This has been suggested already, I'm sure, but I wasn't able to find anything akin to it within quite a few thread pages so I'll take the chance.

We really just need dated tier unlocks already. The current system is inefficient.

It would take the stress off the community that does struggle to open the bars for everyone (just an all around unfair approach tbh) and the staff for altering and monitoring the bars and then deciding to manually open them anyways every. single. time.

Most people don't take opening the tiers seriously anyways, since history has taught us that the bars will be opened for us regardless. Staff shot themselves in the foot on that one.

This process has repeated itself on Lioden for YEARS now.

I think it's time to either cave in to the date-unlock system, or for the staff to create a completely different tier unlocking approach.

For example, we are 16 days into the August event as I type this--halfway through the month--and tier one is only at 59% (good bar) and 77% (evil bar).

Now there are the usual posts going up in chatter of people worried the tiers won't ever open, pushing for people to explore more as they do. Which even if a handful do, it's not nearly enough.

The current system is outdated, and simply not working.

Example of a date-unlock system:

5th of the month - tier 1
15th - tier 2
25th - tier 3
Any other tiers - at staff discretion

Essentially like event story unlocks.