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Othran Brutor Tribe	Posted - 2011.07.08 10:51:00 - [1] Frankly I think moving DT makes sense now. Move it to 13:00 or 14:00 GMT. That way when DT comes around you're looking at 22:00-02:00 local depending where you are in Asia/Pacfic region. I think the people out that way have been pretty patient TBH. Its not just normal DT now - every week or so there's a patch, which while welcome if its fixing bugs does make people wander off to play other games. The downside is a hit to the people in the GMT+3 (or GMT+4) zones. Wouldn't really be that big a deal for them as local time would be around 17:00-18:00 when it seems quiet enough anyway. Or maybe it would be a big deal - I dunno. Worth thinking about really as if you consistently have DT/patch in the middle of people's evening (19:00 onwards local time) then they're not going to play. Existing Eve players cope (mostly) but new players won't bother sticking around. For me it'd make most sense to have DT at a time when server activity is minimal - the current DT isn't that time. Three or four hours later and its a lot quieter in terms of player activity. Obviously people have got used to current DT and as such structure activities accordingly. Makes no odds to me one way or another anyway.
Othran Brutor Tribe	Posted - 2011.07.08 11:05:00 - [2] Originally by: Ehdward Downtime is going to interrupt people's playing no matter what. True but for scheduled DT they could try to position it such that no area* has peak time playing disrupted. Eg - move DT to a time which equates to peak-time somewhere mid-Pacific. Ideally you want your main playing areas to have uninterrupted peak-time play. Eve doesn't deliver that now as everyone in the "far east" gets booted for DT. Moving DT by 3-4 hours would deliver uninterrupted gameplay for the USA TZs, The EU TZs and most of the Asia-Pacific TZs. Most impacted would be Middle-East-India TZs where there isn't much of a playerbase (I don't count soldiers in other peoples' countries here as you're transient). AIUI DT is mainly automated anyway. If a patch comes along you do it earlier. As I say makes no odds to me what they do. *obviously it'll always affect someone
Othran Brutor Tribe	Posted - 2011.07.08 11:12:00 - [3] Edited by: Othran on 08/07/2011 11:28:27 Originally by: Skippermonkey Edited by: Skippermonkey on 08/07/2011 10:59:33 Originally by: Othran The downside is a hit to the people in the GMT+3 (or GMT+4) zones. Wouldn't really be that big a deal for them as local time would be around 17:00-18:00 I'll let you go and tell the Russians that DT is now in their primetime.. Go on, they wont bite i think DT should be at 4am GMT how many people in Honolulu play this game? Mmmm I don't see that many Russians active when its 17:00-18:00 local time for them. If they got 18:00 (local-time) onwards with no breaks would that be so bad? I dunno but Russians I know in game are never around much before 19:00 (local-time). It'd all be a compromise anyway, but I think for the (many) patches it'd be more sensible to be starting DT earlier rather than extending it. If the standard DT required intervention (as it used to) then the current time makes sense. It doesn't now. It probably needs a watchdog timer to restart the server if it fails to startup but meh they have staff in various TZs, I'm sure one of them could check it.
Othran Brutor Tribe	Posted - 2011.07.08 13:54:00 - [4] Originally by: Cutter Isaacson Servers are in the UK, not Iceland, that's the other reason why DT isn't at 4am you utter idiots. Downtime is and always has been set for a time when the people most needed in order to get things done properly are wide awake and fresh. It is also when any secondary services such as power, water and heating engineers are available within a small time frame. The fact that you morons seem to forget this on a regular basis shows why any ideas you have about how CCP conducts its business anywhere in the world are utterly worthless and a waste of pixels. DT is automated. Ought to knock a couple of bill off your character valuation as you're such a feckwit.

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