[Poll] Ending Times

Flare808

Since devs are playing attention to usermade polls, I figure they should get feedback on whether the majority of their playerbase is in favor of switching the time slices. The poll that triggered the time changes was voted on by 86 people.

I would like D3 to have more input on going back to the old system, new system, or possibly a 4 hour staggered end time configuration (suggested by TheOncomingStorm).

Edit:

In Eastern time:
Old Versus: 10a / 4p / 7p / 1a / 4a (or 10p / 4a / 7a / 1p / 4p)
New Versus: 8a / 1p / 6p / 12 midnight / 3a

Old Story: 9a / 3p / 6p / 12 midnight / 3a
New Story: 7a / 12 noon / 5p / 11p / 2a

TheOncomingStorm:
If they're going to have 5 time slices, the best solution is space them evenly apart--4 hours.

In the examples in this thread, that should work for most ppl. It guarantees every player to at least have one time slice that ends at 7 pm, 8pm, 9pm, or 10 pm regardless where they live.

MarvelMan

Im a tad biased as the slice I usually pick (ending 1am PST) is probably the only one that improved (to 12PST).

udonomefoo

You should probably copy/paste the change into your op so people don't have to jump back and forth to check. I know I haven't memorized the changes.

Unknown

Question, when you say 4 hour evenly spaced choices, are you saying expand to 6 slices?

Also, don't we still have problems with dead slices? Especially considering the last week where few people were playing PVP, the brackets seemed even more dead than usual. It would make some sense to slightly pander to time slices where there are more people, not only for server reasons (eg the latest Ultron server crashes due to everyone in a single time slice)

animerat

Outside of creating 24 time slices at 1 hour interval, which would satisfy everyone. If they are not married to the idea of 5 time slices, I believe the most ideal would be 8 time slices each separated by 3 hours. So basically you have 12AM/3AM/6AM/9AM and then 12 PM/3PM/6PM/9PM.

mohio

I'm not too concerned about PvP although I still liked old times better for that too. For that shields mean you can play almost any time slice so I jumped around and did whatever was most convenient for my alliance mates. Pve however got much worse. Before I could do slice 3 or 5 reasonably well but now both of those are made worse.

Fwiw, I'm on the west coast but really can't play between 6 and 10pm and sometimes later, so moving pve earlier didn't help me at all. Really not a fan of the changes.

slidecage

Might want to add this to first topic


In Eastern time:
Old Versus: 10a / 4p / 7p / 1a / 4a (or 10p / 4a / 7a / 1p / 4p)
New Versus: 8a / 1p / 6p / 12 midnight / 3a

Old Story: 9a / 3p / 6p / 12 midnight / 3a
New Story: 7a / 12 noon / 5p / 11p / 2a


So people can see the times without having to look for them

I hate the new times
Old ver i could easy hit the 10am sunday or 4pm sunday. tuesday it was pure 10p and friday it was 4 or 7p
Now im forced to do a 6pm is the only event i can do

STORY old i did 3 or 6pm now im forced nto the noon only time maybe 5

I would rather seen them change DAYS Maybe Monday weds friday event and leave the weekends off

Unknown

These new end times are worse for me (UTC +2). My choices are midnight, which is not an option if I want to get more than 5-6 hours sleep a night or 7 PM, which leaves at best minimal time for grinding even if I can leave work early enough. I realize there won't be optimal end times for every time zone, but it seems the developers make their decisions based on somewhat random polls, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to vote and post here.

Punisher5784

Maybe D3 will look at the results of this poll sometime next year and make the time changes..

Unknown

Realizing I'm talking about my (read:one guy) needs, I have to honestly say I prefer the new ending times.

PVE is kind of my thing, and I actually got an EST ending slot (11:00pm) that I could play during the week and still, well, work, sleep, eat and stuff.

I obviously don't think the developers should build a competition around one person's (or time zone) needs, but it definitely helps me out.

DBC

wymtime

Overall I will say I like the new time slices specifically for PVP. The only slice I will miss is the 10:00pm EST on Tuesday. The old 1:00 am slice was brutal for me on Friday nights.

Do PVE the biggest impact is the 24/48 hr subs. This is huge as it was if the end time worked well the subs ending on the opposite time of the day and that usually was a struggle. Overall very good changes fror my personall needs.

Now if they could just work on shield cool downs and make adjustments there THAT WOULD BE GREAT!!!

rixmith

The new time choices are slightly better for me. If it weren't for the change to PvE sub length (no more 12 or 36 hour subs) the new choices would have been substantially better for me. And the need for dealing with the 12 hour offset was my main voting criteria when I voted in the earlier poll.

Unknown

I'm in favour of the new changes. Allows for more sleep. Instead of waiting till midnight (eastern time player) I can play at eleven and be in bed well before midnight.

Cymmina

I voted for the old times, but shifting the old times ahead an hour would work out slightly better for me.

Could you post the times that are being proposed for spacing out the slices equally? The times I play are morning/afternoon (EDT), so evening times don't matter too much to me.

Flare808

Cymmina wrote:

I voted for the old times, but shifting the old times ahead an hour would work out slightly better for me.

Could you post the times that are being proposed for spacing out the slices equally? The times I play are morning/afternoon (EDT), so evening times don't matter too much to me.

The exact times would be subject to D3 choosing, but it was a suggestion to more evenly space out the endings so that no one would be too far from an advantageous time ending.

Unknown

the new times are worse for me .... SIngapore/West Australia time.

PvP now ends at 8pm (no other time even close to working), PvE 7pm (again no choices) .....so now its right in a time normal people might spend with family.

Understand its different for every timezone (and probably better for East Aus), but voted for old days.

Ralph-Wiggum

As an East Coast (US) player, the new times aren't great for me. No real time that works in the morning before work unless I want to get up super early and no great after work time unless I want to stay up late. The 9 AM/10 AM times were perfect for me.

Quebbster

With the new system, there aren't any really good ending times. There used to be.

Flare808

I'm also biased in favor of the old times. If anyone else would like the old ending times back, now's the time to speak up. If we can show enough support for the old times, maybe D3 will see this poll and switch it back.

Phillipes

Im from Europe. In old system I had only 1 time suitable for me. (Steam user.)
In new system, I have 2 times suitable for me.

New times are a Win for me.

Lee T

I'm from Europe too, I can manage the new PVE times, but the new PVP times in my area are either during night (3AM) or working/commute hours (8AM 10 AM 12PM, 1PM, 3PM, 6PM, 8PM) leaving either 10 PM and it's the last time slice available so it means that if I miss it I pass on the PVP event or 12AM. That's far from comfortable.