Time/Date/Hotspots

[Wraith]

This thread is for everybody's input regarding the possible dates/times of the cata reunion.

We are hoping to make the reunion span over an entire weekend, with "hotspots" (so if you don't have the whole weekend free, you can stop by at these hotspots where there will be a higher chance of getting a game) scattered throughout.

We are hoping to hold this event in about a month from now, maybe a month and a half, so everyone who wants to come, let use know your vacation plans, work schedules. free weekends etc.

We want to accomodate as many people as possible.

[Kiith]

Well...what really sucks is my connection. What i will try to do though, is install this onto my dad's computer secretly (shhh and play it on his computer cuz he has the actual router hooked up to his computer, unlike me and my wireless. Then, i'll casually ask him if i can use his computer for research and he'll go ok, i'll hop on whatever time u guys ask and wala! otherwise, I might have to skip out on a few if my connection gets stupid.

[Magpies flight X]

Well the weekend of 23. to 25th of March is pretty bad for me. Otherwise I usually always have 1 night a bit tied up, (due finnish drinking parties) but Ill try to cheat and head home early!

[xjay]

i cant even try to begin and explain my work schedule so I just have to play when i can. All i can say is the sooner the better!

[Magpies flight X]

Hotspots is going to be difficult.. its GMT 0 - +2 In Europe and -5PST to -8EST In US.
Thats a 10 hour range and not going to be super for all. The australians are so few that we must ignore them in this.

Anyway either we make 1 hotspot for each day and this will have to be late night for Europe and early evening/evening for US OR we make 2 hot spots for each day - being Europe´s evening and US´s evening

The latter is better for gaming - some people just wont show up during day or after midnight (morning we can skip, nobody will come in the mornings) The times might be for example:
Hot1 19.00 GMT - 14.00EST - 11.00 PST and
Hot2 19.00PST - 22.00 EST - 3.00 GMT

The first is better if we dont get very many people - then all will be at one spot hopefully. This thot spot could be for example:
23.00 GMT - 18.00 EST - 15.00 PST
(no later is going to do, thats 1am for me and poles already and 00.00 for Mad and germans)

Im not sure if the daylightsaving times affect this somehow (maximally 1 hour)

Which system do you think is better?

[Wraith]

2 hotspots per day would be better, i can most likely make both each day (except friday mornings and sunday mornings, PST), the other US people might have trouble, i'll talk to kiith/psych/maur/riki and see what times they'd prefer

for the european hotspot on say, saturday, what would you like best? (one time, as in the hotspot starts at X:XX, and ends whenever people leave)

for the US, i'm just guessing, but 11:00am is probably a good time for saturday folk, but as long as i make sure i dont work, i can make it anytime saturday

[Wraith]

I'd like to come up with a tentative weekend by this friday, we can sort out hotspots later. So for right now, in the month of march, what weekends can anyone NOT make it?

[Magpies flight X]

Before we go posting the word everywhere I think it would be better to have both the time and the weekend set - then the promotion will also look better and organized - not "lets play smt at this point. (ok that was a bit over, but you get the point)
We dont have very many people visiting here (pretty much us 2) and that wont change till after we go public so we should just set up a date I think. The best time I think would be the weekend from 30 march to 1st April. If we get everything set up till the end of the week it will give a 4 weeks preparation time.

How about we set it up then if no one posts a grave enough reason here. We should also decide about the hot-spots until then.

This is all of course if you can manage to finish the promotion-site, wraith -- since Im still not sure exactly (d**n how do you write that word) how magnificant schemes you have for it in your little head

also can someone check the quiz for mistakes until weekend?

- MAgsX

[Wraith]

what else do you want on the site? besides the music, which i'll probly put up eventually, i'm not sure what else to add

is the 30th a friday? if so then how bout the reunion starts 4:00pm PST on the 30th, with a US hotspot at 5:00pm PST? then saturday, the US hotspot can be 11:00am PST, and sunday maybe 2:00pm PST. These are just off the top of my head...

[Magpies flight X]

I think the site is great, wraith - Its looks cool, is informative, yet simple enough not to make anyone frustrated - just the music Im still missing a bit to get the "feel".

the problem with the dates is that its not really a weekend for all if it starts 16.00 PST - thats 2.00 saturday for me for example and 1am for most european players, which I think isnt prime-time anymore - especially for the start time.

also I dont think people will stay up very late during sunday so if the hotspot is at 14.00pst, thats 23.00 for most europeans and they will max play till about 1.00 on sunday (except the cool guys like me)

otherwise I do like the idea of just 1 hot spot per day and making it at a different time each day is a very good idea actually. just the friday and sunday should then be early for us (so it would be evening, not night for eu) and saturday could be prime-time for you guys and less good for europeans, since thats probably the day most people can saty up forever anyway. Of course if we put friday evening europe, then its still working hours PST so that sucks too... BUT on sunday i think its fine if its evening for eu, then its midday for us, but on sundays not that much necessary thing to do and you can skip the gym?

so as a compromise I would suggest
Friday: 2 hot spots - 1 for european prime time and 1 for us prime time
Saturday 1 hot spot - US prime time (or slightly earlier than prime, then the hardcorest eu can still make it)
Sunday 1 hot spot - primarily european prime time

does that sound reasonable at all

if theres mumbling about the times we can post the explanation somewhere then.

[Wraith]

ah ok, i was still thinking 2 hotspots when i posted that, if we go the one hotspot route then how bout this:

Day1: US - 0000 GMT (1600 PST, 1900 EST this is the Friday/Saturday midnight GMT-wise)
Europe - (whatever you choose)
Day2: 0100 GMT (1700 PST, 2000 EST, Sunday morning GMT)
Day3: 1700 GMT (0900 PST, 1200 EST, Sunday evening GMT)

i labeled them day 1, 2, 3 because of the confusion of timezones (my friday night = your saturday morning, etc.)

if this is what you were thinking, then you can just tweak the times with me, if i misinterpreted you then give me times you thinnk would work (i assumed you are something like +2 GMT, so 1700GMT is 7:00pm for you)

[Magpies flight X]

and i thought you thought like i thought when mad was thinking only about russian lederhosen"girls"

Yes, you understood me - the DAY 1 DAY2 DAY 3 thing is a nice detail
So we just have to tweak the times now.

DAY 1 Europe Hot spot(and Reunion-start) might be friday 20. 00 GMT (thats 9pm for most and 10pm me) so people are home and have relaxed and so?(of course this will be first item in the list in chronological order) (thats 15.00 EST and 12.00 PST)

DAY 2 sounds very good for eu, but not so nice for pst, well can be 1 hour later too, but you decide that

day 3 a couple hours later maybe, but also that time is good for me - I just really dont know what is the gaming behaviour of people _ at what times they like to play..

[Magpies flight X]

i think the new 1 hotspot system is by all means cool and the times you set up on official date/time post cool if theyre right (didnt check really) so by all means put them on the promo site when you have time then we can satrt posting over the internet!

i left the tips-part of my post intact on the off dates/times