There is one thing Russia & US can agree on is space exploration.
IE Russia helping after the SpaceX shuttle explosion. Big frowny face, a setback for corporate space advancement. SpaceX is still pushing along strong though.
SpaceX is one of the best things to ever happen to Humankind.
And yeah, RU/USA cooperation in space has been a pretty consistent thing for a while now.
Times got changed, but not to the one most voted for. Which is interesting.
The timezones in-game don’t take Daylight Savings into account, so currently the battles are at Midnight EST.
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Alright guys there is total misunderstanding from both sides. The mentioned time is confusing. We took the most popular EST time and changed the battle time according to it. In order to avoid any further situations like that please don’t use time zones that have different interpretations and require to do the whole research to get it right if you live in another continent. But on the bright side, guys the difference is only one hour. One. And the current option is on the second place in popularity.
It’s 11PM where I am located. Not terrible by any means.
Well the new time still works for me, so that’s no problem at all either.
As for the timezone conversions, I had to put it in a format that NA players could easily understand. You see, we don’t use UTC over here and we’re too lazy to convert 
But that’s fine, I’ll use UTC for any timezones I post in the future. Errbody else gonna have to deal with it.
Anyways, THANK YOU for using the results of this poll to adjust the time, devs! I can’t speak on behalf of the NA community, but I can say for myself that it’s great how player initiatives are now being taken into account by you guys 
Keep in mind that Russia does not have daylight saving transitions, so when we adjust our clock, it will be one hour earler, becoming the most voted time zone.
Um I could not post / vote do anything in the forums until yesterday
and I am less than pleased with the new battle times
what we need is a “late” Jericho battle time
after all we shared our time
and
FAIR IS FAIR
around 7 or 8 pm eastern is when most of our US player base is active
It changed from 11pm to 1am for me, not cool but i can still play if im not bussy in real life (before it was 11pm and 2am, i stayed up to 2am only when i had nothing important in the morning). Glad to hear you take our suggestions into account, i guess intentions are whats worth now (however make the change to “fix it” when you can).
What i dislike is having a big part of NA/SEA time for russian players since they can play at jeri and emp times, and now even at fed wich leads in many games hosted at russia: the worst for NA and SEA.
8pm eastern makes simply unplayable for western players at all. The time was already to early for western, okeish-early central and ok eastern.
I do think that 1 hour later shift would better than 2, but in couple of months it will get to that point with time change anyways. So now its ok western and central, and okeish-late eastern.
With amount of teams theee are in NA i dont think 2 cycles is good idea, since like NASA/Arch will simply take over the map and smaller forces will have no chance to get a pieces of pie, not even crumbs, since there will be less locations to protect simultaneously
Once again, a prime example that the devs don’t know how to tell time… XD, but in all seriousness, this is ridiculous that this is the second time that the devs have messed something up because of daylight savings time.
The new battle time now will not work for me, as it will be at 10pm (I have work at 6 am, so 10pm is out of the question if I want a good night’s sleep). I hope this issues is resolved and the battle time is set back to what it was meant to be (1 hour later than previous time).
Also, if the devs intent was to change the battle times according to how people have voted on this poll, they seem to have missed the tidbit that 2/3 of the pilots who voted on this poll voted for more than 1 battle time for US.
I also hope that the devs will realize that switching the second fed battle time over to an RU time was a mistake and that it should be reverted back to either a second US battle time, or to the same US battle time.
Also, if the devs intent was to change the battle times according to how people have voted on this poll, they seem to have missed the tidbit that 2/3 of the pilots who voted on this poll voted for more than 1 battle time for US.
I also hope that the devs will realize that switching the second fed battle time over to an RU time was a mistake and that it should be reverted back to either a second US battle time, or to the same US battle time.
Considering how there were more games in 1 week than in half a year within that time zone while it was in SEA i doubt they will remove that new time zone.
Alright guys there is total misunderstanding from both sides. The mentioned time is confusing. We took the most popular EST time and changed the battle time according to it. In order to avoid any further situations like that please don’t use time zones that have different interpretations and require to do the whole research to get it right if you live in another continent. But on the bright side, guys the difference is only one hour. One. And the current option is on the second place in popularity.
The mentioned time is really not confusing. I understand that we have different timezones/daylight savings issues, but it is really not hard to add or subtract 1 hour, and then literally google up the corresponding times for timezones. One of Star Conflicts very own devs has said in this link “In order to find out time differences, please Google it.” Doesn’t matter if these were or different situations, it applies to everyone. Google is a wonderful tool, we may as well use it. It doesn’t require “research” to get it right. You sit there for 5 minutes and I guarantee, if you concentrate, you could convert all the timezones for every sector, factoring in daylight savings, 100% correctly.
12AM (EST) isn’t a _terrible _time, but I must say it is really late for a lot of people who actually have work in the mornings. But, I do know that there are plenty of people out there in different timezones, who think this time works fine for them, and I’m perfectly happy with that. What needs to happen is this: Give us back our two dreadnought battle times. If we have two different times _within _the federation (one optimal for EST/CST, and one optimal for PST/CST), then we won’t have these issues. Have half the sectors fought at 10:00 PM EST, and half fought at 12:00AM EST, or _whatever _two times you want. But please, just give us two different times to fight, that can be optimal for two timezones at a time.
That is all. Thank you for any consideration of the US player base opinion. It is extremely appreciated I must say.
-X
8pm eastern makes simply unplayable for western players at all. The time was already to early for western, okeish-early central and ok eastern.
I do think that 1 hour later shift would better than 2, but in couple of months it will get to that point with time change anyways. So now its ok western and central, and okeish-late eastern.
With amount of teams theee are in NA i dont think 2 cycles is good idea, since like NASA/Arch will simply take over the map and smaller forces will have no chance to get a pieces of pie, not even crumbs, since there will be less locations to protect simultaneously
9pm and 11pm would be good times. But we have already seen the results of split time zones when nobody can play - Arch had half of Fed space. With 9pm & 11pm times, most corps get good times to play, so a corp that holds large swaths of territory is still hard pressed to defend itself.
Also, I’ve committed Arch to letting smaller corps gain a foothold in Fed space. Activity is more important than rewards. Arch’s attacks are more for activity (helping remove RU held sectors in Fed Space, e.g.) than trying to take the sector ourselves.
Also, I’ve committed Arch to letting smaller corps gain a foothold in Fed space. Activity is more important than rewards. Arch’s attacks are more for activity (helping remove RU held sectors in Fed Space, e.g.) than trying to take the sector ourselves.
Noticed and much appreciated :012j:
After the 10.1.6 #1 update, the times in FED space were changed to 11pm Central !! This is a little too late for most of the US players. The poll clearly shows a preference time of 10pm w/ 9pm as secondary. You guys really messed this up - set them back to a time that the polls suggested.
Also, I’ve committed Arch to letting smaller corps gain a foothold in Fed space. Activity is more important than rewards. Arch’s attacks are more for activity (helping remove RU held sectors in Fed Space, e.g.) than trying to take the sector ourselves.
So far you are trying hard to stomp no0bss as hard as you can, avoiding fighting NASA couple days in a raw, even trying to convince our guys to defend for you vs some of the newest corporations. While i don’t care who you are stomping to keep your guys interested in the game, but don’t come here with all these “Me, Arch, were are noble, we help” messages of yours.
I talked to Mecronmancer yesterday before you guys had launched your attack to ask him if the rest of you (in NASA) wanted to help us defend, as they would be almost guaranteed to get a game. He even told me, the guys have told me they want to fight/get games. But yet you passed up a perfect opportunity to actually play in dreadnoughts so you could attempt to take the sector from us instead.
Also, don’t give us any cr@p for “stomping n00bs”. When I was in NASA, we would defend against the weakest corps so we could save as much damage as possible, and that is exactly what we did last night.
Back on the topic:
Fed space was originally split in two to give SEA players a battle time. Once it became clear that not enough SEA players play to warrant their own battle time, what do the devs do? Do they revert fed space back to one time zone like Empire and Jericho are set up? No, they give the RU player base a third battle time. Yes, I understand that the player base is 83% Russian (or w/e the number is), but that is no reason to give them a third battle time. 2 is plenty, especially when US/SEA only gets one. And now that the new US/SEA battle time was messed up by the devs once again not understanding the simple concept of daylight savings time, even less US players can participate in dreads. Add to that the fact that since fed space has fewer sectors able to be taken in the US battle time, even fewer corps are going to want to participate, as they realize they won’t have any chance.
My request as a US player: Actually use the data this poll has shown. Most players who have voiced opinions wanted the time to change 1 hour later, not 2, and most also wanted there to be 2 battle times for US players. And I’m pretty sure NO ONE on this forum wanted the RU player base to get another battle time. So at the very least, change fed space back to one battle time for US/SEA players, and change the battle time to where it was supposed to be changed to.
EDIT: Another thing I’ve noticed since the new RU time being added, sectors are not changing hands nearly as often in Empire/Jericho space. Before the change, sectors would be changing hands every few days. Now, there are SOOO many sectors at 100% defense points. If you take away the new fed time zone from them, activity in Empire/Jericho will go up again, and activity in Federation will also go up as there will be more sectors able to be captured by the increasing number of US-based corps. So it’s a win-win if Fed space is changed back to one time zone (or two for US/SEA).
Or you could have actually read what i wrote instead of taking 2 words out of context and making your point on it.
So lets read it together than
Also, I’ve committed Arch to letting smaller corps gain a foothold in Fed space. Activity is more important than rewards. Arch’s attacks are more for activity (helping remove RU held sectors in Fed Space, e.g.) than trying to take the sector ourselves.
So far you are trying hard to stomp no0bss as hard as you can, avoiding fighting NASA couple days in a raw, even trying to convince our guys to defend for you vs some of the newest corporations.
Also, don’t give us any cr@p for “stomping n00bs”.
While i don’t care who you are stomping to keep your guys interested in the game, but don’t come here with all these"Me, Arch , were are noble , we help" messages of yours.
Also, don’t give us any cr@p for “stomping n00bs”. When I was in NASA, we would defend against the weakest corps so we could save as much damage as possible, and that is exactly what we did last night.
Yeah, and we never pretend that we are helping any of them
In case you haven’t noticed, SALT and BOJ now both have 2 sectors. Also, FDEF and Ultra have been attacking more and more.
We just so happen to be trying to help newer/less experienced corps become more active in dreads and take sectors in dreads by giving them sectors and by helping attack sectors held by Russian corps who got freebies early on.
But no, this is all a hoax and is simply coincidence… [/sarcasm]