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Gokyu Gallente Xynomorph Incorporated	Posted - 2008.10.15 04:56:00 - [1] I'm a father of 2 and my Downtime occurs right in the middle of the 2 hours I get to myself on some nights. I, like most of the subscribers, am a casual gamer who doesn't have much time for eve unlike the hardcore gamers and trolls that don't want anything to change because DT for them occurs when they are asleep. If DT was changed so Australian gamers had at least some time during prime time, then subscriptions in Australia and Asia would jump up. And there IS a solution that doesn't change the amount of downtime the system needs to run and function properly... Change downtime to every second day!! Another possibility could be to stagger downtime an hour either side of the current time being used if it needs to be done every day, although for an easier schedule I'm sure the first suggestion is probably the better one and would be one more widely accepted. I am leaving Eve until my daylight savings is over because of this issue, I just don't have enough time playing the game I love, due to regular downtime, to warrant spending the money. I'll be keeping an eye on developments but I don't expect CCP to change anything unless they can see that the above suggestion would ultimately increase the $. CCP, do you have any response? Is it a topic you are discussing or do you not care about the Asian/Australian market? See you all on the other side.
Feriluce Caldari Deep Core Mining Inc.	Posted - 2008.10.15 04:57:00 - [2] Posting in Aussie epic whine thread nr. 102
MissileBella	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:09:00 - [3] Originally by: Feriluce Posting in Aussie epic whine thread nr. 102 How dare someone state their unhappiness at not being able to play a game they pay for.
PaddyPaddy Nihildarnik Gallente aurorae pacificas	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:09:00 - [4] Where the bloody hell are we?
Khemul Zula Amarr Black Plague.	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:12:00 - [5] Edited by: Khemul Zula on 15/10/2008 05:12:21 It is common knowledge that CCP hate Australia. Can't really blame them personally.
Feriluce Caldari Deep Core Mining Inc.	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:12:00 - [6] Originally by: MissileBella Originally by: Feriluce Posting in Aussie epic whine thread nr. 102 How dare someone state their unhappiness at not being able to play a game they pay for. They can state it all they want for my sake, but fact is that theres been one of these post every week or so for the last 3 years (And probably before that too).
Novemb3r Vale Heavy Industries Molotov Coalition	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:15:00 - [7] Originally by: Khemul Zula Edited by: Khemul Zula on 15/10/2008 05:12:21 It is common knowledge that CCP hate Australia. Can't really blame them personally. I'd hate Australia too if I lived somewhere else. The feeling of missing out on living in such an awesome country would kill me. -
Jade Grimpkin Trader's Academy Blue Sky Consortium	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:18:00 - [8] Asia wasn't so bad as you get an hour off for dinner (7pm) after getting back from work. Australia is a right pain though at 9pm in Sydney. little time when we get back from work. gets a bit of a late night if you log on at 10pm. we can see why CCP has this downtime time (they hate us), but it'd be nice to have a change just once in a while.
PaddyPaddy Nihildarnik Gallente aurorae pacificas	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:22:00 - [9] lets face it, bugger all happens during that period anyway as the US tz is d/l some pron before going to sleep and the Euros are rubbing one out before getting up or on the tube to work. Or is that just me?
Kirra Liu Gemini Industries Inc	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:23:00 - [10] Originally by: Jade Grimpkin Australia is a right pain though I completely agree.
Khemul Zula Amarr Black Plague.	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:27:00 - [11] Originally by: PaddyPaddy Nihildarnik lets face it, bugger all happens during that period anyway as the US tz is d/l some pron before going to sleep and the Euros are rubbing one out before getting up or on the tube to work. Or is that just me? I want your sleeping schedule for the US tz.
PewPewLePewPew	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:33:00 - [12] Cant be assed to do timezone shit but im sure if you move it the same thing that is happening to you will happen to someone else. "And there IS a solution that doesn't change the amount of downtime the system needs to run and function properly... Change downtime to every second day!!" How do you know the system doesn't need downtime every day? Also, can I have your stuff?
Dirk Magnum Royal Hiigaran Navy	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:35:00 - [13] If some of you Aussies can stomach a flight from down under to Fanfest, then I'm sure the rest of you can at least handle an inconvenient downtime.
Tae'Lin Hynd Simply Planned	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:35:00 - [14] Originally by: Khemul Zula Edited by: Khemul Zula on 15/10/2008 05:12:21 It is common knowledge that CCP hate Australia. Can't really blame them personally. Ahh, but CCP is turning a new leaf... They hate EVERYONE Put those damn fingers away and get to work CCP, FIX THE REAL BUGS, DON'T NERF TRAINING. Up next, skill training modifers you buy for rl iskies
Dirk Magnum Royal Hiigaran Navy	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:39:00 - [15] Edited by: Dirk Magnum on 15/10/2008 05:40:41 But I guess on a more productive note, maybe the server managers could rotate the designated downtime every few months. Not to anything that would be inconvenient to them, but just so that it could be slightly less inconvenient for people in populated areas. I mean there's a whole ocean of non-subscribers east of Australia. New Zealand is a mere tall tail, a fictional land that many have sought but from whence none returned, so I think we can count that stretch of the Pacific as non-subscriberland as well. edit: or I don't know whatever go away.
Faife Noctiscion	Posted - 2008.10.15 05:46:00 - [16] file a stuck petition and get yourself moved to a real continent. -- Your signature is too large. Please resize it to a maximum of 400 x 120 with the file size not exceeding 24000 bytes. If you would like further details please mail [email protected] - Mitnal
Feriluce Caldari Deep Core Mining Inc.	Posted - 2008.10.15 06:18:00 - [17] Originally by: Faife file a stuck petition and get yourself moved to a real continent. I lol'ed
Dikanal	Posted - 2008.10.15 06:20:00 - [18] I think the timing of the downtime is due to it being in quietest period of the European working day because CCP staff do weird dev related stuff on the server during downtime.
Piper Halliwell Minmatar Phantom Squad Axiom Empire	Posted - 2008.10.15 06:21:00 - [19] CCP please change something that you have had since day one! I hate DT being at 4 in the morning my time and....wait better idea, how about the OP quit QQ! -------------------- You've got a gun, I've got a gun, Let's write a tragic ending.
Jade Grimpkin Trader's Academy Blue Sky Consortium	Posted - 2008.10.15 06:50:00 - [20] Edited by: Jade Grimpkin on 15/10/2008 06:53:58 Originally by: Piper Halliwell CCP please change something that you have had since day one! I hate DT being at 4 in the morning my time and....wait better idea, how about the OP quit QQ! edit: nevermind
Brigsby5987 Caldari 32nd Amarrian Imperial Navy Regiment.	Posted - 2008.10.15 06:56:00 - [21] Originally by: MissileBella Originally by: Feriluce Posting in Aussie epic whine thread nr. 102 How dare someone state their unhappiness at not being able to play a game they pay for. He should stop paying for it and focus on his damn life instead. _______________________________________ Sig? where. There's no sig here.
Piper Halliwell Minmatar Phantom Squad Axiom Empire	Posted - 2008.10.15 07:01:00 - [22] Originally by: Brigsby5987 He should stop paying for it and focus on his damn life instead. Do you realize how hypocritical that is? -------------------- You've got a gun, I've got a gun, Let's write a tragic ending.
Grarr Dexx Amarr The Cosa Nostra La Cosa Nostra Alliance	Posted - 2008.10.15 07:02:00 - [23] Impossible to change, devs work normal hours.
Jade Grimpkin Trader's Academy Blue Sky Consortium	Posted - 2008.10.15 07:04:00 - [24] i'd say more inconvenient than impossible (and they hate us).
Brigsby5987 Caldari 32nd Amarrian Imperial Navy Regiment.	Posted - 2008.10.15 07:04:00 - [25] Originally by: Piper Halliwell Originally by: Brigsby5987 He should stop paying for it and focus on his damn life instead. Do you realize how hypocritical that is? Why because I'm posting on an internet spaceships forum? I have time, he obviously doesn't. Which is fairly sad considering I work around 80 hours a week. Lets be real, CCP probably isn't going to change DT for one person. And last time I was in the Japanese Channel (Yesterday) I sure didn't see them complaining... _______________________________________ Sig? where. There's no sig here.
Eran Laude Gallente The Aduro Protocol	Posted - 2008.10.15 07:05:00 - [26] All I can say is, tough luck for being a minority in gaming. The European and North American markets dominate EVE's subscriber base, and downtime is scheduled to run at times most convenient to these players. North Americans have something like 55% of EVE's subscriber base, Europeans have something like 35-45% and Oceanians have the rest. It runs at the time it does because it's bang in the middle of the European working day and is early in the morning for US players. I don't want DT to change because on most days it happens when I am at work [Mon-Sat] and on Sunday I usually have to do college work at any rate. Changing DT to be every other day would just shaft you even more - the server's downtime would probably have to be doubled, thus meaning you can play one day and not the next. The amount of maintenance the server and the database needs every day is huge, and to suggest that you can somehow put it off for a day is silly talk. If it's to be kept in good working order, it needs a daily downtime. tl;dr: you live in a crappy timezone, the servers are on GMT+0 [almost geographically exactly in fact, they're in London], it is not CCP's fault that you live in said timezone a million miles to the East; they will not change anything to do with TQ's downtime to cater for one bloke's situation. Be thankful that in Australia/NZ you can at least go outside and enjoy nice weather occasionally, unlike here in the UK . . .
Jade Grimpkin Trader's Academy Blue Sky Consortium	Posted - 2008.10.15 07:06:00 - [27] Edited by: Jade Grimpkin on 15/10/2008 07:09:34 can't go outside cos the sun melts us in like 12 seconds. imagine a candle in a furnace, it's like that. edit: did you just make those numbers up?
Jagadai Bator Amarr Veyr	Posted - 2008.10.15 07:11:00 - [28] See - typical whinging Aussie
Jenina Hawke Minmatar Dromedary Goat Albatross and Fish Big Bang Quantum	Posted - 2008.10.15 07:14:00 - [29] Edited by: Jenina Hawke on 15/10/2008 07:15:03 While I sympathize with the nice aussies and kiwis, I think they are forgetting that CCP are operating out of Iceland with servers based in London. That means that their working day includes what we know as down time. There may be a hint hidden here - sometimes they actually do stuff to the servers, other than feed the hamsters and drink coffee. Ok, non-sarcastic answer to OP: I don't think your suggestions are feasible. Having different times for DT would be harder for everybody to remember and plan around (I am thinking about large scale pvp ops fx.) and having a DT only once every 2nd day - well, I am pretty sure CCP actually need to feed the hamsters every day. With the Icelandic economy being kind of broken, doing so at any time but prime working time would be the fast way to get to pay quite a lot more for subscriptions... Jen *** No signature is good enough *** DGAF Newbie Guide
Jade Grimpkin Trader's Academy Blue Sky Consortium	Posted - 2008.10.15 07:16:00 - [30] whinging pom here. just in the wrong side of the world. back to topic... OP, can i have your stuff, pleeeeease?

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