[GI] Icys in the winter event

Or we could have the event run like one hour every 4 hours or different times on different days.

 

Yes, which is why I have said many, many times now its only day 3 of the event and nobody knows what the rest of the schedule is going to be like.

I just don't get the notion that people think the time slots that suite the vast majority of players should be moved for the sake of a smaller group of players that work irregular hours and won't be able to do the icey on a certain day.

 

Please, just stop pointing this out. If someone is not able to do it, that doesn't mean that he/she has irregular work hours. You don't know for sure, and you should not point it out without knowing the exact problem.

For example, someone has faculty and has work to be done too.

 

... what country do you live in where the standard working hours for most people involve them being at work between 6pm and 10pm?

 

I am in Europe, and I didn't said that I have problem with the working hours. What I am saying is that we have other work to do, along with the "standard" working hours. Get it? If I am at work till 5pm, that doesn't mean after that I don't have some other work to do. We all have families.

 

Of course.

If a person is busy today then they just do it another day or catch them on the weekend when you have enough time.

You really are going out your way to think of every obstacle you can, as if saying that some people have busy lives so the time of today's event times should be changed to suite them is a valid response.



No matter what time of day it was you could think of an excuse as to why its bad for some person out there who has something going on in their lives at that particular time.
You will never find a time that is perfect for everyone. So DO has obviously put them on during the time slot where they see the most players active.

 

If you really want to go that deeper, let me explain it than.

• I didn't said I can't do it today, nor some other day. I said that it is good if it can be prolonged to a better duration. In fact, I did full 3.5 hours, and got 21k uridium (if anyone is interested)
• I don't know if that missions stack or no. Someone above said that they do not stack, which is a problem. If that is not the case, I am still standing on my opinion. Ice Meteoroids event should last longer each day. Some of us have work, some doesn't. In both cases, we have families and lives, we do enjoy the game and that's why most of us asked for a longer duration. Simple as that. If I didn't liked the game, I wouldn't complain on something. Complaining means I think something can be done better for the good sake of all, not for mine only.
  
• All I have wrote is my opinion, and only mine. You may like it or not. If you don't like what I have to say, at least don't make it sound like I am talking trash here.

Over and out.

All the best.
Devy

 

i like this and can agree. Don't know anything about game economics but I do know how to keep my customers happy it's easy. You work with them find out what need to be " happy". Ajust what I need to do, so they are happy. "Happy customer spend money ." There are many things other then all day icy's you could break it up over the day maybe 4 times. Something other then a 4 hour slot. or just don't put missions up that can only be completed in a specified time slot out of 24 hr. or just one easy fix would be to let us skip over missions and come back to them when we can. Woo hoo Fixed Should I send an invoice for consulting. lol

 

I think some adjustment should be made and have icy's appear more often than a single peak period time slot. With the ever growing increase of people working unsocial hours in the service industry, catering industy, medical and careing professions and so forth this, is there busy time of year and they have limited free time. We no longer live in a 9 till 5 world and this should be a consideration when events such as the winter event takes place.

 

The consequence of FB only providing events and quest npcs at the certain repeated times is that it puts people off coming on the server at other times and people who work unsocial hours from even bothering to carry on past level 10. For upto 3/4 of the day during the week, the servers are dead, sometimes the majority of the people on are from outside the UK in the case of gb1 and gb2.

If you want to attract customers to a game that should be 24/7 and used to be busy even at 4am, you need to spread out the reward npcs and events to encourage people to be on. Otherwise just turn it into a prime time game only open for 4 hours a night and weekends.

 

Could be that is the time of the most activity on the game is but by ignoring the other players at other times is just bad business. Thats just what the game is. They wish us to buy a premium membership, spend money on uri to use in game. As a consumer would you keep going to a place that only let you eat the appetizers, The meals are served at time you can't be there. I wouldn't, well "maybe" depend on how good those appetizers were. That was a bad example. I do still think you get my point. It's not about what time the events are, it's about treating all customers the same or if you will, giving all players no matter what time they are on in this 24/7 game. The same chances in all time frames to complete a task not just a 4 hour time slot out of 24. I also looked around the forums only thing I can find is on Speakers corner after todays icy event the next schedule one that I saw was sometime on 12/ 28/ 15. tough to do 28 days of missions in what times left.

 

You realize there are other servers in which will work in your favor, you just picked one that doesn't work and now you're complaining, i say try another server. There's a reason why there are other servers with different times. If you dont like that idea, wait till the weekend and do them all at once

 

11/12
ICE METEOROIDS
12:00 am - 12:00 am

this is showing for upcoming event this is also the day the mission for the breach gate comes out looks like DO putting on for 24 hours so everyone can catch up


edit: or its going to come on for a sec and stop lmao

 

11th of december as a anniversary day is the only one day when they are not mean.

 

24 Hrs of ICE METEOROIDS plus the breach GG, going to be lots black coffee and energy drinks I think.

 

Okapi is a fool. its been the same time for 5 more days in a row. Us senior players know exactly what BP is up to and will likely do, we have seen it for 8 years now. Such a straw man arguer! "I will make 7 mil a month if Icy's were on" TOTAL bs, no one has the stamina to play that long, and. I can blast through a million uri in ammo in two days no problems fighting other UFE and gating ABG for x4

 

I have a solution. We can create an ice meteoroid room. You can only be in the room for 2 hours total but can enter it anytime in the day provided you have not hit your 2 hour limit. If someone can only play at 1 am til 2am and then from 5pm to 6pm then they go into the room at 1 and leave at 2. They could then come back at 5 then exit at 6. The ice meteoroid rooms are company based so one for eic, one for mmo, and one for vru. The number of ice meteoroids in the room are dependent on the people there and how fast they kill it. This way economy is not destroyed because each person is allowed max 2 hours in the room in total per day and it's suitable to people of all schedules.

 

brill.

 

Ah right and I'm sure over those 5 days you never had the chance to do a single Icy to complete your quests right? You were so busy that you didn't have enough time to some of the 17 hours worth of Icy.

Call me the fool but somehow I think 17 hours worth of Icy already when the event isn't 1/3rd of the way complete is enough time to get a few quests done.

As for the uridium you have to look at the potential people can make, not what you will make, some people will have no problem "playing" for that long because it wouldn't actually be them playing it all the time.

The amount of work that would be needed to create a solo instance for thousands of players for the sake of a 2 hour time span for a single event is daft. What about the players that can't solo them and wanted to work with their mates to kill them? So now the room has to be able to work with outfits which is now more work - at this rate the dev team might as well spent a few months making a new GG instead.

They would also have to drop all their other things they are working on for the sake of this 1 feature for 1 event that a handful of players are complaining about because the most convenient time slots for Icy for the vast majority of players are the most convenient for them and them only.

All whilst they have nothing to fear from enemy players - which is sort of the point of a PvP game.


If people honestly have a problem with doing Icy which have been on for 5/10 days so far, even weekends, as well as they are going to be on for 24 hours on the 11th - then maybe, just maybe, its their schedule that's the problem and not the games.

They have had so many opportunities to do the NPC and they will continue to have more opportunities as the event goes on, we're not even 1/3rd of the way done.

 

Its not cool that its out all day when are boxes out, sure ill be boxing for icies, but atleast ill do my quests during that day.