Lets Play! Saturday 7th September - 21:00 BST / 16:00 EDT / 13:00 PDT

It's a Saturday. Also I give no shits when it starts, I can play whenever. I'm just saying that A-z-K probably meant 9pm UK time, rather than 9pm UTC.

 

Never experienced that with headphones.
Actually thats what I hate when its on speakers.

Its seriously impossible to play it on speakers, atleast for me.

 

One of the many benefits of having my headphones run through an external USB powered amp and having another volume knob on the cable, is that it takes half a second for me to mute or turn the volume all the way up.

 

guess you can say the sound makes you angry

 

I'll admit.

I laughed.

 

Now its actually correct.

 

sounds like fun, i'll try to be there!

 

I haven't played Empires in many months. May I join in anyways?

 

of course, dude.

 

The server won't be locked, just feel free to join.

 

you know we can also play like, railway, since i did release a new version and all (its buried under commandergrad)

 

Shameless bump to remind everyone the thread subject is inaccurate.
Game has moved forward an hour - the link in the OP has been revised accordingly as has the steam event in the "Empires vet pugs" group.

Lamer; gimme clicky linky and I'll get it uploaded.

 

Give me a new thread title and I'll edit it.

 

Lets Play! 07-09 [2000 UTC]

 

Is that the one with the massive capture point in center?

 

How about we don't use UTC. Tell me the time you want in the UK and I'll do all the conversions.

 

Isn't UTC the same as GMT and GMT is UK time?

 

UTC is the same as GMT, but the UK is not using GMT at the moment, hence the confusion. We use GMT between the end of October and the end of March. When daylight savings time kicks in, we swap to BST (British Summer Time). Likewise at the same time, the entirety of Europe moves an hour forward in sync, each adopting their own timezone. But generally speaking, Europe syncs itself off the UK. On the other hand, the US moves their clocks at differing times. Earlier this year, we had a pug or scrim (I forget which) where Eastern US was only 4 hours behind the UK and Western only 7 hours. That happens for about 4 weeks a year, in 2 week groups.

Either way, when people look up timezones with GMT, any time converter will do the job it's meant to, giving them the wrong time for the pug. We had this exact problem with a Dota tournament we played in last Saturday, even though I told the organiser 24 hours beforehand that it was going to happen. Half the teams didn't turn up until an hour later.

In short, UK is currently on BST, not GMT. US is on EDT and PDT, not EST and PST. While the name doesn't have a huge importance, it means when people google for their timezone, they at least google the correct terms and get the correct times.

http://everytimezone.com/ is pretty great for working these things out, though it's live so if you're planning ahead, you need to be aware of the dates for the clock changes.

To put it simply, there isn't a single player in the entire community who is currently living/playing Empires in a UTC/GMT timezone right now, it applies to absolutely no-one, which is why it will cause confusion.

 

The majority of Empires players lives in the CET timezone so that should be used for everything and the minorities will have to calculate how many hours they are of. With UTC everyone has to recalculate.