Please understand that there are more then 2 timezones

@mathpie said in Please understand that there are more then 2 timezones:

Gold rush hour is on the same 2 one hour slots each day.

the first at 17 UCT
the second at 18 PDT

Or, if you live in wester europe:
16-17h (when you are driving home from work)
and 03-04h (when you are obviously sleeping)

This means players from my timezone (and others) are not able to ever take advantage of these multipliers.
Why not make it so that the Gold Rush hour follows the Timezone of the server?

Like it or not, but the fast fast majority of players are from Europe and the USA/Canada, so they made those time a bit normal times for those timezones. So it makes sence that the time are made so that they at least have a shot. I can agree with you that for Europe that time still isn't very handy, but otherwise those times would be to close to each other, wich would make it more difficult for other timezones. There is now an 11h and 13h gap between them, so every region in the world at least 1 of those 2 Rush hours would be during the day.

@mathpie said in Please understand that there are more then 2 timezones:

Why not make it so that the Gold Rush hour follows the Timezone of the server?

I mean, even mobile games like Pokemon Go have their events set up so they are active on fixed hours per time zone.

Pokemon Go is a single player game and you always play in your timezone. SoT isn't. A European player can be playing on a US-server. First of all it gives the problem how do you know wich server you're on? This means that most players won't even know anymore when their Gold Rush is. And if you do make it easily checkable, it would just be abused by people who just deliberately hop (VPN's) on Gold Rush servers.

And if you make it dependend on the time of the player on the ship: a player from central Europe can then just team up with a UK-player to have a 2 hour long Gold Rush...

It just wouldn't work for SoT.

Imo gold rush has run its course

with the very low organic activity and much higher alliance production and activity it's not really what it once was.

The mass cheesing of community days and double gold weekends makes it pretty irrelevant organically.

I would just turn every day into content incentives.

Gold incentives to do vaults, world events, shrines, voyages. It'll still get cheesed but it'll be far more organic-play friendly. Have something going constantly to incentivize engaging in content any time of the day, all day, not just cheesing gold.

Even gold incentives (real gold incentives for the time not just 3k or 5k) to do tall tales would help out with activity. (entire tale not checkpoint cheesing)

They already wrecked true risk/reward they might as well cater to organic play more rather than just continuing to feed the top of the chain more and more.

and have in game alerts about what is going on so everyone is clearly and regularly informed

@pithyrumble said in Please understand that there are more then 2 timezones:

Easy fix. Make the next Gold Rush 5 to 7 hour's ahead or behind. Odd number will cause it to cycle through all the hour's cause 24 h days. That way timezone buddies can't scam.

That was about having the Gold Rush for every timezone on the same time i was commenting about ;-)

But perhaps they should make 3 Gold Rush's, so every 8 hours one? In UTC it could then be at 4:00 (4am), 12:00 (12pm) and 20:00 (8pm).

@burnbacon said in Please understand that there are more then 2 timezones:

Takes less than 3 min to convert. And you can even use your phone.

Last I checked, even. 10 year old has a phone

It’s not that people don’t know what time events are at, it’s the fact that they happen at times that many people cannot play. In Australia, it happens in the middle of the day, perfect when people don’t have work or school but… most of the time they do.