RPTs and dawns

[Salt Merchant]

RPTs are often announced as starting on the hour (e.g. at 19:00 EST or 20:00 EST), even though the intent may often be to start at dawn in-game.

A Zalanthanian day is exactly an hour and a half long. Since the length of a RL day is divisible by this amount of time, dawns occur at the same time each RL day. Here is a partial list for reference, to allow RPT schedulers to adjust times if they wish:

15:40 EDT
17:10 EDT
18:40 EDT
20:10 EDT
21:40 EDT
23:10 EDT

[spawnloser]

The RPT should start earlier to make sure people all arrive and get together so that at dawn they can be on the move.  It annoys the crap out of me when (hypothetical example), the Sergeant tells us that we move out at dawn, so everyone shows up at dawn and we can't get moving until late afternoon so we have to wait until the next IG day... a whole 1.5 hours later.  Some people can't be logged in for 9 hours at a time for an RPT people.

[Rhyden]

^This is a mistake I've made many times in the past.

Very helpful. Thanks, Salt Merchant.

[Nyr]

This is very helpful.  We should probably toss this into the time helpfile somehow, even.

[FuSoYa]

This is very helpful.  We should probably toss this into the time helpfile somehow, even.

Would be awesome to have it always handy IG.

Brandon

[Nyr]

It is in the helpfile already to an extent, now that I look at it.  You have to figure out the link between "1 ZT day = 90 minutes" and "dawn occurs every 90 minutes, so you can predict this on your own if necessary."  It is common sense arithmetic, but it took someone pointing it out on the GDB for me to notice it personally.

Daylight Saving throws a wrench in the table, though.  It will change on Sunday.

[Xeran Van Houten]

It is in the helpfile already to an extent, now that I look at it.  You have to figure out the link between "1 ZT day = 90 minutes" and "dawn occurs every 90 minutes, so you can predict this on your own if necessary."  It is common sense arithmetic, but it took someone pointing it out on the GDB for me to notice it personally.

Daylight Saving throws a wrench in the table, though.  It will change on Sunday.

I can't add - only subtract. 

[brytta.leofa]

Daylight Saving throws a wrench in the table, though.  It will change on Sunday.

Even without the table, you can figure it pretty quick by checking time in-game (or on the web page).

If you're logged in during your usual play hours and it's dawn in game RIGHT NOW, you know to schedule your RPT for either this exact time or +/- 90 minutes.

[Bogre]

Just seconding that it can take 30 min+ to get everyone assembled and readied for these things.

[brytta.leofa]

Just seconding that it can take 30 min+ to get everyone assembled and readied for these things.

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