As we all know the day ends at midnight CET, albeit the servers are set at winter time so with summer daylight savings the day now ends at 0100hrs until such time summer daylight savings end in a couple of months or so.
Now this time is fixed for every game in the servers and in my opinion hands a significant advantage to players in the Americas primarily USA and Canada on the EN server. This is because the Central European Time midnight or 1 am coincides with afternoon or evening in the USA, depending where u live .
So when a game has a peace period it will expire at 1am Europe time when most European players are asleep. At this point American players have just come home and sat themselves in front of their games and are able to get a head start on European players. if you can't get on the game till u are home from school or work then the American player can have up to 15 or so hours head start on you.
American players can react immediately or almost to rebellions and can start research almost immediately at the start of the research day whilst Europeans are sleeping.
This together with some other factors can give Americans an edge.
This is also particularly important during Clan matches.
I think this needs fixing to remove this edge and also give European players the change to have a day end in the middle of their IRL day.
How can we fix this?
I suggest that the games run on a different timing. This could be done by making a day last say 22 hours in the game. Like that every day will happen 2 hours earlier. This means that no player in any area gets a significant advantage over the course of a couple of weeks of the game.
The other alternative would be for the game to have the game day end 24 hours after the game has been created. So a game created at 2pm in Europe will always end at that time. It should however be displayed on the games tab at what time does the game day end so u can choose a day end that suits you.
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30 Sept 2017, 19:56
no need to reread what you wrote Patton. Reread what I wrote. The thread is about the advantage given to players in the Americas from Canada down to Argentina. That is the constant in this argument.
Lost wingman, you miss the point. The key issue is in Alliance matches and other community events.
The advantage that the DC gives is multiplied on closely fought Arms Race and Speed Maps. The 22hour day in game would transfer the advantage to other players over a period of time and then take it away. probably the best solution.
BTW Rokovissiki. I am in an Alliance game on Czech server and that is having DC 2 hours before the English server. It caught us out in the game.
30 Sept 2017, 20:04
oh look what I found in the Arms Race thread from the Super Moderator. seems they know there is an issue then
2 Oct 2017, 18:16
Clanpred wrote:
no need to reread what you wrote Patton. Reread what I wrote. The thread is about the advantage given to players in the Americas from Canada down to Argentina. That is the constant in this argument.
Lost wingman, you miss the point. The key issue is in Alliance matches and other community events.
The advantage that the DC gives is multiplied on closely fought Arms Race and Speed Maps. The 22hour day in game would transfer the advantage to other players over a period of time and then take it away. probably the best solution.
BTW Rokovissiki. I am in an Alliance game on Czech server and that is having DC 2 hours before the English server. It caught us out in the game.
Ive actually played a game on the Dutch server for the first time, it also has -2 compared to the UK/Int server. Though still not 'ideal' for me 9 out of 10 times, its more than 99 out of a 100
27 Oct 2017, 09:00
*bump*
@freezy@Sasri can we get any bytro comment on this issue?
27 Oct 2017, 10:53
We are aware of this and we can understand that this can be an issue. There are probably different ways to change this. Having individual day changes for each game could cause confusion though as well. This needs to be properly evaluated and planned, but sadly this is currently not scheduled
27 Oct 2017, 19:54
I think confusion would be minimal if it is known that DC is always 24 hours after the map is created?
Like other issues it becomes quite a problem when playing a high level community event or Alliance game. Perhaps it may be possible to allow an option when setting up those games?
29 Nov 2018, 15:26
Bump
'nuff said... when will this finally be dealt with?
