TW time slots error? Can this please be investigated by a GM?

Times appear to be set to Beijing instead of California.

Is this something we can submit a ticket for? I am the leader of a small TW faction, with about 30 people who activtely TWs. This expansion shifted the TW times to as early as 9 am, and over half of us can't make it to TW or plan for it like we use to when it was in the afternoon and at night.

b:surrender sadly when you think about this screwup by {Wanmei} this sorta of timeslot would only be advantageous for any 'Australians, Asians & Euro players' that are playing on either the eastern or western servers, while throwing the majority of everyone else (and I mean Majority) under the bus b:surrender

Now I know that the minority overseas players have been feeling this sorta **** job, for awhile now, with their not being able to TW at times reasonable for their set active day times (they've said it for quite awhile in the forums) but seriously, why Couldn't {Wanmei} have long ago simply played an even & odd week TW schedule, where 1-week its set for the old schedules (time slots) and then the next week after have it set for those (12 hours off) of the (old base schedule) and then just keep exchanging it one to another through unto infinity (rather then first **** over the minority players from overseas and then **** all of the rest of us of the majority of the playerbase by this lame time slot job that they've done)b:sad


I for one am already sick of having to waste my (sleep-in-time) on Saturday morning, having to do this forced & flawed TW schedule time.. I'm a mature adult with a weekend nightlife for gods sake, not a 5 year old child, who's only purpose on saturday morning, is to get up as early as possible so they can watch as many saturday morning cartoons as they can (Wanmei seriously needs to fix this schedule snafu, quickly... b:surrender)
It wouldn't be so bad if it was under a moderation pattern of "1-week morning slots and 1-week nightime slots" but to be stuck doing this schedule constantly is only gonna **** off and isolate a quite a large portion of the games mainline TW'ing populace if this continues to go on >> and thats a part that PWi cannot afford to irritate (Especially in light of the other things that were dropped on us with this expansion (such as ~ the virtually worthless drop values on everything now (not just Dq-items) that have been forced on us aswell, for example)


((There was a time that I was jokingly saying that I had often wondered if {Wanmei & PWE} were ran by the people who ran {SWG} though the ground. But now I seriously am starting to think they coulda ran this game better then this, even with a one legged chicken with its head chopped off and a rabid hamster with severe Myopia at the helm, to boot>>>b:surrender))

Keep in mind this is NOT a EU server... yes I know we have a large majority of EU folks on the server but its still a US based server. AT LEAST make it noon california time. GEEEZ b:sad

blue20 wrote: »

This is not a **** up at all it happens nearly every reset and if you notice there are some but not many 8pm tws still normaly this happens when there are alot of tws and that happens during a map reset it is an intended time slot that normaly does not get used much and as the season goes on it normaly goes back to 8pm and 2pm tws just hope that happens soon aswell. b:surrender

The majority of wars being at 9am is not intended, let me assure you.

laseek wrote: »

It's hardly a majority of them (the TW battles) - at least on Arch.

I don't see what the problem is with the change of the times - TW happens at the weekends - on Sat/Sun - these times allow both the US, EU and Asia to attend and participate.

That a few in the US can't sleep in until noon... No offence but suck it up.

A majority of those not in the US spend a large chunk of their PWI time waking up before dawn to participate in every event. This is TW - one out of all the events on the server where they have a concession.

That'd be nice IF the EU server who's existence pretty much caters to solely the EU (to be even more precise to the French community but different story) also has the same TW Time slot errors.
So all in all this should be fixed or will be automatically fixed once the map has way less factions around.

I've let the right people know, so they should get it fixed as soon as possible. Most are on vacation right now, since we're all human and need a break some time (believe it or not), but I'll make sure it's dealt with in a timely manner.

tw timing would be the best if it's 0900 and 2000, remove that 1400 one

Sparks on the case. Echoing what's said above - server event times should follow what's convenient for the region the server is servicing - IE ~8 PM local server time-ish.

Morai server has similar issues with TWs being scheduled in the early morning.

I really don't see a problem here and why it should be changed. It's good to have a few more timeslots. Lowers the chance of getting massively ganked at the same time.

9 am is appropriate and should be no big deal. If you can't attend to ot cause of partying all night then so be it. That is each and every players own decision to be there in time or not. Besides..partying less would do great for some people.

Recent studies have proven that a 2 parr sleep is way more healthy than a single, long sleep. Means if you go to bed at 4 you can get up at 8 and go back to bed after tw is done and would actually live way healthier. Bam!

Joe - Morai wrote: »

I really don't see a problem here and why it should be changed. It's good to have a few more timeslots. Lowers the chance of getting massively ganked at the same time.

9 am is appropriate and should be no big deal. If you can't attend to ot cause of partying all night then so be it. That is each and every players own decision to be there in time or not. Besides..partying less would do great for some people.

Recent studies have proven that a 2 parr sleep is way more healthy than a single, long sleep. Means if you go to bed at 4 you can get up at 8 and go back to bed after tw is done and would actually live way healthier. Bam!

Are you kidding me? We actually have several core players unable to attend the new seemingly main TW slot because of work. Yes, people can work on Saturdays. This would have major impact on our ability to TW if timeslots arent returned to normal. We wouldnt only be missing some of our better geared players and squad leads but teh freacking TW lead on 9am slot.

Getting massively ganked is by intention from developers to avoid single powerhouse faction winning every god damn TW. This intent is even more obvious with invader buff. I am sure first 5(or is now 7?) defends would occur with 3 min interval on a single time slot. It would be no different from what it was last season. Well, outside the fact it would be 9 freaking am server time.

Joe - Morai wrote: »

Lol..it can be on friday too? Wth. I didn't notice that. Ofc thats a problem. Still we should keep those timeslots for the weekend.

Plus I know loads of ppl that can attend tw now cause of those new time slots. There are people working on sat. and sun. noon as well. Those could nealry never attend tw til now. So its good as it is cept the friday morning one.

There are people who lives on the east coast and plays west coast servers like me, and for us, a 9 am server time TW slot is at noon for us; many of us who has jobs or is busy at some other things in life. So it is not just a problem for non US folks.

Joe - Morai wrote: »

I really don't see a problem here and why it should be changed. It's good to have a few more timeslots. Lowers the chance of getting massively ganked at the same time.

9 am is appropriate and should be no big deal. If you can't attend to ot cause of partying all night then so be it. That is each and every players own decision to be there in time or not. Besides..partying less would do great for some people.

Recent studies have proven that a 2 parr sleep is way more healthy than a single, long sleep. Means if you go to bed at 4 you can get up at 8 and go back to bed after tw is done and would actually live way healthier. Bam!

I think you got the wrong idea here. Saturday 14h00 TW are just as empty as 09h00 ones. Imo, the main reason is work or other rl obligations, not waking up. At least, that's based on my factions sign ups and what I hear from others.

Ofc, the main slots are the 20h00 prime time and some times you can't put everything in there. But it sucks if you have a nice TW match up that you can't attend to. Still, don't put everyone in the same boat as you, who apparantly swims in free time on saturdays. Playing less would do great for some people as well, ijs

Ohh, and partying till 4 means I'm late for work b:cute

Viktorian - Archosaur wrote: »

Sylen calls sparkie a fail, and he automatically shows up. Is that how this works??

Usually, yes. Sparkie isn't the only one I talk to though, so it's possible that someone else I sent the message to poked Sparkie.

So far, PWE's support for this title completely fails major donkey balls. I mean, we have basic forum issues that have been present for well over a year that would probably take no more than a few minutes to fix. A few hours at most. Do they? No.
They don't care.

In-game issues, I can understand that the PWE team can't touch the server files to perform a simple fix like this needs. Unfortunately, it's not a hard thing to resolve, and apparently PWE either won't put the pressure on Wanmei to fix it, or Wanmei just doesn't give a **** about our version. You can basically flip a coin on that one.

For the TW times, it's most likely a reference error in the timing table that they forgot to change for our version. Sadly, it's very obvious that neither side (PWE or Wanmei) gives a rats *** about customer service or resolving simple things like this.

Willkraft attacked LostTears at 8pm this past week, and at 9:24am the week before. We had 3 more people at 8pm than at 9:24am (and at least 2 of those were new recruits since expansion), and it looked like Willkraft had similar numbers both times. Granted, these numbers may not be indicative of overall TW participation, and we are both smallish factions, but "90% of the server can no longer TW" is a gross exaggeration.