Should we set a time to meet for Paradox games? Thread - Red Alert 3 Paradox mod for C&C: Red Alert 3

A decent number of people meet up at every Paradoxcast because they are at set times, so would setting a day(s)/time(s) to meet in casual 17 for some Paradox games be a good idea?

If such meetings became organized enough, stuff tournaments and other events could be possible.

Not sure when the time should be though, probably whatever works for the Paradox team.

(Because trying to balance it around every player's schedule would be a nightmare.)

Just to throw a time out there, maybe 7:00 on Tuesdays in (GMT-06:00) Central Time?

I feel like Paradox would be much more playable online if we did something like that.

(Also, add other Paradox players to your friends list, it helps a ton for finding matches.)

I remeber sea said he was working on a tournement, but this would be a great way to find more people.

So I guess we try it at 7:00 PM tonight central time?

We should have several times, since ParadoxCast time is way too late for me and many other Europeans.

Indeed, I was just throwing out one time.

What other time works for Europeans?

Anything between 9:00 to 23:00 GMT

that means for you americans 4:00-18:00

Okay, maybe a match at 4:00 PM Central Time?

and please stop useing am and pm, it's confusing, especially when you bring in GMT +-, however, everybody understands 16:00. To make it american time you just takes 16-5=11:00. <-- easy
4PM-5=-1PM=11AM? <-- Confusing

set meeting times are a no-no, they may suit you, but anyone in a different time zone is screwed by them.

you start only coming on at 19:00 central time, that means THE WHOLE of EUROPE is excluded, as it's gone midnight for even the most western parts of europe. for anyone in Eastern Europe, it's about 3 AM!

I am saying that we should have several different meet time because people are likely to be excluded in each one, and the chances of meeting randomly are too slim.

So 16:00 Central time would be 4:00 Central time, I guess.

Galgus wrote: I am saying that we should have several different meet time because people are likely to be excluded in each one, and the chances of meeting randomly are too slim.

So 16:00 Central time would be 4:00 Central time, I guess.

That's why we have a steam group (which even the devs are members in)

Why not simply set like every 3 hours or something. Not too bad, most people would be able to get on for at least one of those 3 hours everyday. Right?

GriffinZ wrote:

Galgus wrote: I am saying that we should have several different meet time because people are likely to be excluded in each one, and the chances of meeting randomly are too slim.

So 16:00 Central time would be 4:00 Central time, I guess.

That's why we have a steam group (which even the devs are members in)

That would work, but we would have to have most everyone join it. Which would be awesome.

restrictive, what if you miss it by 5 minutes? (or 10, etc)

it essentially limits us to one game every 3 hours.

the steam group is the way to go on this i think, much more flexible.

I dont have uh steam? at all..

link: Store.steampowered.com

go there and download it. It's FREE.

paradox group: Steamcommunity.com

join that and you'll be able to see when we're on.
In the other thread i posted a short tutorial on how to get RA3 integrated so you can use steam chat while in-game.

I doesn't have steam chat ingame which means RA3 tab downs when someone trys to chat with me

you just need to add the RA3.exe (with -ui at end) as a non-steam game and run it from inside steam. no performance loss, but steam chat enabled.

How about every 6 hours (UCT)??

that's worse!

The problem about steam is that you need to have a steam game.

No you don't. Steam is free to get, the reason is because whenever you start steam you get some news about their latest games. and you really like reviveing old dead threads?

Going up a bit, I'm thinking about adding a wiki page for organizing tournaments. Where a player can create a tournament of his or her own, set a time, date, and prize (like a wiki userbar or somthing). Maybe even Commander profiles for the Paradox commanders that appeared after July 4th

Or just friendly matches. Im gonna buy a mic and try hosting a tourny.