Denied Change the time of the 6 pm event

[Vandori 6]

What your suggestion is: Change time of 6 pm event

 

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Change the time of 6 pm event

 

This suggestion has been brought up before by List however while it got denied I still believe this topic must be brought up again because of the following reasons.

 

Firstly, hosting training and tryouts. People tend to come on the server just before the 4 pm event after school, work or other activities. The 4 pm event the event planner collects and depending on the interests of the player the event might start on time or later. This is not the EPs fault however if the EP cannot get enough ECs in time that might lead to a smaller time frame between the 4 and 6 pm. This furthermore results in people being unable to host trainings or tryouts as most people tend to eat after the 4 pm event.

 

Secondly, a stronger player base. Before the 7 pm event was changed to a 6 pm event. The time between was great to get people to become better with their respective equipment with cool awesome training’s. But also allow people in their respective regiment to create social ties between each which resulted in a stronger player base on the server overall. This would also motivate both younger players to come back after a tryout but also to rise through the regiments and become more committed with said regiment.

 

However this change would make it so that CWRP and IRP would fight over both participants and prime event time which could result in either server getting low enough population so that there is not an event for one or the other. As well as having people choose which server to be active on at the moment which is unfortunate as some are active on both servers.

 

Lastly, People logging off. After having two events with a small break between them most people tend to start logging off. As many feel that they have either played enough, have other things to do or overall might have had a bad experience of the event. This results in some people having a hard time to both do tryouts to keep their regiments going and hosting trainings to keep people coming back.

 

To summarize. The short time frame between 4 and 6 pm events makes it more difficult for regiments to engage with each other. Resulting in less trainings and tryouts. Personally I appreciate being an EC and the work EPs But into their event. But I also prioritize making awesome trainings for my regiments and I am finding it harder to do as many tend to go AFK in the time between 4 and 6 pm events. And I believe other regiments are feeling the same. To change the 6 pm event to either 7 or 6:30 would make a big difference in the long term status of the server in a positive way.

 

[List 34]

Although I fully agree with you and so does most of the server this decision is solely up to CAT and from what Spades explained to me it would be more beneficial for the community to grow as a whole with us competing with other CWRP servers that have a 6pm event time and it causes more competition with IRP. Also you can argue with map swap and planetarys being longer sometimes the gap is decently equal.

The reasoning is pretty valid but its hard to gauge whether there is truth to that or if it is even true at all that we will have a larger more stable player count with a later planetary event time. The only way I could think of to test this would be for 2 weeks have the event time later and see how that effects playercount on both servers (CWRP and IRP) and other competing communities on CWRP. Even then that test would be flawed as playercount is pretty fluctuant as of late on both servers and goes off many other factors.

Overall the system we have now works well enough to keep CWRP stable at least and trying to change it or at least test a change to convince CAT would be a bigger pain than just dealing with what we have now. Unless you can come up with a really good argument to convince Spades to change it then (I pretty much voiced everything you said here) this suggestion is for certain getting denied.

Edited February 7, 2022 by List
mistyped :/

[Henk - DutchDavin 45]

Neutral 
List summed it up pretty good

[Hazard 25]

was denied before dont think they are going to change their minds but always worth a 2nd try i guess.

[Wanted 30]

+1

My answer remains the same, a change is NEEDED

[Kaas 7]

+1 

Everything this man states is correct and I fully support it.

[sandy.tm 125]

+1

As an EP 4pm's go one for a farely longtime and that gives no one any time to do regimental shit at map swap as an event will just start instantly so id like to see it happen

[Scott.. 33]

+1

I hate 6pm events go back to 7pm or i will headbutt my wall

[Nox 40]

+1

My points were stated previously, and i'll still plus one even though  it was denied by spades before so it will be denied again

 

[Silent 148]

The classic SWRP experience, entire and overwhelming community opinion, still denied

[Fusion365 74]

+1 fuck CAT focuses on IRP anyway #halesacceptthis

Edited February 9, 2022 by Fusion365

[Ghost31 9]

+1 tbf alot of people want it 

[Lewis 46]

Denied
Exactly the same answer as previous suggestion.