EVE General Discussion

I was one of those many that missed on the gift, even I have been often and long online this month. Well, my reason was, that I tried to claim the remap but it was when they took it offline and wasn't available. And I did read they would work on it and it might re-appear. So I memorized the 22nd to log in into my account management and check again and get the remap by then or select another gift. Needless to say, I was too late for only 2-3 hours, because it was the 21st and not the 22nd, as I misunderstood, as the last day to _select_ your gift and the 22nd was the one to _claim_ it.

I really hated the thought I missed on it but thought there's nothing I can do. Anyway, finally I wrote a petition as one of my friends was pushing me to do. So I wrote a petition asking if it would be still possible to get it, but not with much hopes. And to my surprise, CCP has been very uncomplicated in that matter to give the gifts I liked to my accounts!

CCP you rescued my christmas in EvE, thank you so much!! :)


PS: This thread is not for those saying how people who didn't got the gifts it's their own fault or whatever, just because others do things different then they... there's more then enough comments like that in the other threads to read :p This thread is to thank CCP for doing a good job and finally a fast and better customer service too!

I think CCP forgets that eve time is not everyone's time

when its the 23rd in eve, its still the 22nd in America
I think it would be wise for CCP to consider that not everyone in the world runs on UTC

neither is the square root of pi, but you don't see people doing it every day simply because somewhere in the world there's a mathematics university

I have to admit, since EVE began everything has run on the same time table. It is a necessity in a game played round the world.

That's why it's plastered on every forum post and constantly in the bottom corner of the game client.

There really isn't any other practical way to synchronize players from multiple time zones.

I truly hope there will be some sort of global mandate to prevent you from breeding

Sure there is. Addition. But then, I'm agreeing with you. Players need to be doing these very hard addition problems in Base 10, Modulo 24.

Everyone who works across timezones does. That why it's called UTC.

All the pages on account management use UTC as well; check the Transaction / Activity logs. Considering with most modern operating systems you can add an additional clock in a different time zone OR if you have the equivalent of side-bar gadgets you can drop multiple clocks on your desktop it's simple laziness / stupidity not to know.

But, I guess living in NZ and being in a different time zone to most gaming companies means I'm aware enough to pay attention to those types of details.

Maybe people who are used to thinking of themselves as being the centre of everything struggles with anything outside their little monkey sphere?

yeah, our little monkey sphere

12:00 AM UTC =

7:00pm Eastern
6:00pm Central
5:00 pm Mountain
4:00pm Pacific yeah CCP, your customers aren't even home from work or school yet

but do go on deluding yourself that your monkey island opinion means anything

There are 24 hours in a day. Even outside the US

12:00 AM UTC = 1AM UTC+13. This little island monkey managed to get it done. But then, I'm s.m.r.t.