#Time Zones

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gritty imp
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Asking specifically towards those in time zones outside of the average US/Western EU for some of your gameplay experiences, and your how that's effected your gameplay.

Also curious for things that help you, things that have made it easier to talk to people, issues that come up while playing, etc.

remote grail
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Don't sleep

More seriously I am constantly radicalized for ten different reasons about how liberally to run whispers and this is one reason during periods where my schedule resembles a normal person's. I more often run into this issue from an ST seat than a player one because I'm neurotic about the possibility of starting days at bad times, but from a player seat I never really recovered back to normal whispers after encountering full async whispers

modern pike
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GMT+8 POV
I can second: Don't sleep.
Or wake up and be in the mood to Longtext at 6am.

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Catching the Eurooeans is very doable and maybe on the rare occasion I wake up at around 9am, trying to get Whispers in with N/S Americans is alright. However as someone with horrid sleep schedules (like a lot of people on this server), I am like. asleep.

The only games without the 1 Async limit (be it full asyncs or accessibility asyncs) I've had were Hannah's, of which I have played two 1-minion games where the player pool being smaller also didn't help with being able to catch Whispers by virtue if just having less people. I think I maybe had like one other full Async game? Which I clearly don't recall. So I don't have enough experience with Full Asyncs to make a better judgement on if it helps or not.

glad sinew
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East coast Aussie here.
Days almost always start when I'm still asleep. So far I've been able to have a reasonable amount of sync chats, which is nice. Haven't had the chance to join a livetext game that suits my schedule though.

If I think of more to add I'll add it

modern pike
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Re: the Livetext part
Livetext peak hours is solidly at like 2am-6am your time. Less often but still sometimes, there might be a game that fires a few hours before or after that range. Maybe like on weekends.

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-# when Summer Break kicks into full swing, activity might spike again and expand this range, so we'll see

fluid prairie
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-# i hope so!! maybe ill finally schedule a game that's later in the day for me that the gmt + people can join

glad sinew
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Livetext is always either midnight hours or just before i go to sleep

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and very very rarely its during the day... BUT ALWAYS WHEN I'M BUSY

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i. hate. timezones.

modern token
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I’m also AEST, I haven’t encountered issues with long text personally but will be active early in the morning and late at night as that’s when most people are active. I agree with the comments here about live text I would love to try live text sometime but haven’t yet found a beginner friendly game running at a suitable time.

modern pike
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✍️ reattempt... gmt positive... scheduleds...
(also this Forum Post is very much focused on Longtext as a part of Hannah's WIP almanac on Longtext, but I'm more than happy to take yaps on Livetext privately or in #livetext-game-general ^^)

gritty imp
modern pike
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oh

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soz i js assumed "Hannah Post with One Overarching Aspect of Longtext" all contribute to that tome anyway

gritty imp
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it probably will in one way or another

snow prawn
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or like if abny oplayer is more then x hrs ahead or behidn you in time gain free async wiht them costign just a normal whisper

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problem is ST's need to moniot timesones and not all ST's aks for timzones in the 1st questiosn (abotu name/pronouns ect)

glad sinew
modern token
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Sorry I didn’t realise this was long text specific. I’ve noticed accessibility asyncs pop up in games and like that they are there just haven’t personally needed to use them yet.

modern token
glad sinew
# glad sinew East coast Aussie here. Days almost always start when I'm still asleep. So far I...

ok thought of something to add
i often get extremely long periods of silence/no activity, and the activity is almost always when i'm asleep so i have a crap ton to backread when i wake up

so most of my talks are in mornings when i wake up, or during my first class at uni (basically just any time before lunch) or close to bedtime

rarely i get some chats in the silent hours from the all-nighters or other gmt+ people

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currently in the middle of a silent period rn... sigh

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especially cuz only 1 game is active rn (other game is in setup and i'm rsvped for a game on 25th)

snow prawn
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guys

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someoen should host a game or only ausies

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trust

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(perferably an ausie ST aswell)

glad sinew
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there are still 3 timezones for aussies (5 if daylight saving...)

snow prawn
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but thats only liek 1-2 hrs apart right?

glad sinew
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still quite close but it's a mess (just don't host it early april or early october when the times change)

snow prawn
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oh a smuch as 3 hrs apart?

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eh still close enough

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problem is im not ausie so i cant host it

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well i can but idk

glad sinew
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we don't talk about the .5 timezones idk why its like that