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.

[alimdia]

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

Although that phrase has no place here, it does have a place in other areas of the game (centurio tiger, astrope, both designed for NEETs)

[Miste]

Although that phrase has no place here, it does have a place in other areas of the game (centurio tiger, astrope, both designed for NEETs)

They were meant to be long term goals I believe...so grinding it day after day was not the intent of those achievements.

I have been working on Astrope since they added it for example and I was doing a full time college program at the time and I worked.

After all this time has passed since they added it I am now sitting at over 1500 out of 2000. So almost there.

I mean anyone who has no work or school will always beat others to everything in any game. They'll level faster, they'll gear faster, everything faster. So it isn't like a long term goal is "supporting jobless people" it just...everything in games like this takes people different amounts of time.

I mean when I was in college and working I missed out on some raiding progression I couldn't stay up late or go as many days of the week. I mean everyone's lives are different so some have more free time and some have less and it fluctuates throughout your life for a vast amount of reasons. You can't really compare how much time you have to invest to other players. Just play how you have fun playing; like for example I joined a more casual static that runs only two days a week instead of four. I don't clear content as fast as others, but I have to work with what free time I have and that is life.

I mean I'll probably never get the Centurio Tiger, and even though I am a mount collector....I mean I am not mad about it personally. I can slowly work towards it over time and maybe I will. It is what it is. I feel SE may have overdid it a bit, but they want people to play and honestly there are very few things in this game that are long term goals. A few isn't a bad thing especially since mounts are purely aesthetic and give no advantage over other players.

[alimdia]

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There's a big difference between long term goals and unachievable goals for a "reasonable" play time, the long cooldown of hunts means if you only play a few hours per day the game will close before you get it, and you can't do anything about it other than being online more time doing nothing but waiting for hunt windows, no ifs or buts will change that fact, it's completely out of your control unlike other long term goals.

Then some of the long term goals that are within your control require you to spend nearly all your in game time doing only that and nothing else.

I sort of understand people who want long term goals, but at the same time those achievements aren't really reasonable for the majority.

[Ilan]

Although that phrase has no place here, it does have a place in other areas of the game (centurio tiger, astrope, both designed for NEETs)

It is designed for long term and not for people without jobs. If the game would revolve around that, there would be no caps on tomes and no log outs in raids. Your assumption is as wrong as the OP one is.

[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.

[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.

[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.