Best Times to Game?

[Dave Fritz]

What are the best times to game? The reason I'm asking is that I seem to game at a time when few others are around. I mostly game in the mornings and early to mid-afternoons Eastern Time.

As the Wiki describes, Sundren is not a world for solo adventurers. As a new player, I'm finding it hard to find people to join up, especially of approximately my own level. I must say that several high level people (DMs?) have been helpful with both advice and trying to find me people, but without much success.

I have read previous posts about getting killed a lot and tried to follow the advice given, but that's mostly of the "find someone to join up with" or "join a faction" type. At the moment, I seem to need help with Faction quests as well, so I'm between a rock and a hard place.

[Root]

I feel your pain.

Optimum time seems to be between 1am and 7am my time, for both players and DM's.

From what I can tell, it's not as easy or fun to get up to anything besides beating easy enemies alone in low-player times. For the majority of my playtime, I'll click search and see:

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AFK has a lot of people
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[Zorkaplex]

Hi Dave, in my opinion the times that are the most popular are in the evening which is around 5 pm to 1 am EST. At that time there is usually roughly 20 to 30 players on. It may not be the 'best' time to play, but it seems to be the most popular time.

[Dave Fritz]

Yeah, in the context of my question, "best" means "most popular". And the times you mention are bad for me. Real life intrudes ;-)

[GRCrush]

Dave

You have met my persona Dove a few times now. She is a bit higher then you and granted my work time probably conflicts a bit with your in game time. But that said I will gladly team up with you on one of my alternates when I am in game.

Most servers seem to cater to the EST crowd and understand the pain of players who play earlier then that. So if you or anyone see me in game feel free to message me I have no issue with making sure newer players get some fun time too

log in names DjnTech68, RidgeRunner68 and GRCrush

[Root]

What annoys me a fair bit is overnight AFK'ers. I see the server having 10 players in, and four of them won't move an inch the whole time I'm on.

[Dave Fritz]

Thanks, GRCrush! I appreciate your help both in-game and OOC. And I hope I can take advantage of your offer. I'll try a Private Message to you (still figuring out game and forum mechanics, too) as I have some of those questions as well.

[Sir Kharn]

I'm having some trouble finding party's with my 3 other toons who are all low lvl (they are all under lvl 6. So if you see me jump on harass me immediately and i will have no trouble joining you

[Dave Fritz]

Thanks, Sir Kharn. I'll look for you.

[Drink of Kings]

What annoys me a fair bit is overnight AFK'ers. I see the server having 10 players in, and four of them won't move an inch the whole time I'm on.

This is largely a byproduct of the level cap system.

[Root]

Bah! My level cap is 15 and I'm still level 9.

I'm not one to pull afk-marathons, my electric bill is high as it is.

[Philosopher]

Afternoons, United States Pacific Standard Time is generally when the servers numbers are at their height (20 -30 players). Generally the five or six hours leading up to the server reset.

[Dragor]

I'm running Play times usually 0200 EST to about 1530 EST at the moment but im working on shifting my sleep habits back to actual night time I'm running 5 chars right now 4 below Lvl 8

and my current lvl 4 is useless till lvl 9 so he desperatly needs help, if you or anyone else needs something from lvl 4 to lvl 7 to party with and see Sebastian standing around (even AFK, I'm prob watching a movie) send him a tell

also Sebass is lvl 15 if anyone wants to hit Argyle (he can make it quite easy on the zombie side)

I do expect the whole party formation to be RP'ed though

Cheers