sinnerjfl wrote: How is using UTC gonna solve anything? You still have to look at whatever offset you're in. Developper is also in the US, makes sense to use the time zone that they are in.
TheWerebison wrote: Actually, we have 4, Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific. BUT! You have to also factor in that we are the only nutters that also observe daylight savings time, which changes all the time zones separate from the rest of the world.
Eddiemon wrote: sinnerjfl wrote: How is using UTC gonna solve anything? You still have to look at whatever offset you're in. Developper is also in the US, makes sense to use the time zone that they are in. Because most of us know our offset from UTC, but have no idea of our offset from EST. So when you ask for 9pm EST I have no idea what that is relative to myself, whereas if you had put it in UTC I'd know if it were remotely useful to me. That's kind of the point of UTC really, a common frame of reference. As opposed to an American 'why does anyone else matter?' frame of reference.
Xenoberyll wrote: I'd like if there were less slices for PVP, so there'd be more people per slice. PVE should be progression rewards only imho.
aesthetocyst wrote: Dump slices entirely. Give all events a 24hr window to join and a run time....preferably have all events last multiples of 24hrs. Each player's event ends when they joined. Convenient times for everyone, an end to bracket sniping, no more stressing over fresh brackets, etc, etc. Players can still be segregated into various levels of noob and vet pools to ensure continued reward distributions.
aesthetocyst wrote: slices /= brackets.
Linkster79 wrote: Seeing as this is an international global game can we please shy away from the usual Yankee superiority complex and refer to all times as UTC? May come as a shock but not every body on the planet knows all 9 US time zones. I personally feel that there are currently plenty of options for most of us to find one that is convenient or near enough without the need to be diluting shards and brackets even further.
PeterGibbons316 wrote: 9 PM would be too early for me. I like to play after the kids go to bed and 9 PM wouldn't allow for enough time to grind the end of a PvE. I'd rather see them move the 11 PM up to 10PM than create a new one at 9 PM.
Hendross wrote: Lets make them random