so, why is SE support jobless people?

[Keicho]

shirogane will be avaiable after maintance. which will be 12:00 in EU time. well. i have to work there. so no chance for me to get a plot. realy fair. maybe i should risk my real job to get a plot there?^^ lul

[Sakuraluna]

Well they're in Japan so their work hours are gonna be a bit different from yours.

I think it would be pretty hard to find a time of day that wouldn't inconvenience someone somewhere though.

[Miste]

I sympathize but no matter what time they bring the servers up someone somewhere is going to be inconvenienced. There is literally nothing that can be done to make sure everyone in the world has free time IRL to login at server up.

Supporting jobless people lol....sigh when you think you've seen everything something more outrageous pops up.

[ManuelBravo]

I normally request time off in advance or use paid time...if not I just take my laptop and login. Depends by job I guess.

[Bacent]

Life isn't fair dude. Not everyone can even log on fast enough to get a plot they want. People will complain because 'They couldn't log in fast enough' or 'this isn't fair I was at work' or whatever. Good luck to all the non passive aggressive people towards SE for getting a house plot they want.

[Eli85]

If S-E wanted to, they could disable Shirogane housing on a data centre basis, and then activating it at an ideal time per region.

Why they chose not to do this is baffling.

[Gemina]

They let you know we'll in advance when the servers would go back up. They've cancelled auto demolition due the hurricanes, and they also stated that the servers will all go back online simultaneously to make things fair for everyone.

You should be thanking them for trying to be so considerate of a playerbase that spans worldwide instead of chastising them for not being able to cater to your own time zone. You probably should have taken time off to accommodate your housing needs, and if you absolutely can't, then you're just SoL.

[Nerfworthy]

If it matters that much to you then you should have thought ahead. I predicted the patch would be on the 10th over a month ago and I asked for the day off. I work full time, but I will be there to grab a house when the servers come up.

Saying SE supports "jobless people" is simply childish and untrue.

[BillyKaplan]

If S-E wanted to, they could disable Shirogane housing on a data centre basis, and then activating it at an ideal time per region.

Why they chose not to do this is baffling.

The reality of the matter is that there's a hefty portion of people per data center who are not from that very region. While probably due to laziness more than this, I do like to think they are aware of this reality and simply go with the most straight forward method given that, like said before, they have no true way to please everyone. Even when theoretically it should be solid, like what you suggested, reality paints a different picture.

[akaneakki]

If S-E wanted to, they could disable Shirogane housing on a data centre basis, and then activating it at an ideal time per region.

Why they chose not to do this is baffling.

Ideal timing is very objective. Some people work nightshift, some people work from 3 to 11 PM, some people work from 7 to 3 some 8-4, some from, 12 to 8. You can never have a ''base''time of whos gonna be on or not.