#Change Dragon Invasion schedule

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serene raft
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You’ve got 20 hours now to pop heroes on the ship! It’s only during the four hours of the attack phase you can’t put heroes on the ship

bold breach
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arround the same time for all timezones does simply not work. the server would need to check what time it is for a user for every person the outcome would be highly unpredictable and would cost a lot of performance because the server would be busy calculating times all the time

remote gulch
remote gulch
bold breach
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it was not 4 o clock for all timezones

remote gulch
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still much better than 12:00

remote gulch
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why was it shifted by 8 hours anyway?

bold breach
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it was 4 o clock for your timezone and no other timezone, you can't set the same time for all timezones and making the time fit your needs more, makes it worse for a lot of others

remote gulch
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obvious! 😛

bold breach
remote gulch
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and the office is where?

bold breach
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somewhere in canada i guess?

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kabam shifted it so someone is in the office, that was the official announcement

remote gulch
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at least some in game notification would be useful

serene raft
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Montreal

remote gulch
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"The ship leaves in 10 minutes to fight dragons!"

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especially if someone hasn't filled all the items/heroes slots yet

bold breach
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could you explain why a 10 minute notification would help you? 10 minutes is not that long and you only need one group of heroes for dragon invasion. with the cooldown drastically reduce, you can even use the same group in every round without waking it up with items

wheat dagger
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You can donate items the entire day, not sure why you'd need a shift

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20 hours for heroes

fringe mantle
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How would you schedule launch so that players everywhere, not just in your timezone can sleep while it happens? If you just want players to launch parties at THEIR midnight - the event's fighting phase would have to stretch sooooo long..

20 hours to prep is really not a short time, I've never had a problem with launch time (GMT +1 here).
How would 10 minutes notification help if you didn't prepare beforehand? And if you did - don't wait until last second to donate items I guess.

frigid basalt
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I don't get it.. the adjustment was done in favor of everyone?..

Before the heroes were unavailable for 12 hours (+24 hours rest).. you could load them the same time as before; but now you (and more importantly, everyone else) have more time before the window closes, isn't it? The prep time was only increased, not shifted.

For other time zones, the old schedule was far worse when the window to load closes as the day begins and they only come back at night (end of day)

bold breach
frigid basalt
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Picked up ST on the 2nd DI so that's that.. but I was basing it from what he was pertaining to; 4:00 + 8 = 12:00 (12/13 from 4/5 in OP) so isn't that based on the recent adjustment?

bold breach
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ah yeah, you might be right, he might be talking about that adjustment

remote gulch
remote gulch
wheat dagger
remote gulch
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if you send squad just for dragons whole week then congrats 😂

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I've always healed them the moment ship returned, sent them on 2-3 quests and then sent them for dragons again

bold breach
# remote gulch I forgot twice to send them because of this shift. Until now sending squad for d...

you forgot them because you don't want to send ONE group of heroes in there earlier. you have a window of 20 hours to put one group in there, you just don't want to do that. You want the times changed so they fit better into your schedule but right now there is at least 1 timezone that has exactly the schedule you want to have and people from that timezone would have exactly the downsides you think you have now

remote gulch
bold breach
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yeah and you don't have to send the best squad, if the rest is also good enough

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the thing is you want the times changed so they fit your schedule but the people who have the schedule you want to have right now would get the downsides because of your way to play

remote gulch
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I used my time just as an example

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it's O.B.V.I.O.U.S it can't fit all timezones and I never said it should be fit to mine

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20:00, 0:00, 4:00 - any would be better than 12:00

frigid basalt
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Why not load them at 4:00?

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I don't get what's stopping you from doing so?

bold breach
frigid basalt
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Ok.. on this DI, I also missed 1 loading.. and the changes we're beneficial to me.. but that's me trying to maximize my time (and then forgot later on) which I didn't have before..
We didn't have extra time before, that's the difference.. there's no shift at all.

How about see it this way, we only had 12 hours to load before, now we have 20 hrs in a day?
And the rest time is now down to 4.. from 24. So we can use them in those extra 8 hours. Some regions have maximum usage for those 8, some partial, some none.. but no one is worse-off

remote gulch
frigid basalt
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So can we reword this to: I (or someone) didn't get the additional benefits of the adjusted time? But it didn't became worse for anyone?

remote gulch
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I honestly don't know why do you think ship's take off at 4/5 a.m. was a benefit for me

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it wasn't there and now it's even worse

frigid basalt
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I didn't say that, the old time was also bad for you.. so changing it to 12noon instead doesn't help at all?

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How is it even worse?

bold breach
# remote gulch there's always been a downside for someone!

what i am asking is why should they have the downsides because you don't want them? i mean you could also consider moving to an area with utc+9, then it would be 20:00 for you but that might not be an option you want to consider either

remote gulch
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only good change is making whole thing shorter

bold breach
remote gulch
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you still don't get it 😛

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I meant the Assault phase

bold breach
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no i don't because someone will always be the person with problems and i get the idea you just don't want that person to be you

remote gulch
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like I said: you don't get it at all 😛

bold breach
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let's say they shorten the preparation phase to 8 hours and that overlaps with my workingshift, then that would overlap completely and i couldn't participate at all

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you think about your heroes being in there before the time is nearly over as wasting your heroes. but you can choose when you want them in there and even if they shorten the event (even more because it's allready 2 days shorter) someone will have whatever your timespan will be in the middle of the day

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and the event is timebased, taking that away would make it a complete new event

fringe mantle
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Fish you keep saying that you want this change to fit your schedule, but when confronted with a counter argument of "your schedule isn't more important than schedule of others" your only reply is "its OBVIOUS" and you go around in circles xD

worldly tree
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I just send my top 5 heroes before I go to bed

remote gulch
wheat dagger
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Having multiple start times would cause a lot of problems

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How would they determine what timezone I'm in?

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Without using my phone settings because I can change that anytime

bold breach
remote gulch
remote gulch
bold breach
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maybe you should try explaining what you mean and maybe in more detail, so that we don't have to guess what you might mean

stray pecan
wheat dagger
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You did

Would be much better for ship to leave at midnight or around it for all timezones
That's 24 start times

remote gulch
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In this whole range not even 1 timezone have ships take off at midnight in new schedule.

torpid cape
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Maybe the heroes prefer to fight the dragon when the sun is shining instead of in the dark.
Case closed if you ask me 😂

remote gulch
remote gulch
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but of course I'm the troll here! Right @stray pecan ? 🤣

hazy grove
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there's so many solutions to the problem you have and you managed to suggest the worst one.

remote gulch
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notification about ship taking off soon so that people didn't forget about it with new schedule is "the worst" idea?

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you clearly have absolutely no idea about UX 😉

hazy grove
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you've made quite a leap there

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your ability to have an open mind in a suggestion channel is staggering

remote gulch
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wow 🤯

hazy grove
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is the issue that you're online 10 minutes before ship takes off but forget to do it?

remote gulch
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mostly yes, I don't have to be online

hazy grove
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huh?

remote gulch
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in case you don't know this is also available on mobile

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I get all kinds of notifications from the game when I'm not online

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why not send one more about DI ship taking off in 10 minutes?

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especially when I still have empty slots for items/heroes

hazy grove
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oh shit you got a mobile phone? my friend let me see his one time. had this awesome app call "Clock". It would make alerts go off whenever you want them to.

remote gulch
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at least you know what I'm talking about 😉

severe dawn
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Players are from many different time zones and this is not possible to do set base time for start DI for all players. I mean, that Kabam increased the Prepare Phase to 20 hours for satisfaction of many players, majority. It's not possible for satisfaction all.

stark prawn
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Just sliding on in here before this gets out of hand to remind people to keep it civil please

remote gulch
remote gulch
stark prawn
remote gulch
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ok, case closed then