How about making different ending times for us???
Now we are never able to play the last 6-8 hours because they end in the middle of the night/morning?!
That way we miss out on covers and are not able to play the next events where the new covers are required!?
It’s always been this way; the event ending on Wednesday ends at 5pm UK time, the other 2 weekly PVPs end 5am UK time.
As for PVE, I can only remember a single round of Heroic Juggernaut (with Thor rewards) that didn’t end at 5am UK time.
For PVP you just play earlier and shield up. Never missed out on any covers I wanted. Of course, it eats a lot of HP for at least an 8hr shield each and every tourney.
The real problem is PVE where we can’t protect our ranking.
They end at 6 AM for me. When I have to be up early for work, I just get up a little earlier and play. When I don’t, I simply get up, play and go back to bed. And since m score usually is around 600 or 700 before the final push, I have to shield anyway, thanks to the new system in PvP (there was a time when you didn’t need shields at all, until the last 3 hours, and when you could play the final 20 minutes without being torn to shreds…).
The events on NA en time ends at 6 a.m. for me, and I prefer that than the European time. European time ends at 6 p.m. At that time I’m working and can’t play the last 20 h of the event… so I prefer ending times of 00:00+ at least I’m able to decide If I want to play the event or not. Ending at 18:00 and being an steam user I can’t play being at work.
I’m hoping someday they will add the option to play the steam account on the mobile, at least I would be able to do some extra ISO witha couple of games.
I always thought it would be a good idea to group people based also on geographic region and have different ending times for different time zones. Or actually, have the event end 6pm / midnight in every time zone. That would make it much easier for a lot of people. I can’t usually get up at 5am just to play another hour to have a chance at getting a better cover / more HP. Shielding is not an option for me either, since I am glad for every HP I can put into additional roster slots.
I have a lot of sympathy, but from a purely selfish perspective the PvP that finish at midnight EDT suit me better. That’s 4 pm here. Of the day after.
When they finish at 4 am the only thing I can do is play until I go to bed and use an 8-hour shield. When they finish at 4 pm I can play over lunch and shield for only 3 hours.
I think there’s a potential grouping advantage as well. If I join a group between 7 and 10 pm here, the Americans will be asleep and the Europeans awake, so the group should be dominated by Europeans. That should mean that the last 3 hours are less perilous for unshielding and a push for the top.
Theoretically, anyway. I’ll give it a try next time an event is due to finish at that time.
(Edited for idiocy, but left the idiocy in anyway.)
Of course it won’t make the last 3 hours any less perilous. What it will mean is that the leader board will be pretty much static, if I manage a climb to top 5 I’m more likely to stay there.
I dont mind the geographic idea…being from Australia a huge number of events finish at midday..…and its rare a job that allows play at work
I hear the use a shield commentary for PvP and its wot I do for PvP…but as others have said pve is effectively ruled out for me.
First off, 6 pm (5pm for UK) is NOT an EU friendly end time. Most of us is at work/school or just getting home. In pvp this forces us for a 24 hour shield.
Second, the problem is with the rubberbanding system being broken in PVE. If you can be top 10 for 2-5-7-10 days, it is not right to fall out of top 200 in the last 8 hours. I am not even trying for personal placement anymore on 6 am ending PVE events, because it is futile.