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10 Jun 2004, 18:12
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Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Surely midday would be a far less shit time to start ticks, no? If you're trying to make PA directly compete with peoples drinking nights I don't have much hope for a r12.
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10 Jun 2004, 18:13
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Still Dreadnought
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 200
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
I agree, which no lifer's idea was this?
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10 Jun 2004, 18:20
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Hi there ...
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
thought about that some ppl have work to do ? i come home at 6 pm so i prefer a later start ....
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10 Jun 2004, 18:22
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l337 Beyond Repair
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 16
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
I live in the states, so it's going to be 4pm here. It's going to start at 1am for people living on the west coast.
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10 Jun 2004, 18:23
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l337 Beyond Repair
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 16
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Besides, you dont really need to be on cause you can do everything before the ticks start.
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10 Jun 2004, 18:24
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Swansea
Posts: 798
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
true 8pm on a friday aint the best idea
8pm on saturday might be better cos I dont go out on saturdays often
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10 Jun 2004, 18:31
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Sept 2057
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
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Originally Posted by Quanticles
Besides, you dont really need to be on cause you can do everything before the ticks start.
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Would that be the research and construction due at 6am on saturday morning?
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10 Jun 2004, 18:33
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Elysium
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 167
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
An 'accelerated start' option would be nice imo, the whole protection time thing gets boring after a few rounds.
If you choose accelerated start:
o) You get no protection time.
o) Your planet doesn't start ticking until PT72 (If you signup later it starts ticking right away).
o) You get a few basic researches/constructions/roids/ships on par with what's possible for reasonably active players actually doing those few ticks (but not he best you could achieve). These depend on race and are preannounced so you can decide if it's worth it.
o) You get to go out and have a life etc...
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10 Jun 2004, 18:47
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I see you!
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: In any girl
Posts: 2,825
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Start time work for me at least
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10 Jun 2004, 19:01
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Don't make me declare war
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Portsmouth
Posts: 2,913
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
stop trying to pretend u have lives. U are pa players. WE KNOW THE TRUTH FS
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10 Jun 2004, 19:34
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Mr. Blobby
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Belgium
Posts: 8,271
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
I'm out the entire weekend. My round will start three days late. Yay me.
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10 Jun 2004, 19:52
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pe0n
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Kindom of the Netherlands
Posts: 1,347
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Leshy: hire a wireless laptop and ask a fee for people to use it.
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10 Jun 2004, 22:21
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used to register
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 979
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Last Rucphen someone HAD a laptop + wireless thingie, but Yama isn't coming to Rucphen this year
At least 2 of ROCK's HCs aremissing the first 50ish ticks too ^_^. But now we don't have to worry for incomings
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10 Jun 2004, 22:40
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Humpering Maddix for defence
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
When does the round start btw?
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10 Jun 2004, 23:33
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PA Team
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 7,449
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
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Originally Posted by Leshy
I'm out the entire weekend. My round will start three days late. Yay me.
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10 Jun 2004, 23:34
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PA Team
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 7,449
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Quote:
Originally Posted by General1
When does the round start btw?
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er. Friday 8pm (GMT) a week tomorrow (18th). As everyone who still plays, knows
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11 Jun 2004, 02:18
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 7,871
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
There'll be complaints whenever it starts.
You can't make everyone happy. On that note, I think they should start it at 2am on a Saturday night. Then at least you can ensure noone is happy.
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11 Jun 2004, 02:33
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I AM OSCAR WILDE
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 364
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
I'm all for a 2AM start on a Saturday night so I can actually be there for tick one for the first time ever
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11 Jun 2004, 02:50
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#planetarion
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Birmingham, UK
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
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Originally Posted by Tomkat
There'll be complaints whenever it starts.
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It's before the evening for American time zones, and UK'ers only lose 2 hours if they stay in the pub until closing.
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11 Jun 2004, 03:01
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dazed and confused
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Defford
Posts: 379
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
its friday night.... club night for a lot of people, payday too
having said that im skint anyway so ill be here
/me is sad
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11 Jun 2004, 12:49
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[WP]
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: England
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
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Originally Posted by Tomkat
There'll be complaints whenever it starts.
You can't make everyone happy. On that note, I think they should start it at 2am on a Saturday night. Then at least you can ensure noone is happy.
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Most sensible comment I've read so far! Your right, no-one will be completely happy so best to make it a time that no-one would be happy with.
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11 Jun 2004, 18:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 1,081
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Actually, making it start at 2am is an awesome idea - constructions done by 9/10am and then research done around 1/2pm
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11 Jun 2004, 23:06
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Eclipse 4 Life
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 119
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Seriously, get off, you aren't the only timezone that plays this game. Can you think that people around the world play this game, and not just people in the GMT timezone?
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11 Jun 2004, 23:30
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 1,081
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
well most people (im nearly 100% certain) are from the GMT / central europe region.
I mean to be honest, its fine for people in asia, and the USA's first research constructions would be done at around 1am/2am am i right? assuming its 8 hours behind...
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12 Jun 2004, 03:35
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Raaaaaaaah!
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 2,296
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
8pm does indeed sound pretty stupid. What exactly are we supposed to expect from PA Crew, Glad I'm not from Sweden though.
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12 Jun 2004, 07:23
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Sheep
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: IRC
Posts: 563
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
whine a little bit more please.
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12 Jun 2004, 11:09
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Henry Kelly
Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 7,374
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Quote:
Originally Posted by waffle
Can you think that people around the world play this game, and not just people in the GMT timezone?
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The vast majority of users are from Europe.
And TK's right, any time you would have picked would have been bad, though I'd have gone for a midnight start over an 8pm one, even if it's just as arbitrary as any other time.
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12 Jun 2004, 11:24
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Most unimportant guy...
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Kvinesdal
Posts: 1,393
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
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Originally Posted by Stifler
true 8pm on a friday aint the best idea
8pm on saturday might be better cos I dont go out on saturdays often
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and me again, is opposite of that got soccer on fridays, so I tend to be tired and cba going out. Saturdays r beter drinkingdays for me, so friday is a perfect start time for me anyway everyone cant be happy :/
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12 Jun 2004, 11:27
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 3,382
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
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Originally Posted by The Real Arfy
Actually, making it start at 2am is an awesome idea - constructions done by 9/10am and then research done around 1/2pm
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you do realise people init 1/1/1 roids etc, every tick or such right? :/
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12 Jun 2004, 11:30
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Norway
Posts: 367
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Would be bether to start it on a monday at 8pm.
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12 Jun 2004, 11:44
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dazed and confused
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Defford
Posts: 379
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
nah, i work monday nights, so thats a bad idea
lol
tbh i really doubt theyre going to change the start time now, just remember to campaign for next round so they kind find another start time, mebe have a poll or something so we can get a slightly (it aint gonna be perfect) better start tick for R12
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12 Jun 2004, 12:46
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Sheep
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: IRC
Posts: 563
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
hey I'm going drinking too, but I don't bother to start a damn thread about it. egoheads.
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12 Jun 2004, 15:02
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Canadian to the Core
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,004
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Quote:
Originally Posted by A2
It's before the evening for American time zones, and UK'ers only lose 2 hours if they stay in the pub until closing.
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My Res/Cons finishes pretty perfectly. Cons at 10pm, and res at 2am, that's perfect.
I'll just stay home and have a party that night, works out
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12 Jun 2004, 15:58
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Sept 2057
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Quote:
Originally Posted by A2
It's before the evening for American time zones, and UK'ers only lose 2 hours if they stay in the pub until closing.
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In my universe 21:00BST (20:00GMT) + 10 ticks is 6am. 6am. Bearing in mind the times of difference res/con finishing as well as the time difference in Europe, thats an average of between 4am and 7am on a saturday morning for the majority of PAs customers. I didn't post this to save me personally from being up then, but to point out that for a game thats allegedly trying to gain new players, this doesn't encourage the casual crowd too well.
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14 Jun 2004, 11:13
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NE
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: UK
Posts: 828
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomkat
There'll be complaints whenever it starts.
You can't make everyone happy. On that note, I think they should start it at 2am on a Saturday night. Then at least you can ensure noone is happy.
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lmao.. genious
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14 Jun 2004, 14:24
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eia bro
Join Date: May 2001
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 63
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Ticks start 8am Saturday morning for me, that means wake up at 8:55am to init my first roids.
Perfect
ps. hahah you suckers in europe ;>
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14 Jun 2004, 20:11
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Eclipse 4 Life
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 119
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Newsflash people
It's just a game.
BTW - ticks start at 1pm for me. Then when I get off of work about 10:30, I'll be able to come back home in time to start my next construction/research right when it finishes. AMERICANS OWN YOU.
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14 Jun 2004, 21:03
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[WP]
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: England
Posts: 44
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Spinner must be american :P
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14 Jun 2004, 21:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 1,081
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
damnit, americans get everything: TV/Films come first there, cool sports... and now pa
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15 Jun 2004, 03:49
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Crackhead
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 239
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
I'm quite happy about start-up time too.
My meeting is done at 12noon, tick start at 1pm, which means I have enough time to drive home. Start new res/cons+init roids each tick until I go out (which will be right after I start second cons/res etc). Then when I come back, drunk I am assuming, I'm hopefully capable of starting new con/res + initiate more roids. Following morning...continue....
Lovely!
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15 Jun 2004, 04:19
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I AM OSCAR WILDE
Join Date: Jun 2002
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Real Arfy
damnit, americans get everything: TV/Films come first there, cool sports... and now pa
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Yeh but it's summer vacation so I won't be up that early :/
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16 Jun 2004, 07:49
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 2
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
You would think they would start the ticks at the start of their work day, you know so if stuff goes wrong in typical pa fashion they are there all day to fix it rather than the normal oh we have to wait till spinner wakes up stuff.
and 20:00 gmt is 6:30 am for me so clearly aussies will rock everyone \o/
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1up on you
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Birmingham, UK
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Re: Why 8pm on a Friday night?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wasted
You would think they would start the ticks at the start of their work day, you know so if stuff goes wrong in typical pa fashion they are there all day to fix it rather than the normal oh we have to wait till spinner wakes up stuff.
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has to be one of the smartest coments I have heard for a long time. My personal opinion, friday night is the big night out where I come from. Start it Saturday druing the day perhaps? or Saturday evening.
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