Guild Wars 2

Why not have the “one time events” actually go off every few hours or so, for 24 hours?
For example. HAve the event set to go off at 3 PM, 6 PM, 9 PM and 12 AM.
Have an NPC located in Lions Arch, that players would talk to to go to the current running event.
You speak to the NPC, you are transfered to an “instanced” area for all who are attending that event.
While the event is ongoing, anyone may speak to the NPC to attend.
Once the event has ended, that cheractor has now attended the one time event and cannot attend it again on one of the other occurances.
Using this method, players in any time zone could select which event thay want to attend in that 24 hour period.
Also using this method, you could limit an event to “one time” for either a charactor, or an account.
This could be a win/win situatiuon, one time events for all, less lag as not everyone has to try to attend at exectly the same time,
and almost everyone in any time zone should be able to attend.