Petition for longer server wars!

[memememe]

Hello there,

I've had the opportunity to talk one of the powers that be. Among other things we had a little chat about the last save and the server war associated with it.
I was made to understand that it's technically possible to extend the period between the last save and the server shut down/restart, thus extending the server war by a finite amount of time. When I asked about actually extending said time span I was given a "maybe". The main concern was that "a lot of people" don't like even those 15 minutes of none-saving server uptime.

So for myself, I enjoy server wars a lot. Especially for a European player like me it's one of the rare opportunities to participate in larger scale PvP. Besides that, the everything-goes FFA aspect of it is somewhat unique due to the nature of the last save, making it a lot of fun for all of the people participating. You could also say it's UOs oldest event, as it's been there since the dawn of (UO) time.

Judging from the comments in IRC before/during/after any server war I always feel that quite a few people enjoy them as much as I do. I don't think I've ever seen anyone complain about the swar time span affecting their game experience in a negative way.
Though I do realize that I might just be seeing this through pro-swar-glasses and swar-opposition might actually be a lot greater than I feel it is.
So the point of this thread is to get decent bearing on whether the greater amount of the population would like or dislike a slightly longer swar time-span.



A few things to note:
The idea is to get a little more worth out of the server restart. I was thinking along the lines of max. 15 extra minutes (so max. 30 minutes of total swar time), so roughly double of what it is now. No hour-long periods of none-saving, because that would undoubtedly have a negative impact.
Neither is it an option (as far so I know) to totally remove said restart. So if you're going to vote against this for the sole reason that you want to, for example, macro 24/7 without having to re-login, then I ask you to pick the 1st or 3rd option, because that wouldn't change.




So please vote.
If you do decide to vote against this idea, please take a minute or so explaining why you feel that this is a bad idea.

[Blaise]

Now that's what I call a high quality automated free-use event!
Here here! Totally era accuratelololoolol


Can we set it for like noon or something though? 4 am is ridiculous.

[killaboy]

We all know that server wars is a time for fun and games and that we all love it so but i dont think Derrick would like to take more time out of the game to extend it.

With this being said my vote is TBD.

[Menkaure]

I dont care if it gets extended. I just wish it was at like 8pm est or something. Freaking 7 am, ridiculous!

[Hemperor]

I dont care if it gets extended. I just wish it was at like 8pm est or something. Freaking 7 am, ridiculous!

That's how it is for the Australians, you're proposing switching places with them!

[Blaise]

I dont care if it gets extended. I just wish it was at like 8pm est or something. Freaking 7 am, ridiculous!

That's how it is for the Australians, you're proposing switching places with them!

All two of them!

[liinniejj]

12:00 noon gmt (ireland uk etc) 13:00 for germany holland etc

already interrupting bang int he middle of the day for the 15 minutes it takes now i dont mind but i say nay to extending

[memememe]

Seems the guy I talked to does his job pretty well. I really thought people would be more into this. But I guess I hang around mostly swar junkies, probably comes with my play times, more of an aussie than anything else in that regard.

[Capitalist]

I doubt Murica cares. I, as a Murican don't. No one is awake at these times.

[Wil]

If server wars is that awesome, why not just copy the last save to a dedicated server-wars machine every morning and let it run all day until overwritten the next morning? Have your cake and eat it too. It wouldn't have to take the normal server load.

[Freak Show]

I think server wars/ server save should be switched to 6 P.M. CST!! instead of 6 am! that is retarded lets have all the fun on an American based game while all the Americans are sleeping!!

[Freak Show]

I think server wars/ server save should be switched to 6 P.M. CST!! instead of 6 am! that is retarded lets have all the fun on an American based game while all the Americans are sleeping!!

well most of minus this dude

[azheman]

Server wars should be removed. Try some real pvp, it's better for the server.

Also, Derrick should make a fake server wars where all of your newbs lose your loot.

Titty babies.

[Downs]

Server wars is only exciting to people who die too often to wear valuable gear...

[Freeza]

Can we also get skill portals so everyone can be a 7x for server wars

RIP Abyss Test!