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Name: Obama Comment: I hope cliff hunter hangs in his cell

username: FreedomLover74 Comment: BLAINE COUNTY WAS ILLEGALLY ABSORBED BY LOS SANTOS COUNTY IN THE 90'S BECAUSE THE LIBERAL COMMUNISTS OF VINEWOOD WANT TO TAKE OUR POLITICAL POWER AND REPRESENTATION. I WILL NEVER RECOGNIZE NO MAYOR OF LOS SANTOS OVER MY BELOVED HOMETOWN AND IF THEY WANT TO COME OER HERE TO TAKE MY GUNS I SAY COME AN' TAKE EM.

Username: FREEDOMFIGHTER74 Comment: **Automatically deleted for hate speech**

That's not how federalism works lol

congratulations warden

6d chess right here This was clearly all a play by @Wildcat to lead SADCR

OUR REIGN MAY BE SHORT BUT HISTORY WILL REMEMBER THIS NIGHT

48% 48% LET'S GOOOO NA NA NA

I'm all for a NA server if we're calling this "the EU Server"

Ok.

Let me rephrase my former statement regarding unknown peak times: Server peaks closer to 9-10PM GMT, usually. We can all agree on this. By three-five hours later, it's down to 400-500 usually. But purely on anecdotes, we can't know if that 400-500 person server is mostly Americans logging in, or Americans who logged on earlier in the peak staying logged in. It's irrational to presume one way or the other without having numbers. This makes the "Server peak is 8-11PM!!!" argument really hard to fight without stats on where players actually are.

Over 70% of Europe's population is GMT+0 or GMT+1. I know we have a higher than real life representation of eastern europeans, but you can't tell me they make up anywhere close to a majority lol. Particularly not when Central and Eastern Europe now has multiple native language GTAW servers (Italy, Russia, etc) that'd be pulling from this number. Servertime and real life time are not tied together. They do not have to be. Moving 8-11PM to even 7-10PM would still allow Europeans to log in at their times, still give a vast statistical majority of Europeans at least some night, and not at all change server peaks which again are probably tied in with Americas. There's still no proof the "server peak" is such a huge gap between Europeans and not. We don't even have statistics on when the server peak actually is, and when the dropoff is, past anecdotes of when people see it. All I'm saying, brother, is give peace a chance and let's take a look at it. let's open GTAW north america and see where it goes, lol. (this was sarcasm pls don't ban)

It's really not about opening times, sure it helps, but it's the fact that day vs night offers fundamentally different and differently engaging playstyles and RP opportunities. I'm not saying I have all the answers, but I am saying it's worth looking into. Playing at night virtually nonstop for years has led to people I know literally saying they can't play for more than 2-3 hours at a time because unless they're in some kind of action, it borderline tries putting you to sleep. That's just the natural reaction to staring at night for hours every time you log in with no break. Asking server management to take a serious look at where players actually are and see if there's any way to make the time zone more closely represent where people actually are shouldn't be seen as a cardinal sin.

Okay, now you're strawmanning. The point of the suggestion is to roll the prime time back 2-3 hours to where it'd benefit more players. Most Europeans are on GMT-0 or GMT+1 and would hardly feel this imo. West coast Americans would still be just as screwed as Moscow timed europeans, but we can make it benefit the maximum amount of people possible - that spot between GMT+1 and GMT-5 where most of the players are likely living. Again, strawman. Did you miss the part where "server'd be dead" was on LSRP and RCRP, or did you deliberately misquote me? GTAW has different expectations where the playerbase is still active later, but everyone on 'later' never sees sunlight. American players logging in earlier still only get maybe an hour of sun, if any at all, because 4-5PM EST is still 8-10PM server time. They do this to be on when their European friends are, not because they get more sun, lol. No one's asking to change that. Peak time wouldn't be nuked if it was rolled back two hours, it'd just contain a more dynamic mix of night and day. I am immensely sorry you personally would be disadvantaged by this, but it doesn't mean it's not worth looking into. Management's stance of "lol no" without even offering any real argument outside of "50% of players are European" has been a stifling point for non-euro players for years.