POLL TIME! What Times Work Best for NA Players on Dreadnought Battles?

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’m intentionally not readying up against NASA. If you’re going to attack because you say you want games but are refusing to defend when we already have 5 attacks inbound, then you’re not interested in playing. You’re sector greedy. So have the sector. This is the decision you’ve decided to make, so don’t try to pin blame on us for your disreputable choices.

 

And yes, we are actually helping. Because we’re giving them a safer space to play (we intentionally split power between the teams to make fights fairer) and then talking to them and giving them advice after the battle. Since we’re splitting power through the wings, we don’t have an A team to fight you with. Bringing a B team is an obvious loss with no point to playing, so you bet I’m going to make you take 8 people to a fight you don’t get to play for being so obnoxious.

 

Also, Arch is working to hold a sector for the CDF. They readied up quite a few times in the awful SEA timezone to take a sector we didn’t want, so they deserve to have it. This means we defend against other incoming corps that might otherwise take it. Sorry if I value people I like over you. :slight_smile:

I’m going to bump this thread, because the importance of this issue seems to have been overlooked, and this thread also kind of lost focus.

 

Now, I don’t know if you (devs) are even bothering to look at this thread anymore, or if you’re going to make changes in the next patch.  In the event that you didn’t intend to make any changes in the latest patch, please, I encourage you to read what I’m about to say.

 

Here’s what happened.  Fed space started off split between an optimal NA time, and an optimal SEA time.  It was very obvious that there were no SEA corps in this game who made a mark with their dreadnought, so you decided to make a change.  How great!  But wait a minute…you decided to give 6 sectors to EU/RU optimal time zone, and left NA 10 sectors with one kind of optimal battle time.  So devs, I ask you this.  How is it fair to do that? EU/RU corps already have 2 entire factions of space to play around in, and now you’ve made it so that US doesn’t even have one?  We were told that you were going to listen to this thread, and what NA corps had to say, but I don’t quite see it that way.  You’ve once again favored the EU/RU players in an absurd way.  I understand that I’m not technically entitled to any rights as a player of this game, but I think there really need to be some changes made, and I promise you that many will agree with what I have to say.

 

Look at this image:

 

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This clearly shows that there are  - count it -  different time zones in the US. This means that with the current time we have in Federation Space, there are people who are unable to play because it’s either too early or too late in all time zones.  And you know what?  There is an extremely simple solution to this that many people have expressed multiple times, and still nothing has happened.  So, I’ll explain it to you once again.  

 

We want there to be two different battle times in Federation space that are optimal for CST/EST, and PST/MST.  We want these battles to be optimal for 2 different halves of the country because there are people who play this game, living in both halves of the country.  And I’m not asking for there to be a split in the 10 sectors we can fight in right now, I’m saying  all 16 sectors should be set to optimal battle times for US corps.   I can guarantee that many CDF alliance members, 400+ pilots in total, would agree with me in this opinion.  And not just CDF pilots want this, people from  a lot  of NA corps want this, but you’ve done nothing to make changes for your NA player base, and have essentially, just made things worse.  

 

I’m sure that the EU/RU corps can get over it if they have 6 less sectors to bug around in, and I’m sure that NA corps will be overjoyed when they get 6 more sectors and a new time zone to bug around in.  If those outcomes don’t show you an outrageously obvious decision, then I don’t know what will.

 

I’m sorry if I seem like I’m a little angry, but we’ve been calling for changes for a long time, and nothing (really) has been done about it.  I understand that you may have your dreadnought hands full with reading input about what new battle system there should be, but this is not a huge project to deal with.  It’s as simple as changing the time the battle occurs.  I’m no coding or game design expert, but that sounds pretty simple to me, seeing as you’ve done it so many times before.

 

Everything is laid out for you.  We’ve told you we want two battle times.  We’ve told you what times those battles should be at.   So now change the battle times of Federation space.

 

Keep in mind I have not overlooked the fact that you did listen and attempt at making a change based on our voices (regardless of the fact that they were the wrong changes) and that is a huge step for the Star Conflict team.  Now we ask that you continue to listen to what we have to say, and make the appropriate changes based on the opinions of the North American corporations.

 

Thank you for any consideration you give to not just my voice, but the voices of many other people.

 

 

Xelavian

CEO - FDEF

I think the time should be 6 or 7 oclock pacific time. those are the most active u.s. times. after that it’s dead. 

I think the time should be 6 or 7 oclock pacific time. those are the most active u.s. times. after that it’s dead. 

 

That is what it used to be, and yes, it was far more active during that battle time than the current one.

 

Now, I would be fine with the current battle time if devs hadn’t screwed up AGAIN by not understanding the simple concept of Daylight Savings Time. If they had accounted for Daylight Savings Time instead of assuming it is all Standard time in US time zones, then the battle time would be 8pm Pacific (11pm Eastern), which is the most popular time voted for.

 

I think the best solution for all of this is to return fed space to being all US battle time(s), and have one battle time at 9 or 10pm Eastern, if not have 2 battle times, 1 and 9pm Eastern and 1 and 11pm Eastern.

Daylight savings time? What’s that? Is that the reason my battles at 22:00 always happen at 23:00? Is that why the east coast would have to stay up to 12:30 AM if they wanted to play dreadnoughts? What is this daylight savings time thing, anyways? Not like the majority of the world observes it or anything…

Thanks Xelavian,

 

I tried earlier to post my frustration w/ the changes, but didn’t see a lot of response from the devs.

YES, YES - I’ll make it real easy for the devs - set all 16 Fed sectors to time 21:00.  That way, following the current system of time + 1hr, dreads will actually start at 10pm Central in the U.S. - the time zone that got the majority of votes in this thread.

 

I haven’t been able to do dreads currently during the week, because it starts too late at night.  Set all of them to this time & you will have a lot more NA players in dreads.

Thanks Xelavian,

 

I tried earlier to post my frustration w/ the changes, but didn’t see a lot of response from the devs.

YES, YES - I’ll make it real easy for the devs - set all 16 Fed sectors to time 21:00.  That way, following the current system of time + 1hr, dreads will actually start at 10pm Central in the U.S. - the time zone that got the majority of votes in this thread.

 

I haven’t been able to do dreads currently during the week, because it starts too late at night.  Set all of them to this time & you will have a lot more NA players in dreads.

I’d like to amend this and say 21:00 regardless of DST. So it has to be the same time during and without Daylight Savings.

I’d be okay with one group at 21:00 and another at something like 23:00/24:00, with/without DST. Putting all the sectors at the same time would currently reduce the number of games played. There aren’t enough corps anymore.

 

So long as Fed Space remains Russian free.

we need to REDO this poll so that the developers will look at the info, I’m thinking they looked at this when they adjusted the times and it is long forgotten. Personally  I would like to see more opportunities for us to dread. I would hope they could leave the current time and sectors we have alone and a have a earlier battle time favoring the east coast. A split off of Jericho’s times (fair is fair)

  Once we have an idea of what would work we can post links to the poll in the ask the developers section. I’m thinking the developers kind of ignore the English forums unless there is something drastic going on. There are over 20 pages in the forums base loosely around this very topic. I would bet there are no more than 5 posts from anyone connected to the game.

 From the assumption of every business needs to grow, I would say the ru and eu are areas that are active and vibrant, perhaps the best growth opportunities for growth are not there, but in areas like the North and South America. The US for one has money, internet and plays video games

We would love to see growth in the NA / SA player base but how can you grow anything while treating a emerging market like 2nd class players.

  Peace

  HalfFast

  #KeepOurZoneFree