Guild Wars 2

This suggestion/recommendation was said in another thread, but I think has gotten lost in all the animosity within that thread and I just wanted to highlight it and see what support/non-support it would have.

Please either show support, non-support and/or give reasons why you think/don’t think it would be better than the current proposed reset time that will soon take effect.

Please don’t attack other people’s posts, if you want to do that go to some other thread.

The idea was:

Have the WvW reset time be on Saturday, such as 1PM PDT, 4PM EDT, 10PM for most of EU, 4AM (Sunday) for Western Aussie and 6AM (Sunday) for Eastern Aussie

Or, you could do it as:

Friday evening 9PM PDT, 12PM EDT, 6AM (Saturday) for most of EU, Noon (Saturday) for Western Aussie, and 1PM (Saturday) for Eastern Aussie

My opinion
I’m trying to take into consideration reasonable times for reset for all time zones with having the least stress put on any one area.

As it stands, with the current proposed reset times the majority of SA/NA will be at work/just getting home from work at reset, EU will still be hitting reset late night after a work day, and SEA/Oceanic will be pulling early morning. By shifting the reset more towards the weekend (time when the majority of people aren’t working) it should satisfy more WvW players.

The first example of proposed times above puts more burden on the SEA/Oceanic players with very early morning reset for them.

I personally like the second option better because it allows SA/NA players the option of staying up to play at reset, EU players the option of getting up at a reasonable time to play at reset, and will actually allow SEA/Oceanic players the chance to play at reset.

IMO, this is win all around. Let me know what your proposed times for reset are and why you think they are good.

For your second option, your times are out, its not 1pm Eastern Aussie when its 6am EU. UK is currently 9 hours behind (4am) us and Paris is 8 (5am)

It would be 6am in Eastern Europe though.

Yea, too many time zones…. and it was too late for me to be posting that anyway (work only about 4-5 hours after the post) but I figured I’d just do what I could. Either way the times are close and would seem, to me, to be a better options all around than what was proposed by Anet.

But, it seems like this controversy has died down and the sky hasn’t fallen, so I don’t think it’ll be an issue anymore.

You are however assuming that the GW2 team have nothing against working every single Saturday.

Another thing to keep in mind is that WvW usually sees the most action during the weekends, and having the reset when more or less half the weekend is already over would most likely hurt it more than it would help it.

I think a much simpler solution is to just have Reset rotate between Friday 11am Server (18:00 UTC) and 5pm Server (00:00 UTC Saturday) each week.

Both Major Regions can enjoy “Prime Time Reset” and Oceanic/SEA gets a decent Saturday Morning Reset again every other week.