Request: Alternative ending times

NighteyesGrisu

I think it would be good for the game to acknowledge differend game schedules as well as different time zones.

3 of the last 4 events ended at 6am local time (I guess that's about midnight EST), the other at 6pm. On top of that, both elite events end(ed) at that time.

Especially for us guys here in europe I think that's a rather bad time since it's so early in the morning, so most would have been off for hours. Sure, you can put up a shield for the night, but that gets costly if you have to do it for every single event. And for rubber banded events it was absolutely impossible to finish at the top.

so I think the game should either have more random ending times, or have at least four different alternating ending times.

Thoughts?

Pwuz_

Perhaps rotating the end times by 6 hours for every event? It's either that or regional servers to keep on local-ish time for everyone.

NighteyesGrisu

Pwuz_ wrote:

Perhaps rotating the end times by 6 hours for every event? It's either that or regional servers to keep on local-ish time for everyone.

I guess the latter would be too much hassle/cost but yes, 6 different, alternating ending times should work..there'd be a good ending time in it for everyone.

Unknown

Yeah I've made the point before that tournament end times should be centered around the standard working day in the US and Europe:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2224

For anyone not working - well, it doesn't affect them. For those of us who do it really opens up the game.

Pwuz_

abuelo wrote:

Yeah I've made the point before that tournament end times should be centered around the standard working day in the US and Europe:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2224

For anyone not working - well, it doesn't affect them. For those of us who do it really opens up the game.

Everybody has to sleep sometime. I was more thinking about 4 different ending times. 6 am, 12pm, 6pm, and 12am EST. That would put everyone within 3 hours of at least one of those end times. 6 different times would look more like 4am, 8am, 12pm, 4pm, 8pm, & 12am, which seems like a lot of changes to remember.

NighteyesGrisu

Pwuz_ wrote:

abuelo wrote:

Yeah I've made the point before that tournament end times should be centered around the standard working day in the US and Europe:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2224

For anyone not working - well, it doesn't affect them. For those of us who do it really opens up the game.

Everybody has to sleep sometime. I was more thinking about 4 different ending times. 6 am, 12pm, 6pm, and 12am EST. That would put everyone within 3 hours of at least one of those end times. 6 different times would look more like 4am, 8am, 12pm, 4pm, 8pm, & 12am, which seems like a lot of changes to remember.

yep, you can't make a time that's good for everybody which is why it would be smart to have several different ending times

Unknown

That is a very good suggestion. It is worth noting for Far Eastern player like me, we have an obvious and unfair advantage: all the event finish in the morning or afternoon, whilst European player see the event finish during the night.

Unknown

They used a 2 days 8 hours duration for the latest double shot tourney, so I guess the devs are trying to mix it up a bit in this area.

NighteyesGrisu

Linxis wrote:

They used a 2 days 8 hours duration for the latest double shot tourney, so I guess the devs are trying to mix it up a bit in this area.

hey, you're right. Hadn't noticed that

Kikujiro

Came here to ask for the same. Almost all recent tournaments-events ended at 6:00 am for us.

I´m at home due to an ankle injury, nonetheless it´s harsh ... if my couple wake up again at 5:00 am and sees me playing like a maniac she would murder me, as it should be