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[Feedback] Server time is PDT instead of UTC.

ComicSansComicSans
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edited August 2017 in Suggestions, Feedback, and Requests
I welcome this change. I'm quite confident most of the GMS player base is located in the Americas, so PDT is a more natural time to use over UTC. UTC seems to cater specifically to the European players in GMS which is OK, but I think it makes more sense to use a timezone that the larger playerbase is more comfortable/familiar with.

That said, regardless of which server time standard is used, I do think that time-based events such as kritias invasion, event games/flag-race type things (100-player bingo, eluna hourly event) should be throughout the day, rather than only during one half of the day, since the latter often prevents a large region from certain time zones to miss most or all of these events. The recent change to eluna becoming hourly and all day rather than only during the middle of the night and mornings for us in the Americas was greatly appreciated, so I hope this is a new recurring trend rather than a rare occurrence.

Comments

  • duelghostduelghost
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    edited August 2017
    I haven't noticed this, but I'm staying cautious about it. Something tells me that they made it PDT since Luna characters aren't here but could change it back in the live servers.
  • ComicSansComicSans
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    edited August 2017
    duelghost wrote: »
    I haven't noticed this, but I'm staying cautious about it. Something tells me that they made it PDT since Luna characters aren't here but could change it back in the live servers.
    I hope what you've said isn't the case, but it's possible. I don't see any mention of the change in server time in the patch notes.
  • AKradianAKradian
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    edited August 2017
    I'm sure they just made it PDT because that's their default (being in California). Since a change to the server time is not mentioned in the Update Notes, I'm sure it's not an intentional difference from the live servers.
  • YonaxYonax
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    edited August 2017
    It's just in PDT for Tespia. Live servers will stay the same and stay in UTC. No reason to change that anyway.