Administrators Popular Post Alex Posted February 19, 2020 Administrators Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2020 Hey everyone, Quick quality-of-life update here. You can now adjust your timezone settings in the game, from the Account page. There are two settings, the first is the displayed timezone, which affects timestamps shown to you throughout the game. I think I've covered them all - please let me know if you notice any not being updated to your timezone correctly. The "Orbis Date" time in the sidebar will remain the universal server time, which is UTC (+0). The second setting is the Daily Update timezone. The Daily Update happens at midnight in the timezone selected, which currently (and to this point) has been midnight UTC (+0) for everyone. Now, you can select a convenient update time for you. You are still restricted to a timezone where midnight falls on a turn (even hour) in the standard server timezone (UTC +0). Everyone can adjust their Daily Update timezone once for free, afterwards it will cost 1 Credit. Also be aware that by changing this setting, you are forfeiting your next daily update. There are numerous warnings near the setting to alert you of this - this is to prevent people from abusing the adjustment to get a quadruple military buy or something silly like that. I've also recorded a short demo video where I talk about the settings, you can watch that here: 6 1 2 Quote Is there a bug? Report It | Not understanding game mechanics? Ask About It | Got a good idea? Suggest ItForums Rules | Game Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
丂ħ̧i̧₣ɫ̵γ͘ ̶™ Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 What if we're on a different calendar, daylight savings, or currently working on the International Space Station? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanek26 Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Is there any indicator of which cycle someone is on. This is sort of something you need to know about whom you are fighting. 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danzek Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Cant find anything to see someone's time zone. Could probably guess it from the api by seeing when they rebuy units in the past. Not sure if it would have been better to allow X% rebuys each turn, and have that accumulate up to a day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Alex Posted February 19, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted February 19, 2020 24 minutes ago, 丂ħ̧i̧₣ɫ̵γ͘ ̶™ said: What if we're on a different calendar, daylight savings, or currently working on the International Space Station? You'll just have to pick the setting that's the best fit for you 1 1 Quote Is there a bug? Report It | Not understanding game mechanics? Ask About It | Got a good idea? Suggest ItForums Rules | Game Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theodosius Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Now make military units far more durable, otherwise this is just another step towards favoring the aggressor/blitz side of any war. And that's already as OP as it can get. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakyr Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 49 minutes ago, Borg said: Not sure if it would have been better to allow X% rebuys each turn, and have that accumulate up to a day. This would be a better solution for us players, but whether it can be easily coded is a completely different story. Being able to set your own update time is a nice change though. Though personally, I'll probably be setting it for a different timezone to where I live, so that update is in the 8-10pm range for me. 54 minutes ago, Vanek26 said: Is there any indicator of which cycle someone is on. This is sort of something you need to know about whom you are fighting. I'll second this. In wars we don't really have the time to wait 24 hours to find out when they buy military. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azaghul Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Thank you for implementing this! This has been a much needed change and makes the game both fairer to people in different time zones and with different schedules as well. It also makes wars more dynamic and unpredictable. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 I like this change Alex, but I think it would be better if you put timezone changes on a 5 day timer instead of having it cost a credit. That'd allow for greater strategy and unpredictability in wars without allowing for quadruple updates or breaking the bank. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azaghul Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 2 hours ago, Vanek26 said: Is there any indicator of which cycle someone is on. This is sort of something you need to know about whom you are fighting. I agree. Though it could be interesting to try to figure out... maybe make it something you can find out with gather intelligence? 1 hour ago, Theobius said: Now make military units far more durable, otherwise this is just another step towards favoring the aggressor/blitz side of any war. And that's already as OP as it can get. It makes it easier to blitz but it also makes it easier to counter-blitz. Right now if someone gets a blitz in on you before update and you aren't on, they effectively get an extra day of buying units before update on you, and then have an advantage buying units the next day. Your 2nd daily buy of units happens as the same time as their 3rd day of buying units. With this change, if they blitz you before their day change, and you have a different day change, you'll have an opportunity for a double buy before they do, and get your 2nd days buy before they get their 3rd day's buy. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin076 Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 It may help with people living overseas but I reckon majority of alliances will mandate a specific timezone to ensure easier blitzs. I also second the necessity to know others update time, maybe when you declare war this information becomes available so you can't necessarily declare on them based on their update time but so the defender and aggressor alike can strategize around each others times. Az may have nailed it down though, might be something that intelligence could uncover. Quote Chief Financial Officer of The Syndicate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtc justice Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 If this is changed to a cooldown instead of credits then I'm sure a lot of people would be happier with this change...but from what I see most people (particularly alliance leaders and milcom) are pretty upset with this change because it completely screws milcom up. Can we implement a cooldown ? Even if it's 20 days, then if you want to change it within that cooldown make that cost 1 credit. Everytime a member wants to change an alliance they will have to buy a credit to swap time zones to the alliances standard, and that's a little unrealistic. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegoz Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Better yet, nerf update as a thing so this discussion isn't one that defines milcom. You should not have your military be able to be wiped whilst you sleep. 2 2 Quote [11:52 PM] Prefontaine: But Keegoz is actually bad. [11:52 PM] Prefontaine: He's my favorite bad leader though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForgotPants Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 When choosing a display timezone, why aren't all of them listed? I mean the 30 min ones because I am from one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madokami Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 I'd rather just have rebuys reset 24 hrs from when you last bought x amount eg. I buy 5000 soldiers at 6pm and 9000 at 12 pm, next day at 6pm i can buy 5000 more and 9000 more at 12pm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Scott Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Finally an EU friendly update! No more 12am/1am double buys ? 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackbird Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Need some clarification: If I change my Daily Update Timezone to +12hrs. Will I now have to wait up to (24+12=) 36 hours for next daychange or 24 + 24 (skipped DC) + 12 = 60 hours? Quote https://discord.com/users/330425781874589698 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etat Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 8 hours ago, Justin076 said: It may help with people living overseas........... My friend, I am here, it is you who is overseas!! Seriously though, this is a good change! I don't think we should automatically know when our opponent's update is, a bit of unpredictability that isn't RNG is a good thing. This hopefully will be a useful and challenging dynamic that will make war that much more interesting. Quote Celer Et Audax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maia Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 3 hours ago, Etatsorp said: My friend, I am here, it is you who is overseas!! Seriously though, this is a good change! I don't think we should automatically know when our opponent's update is, a bit of unpredictability that isn't RNG is a good thing. This hopefully will be a useful and challenging dynamic that will make war that much more interesting. I agree. This is a good opportunity for spies(real people) to getting intel about alliance time zone. Some alliances will be organised some don't which is great imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RagnarBuliwyf Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Good update, well done. Been living in US update time since '09 with CN. It's been great but the change is well needed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fien Zinfi Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 On 2/19/2020 at 5:31 PM, 丂ħ̧i̧₣ɫ̵γ͘ ̶™ said: What if we're on a different calendar, daylight savings, or currently working on the International Space Station? You best buy more credits. Somebody's gotta step up now that the main donators to the game (IQ) pissed off to somewhere else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRM Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Fien Zinfi said: You best buy more credits. Somebody's gotta step up now that the main donators to the game (IQ) pissed off to somewhere else. Why do I doubt that the alliances that ran 100/100 contributed the most to the game(in terms of irl $$$)? Edited February 23, 2020 by Mr. Goober Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fien Zinfi Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 24 minutes ago, Mr. Goober said: Why do I doubt that the alliances that ran 100/100 contributed the most to the game(in terms of irl $$$)? Ask not what logic can do for you, but what neckbeard youtubers can do for your nation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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