We have a problem recently with getting a massive amount of players into the testing server because of the timezone issue between Europe and USA. To solve this, I selected a time of Sunday 20:00 GMT and that would be possibly good time for everyone. Below there is a list of hours in cities (just select a city from the list that is in Your timezone and read what the time would it be for You). What We need is a range of time where You can test. For me the closest city is Warsaw, so I read from the table that it'll be 22:00 for me. I can test from -12hours (10 am) to +3hours (1 am of Monday), so I as a range I will write: from -12 to +3 on the base of 22:00 Warsaw time (20:00 GMT). Someone from Los Angeles would look in the table and see "Sunday 13:00", so if he can test from 10am to 23pm of his local time, he will say: from -3 to +13 on the base of 13:00 Los Angeles time (20:00 GMT). If everyone types their range on the base of 20:00 GMT we will have a set of ranges that will match to playtest times. I will match them next week when some of You type Your ranges here. It doesn't mean that the test will last for 10 hours, it will be much shorter. By "Sunday" I don't mean tomorrow, or the next week - We need to know generally when could You test. Here is the list of cities:
I won't ask testers when do they want to join because it's too much work. They'll just join. If someone wants to make USA test, I don't really care because I sleep at such hours. USA tests are organized by dizzyone.
What I find absolutely confusing: Why doesn't it work now, but DID work during the 1.08 tests? We were able to fill a server completely every friday night and we had HALF the number of testers we have now. What's different now?
from 0 to +2 1/2 on the base of 20:00 London time (20:00 GMT). Sunday isnt such a hot day for me! but im sure itll be better for others
Precisely. Most of the beta testers are in the USA. If you want more players to play, then recruit more european players. i find that 20:00 is comfortable to me. this is assuming that this is correct: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/
But ... but ... dizzy is Dutch isn't he? That's GMT+2 (or +1 in winter). The session today should start at 3 am for him. How he does it i don't know.
Stockholm: Sunday 22:00 Wait a minute... Sweden is GMT + 1. Shouldn't it be 21:00? EDIT: Summertime right? So it would be like +2 GMT...
test times I try to test, (play)_ on the official and the linux server daily. Even when i have to play alone. My times are all mixed up now and sometimes morning, sometimes nite, sometimes middle of the night. Allways, on daily trying to get others to join when online. I've been trying to keep up to date in the forums about test times and pug's.....join when I can. Was even there for the last scheduled test. (only 12 showed during the time i was on....believe we needed 30 or more...) Must get more normal job so I can test more......:D will be there when I can...for now.
There were no tests at 2am PST, it's just you not paying attention. Besides, I don't expect you to come at any playtest, last night was 8PM CDT. The reason why I'm hosting American Only playtests is because I work till 2am, then can do the playtests when I come home.
