Push the clock back 2-3 hours.

[Kari]

Detailed Description: 

Prime time is currently near midnight. It'd be cool for 1-2 hours of prime to be during the day. Even just giving 2-3 more hours of daylight would offer both a daylife and a nightlife. It's terrible that most things happen during the night, right now, and doesn't feel super realistic. 

Relevant items/commands: /time

How will it benefit the server: 

Daytime is generally felt to be more "safe". More people may go out and about, more businesses may be able to open, more activities done. Businesses like pizzerias don't really have a reason to be open at 2am, nor do churches, outdoor gyms, etc. 

This has been suggested many times and never truly denied to my knowledge, it just.. fell out of discussion, despite most being onboard. A push back of 2-3 hours would still give those who can't be on very late an hour or two of darkness, and those who can't be on very early an hour or two of light. 

[varthshenon]

+1 I'd hope for more pushback, but any pushback is appreciated.

[Halcyon]

Synced to UTC+0 is fine as is. Changing the time will never please everyone. 

[Kari]

8 minutes ago, Halcyon said:

Synced to UTC+0 is fine as is. Changing the time will never please everyone. 

Certainly not everyone, and it is a very subjective change. This can be tested by a simple strawpoll to check the times most players would want. You'll never please anyone in such a large community, pleasing the most is the best we could do. The poll could obviously also have an option to change nothing. 

[Jennie]

Doing that will cause me not to play at night, I barely can, imagine with that.

 

The perfect solution would be having 12H instead of 24, I mean, 1 day on gtaw would be 12 hours, but it's a very drastic move.

[primera dama]

7 minutes ago, Halcyon said:

Synced to UTC+0 is fine as is. Changing the time will never please everyone. 

 

Well the server's been that way for 5 years and the US playerbase has constantly complained about it always being 11pm-5am when we play.

A little 2-3 hour pushback like this would be a good temporary experiment. For once it'd cater to the US players too.  Everyone gets a little more daytime to rp with.

[Steeled]

The problem with this is that it's hard to maintain a balance between the timezones which is why it's set to UTC. Pushing the time back 2-3 hours won't really fix the issue because it won't be convenient for users who are 2-3 hours ahead UTC.

[Naru]

Suggested a lot of times, never got through, but here's something:

 

Change times every month. Gives you the ability to rp on different times every month. 

 

January is GMT

February GMT+2

March GMT+4 etc...

[Kari]

2 hours ago, Steeled said:

The problem with this is that it's hard to maintain a balance between the timezones which is why it's set to UTC. Pushing the time back 2-3 hours won't really fix the issue because it won't be convenient for users who are 2-3 hours ahead UTC.

Again, it's why the suggestion is to have half of peak be day, half be night. It's achievable. I think the best way forward is really just a poll. We can't please everyone, but we should aim to please the majority.

[mj2002]

21 hours ago, Kari said:

This has been suggested many times and never truly denied to my knowledge

It has been denied so many times, I don't even want to begin to bother with searching all the different topics. They're not going to change the time. The day isn't going to be shortened to twelve hours, the time zone isn't going to be switched the another time zone, they're not going to be moved an hour or three forwards, or backwards, or whatever. Every single change suggested sounds good to those who it benefits, but they conveniently ignore those who are negatively impacted. 

 

When you make a serious proposal, you should consider all the impacts.