Conde Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Restricting port timers to a time zone agreeable to all players would achieve greater balance between nations, encourage many and more PVP situations, Furthermore it would avoid locking out some nations completely out of port battles. A good middle zone would be the 16-24 timezone (Server time) I firmly believe this to be the best way to make the game more engaging pvp-wise and alleviate player exhaustion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justme Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Ok so who's prime time do we use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne Wildcat Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 (edited) No, as posted before players are from all over and some may have different life schedules and not be available their prime time. Edited March 28, 2016 by Anne Wildcat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cragger Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Restricting port timers to a time zone agreeable to all players would achieve greater balance between nations, encourage many and more PVP situations, Furthermore it would avoid locking out some nations completely out of port battles. A good middle zone would be the 16-24 timezone (Server time) I firmly believe this to be the best way to make the game more engaging pvp-wise and alleviate player exhaustion. Well that is one of the problem prime time isn't common between nations. The server may be in Europe (PvP1) but the nations attract their own nationality due to common language for chat. Prime time for a few would be horrible for others. IMHO timers in general need to be replaced with a more robust system that takes more commitment then just buying a flag with cheap gold. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hethwill Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 3 timers for each port. 0 hour, +6 and +12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Wouldn't work. The ability to buy a 'lockout' time for ports in your faction could work, though. The current owners of a port can set a timer and then also designate 4-6 hours when future owners of the port can't set a new one. Ew, that sentence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron Quertier Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Hethwill and shrouded have good ideas in my opinion, my idea is for the timer to be completely random and for it to change to another random time with each day's maintenance. This could help to simulate the 'correct' conditions for attack such as weather and sea swell etc. Plus with random timers who can use it in their favour or moan if they lose due to prime time and all that pony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry d'Esterre Darby Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 All of this has been discussed extensively on the Petition to Remove Port Timers thread (http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/8263-petition-remove-port-capture-windows/). Please keep discussions in a single thread. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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