TB Q&A ok, but.....

"nfidel2k;c-2397004" wrote:

"scuba;c-2397000" wrote:

"BeralCator;c-2396914" wrote:

"herd_nerfer;c-2396908" wrote:

That being said, didn't they switch to 36 hour phases in Geo TB due to complaints about coordinating international guilds in the 24 hour phases of Hoth? So who was giving feedback that 36 hour phases made things more difficult? There are complaints about nearly everything in the game on these forums, but I'm not sure I remember that being among them. That response, aside from not directly addressing the question that was asked, doesn't make sense.

While this was quite a long time ago, (and I don't have the energy to go hunt for the specific posts), I remember this quite differently.

IIRC, Geo was supposed to be 4 phases with 24 hours each. Due to technical limitations in how the game mode was originally implemented, they learned that they could not have some guilds doing TB for 4 days and others doing it for 6 days. So they extended the Geo phases to 36 hours to make it also run 6 days and punted the problem to a future update, which of course never happened.

Thinking the change was in response to customer feedback is either incredibly generous or naïve, depending on how cynical you are. That said, I do think the 36 hour phases ended up being better for international guilds (like mine) and the transition back to 24 hours has been very frantic.

Someone else who remembers!
Why I call **** on the wrong answer to the question. 36 hour phase would have been a 9 day tb, maybe they figured out a way around what ever technical issue they had in the past but I don't see them running one tb longer (or shorter) than another.

Time constraints many complain about with any of the phase times would be eliminated if they would just give players the option to allow officers to fill platoons and deploy on thier behalf (without haveing the security breach of a couple people having 50 logins)
With it as a player initiated option guilds can work it out themselves how they handle it all, and those that like to wait around for all this stuff can still carry in like things are.

The chicken or the egg.

24 hour phases is why we have 6 instead of just 4.