PRIME TIME

Many in the team are interested to start the wars with a reasonable timing according to their time zones. So I created a spreadsheet which I will update when we have new players.

This spreadsheet calculates the best hours of the day (PRIME TIME)when we should be less busy. According to this spreadsheet we can find the most reasonable time to start the wars, so that the team should have more active members during the most important hours (the last 2 hours, when energy is recharged 3x).

How does it work?

Check the London row. I assumed that most of us sleep at night, so I gave to the night 0 points. And in the working hours a few points too. Then I gave more points to the late afternoon and evening when we should probably be more active. This timetable is referring to LONDON which means that it suites to the time zone GMT / UTC +0.

Under the London row, you see one row for each player, where, according to their time zones, the columns give the same values as London, but moved right or left according to the time zone number. So for example Fanaxidiel who lives in Italy has a time zone GMT / UTC +1 which means that he will see the sun one hour sooner than London, and according to that all his time gets changed.

Each player, then, has a "multiplier" which refers to his/her point in the last war before the time zones appeal was lastly calculated. The players who fight more, have a bigger multiplier. This has the double purpose to invite the players to fight more in the wars, and to avoid the calculations to take in consideration the inactive players.

On the bottom you have a graduated row which shows the "total appeal" which is actually the sum of the appeal of each hour to each player, as modified by the multiplier for each player.
The green cells indicate the highest numbers, so that we can directly see the most interesting time to start a war so that the last two hours will see more players online.

Till now the calculations suggested to use two different timings:
- the 1st time the war will be started @5p.m. GMT / UTC +0 and this will allow the asian players to have better chances, since they will end up the war in their evening.
- the 2nd time the war will be started @11p.m. GMT / UTC +0 and this will allow the american players to have better chances, since they will end up the war in their late afternoon.
This way we give good chances to everyone in the team to obtain good results in war.

If you don't see your time zone registered, please alert Fanaxidiel reporting your time zone to him!