I love to play games. And I love to have people to play them with. Unfortunately, my online time is not the same as everyone elses. So I thought I would start up a thread in Computer Wargaming in hopes that opponents can find one another. It's what we are all here for anyways. If it takes off, I hope one of the mods will sticky it.
The best time for me is weekend mornings in the Eastern Time Zone of the U.S. If need be, I am willing to sacrifice a little sleep to accommodate an early start. Forgot, should include I am GMT -6, I think.
Weekday mornings are best for me, followed by nights after 8PM. I'm in the Eastern US timezone as well.
I have a bunch of great games on Vassal, as well Matrix World in Flames, which I am still learning.
I'm in the Central Time Zone. I sometimes have evenings free (say 1700-on) but weekends tend to be better, depending on what the wife has planned of course.
Anytime on the weekends is best for me, followed by weekday nights after 6pm PST (-8 GMT).
Assuming it's a work-night, midday is generally the best time for me to game (around 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CST). I get off work at 7 a.m., and the next few hours after that tend to be spent running errands, checking email/forums/etc., and making myself dinner.
Not surprisingly, it's difficult for me to participate in MP games, regardless of which time zone the other player(s) is/are in.
we need a chart or a table so we can see at a glance whos where and when
Great idea! I agree we need a chart also.
I'm available generally 18:00-22:00 Central Standard Time GMT -6
Eastern time zone here.
Most weekdays 7pm to 9pm
Most weekends 7am to 9am, 10pm to midnight
Quote from: undercovergeek on November 23, 2013, 05:16:35 AM
we need a chart or a table so we can see at a glance whos where and when
Done.
OK, here's the deal. Anyone with the link can see this. Anyone with the link can edit this. If you guys think it's being monkeyed with let me know and I'll dial back the access. Hopefully nobody gets on and drunk posts finding out the next morning we're all playing evenings on Jupiter Aquiferious Time or something.
However, if you think this is too open I'll change the security now. My hope was that you guys can simply add yourselves and adjust your times as you see fit, but I'm happy to reconsider based on popular demand.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuFUtoDXR5LedFV2TUdfLTNnTnhldU5oSU00Xy1HOGc&usp=sharing
Thanks, LB! Very awesome of you to do that! Helpful, too :)
+1 thanks LB
Just like a "who's available" white board...good work LB, thanks.
Very nice LB thanks! I hope you don't mind but I added a column for timezone.
Maybe you could add 7 more columns like this: Su M T W Th F Sa
In the cells below day of the week column header people could type in the times. Last column can still be where people can list games or leave other comments.
Good work LB; thanks! Good idea, W8taminute. :)
^Thanks Martok.
I modded the table a bit to show what I was thinking. Need to come up with standard conventions for defining the times in number format so that I can generate a stacked bar chart off the data.
Quote from: W8taminute on November 23, 2013, 10:17:45 AM
Very nice LB thanks! I hope you don't mind but I added a column for timezone.
Please feel free to improve. None of us is as smart as all of us 8)
The only other consideration is whether to move this to the opponent finder forum or sticky it here. We do have a dedicated forum for finding opponents but the gaming forum gets far more traffic.
Or I could cross post in both.
The traffic was my original intention for starting this in the Computer Wargaming section. But cross posting is better :)
Just a bump for the expected traffic of the four day holiday weekend.
My times vary a lot.
In between my variable schedule and tending to our little one I have to juggle all kinds of chores, social visits and what not to fit with some time to game. Of course I still have a BIG list of games I want to play, but time is getting more scarce by the day.
Still, I'd like to have some good MP matches.
One advantage to my schedule is that I can cater to many timezones. :)
I put my "available time" but more often than not...8pm rolls around and I go to bed lol Dammit Jim is sleeping good but he's up at least once and never the same time. Inevitably I wake up at 4 or 5am and decide to just stay up. I get about 6 hours of consecutive sleep followed by a couple of hours of broken North Korean torture sleep...
^I remember the North Korean torture sleep only too well. You'd be surprised how functional you can be if only you can get at least 4 hours of consecutive sleep!