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Seige hrs from interview
Aardvark
Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
So they mentioned in an interview today an example of time zones and times that certain things have to happen in, with the example being an EST server would have castle seiges limited to 3-7PM so that noone can seige you at 2AM.
I see 2 issues with this:
1) 3PM-5PM being in the window means noone with a normal job can defend or attack for half of the allowed window. (maybe this was just random times tossed out)
2) If the timer never moves anything that comes out you can't do you could be unable to ever do. There should be multiple times. Like if world bosses spawn at noon on Wednesday and you work then you will never get a boss kill on this boss once people learn how to kill it. Not because you can't but because it will always be dead before you get home.
I see 2 issues with this:
1) 3PM-5PM being in the window means noone with a normal job can defend or attack for half of the allowed window. (maybe this was just random times tossed out)
2) If the timer never moves anything that comes out you can't do you could be unable to ever do. There should be multiple times. Like if world bosses spawn at noon on Wednesday and you work then you will never get a boss kill on this boss once people learn how to kill it. Not because you can't but because it will always be dead before you get home.
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It's once a month, and maybe that was on Saturdays.
You'll never find a time that works for 100%, but I agree should find a time that works for most.
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The Siege hours they mentioned in the Summit and Asmon interviews were 5-7pm server time, which is prime time, it's also based on time zone of the server, so can kind of pick a server that would make it most possible for you to attend node sieges if that's a priority for you.
Hopefully we find out more about siege times, I doubt they would make a system that only allows the unemployed to participate. I'm sure they'll figure something out/extend the times/whatnot.
The prime times of servers will be listed next to the server on selection so you can pick a server that is right for you!
The system is essentially "server prime time only"
This game will NOT allow 2am node sieges or anything even remotely close.
Aion and some other mmo's which I played long time ago had this and it was amazing.
I hope AoC team do same thing.
The important thing is, they've mentioned they do not want "offline raiding" type of gameplay, and they want people to be able to be online and defend. This, to me, suggests they will also not want to screw over the working-class playerbase. So I think we're all good, we're going to get appropriate prime time windows, whatever that ends up being. They have the metrics so they will know, and we have the forums to communicate to them if things are good/bad.
As far as I can see, this game is not attempting to gate players from foreign countries / different time zones, so creating a wide window of time for these events with different start times might just offer greater player inclusion.
That would be what I would be voting for.