Hi everyone! I’m Steph, the leader of SideQuest.
As many of you already know, or you can see here (edit in red), I have been put in charge of organising the vote to find a more suitable time for WoE2; this was the result of almost every guild leader on the roundtable Discord saying that the WP-proposed time wouldn’t work for their members. Campitor joined in our discussion and agreed to give us the opportunity to vote for a new time.
That’s the background info, now onto the actual process - I’m going to try laying this out in as much detail as possible so you can all follow along!
Step #1: Internal guild polling
We started off by having each guild figure out which times work best for their members; we mostly limited this to Friday through Sunday to make it easier for everyone to find good times - week days are a lot harder to find overlap for internationally, unfortunately.
We then had every guild present us with their most voted times, resulting in this (GG has since disbanded):
(source: https://imgur.com/a/6GdQr)
Step #2: Guild leader vote
Next, we created a poll with all of these suggested times (shoutout to doodle.com) and gave every guild leader one vote, resulting in this:
https://doodle.com/poll/5435sbmhisy388fn
To make it more fair, considering the participating guilds all have varying amounts of members, we followed this up with a weighting system. Below you can see the guilds, their average amount of WoE-active members and what percentage of WoE those guilds make up (out of the ones listed):
As you can see, Sunday 11am-1pm PST ended up with a considerable majority.
Considering the gap between this time and the other two, this is the time we would ask WP to consider (ideally we wanted a 75% majority, but close enough).
Step #3: Potentially swapping the timeslots for WoE1 and WoE2
Since people asked for it, we ran a poll to put WoE2 at the current WoE1 time (Saturday 9-11am PST), which ended up with this result so far (unfortunately the leaders of both Valkyrie and Faction are the only ones not on the roundtable at the moment, so they’re harder to get a hold of):
Looks like a no to me /swt
Obviously our proposed time isn’t ideal for everyone - such a time simply doesn’t exist. Even with this time, a lot of the guilds who participated in the vote are losing out on members because of real life commitments, timezones, etc. It’s simply a matter of when everyone can get the most amount of people online. I don’t think anyone gets out of this clean, in all fairness, but our vote still works out better for all of us than the times set by WP.
Lastly, I’d like to thank all of the guilds mentioned above for helping out not just by voting in the poll, but for the general discussion around it and figuring out how best to do things - it’s been a hectic couple of days, lol! Special thanks go to Orion, who got all this rolling with his post about making it an actual vote, and who is also responsible for the weighting and voting result 
All the participating guilds would like to thank WP for giving us the opportunity to let our voices be heard <3
Thanks for reading!
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. But... i’m sure we will see you WoE anyways unless everyone in SNL is from one time zone.
