man-man Posted:

What about moving the domination end day to the weekend? Then there’s more flexibility in moving the time – won’t have to worry about working hours.

Some people like going out on weekends and moving dom time to that will cause bumhurt too.

Re dei sepolcri Posted:

Instead of 3AM in Europe and 21PM in the US, i propose 23PM in Europe and 17PM in the US, it should be fair for all, if anything, it is slightly in favour of americans, because some europeans may need to go to sleep before the end time for working hours in the morning.

Contrary to popular belief, there are multiple timezones in North America. 2pm on a weekday would be a hell of a lot worse for me than 3am would be.

scully Posted:

Simply rotating end time has always been the best idea, imo. Three week rotation: noon, 8 pm, 4 am. Four week rotation: 9 am, 3 pm, 9 pm, 3 am. Should it be changed, it would still screw over someone, but the rotating thing would be more inclusive overall.

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Seriously, this is a good idea.

*Adds to list of good ideas the CZ will never implement*

meeeeeeeeee Posted:

Nope, finishing at 3am is preferable to not being able to participate at all 2 or 3 weeks out of 4.

If the end time were moved to the weekend, this wouldn’t be an issue.

Now I can only participate during holidays or by not sleeping (which is not a good idea when working). I rather play 1-2 per month than once every 2 months or so as it is currently.

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meeeeeeeeee Posted:

Nope, finishing at 3am is preferable to not being able to participate at all 2 or 3 weeks out of 4.

If the end time were moved to the weekend, this wouldn’t be an issue.

A) Some people work on the weekends (I don’t anymore, but I used to).

B) Some people who don’t work want to go places on their days off.

C) Some people have social lives and want to go out Friday/Saturday nights.

TL;DR: A rolling time might be a pain in the bum for a couple weeks, but it’s a pain in the bum for everyone, as opposed to being completely unplayable for a subset of the population. When you share a necessary disadvantage as evenly as possible among the players, that’s called balance.

man-man Posted:

What if the end time rolled by day as well as by time? Then it’ll fit some of the time for people who have problems with Weds/Thurs rather than having problems with the time.

Just make the period 168+/-3 hours, (or some other number of hours) and it’ll drift out of sync with the days.

I agree. Just make it last something that is NOT divisible by 24 or 12, and voilà! It’s done. they’ll desynch gradually, so everyone can play it and do the decisive last-minute pwning.

Having a choice of endtimes would be ideal, but that would require a larger playerbase (and someone giving a **** about dom, because apparently no changes are going to be made before episode 3, and Bingebot has gone AWOL)

So we really need to know how many participants this would gain, and how many it would lose, before making any drastic changes.

Personally I like the idea of having a choice as to when you end it, and it wouldn’t have to be a 12 or 6 hour rotation, let’s not forget 8 hours which should still work for everyone as well as anything else. But another advantage of the choice is if you’re crazy enough to play with multiple alts in Dom you can be there for the last 5 minutes and you might be able to do a bit of planning around a schedule if you do shift work like myself. (Of course shift workers get screwed with everything anyways. Thanks public transportation… )

And even if it would be difficult to play 2 weeks out of 4 or 1 out of 3 or even 2 out of 3, many of the elitist people in the top brackets (Not all of them but they know who they are) who complain when they aren’t in the top bracket and consider all other Dom plebeian (Maybe it’s only me they annoy with that) have also said that the medals go to whoever can time the highest streak the best in the last 5 minutes. As such they could spend the 2 off-weeks just carding everyone (Which is just like the top bracket) and the third actually making a grab while their streak is highest.

MC Banhammer Posted:

Here’s an idea (don’t know if it’s been run before):

How about we end the season in two weeks regardless of the gameplay tuneup. Then, have a limited season, until the gameplay tuneup’s ready for the mbumes, where the end time and even day each week is shifted, to Euro-friendly times, weekends, etc.

Then, use the acutal data for how many people were playing at each end time to determine what should be done with the “permanent” end time, instead of all this rampant speculation.

(Heading off questions about “why not just poll”: I’m not convinced that the majority of people who actually would want to play dom would see the poll)

I think this is a great idea.