Scenario Time Question

[skribetm]

Who wants to waste a beautiful summer Saturday at the computer desk?

me & everyone else living in texas.
120 days of 100+F temps straight this yr.

summer sucks!

[perdue3]

We have the same summers just maybe 5 degrees less. I know what ya mean but I am sure if I was forced to go outside I would find something productive to do.

[black]

B

Terrible Twins

[Babalonian]

B

[BaldEagl]

The biggest reason I haven't attended scenarios is the 3pm time. Right now, I need to literally plan scenarios as my 'alone time' so I have to pick and choose the events I want to take part in very carefully. If the events were moved to 6pm or later, it would be all the difference in the world.

I do feel the Euro/Aussie pain and I'm not without sympathy. When I worked nights, I would get to bed at 11am and be up by 2:45pm so I could make the scenario and often was the GL.

^ This although for me 3:00 PM is out completely except alternate weekends in the winter.  It's kept me out of scenarios for 15 years.  I just stopped watching what the start times would be.  It ended up being a fluke that I got into BoG.  Now I'd like to do another but if they are going to all be at 3:00 PM I'll stop checking again.  Maybe I'll stumble into another one in another 15 years or so.

[Stampf]

B.

or

C.  - Like mentioned above, anytime before 6:PM EST on a weekend, and my chances of attending diminish greatly.

[Megalodon]

This particular time slot is used most often as it has evolved over more than 15 years.  It is the one slot that most people around the globe can attend, no one is thrilled, but most are available.

We don't always run them at this time period, but it is not a time slot we simply pulled out of our collective hats

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[Flossy]

Having played in scenarios for the past 13-14 years in both Air Warrior and here in Aces High, I think 3:00 pm Eastern time is the best time for the majority of players to participate.  There is no time that is ideal for everyone worldwide but it is a good compromise.  The only other solution I can think of is to do like they did in AW and have midweek US evening Frames as well as weekend Frames for each scenario.  This seemed to work well in AW and meant most people could at least make some of the frames.  

Alternating the times between 3:00 pm and 10:00 pm would be all well and good if there were more scenarios being held each year, but with only 3 those of us in Europe would only get a chance to participate in 1 or in alternate years, 2 per year.  I love scenarios, they are mostly what keeps me here, and I always look forward to being part of them along with everyone else.

At present, there is no way I can stay up late for a US-timed frame as I still work full-time, unfortunately, so I would greatly appreciate it if scenarios were all played at 3:00 pm Eastern time and have some late-night frames during the week each time.

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[Zoney]

Having played in scenarios for the past 13-14 years in both Air Warrior and here in Aces High, I think 3:00 pm Eastern time is the best time for the majority of players to participate.  There is no time that is ideal for everyone worldwide but it is a good compromise.  The only other solution I can think of is to do like they did in AW and have midweek US evening Frames as well as weekend Frames for each scenario.  This seemed to work well in AW and meant most people could at least make some of the frames.  

Alternating the times between 3:00 pm and 10:00 pm would be all well and good if there were more scenarios being held each year, but with only 3 those of us in Europe would only get a chance to participate in 1 or in alternate years, 2 per year.  I love scenarios, they are mostly what keeps me here, and I always look forward to being part of them along with everyone else.

At present, there is no way I can stay up late for a US-timed frame as I still work full-time, unfortunately, so I would greatly appreciate it if scenarios were all played at 3:00 pm Eastern time and have some late-night frames during the week each time.

A

Hi Flossy.  I'm sorry that you will not be able to participate in some of the scenarios with the new start times.

Before these changes, myself and may other US participants who work on Saturdays would never be able to do them.

In my opinion the new schedule accommodates all players some of the time.