meteor time/day

[wonder-ass]

can you make meteors a weekly occurrence on weekends?
did you really expect us to be able to contest a meteor at 8am on a monday???

[Sethfire]

I also agree with this. For context into the situation, there were two meteors in W11 so far. The first meteor occurred on a Saturday which had an alright timezone, morning NA and around late noon for Europeans on a weekend was fairly agreeable. Both PvP groups Hedgehugs and AD gathered a fairly significant group of players to contest (In total, I would estimate 50 players on all sides) and there was a pretty big fight. Most people had fun (Except the ones who died)

However the second meteor happened on a Monday, which was not only a working weekday but in a fairly bad timezone (GMT 5 or 6am I think) which cucked just about everybody in our group (Hedgehugs) as a majority of our European members would likely be school/college/work (Or just refuse to wake up that early), and it also was a very late Sunday night for those living in North America who probably have to wake up early the next morning. As a result, we could not gather sufficient numbers to contest the meteor and decided to withdraw from a fight. In fact, the only group from our alliance that showed up to the meteor were a bunch of Koreans, thanks to their Asian timezone.

Well, this is only speaking from the perspective of someone in HH, I don't know the situation over on AD but I assume some of their members had the same issues, and could not show up. Overall though, I do think both of the PvP groups would prefer to fight this over a weekend where our full strength could be mustered instead of getting cucked by real life.

[Sevenless]

To play devil's advocate (these are questions, I'm not claiming to know what's best for pvpers):

If the meteor is always in primetime mix for NA/EU, wouldn't the dominant group always get it? Even fights in sandbox games are rare, in a forced direct conflict it's unusual for there to be a lot of back and forth. By always having a static time, wouldn't that mean that outside main timezone players never get a chance to participate?

This is the main scenario I'm seeing as a result of these suggestions:

Lets say the meteorite falls every saturday in the evening so both the major playerbases can participate. Asians/australians obviously won't be showing up ever and we accept that as a utilitarian cost and worth it overall. Due to how the world works currently, couldn't the major PvP group sit that every single weekend, denying most/all potential progress to their opponents? This would in theory deepen the quality disparity to a point where eventually the minor group either stops showing up or takes enough casualties that they lose the ability to fight.

Should there be major meteorites on weekends for big fights and minor ones during the week to mix it up?


Anyway that's all I've got to say. I'm not the one who should be answering these questions.

[MrBunzy]

Some of us work on weekends though. Totally random is good, it means everyone has a chance to make it to some, some of the time.