Feedback Request: Revision of WoE timing

• Which country/region are you from and does the WoE time affect your participation in WoE in overall?
• Should it be left / changed and why?
• If it should be changed, when  (day and time) should WoE be?

This is a feedback thread so what you write is up to you but for it to be usable as reference for  Gravity, everyone providing feedback needs to keep to the topic and provide effective constructive feedback.  We are always grateful for the time you take to participate so thank you in advance. 

Looking forward to see some great feedback ! 

Bom Dia Comunidade de Ragnarok Online 2!

Vamos direto ao ponto. A War of Emperium (Guerra do Emperium) é um aspecto importante para muitos jogadores em RO 2. No momento, a WoE ocorre todas as Quartas-feiras e Sábados às 17:00 no horário do Pacífico.

Eu sei que muitos de vocês deram feedback sobre a mudança de horário da WoE no passado, mas muitas mudanças ocorreram e nós crescemos em números e regiões. Para que a WoE possa se adequar a todos, o melhor é que recebamos feedback da comunidade.

Se você não souber a melhor forma de como escrever, aqui estão alguns pontos que podem te guiar:

• De que país/região você é? O atual horário da WoE afeta sua participação de alguma forma?
• O horário deve ser mantido ou mudado? E por quê?
• Se uma mudança se faz necessária, quando (dia e hora) a WoE deve ser realizada?

Este é um tópico de feedback.  O feedback que você escreve é de sua responsabilidade, mas para que possa ser utilizado como referência para a Gravity todos que queiram responder devem se manter no assunto do tópico e fornecer feedback efetivo e construtivo. Somos sempre muito agradecidos pelo tempo que vocês dedicam em tópicos como esse, portanto agradecemos previamente.

Espero encontrar feedbacks maravilhosos!

Edited by Leasfy, 03 December 2015 - 12:50 PM.

This again? There has been WOE time change not so long ago.

Thailand-- might be good if we go back to old schedule, Wednesday 7.00 server time, Saturday 17.00 server time (because some of us working in the morning).

Thursday (11.00 pm) and Sunday (7.00 am)on my local time and days. 

For Wednesday, somewhere between 0700 to 0900 server time would be great. While the NA could attend before going to work, SEA timezone is midnight, and EU timezone is around afternoon.

As for Sunday, the current timing is a good time. While SEA timezone get to practice waking up early as a healthy habit, it's evening in NA where most people are available. It is also not too late in the midnight for EU. Moving the time forward would mean it's gonna be too late in the midnight for EU and moving it backward would mean too early for SEA.

Having these 2 different timezone as above, both NA and SEA timezone (the majority) could also take turn to participate in the WoE once in the morning and once in the evening/midnight per week, rather than SEA gets to attend both morning WoE while NA gets to attend both evening war. Fair treatment for both region!

For Wednesday, somewhere between 0700 to 0900 server time would be great. While the NA could attend before going to work, SEA timezone is midnight, and EU timezone is around afternoon.

 

As for Sunday, the current timing is a good time. While SEA timezone get to practice waking up early as a healthy habit, it's evening in NA where most people are available. It is also not too late in the midnight for EU. Moving the time forward would mean it's gonna be too late in the midnight for EU and moving it backward would mean too early for SEA.

 

Having these 2 different timezone as above, both NA and SEA timezone (the majority) could also take turn to participate in the WoE once in the morning and once in the evening/midnight per week, rather than SEA gets to attend both morning WoE while NA gets to attend both evening war. Fair treatment for both region!

I think this is fair but have the days swapped.

NA covers many timezones so it would be difficult to figure out what a best time before work and school is for the majority of them on Wednesdays. I would not touch this day. 

On Sunday people are much more flexible all over. A morning/afternoon WoE like what we had before would be fine.

I wanted to chime in on this.

Obviously, since we cover so many regions now, it's hard to find two time that work for everyone.

In the beginning, we did 17:00 on Thursday and Sunday. The problem was that 17:00 on Sunday would be sometime in the early morning on Monday for nearly half of our players, which wasn't very cool.

Also, keep in mind to space the days out so there's about equal(ish) time between WoEs in case someone gets a fort or castle in one and has about the same amount of time to enjoy it's spoils before the next.

Additionally, we cannot split up the times Prontera and Morroc WoE go currently. It would require additional system development to do so, and even though it's not out of the realm of possibilities, that would take a couple months of design, development, and testing. We would also need to understand the pro's and con's of doing such a change (if it's what people want).

We can run a survey if we gather some popular times or days and push it out over the next month or two to gather feedback, as well.

I prefer no change to WoE time, we had done the change not too long ago.  The current time we came up with has already considered all sides possible to avoid people need to wake up at 3am ~6am in the morning for a majority of regions.  Also to avoid people being at work/school as much as possible.

7am server time (west coast) is 10am for the people in east coast North America, that is within work/school time.

For Wednesday, somewhere between 0700 to 0900 server time would be great. While the NA could attend before going to work, SEA timezone is midnight, and EU timezone is around afternoon.

 

As for Sunday, the current timing is a good time. While SEA timezone get to practice waking up early as a healthy habit, it's evening in NA where most people are available. It is also not too late in the midnight for EU. Moving the time forward would mean it's gonna be too late in the midnight for EU and moving it backward would mean too early for SEA.

 

Having these 2 different timezone as above, both NA and SEA timezone (the majority) could also take turn to participate in the WoE once in the morning and once in the evening/midnight per week, rather than SEA gets to attend both morning WoE while NA gets to attend both evening war. Fair treatment for both region!

This isn't a fair proposal to begin with, weekday and weekend is a different treatment already.  Of course people are more willing to wake up early on a non-work/school day than on a work/school day.

Edited by Cartian, 03 December 2015 - 10:29 AM.

For Wednesday, somewhere between 0700 to 0900 server time would be great. While the NA could attend before going to work, SEA timezone is midnight, and EU timezone is around afternoon.

 

No. Assuming thats for California time where the sever is based off. That will mean our friends to the east will be woeing at 10am- noon. Most jobs or shools do 8-6 work hours or school hours. Majority of the NA guilds will be affected. No matter what time we pick, one timezone is going to get shafted. Also as a reminder even tho we are an international sever now. The sever is in the USA, and players will probably expect USA friendly times. 

I vote for old times, Sunday at 17:00, because Sunday is so boring without WoE now.  I think whats more important than a time change for WoE is fixing the imbalance in the game first, then worry about WoE times.

For Wednesday, somewhere between 0700 to 0900 server time would be great. While the NA could attend before going to work, SEA timezone is midnight, and EU timezone is around afternoon.

This change would be more acceptable for the Saturday WoE time. European players would be midday/Evening/Morning on the weekend for most players who participate in WoE. I'd be accepting of a time change for this slot if it ONLY was on Saturday WoE.

As Leila said, time change would strongly favor one side would screw over any NA guild because that is prime time for Work/School. As it is an international server not everyone can be happy, but the time change on Sat/Sun WoE would be most pleaseing to everyone.