Dear kawleagues, despite many, many comments from the kawmunity, the devs have apparently retained a war schedule for S5 that includes only 4 wars a day and these wars are at the same time each day of the week. These times are simply bad for many players. See, e.g., viewtopic.php?f=18&t=175146. The war times for Europe (except for the British Isles) are 04:00, 08:00, 17:00, 22:00. I find myself in a quandry, on the horns of a dilemma: Do I basically foresake S5 or do I participate, albeit at times as a semi-active warrior? I have always been of the opinion that wars require a 100% commitment and I have not cast for wars where I could not make that commitment (meaning that I have not been able to war much in recent months). After due soulsearching, I have taken the following decision: Since the 04:00 and 22:00 (Euro TZ) wars are during "free time", I will not cast for these time slots unless I can be 100% active. For the 08:00 and 17:00 (Euro TZ) wars, albeit that I have conflicting commitments, I will cast if I have a reasonable expectation of being active >50% of the war. I appreciate the many negative aspects of warriors being semi-active in a war. I would be to a greater or lesser extent a free rider, might reduce my team's chances of victory, not to mention that I cannot contribute to compiling the SS, let alone as TK or WC. And if many people adopt a similar approach, the wars could become really sloppy indeed. But, as Tom Paxton once sang, "it's only a game, it's only a game, like dying is only death." With kindest regards, -Ked
I'm in the same boat.... One falls on my drive to work... Drive and Kaw? One falls middle of work day, another on drive home from work. And one when I'm sleeping ready for work next day.... Hmmm In conclusion: I guess I will be semi active for whatever I feel is safe for me to attempt.... Thank the Devs for not listening teammates, before you start blaming me :/
I will war whenever I can be at least semi active in the wars. I prefer to be fully committed but these war times suck and are far too few in number.
Let's face the truth, these war times are set to cater the American Continent ONLY. You are in a different TZ? ATA don't give a damn... Just for info, I'm down under and we have great times too... 1am, 6am, 12pm, 4pm We have 30min lunch break.
Way I see it, the developers don't care. We need to come to terms with that. 3 threads about S5, where the community vehemently raised their concerns about various issues. They didn't do anything about it. Really a bummer, because it's not like they aren't aware of it. They are. They just couldn't care less about it. Like someone said recently, they're in the milk the cash cow for all she's worth phase. Nothing else matters.
And this is even more surprising... If I was a dev and were really in that phase, believe me I'd run wars 24/7 every 3hrs to milk the warriors until they pass out... What can you expect from Apes?
War times stink outside of north america and the length of the event stinks on top of that, no way in hell can a normal human participate enough for a chance to get to the higher reward levels Its completely mind boggling to say the least
As nice as it would be to participate the entire war, I got no qualms with your quandry lol. Does that even make sense? Decision is do you sacrifice your teams performance for your personal achievements? Most will, because they won't be held accountable and will be able to cast again the next war.
For Aus and Asia only 7am, 5pm or 1am wars as the only slots outside of work hours. Which is when you are travelling to/from work or sleeping. And nonsensically the same pattern every day. For anyone with a real job that basically means you can't war during the week! Thanks for taking into account your international customer base - not!!
Yeah, that may be; however, we just lost by <200 mil ... and I feel responsible and frankly it ain't a good feeling. Accountability is a matter of your personal conscience and respect for others, not just a question of getting a broken sword or not. So be it qualms or quandry, here they are.
Yeah war times are terrible. And im in america. So not only does it suck for us it sucks for the entire world. Im at work for the majority of wars. And asleep for the last war. So maybe one, or two possible wars for me to do, if i sacrifice sleep. So not possible to get 100, let alone top LB rewards.
The times suck in the USA and Canada TZ as well. Eastern times are 11:00 am (work) 4m (work) 10:00pm (only good time) and 2am (sleep) Subtract 1 hour for each timezone as you go west Central time is 10:00 am (work) 3:00pm (work) 9:00pm (good) 1:00am (sleep) Mountain 9:00am (work) 2:00pm (work) 8:00pm (good) midnight (manageable for some) Pacific 8:00am (work or driving to work) 1:00pm (work) 7:00pm (good) 11:00pm (good for some) So expect California to dominate this season.
Why all the complaints!? Are you people forgetting you can simply quit your job and do all 4 wars each day?
Have to say real life first. I could do one a day probably if I ignored family and the summer holiday. But kids and family first. It's a shame there are not more time brackets catered for or better still drop into events where when enough cast at any time a war is created ( within say 80 people casting within a 15 minute slot and the devs match the most suitable 50 of them for a fair match up). The remainder having the option to re sign for the next slot of 80 to cast. Wars could be far more common though chaotic in who's involved. But there could be a rolling scenario where wars are never more than 30 minutes away. Though I imagine this would require a lot of lead time for the developers to set up. But a year ? Down the road. It would have me interested in warring again.
Hopefully most here agree with the thesis of "real life first". This thread was intended more to be a discussion about the ethical, social, spiritual, and philosophical ramifications (from a kaw perspective) of being a semi-active warrior.
I respectfully suggest that a distinction should be made between semi-active warriors and true inactives ... and the semi-actives (e.g. me) should not be listed on the so-called "wall of shame". Mayhaps post semi-actives on the Wall of Real Life.
Wall of Shame thread is for less than 5 successful actions. I'm pretty sure if you unloaded both full bars at start of war you could get more than 5 successful hits if you choose target carefully. Therefore your thread has no parallel with the other. Good to see you Ked - Queen
With timezones and all that funky stuff you're bound to have times where not everyone can be active. I'd like to shake my fist at the spherical form of the globe.