Australia needs better playtest times!

[visual isle]

The Australian playtest times are ridiculous. We're getting one or two good times but the rest are either stupendously early (12am-5am) or so late (10:30-2am) that it just isn't worth it. WE NEED BETTER TIMES!

[trail sundial]

Im fairly sure there is a thread about this already, but im too lazy to search right now

The general response is that they try to pick what is best for everyone. Keep in mind, that every second the servers are running is costing them money. While the devs would love to help out, it is hard to find time slots that not only maximize player counts but also is reasonable for all players.

For example, the last test was at 830am for me, thats 1230am your time, but is early afternoon for most of the EU playerbase (130pm london, 230pm berlin, 330pm helsinki)

If we shifted that to 830am your time, its 430pm my time (EST), 930pm London, 1030pm Berlin, 1130pm Helsinki, 630am Tokyo. Not bad US times, but just bad for pretty much everyone else.

Not saying Au players are less valued, just that your location makes it hard to fit perfectly into EVERYONES timeslot. Pretty much no matter how you shift it, the good playtimes for Au are really bad times for everyone or most zones.

It sucks, I get it, I used to play PSO2 on the JP servers, times were not great for me, and the current times are not great either as I work the closing shift so Im at work while most tests are going now.

[onyx crescent]

https://discord.com/channels/303681520202285057/1068004630149214209 Thread from a few weeks ago

[visual isle]

understood, thanks. I hope the game works out for the best

[iron venture]

I think a 24hr one would work best for everyone

[simple wave]

The playtest used to be at 9:30 PM AEST

Theres no way around it

Any adjustments will end up pissing someone off

[cosmic sleet]

To add to this and make slight corrections. The servers have already been paid off for the next couple months. Larger part is that oki and the other devs have to stop working on bug fixes/making content and constantly watch games for hackers/look at reports, help players having issues and tons of other things as well as being awake for every hour of it. That is a lot to put up with especially if it's at a really bad time for them. They have already sacrificed sleep schedules to produce what they can for this game and doing it more to hold specific times for specific regions would to be too much

[cosmic sleet]

This would also be absolutely impossible, asking the devs to be up for every hour of something like that.

[trail sundial]

Impossible no, unlikely yes. I would love to volunteer for a 24h test to watch reports for a few hours. But ya, it's not likely to happen

[cosmic sleet]

Yeah but it's not all reports and I'd be very surprised if oki would trust Community members to do a good job of looking at reports. Help booting the game and having major bug fixes needed like when tokens create huge issues and when helis used to crash servers. That could happen and if they aren't around to fix it people will give them tons of flak

[trail sundial]

Oh I know, its super unlikely to happen. I used to moderate the ADK servers for BattleField 4, I know too well the effort it take took to moderate a handful of servers (think 15?). I do kinda miss it.

[cosmic sleet]

well that might elect you for that kind of thing, but im sure that would be a headache for oki to try and do while he is spending most his day coding for the game. especially since there are certain things that go further into the system than looking at reports for banning people, we do have lots of moderators in this discord but im not sure if much of them can take on the same in game stuff oki can just with the tools hes given them

we should take this into gen or something if we wanted to talk more since this is meant to be a thread for something entirely different even though OPs questions have been deferred by your initial messagew