The EARLY Dragon War - 24 August

Brakkis

gogol666 said:

What is clear is that changing the starting time does not solve the problem.
- giving us a longer final buffer requires oktagon to work a bit, but will make everybody happy
- giving us all charges upfront  is not ideal for everybody (even though I don't understand the complaints from the players), but doesn't require any coding from oktagon

Please d3/oktagon give us a better quality of life: happier players is much more important than forced engagement.

The complaints regarding all of the charges up front make little sense to me. Having all of the charges right up front for an event wouldn't decrease player engagement with the event in the slightest. Whether I'm logging in every 6 hours to complete each node for the new charge or if I log on right at the start of the event and knock them all out up front and be done, I'm putting in the exact same amount of time and effort towards the event. My engagement with the event hasn't changed.

Now, what if a player is willing to put his or her all into a 3 day event but they just happen to have a busy schedule the first two days? You know full well that that player can put up 90% or better points and that on the 3rd day of the event when they get the free time, they will. Should that player be penalized for a busy schedule or afforded the opportunity to compete and participate?

What other engagement beyond that is there to speak of? There's only ever the one event going on outside of TG, AXLN, and TotP which I cleared 30 minutes after they came up. The Story Mode hasn't been touched in over a year (Training for each new set is far from counting here).

All that giving full charges up front reduces is how often a player opens up the game, not how much they engage with the games various modes. I wouldn't consider logging in every 6ish hours to collect the free boosters "engagement". If they want us to log in more, give us more to do beyond forced node recharges.

I'm not saying I would take one solution over the other here either. Either an extended 12 hour time period after the final node refresh or all charges up front would both be acceptable solutions to an exacerbating issue of event start and end times conflicting with multiple time zones.

Helmit

DumasAG said:

Helmit said:

For the start times I would like to say, while I sympathize with everyone in Europe, I live in Western North America, and what you faced for time difficulties this ONE past event is a constant for me.

I set an alarm and get up at 4:30AM to finish off weekend nodes before work.

It sucks, I know. But it was really nice to experience what all other time zones have the benefit of over the last years of events.

Just saying, there are those of us who deal with this week in and week out, so dont complain. It was a mistake and its sorted now.

On a side note, or actually, on a relevant note, @Brigby have you considered programing the last refresh of every event to last longer so people like me get an extra 4-6 hours to clear out our nodes, andanyone who has finished there nodes already (like our Euro players)  can patiently wait for the time out to collect their coalition rewards?

It would be nice to be able to play like other timezone. I found I had much more fun and was more efficient and effective being able to clear my nodes in the daytime and evengings instead of 4 in the moring while trying to wake up and being extremely tired at work all day.

YOu could call it a plea for work/life/magic balance!

Weird, I live in Central time zone and have felt, for at least the past year or so, that weekend events line up relatively well for me. I thought we'd been on a North American-centric schedule recently. Is that not the case? (real question, not snark. I assumed that players in Europe and Asia have been getting screwed, but never thought to actually take a look at when events end in other time zones).

I am PDT (PST) so my last nodes typically refresh at midnight and expire at 7 or 8 am. In the morning I get up at 5:30 orr6am, and get ready an at work for 7:30am.

So to get my last nodes in means I have to set my alarm at least an hour earlier to complete and not be late for work.

I dont know... it just doesnt seem to work for me. But I am one of thousands.

What I was getting at was two fold:

1) It was just nice for a change
2) No matter what they do, it will not fit everyones schedules with the current event refresh format.

I guess my point was, in my opinion, I like having expirable nodes, but make the last refresh nodes run longer. make the last refresh 12 hours. Drag the event end time out a bit. Anyone in Euro completing their nodes can just sit back and wait for results and coalition rewards. Not a big deal.

DumasAG

Helmit said:

DumasAG said:

Helmit said:

For the start times I would like to say, while I sympathize with everyone in Europe, I live in Western North America, and what you faced for time difficulties this ONE past event is a constant for me.

I set an alarm and get up at 4:30AM to finish off weekend nodes before work.

It sucks, I know. But it was really nice to experience what all other time zones have the benefit of over the last years of events.

Just saying, there are those of us who deal with this week in and week out, so dont complain. It was a mistake and its sorted now.

On a side note, or actually, on a relevant note, @Brigby have you considered programing the last refresh of every event to last longer so people like me get an extra 4-6 hours to clear out our nodes, andanyone who has finished there nodes already (like our Euro players)  can patiently wait for the time out to collect their coalition rewards?

It would be nice to be able to play like other timezone. I found I had much more fun and was more efficient and effective being able to clear my nodes in the daytime and evengings instead of 4 in the moring while trying to wake up and being extremely tired at work all day.

YOu could call it a plea for work/life/magic balance!

Weird, I live in Central time zone and have felt, for at least the past year or so, that weekend events line up relatively well for me. I thought we'd been on a North American-centric schedule recently. Is that not the case? (real question, not snark. I assumed that players in Europe and Asia have been getting screwed, but never thought to actually take a look at when events end in other time zones).

I am PDT (PST) so my last nodes typically refresh at midnight and expire at 7 or 8 am. In the morning I get up at 5:30 orr6am, and get ready an at work for 7:30am.

So to get my last nodes in means I have to set my alarm at least an hour earlier to complete and not be late for work.

I dont know... it just doesnt seem to work for me. But I am one of thousands.

What I was getting at was two fold:

1) It was just nice for a change
2) No matter what they do, it will not fit everyones schedules with the current event refresh format.

I guess my point was, in my opinion, I like having expirable nodes, but make the last refresh nodes run longer. make the last refresh 12 hours. Drag the event end time out a bit. Anyone in Euro completing their nodes can just sit back and wait for results and coalition rewards. Not a big deal.

I agree, this is a fine answer to the problem. I don't know of a single reason why this hasn't already been implemented. Only thing I can think of is that D3 feels players will want their rewards right away. To that I say, run more PVE events, have the starts overlap the finishes of the big coalition events just slightly. Players who finish and have 12 hours (or let's get crazy, 24!) to wait can start playing another event. Players who still need to finish can do so, and then start on the new event.