There are 4 possible flows for entities to be updated:
- Get picked by one of the threads that try to update all entities starting from the oldest. Due to huge amount of entities, this is relatively slow, and may be updating entities, that have not been updated for a year or more.
- Get processed as part of another entity update. For example, if a character joined a Free Company, PvP Team, Linkshell or Crossworld Linkshell, and we are updating the respective group, an update operation for that character will be scheduled with higher priority. The reverse is also true: if character is being updated, Free Company and/or PvP Team update will be scheduled as well. Linkshells will not be scheduled, since Lodestone does not show Linkshells on character pages.
- Someone visits the entity's page, and the data for the entity is more than 1 day (24 hours). System needs to consider you a real person, though, so if a visit is recognized as a bot, the update will not be triggered. Note, that the update will only be scheduled by the visit, and it does not mean it will be processed right away. This will depend on number of tasks in queue.
- If you have linked a character to your user through profile settings, you will have access to the button to manually trigger the update both for the character and any of the groups the character is a member of. Note, that to prevent spamming Lodestone, the actual data request will be limited to once per 10 minutes, but the button itself will not be blocked in any way.
