagine what it was like the year or so you had to purchase TD tickets on the Origins site.

Didn't go well would be putting kindly, think 1 or 2 full stop and restarts for event reg as in GAMA had such a meltdown of stopping, then moving reg to another day twice I believe with a rollback in there? That would also be the year we had to do Sat teardown in the dark as no one from GAMA/site find the keys to turn lights on after runs ended for the con.

Matt wrote:

jpotter wrote:

Fiddy wrote:

TJRat wrote: However, no con is easier to navigate, to walk up to events and join in, than Origins.

I'm starting to wonder how much of that is due to so few people successfully navigating the online system?

If I did not already know this was a huge convention, I would have assumed this was some college convention with a site put together by their resident Sophomore CS major based on their online ticketing system.

Thank goodness TD has their own site where you buy TD tickets. I can't imagine what it was like the year or so you had to purchase TD tickets on the Origins site.

Didn't go well would be putting kindly, think 1 or 2 full stop and restarts for event reg as in GAMA had such a meltdown of stopping, then moving reg to another day twice I believe with a rollback in there? That would also be the year we had to do Sat teardown in the dark as no one from GAMA/site find the keys to turn lights on after runs ended for the con.

There were also multiple cases of people being double/triple/etc billed for purchases as Origin's site didn't properly handle the case where the web page timed out during purchasing. The page timed out, the person hit refresh, and their payment went through again, and again, and again (each time they hit refresh). Or at least that seemed to be what was observed.

They did do a good job of fixing the extra charges (from what I recall). It's just that those types of problems generally shouldn't exist in a website in this decade.

Why when I bought mu wife's Origins pass it sent her an email with a bar code to run through some kiosk. I had bought my tickets around three weeks earlier and I did not get any such email