US Evening/Weekend Weekly Regionals?

[Spellsmith]

Hey all,

I've been debating trying to set up a US evening or weekend weekly lair/regional slot. So I'm checking to see if there's interest, and if so, for what day/times. I'd probably be tanking (I'm pretty sure I can convince Levsky to help me fine tune any aggro-hold issues), and I've tanked lairs and regionals in TSW and done a small bit of it in SWL.

Lairs would focus on CotSG, BF, and maybe Kaidan, as I want to get my grubby little hands on more Neophytes and Cruel Delights. Regionals would probably focus on spiders and birds, if I can tank them successfully (and get the interrupt down for the spiders), just because those are the ones we'll get the most of in those areas.

This would be a once per week thing, if we got the attendance.

Feel free to respond here, or in Discord. I'm Spellsmith#5128

 

[Bagofcats]

I think it's an excellent idea Being in Europe limits my choices though, depending on when. Evening is when for you?

 

[R4ven]

EST is five hours behind GMT Baggie

 

[Spellsmith]

Indeed. 7pm EST = midnight GMT. 10pm EST = 3am GMT

Conversely, for the morning option, 9-10am EST is about 2pm-3pm (14:00 - 15:00) GMT.

 

[Bagofcats]

hehe, well yes, I just didn't know if it was East or West coast

 

[Spellsmith]

I'm actually US Central timezone, so neither But EST is 'Eastern' time; I use that because Americans almost always know where they are in comparison to EST, and EST is usually the closest (and thus most familiar) to EU people.

 

[Morganey]

Weekend mornings, if you can get on around 7-8 AM Eastern Time, are usually good times because the AUS/NZ contingent are not up extremely late at that point. When DST ends/begins again 8-10 AM Eastern syncs up not-horribly with East USA / Europe / AUS/NZ

 

[Loqua]

I'd be interested - I'm CST and also have a pretty flexible playing schedule, but as of right now, I'm probably not geared enough for most of it yet.

 

[UnsafeCrayon]

I'll vote but I can usually make myself free for any of the time slots.

 

[Spellsmith]

Hey everyone,

It's been a little over a week, and only three people voted on times (one of which was me). That's not enough to do a full 5 man group, much less a 10 man regional or lair run, so I am shelving this idea. While I'm available US times to help with dungeons, there doesn't appear to be enough interest to actively organize them.

 

[Bagofcats]

It maybe partly that not many people actually saw the post. My experience of the game is that websites are used more as a reference repository than as a live thing, so peeps tend not to visit for news. On the other hand, Discord is pretty sleepy too. I don't know about Twitter, as I don't have that.

But now with winter season on there should be more players coming in. I'd say give it a go for another week, and post on Disc and Twit. Maybe a script in chat announcing and linking to this post? I'd do that, but I'm playing restricted european times (so not the right public) for another week until pre-xmas work stress has cleared

 

[R4ven]

I haven't voted as I am in the wrong time zone being in the UK, so probly not your target audience anyhoo.

Baggie is right, most people do not even visit the forums once a week at the moment and discord has quietened down.
Most probly to Christmas stuff also as Baggie said.
Pesky real life stuff getting in the way of playtime.

I will make a script to spam chat for you later today.
I think its a great idea to have things scheduled, helps plan your week and gives people a reason to log on at that time.