Poll
Question:
What's the Best Time of Day for an RPT?
Option 1: Between 10AM and 5PM EST
votes: 8
Option 2: Between 5PM and 7PM EST
votes: 1
Option 3: Between 7PM and 9PM EST
votes: 17
Option 4: After 9PM EST
votes: 12
Option 5: Anytime, day or night
votes: 3
Option 6: Weekends only, please!
votes: 4
Option 7: Weekdays only, please!
votes: 1
What time of day is best for you to attend an RPT? Does the time its offered influence whether or not you'll even try to go, or do you alter your schedule to fit?
ABSOLUTELY the time influences whether I'll try to attend. I live in EST. When I see a message "RPT at 9pm, PST" I know "hey, that's too late, so I can't go unless I can sleep in the next day." I've deliberately missed what were some VERY fun RPTs because they simply started too late and I needed my beauty sleep. (Although anyone who knows me knows that 24 hours a day, 7 days a week isn't enough beauty sleep for me :P)
As for altering my schedule, time does influence that somewhat, but usually the greater influence is whether my character would want to go. If he wouldn't really want to participate, then I as a player am less inclined to rearrange my schedule to make it fit.
Damn skippy. If it's too late I lose interest. I make a point of stay up, but by the time it happens I'm usually too cranky and sleepy to enjoy it.
If it's too early I can never make 'em. I don't usually get on until about 11 pm CST or so.
Yup, I will alter my schedule somewhat but normaly for earlier, less likly to for later RPT's, so, since I'm central if it says 9pm pst, I normaly don't make it, but 5pm pst I can make time for, even though it is an hour or so earlier then my normal time.
My schedual is generally set in stone. I can either swing it or I can't. Realizing that RPTs almost always end up dragging out at least four hours, 6-8 PM EST is the best for me. I think 10 PM is generally a little too late. Not for me, but for most people they can't afford to stay up until 2AM EST. Friday to Sunday is bad. If I could pick any time for RPTs, it would be Monday to Thursday (with even Thursday being a little iffy), some time after 6 PM EST. Of course, my time to schedual is probably more constrained then most.
7 P.M. EST.
Why? Because the actual event will happen an hour later. :p
Quote from: "mansa"Because the actual event will happen an hour later. :p
Exactly.