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Originally Posted by loopygoopyzooblefingers
I'm sorry you couldn't make our last run.
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You mis-understand me entirely. This has nothing to do with "your last run". I work. I can't play Toontown at 3PM-6PM on weekdays, and neither can most other people. This is permanent and is not going to change: not now, not ever; not for me, and not for anyone else.
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Originally Posted by loopygoopyzooblefingers
We realize, no matter what the times are, some toons will always be left out of our runs.
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Yes, at the very least, your current schedule permanently excludes the entire western half of the United States of America. I can't even calculate how many hundreds of millions of people that is.
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Originally Posted by loopygoopyzooblefingers
Making it 6 hours later would make it way to late at night for all the other players. 12 AM to 3 AM ET would cross out almost all of the east coast. Much of our members being east coast and not just pacific. So we figured, with those times, we can get a resonable amount of players from everywhere.
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Ummm... no. Excluding the entire western half of the United States of America serves only to exclude about 90% of your potential members. It certainly does
not serve to "include a reasonable number of players from everywhere", as most people simply can not play at 3-6PM on weekdays, period. Not now, not ever. They work or attend school. Only the very young (infants and toddlers), the retired, and the very wealthy tend to be home at that time of day. Those constitute only a tiny portion of the pool of available Toontown players.
(Excluding Los Angeles and Orange counties, alone, excludes possibly the majority of all players of this game. This is The Land of Disney. Where it all began. A very bad place to arbitrary exclude.)
The solution is to do what other clans do: have more than one scheduled run time for events, so that persons in different time zones can participate.
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Originally Posted by loopygoopyzooblefingers
We could possibly make it an hour or two later, but not much more than that in our future events.
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Two hours later than 3-6PM would be 5-8M. Still not workable for the West coast. If TCB
must have a single "compromise" time for entire USA (and that is where most of the players are) for its events, then 6-9PM western time would work. Thats 9PM-12AM eastern time. People are just getting home from work on the west coast, and not yet gone to bed on east coast. Anything much earlier or later than that is going to exclude one coast or the other.
Multiple run times would be better, though.
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Cheers,
LoneWolfiNTj
aka "Prof. Fangs Thunderwoof" (120LP brown horse)
aka "Moon Shadow" (110LP black cat)
aka "Loopy Leroy Lemonpop (66LP rainbow-colored rabbit)
aka "Felix" (22LP black cat)