24*7 International game or US only? (Virtual Battle)

[xenephon]

Virtual Battle is a key component of the game.
- It drives Fleet/Affiliate improvements via access to the VB and Feat store for Blueprints & slot enhancers
- It awards additional currency per battle based on level of Honour achievement
- It awards bonus exp in a game where exp is a key limiter
- It locks Flagship 3 & 4 behind an Honour level achievement

Virtual Battle is available 3 times a day. No problem I hear you say - put them 8 hours apart and everyone will have an even chance to access the awesomeness in the list above!

But they are not. The first gap is 4 hours, the second is 8 and the last is 12.

This probably equates to something like 6pm/10pm/6am in North america, or close to it.

Elsewhere in the world it SUCKS. For me that means:
1am
5am
1pm (and five days a week that is a work day)

This is clearly not equitable. I wouldn't care if it was just vanity PvP and a leaderboard, but the fact that key components of the gameplay are locked behind grinding VB every day means that this is perhaps a little ill considered as a design.

VB should allow equal access to all - once every 8 hours, 6 hours (or even 4 hours) would be both fair and reasonable.

Regards,
Xenephon

[tolkenmoon]

Same with chest exploration. First one for UK players is at 9pm (1 pm US) and the second is at 5am (9pm US). Not very international.

A solution may be to have the 9pm one last an hour instead of half an hour.

[jonpluc]

You have a powerful computer to play this game, i bet it has an alarm feature that will ring whenever its time for a war.

[kairo_at]

You have a powerful computer to play this game, i bet it has an alarm feature that will ring whenever its time for a war.

I guess some weird people do not want to plan their lives around an online game, esp. one as innovative, great and awesome as this one.