The time was and still is the perfect time to hold the event. The reason people do not go to the event mainly is due to each sides ability to field a ship capable of surviving the event itself. Recently we had a ship collision change that made it to where Enoans and the like simply do not instally kill even other Enoans. I do not know what the ships do to small warships in terms of damage now but that is one distracting factor involved. East currently does not have one, west has a few, pirates have a few. Hence mostly West and the Pirates do the event. The second problem is that gear gap, but more importantly a ship based event that can't ever be ship vs ship due to the fact it is too easy to board or too easy to just instantly pull people off the boat itself. That renders cannons useless, raid gets instagibbed if a lot of new players and the like don't like dying in .1 seconds, so they don't come back. Some players like myself, being here since the beginning of the server tire of the event from time to time and just simply skip it.
So the two real reasons are:
1. Burnout from the geared player base from time to time.
2. Ships equipped enough to even live through the event without the usual players while strafing, which with the pulls are next to impossible some days vs a geared raid in the water.
I can see pulling people easily off ships, big deal been there forever. But maybe a small change to being on a cannon and having a pull immunity being something that would make it easier for the lower geared players to have a chance. Adding a melee damage reduction while on the cannons would also help ships cope with the tiger strike two hander that boards and can kill everyone pretty much in 4-5 seconds ue to the reaction time of clicking off the cannons as well.
But as for time, the time is fine. Been to a bunch, being right after Mistmerrow is also nice.
My Dear Drunkenhero,
This is exactly what i have beens trying to sumarize in here, and you perfectly pointed it out in this sentence: "The second problem is that gear gap, but more importantly a ship based event that can't ever be ship vs ship due to the fact it is too easy to board or too easy to just instantly pull people off the boat itself. That renders cannons useless, raid gets instagibbed if a lot of new players and the like don't like dying in .1 second, so they don't come back. Some players like myself, being here since the beginning of the server tire of the event from time to time and just simply skip it.". This is what i meant on every post made in here. People DO NOT attend into this event, regardless if it is Western or Eastern Nation players by the simple fact that:
1st- forget the naval combat mechannics, within time it has become a a regular PVP event in where boarding parties are setted up to wipe boat's crews;
2nd- due to the first subeject pointed out, and to the HUGE gear score gap in between all Nations, people grown tired of feeding their foes on honor and hostille kill counts;
3rd- the timer for the event is nice the way it is; was one can see the good ammount of players wandering around all the major Capital Cities and maps all over.
With the above said i must point out that, in the both lasts Abyssal and Luscas from this weekend, East gathered a good number of players on its main raid. And even though we had a small chance of geting the event done, 3 players (with a good high GS) denied the Abyssal Attack event to happen. Even though we managed to get at least Luscas done. It is important to point out that, some of the ones that complain on the timer, during this very same event, were worried about another event that had just was about to begin, in the same moment that Abyssal and Luscas was happening. Nor West nor 99% of Pirates were spoted on Saturday's night Abyssal Attack. Last night, though, Pirates made their presence at Luscas, and East tasted once again what it is this event now.
I might keep saying and defending that: the timer is not the issue for moist people to attend; but the huge gear score gap between all the 3 existent Nations in this server. Some people might complain on that but, it is totaly normal and expected to have such thing, once every single player have its own unique playing style in where some like to rush to get GS, and others like to play Decoration Stuff. So, to sumarize once more, either East or West, DO NOT ATTEND due to the fact that DO NOT WANT to get crushed and destroyed over and over and over! It is to difficult to people to learn it?!
And i also MUST keep saying that: if timers get moved to earlier it will PREJUDICE a great number of ACTUAL PLAYERS that do attend into the event!!! This is what we call in here "straw's fire". Better saying, if timers get changed, the very same situation will keep happening, people will be keept feeding honor and pvp kills, no one.. i say NO ONE will get this done for sure because they all will begin to abbandon for sure the event once and for all. And event worst thoe us all that got holded back into GS progression and stuff like in order to gear up and improve galleons! It will be UNFAIR!
I hope that the GMs keep that in mind that: the server is NA based so it must priorize the NA players; i do speak this by and for myself as well, once i am not a NA community but SA (South America) and i do, yet today, need to adapt myself into the server schedule. I knowand understand the struggle for many players from the most variety of places from this entire world wide. It wolud become a total mess if any world wide player base begun to ask into moving events timers to fit their personal timers and stuff. As stated before more than once, the GMs are the one that will have the final word; and i do hope they find the benevolence among us all and do not place apart their players that got time, gold,effort and sacrifices involded to get the requirements of the game in itself and the mentioned events.
With all the respect and the in the most cordiale way, i sign this below.