Why events do always begin at 12 am or pm est?

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So Your Complaining That You Get To Play Pvp Events When A Large Number of Players in The United States Is Sleeping Or Working Or In School? Poor You, How Horrible To Play Receiving Less Attacks....

Pve's End Here Many Times During Work Or School.

I Think Overall, Everyone Is Disadvantaged To Some Extent.

Unknown

The other thing you have to consider is that by changing the start date, certain areas of the world may have an extra advantage due to rubber banding mechanisms. If my clock strikes 0:00:00 and you still have +6 hours left, you would still have a multiplier that has been inflated due to my final push with time left to use it.

I can't see that working with the current model and setup.

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r0cky143 wrote:

The other thing you have to consider is that by changing the start date, certain areas of the world may have an extra advantage due to rubber banding mechanisms. If my clock strikes 0:00:00 and you still have +6 hours left, you would still have a multiplier that has been inflated due to my final push with time left to use it.

I can't see that working with the current model and setup.

For PVE, that's definitely a concern, but - with the major exception of this last event - the last couple hours of a PVE event are generally less fluid b/c people can build up a lead.

For PVP, it's much easier to mess with start/end times as the only concern for the participants is fighting enough to accrue XXX points, where XXX really is dependent on your start time. Shields and really aggressive playing in the middle of the tourney can allow you to place highly without worrying too much about being there at the end (save for the 10-15 people really gunning for the top 5).

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r0cky143 wrote:

The other thing you have to consider is that by changing the start date, certain areas of the world may have an extra advantage due to rubber banding mechanisms. If my clock strikes 0:00:00 and you still have +6 hours left, you would still have a multiplier that has been inflated due to my final push with time left to use it.

That's why each start time would have to be entirely independant in terms of ranking.

Shields and really aggressive playing in the middle of the tourney can allow you to place highly without worrying too much about being there at the end (save for the 10-15 people really gunning for the top 5).

While that's fairly true, being there at the end is critical because you don't know until then whether or not your points total is enough to rank in the top 10 or better. Ranking 11 because you didn't get up at 3:50am to rack up 1 more win is not fun. That extra 20-30pts you get from getting one more match in (without much risk of retaliation) is sooo important.

franckynight

stephen43084 wrote:

So Your Complaining That You Get To Play Pvp Events When A Large Number of Players in The United States Is Sleeping Or Working Or In School? Poor You, How Horrible To Play Receiving Less Attacks....

Pve's End Here Many Times During Work Or School.

I Think Overall, Everyone Is Disadvantaged To Some Extent.

Even for a kid like you, it must not be quite too difficult to understand that people don't want to wake up in the early morning or quit their jobs just to avoid less retaliation in pvp.. i'm sure you can figure this out..

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I know this sounds crazy and a bit weird, but i kind of wish my events ended at 6am or so. I could get up at 4am farm, hit the gym and be ready to go and at work at 8am.

That's actually better for someone like me.

Again,

<---- minority

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r0cky143 wrote:

I know this sounds crazy and a bit weird, but i kind of wish my events ended at 6am or so. I could get up at 4am farm, hit the gym and be ready to go and at work at 8am.

That's actually better for someone like me.

Again,

<---- minority

That's actually a pretty good example of why people shouldn't focus on time zones - every time zone is going to have some people who want the "conventional" ideadl times, people who want unconventional ones, people with eclectic schedules, etc. I think a solution, if one is implemented, should focus on letting people pick an ideal time (I'd pick 9 or 10 pm, for example) and crafting brackets around that.

bahamut685

I don't see how people don't get tired of making this same post, complaining that their timezone is SO disadvantaged. Euro-peak times have the better LRs (like 100-150 fewer points needed for any given rank, and fewer players, so more stock matches), and events/subs are 50/50 on end times, so almost everyone is screwed half the time.

MarvelMan

Just to give a perspective Ive voiced in the other threads.....the 12EST times can be bad for people in NA. Im on the west coast and 9PM is about as bad as it gets for my life schedule. To use a 8hr shield, without significant overage, thats 1pm which conflicts with work meetings (often 10-3pm solid), while the 6pm for a 3hr shield is just as I get home and rolls to family time til about 8:30, leaving me not enough time for a push.

For me, the 9am EST endings were perfect. I could push before bed, toss up an 8hr (which was great with the 50HP at 500pts) and ride my spot til close.

kensterr

yup, which is why i suggested timezone brackets. the only other way is to provide different servers, but that will screw the number of total players and also the alliance mechanism