Timezones
 

https://i.imgur.com/KeNjHhz.png
what's this for??

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Hmm..

Ah yes thank u fp4 for putting my time zone Antarctica

LA? You paisa?

On topic: seems like they just adding to much personal info for a game catered to 10 year olds

They adding Zodiac signs next

I'm blocking every Gemini I see.

I'm guessing next it will display in such a way that it's fixed based on your geographical position... like the flags. Initially you could make your flag whatever you pleased. Then that somehow became an issue. Now you can't anymore.

Most likely this time zone thing (use being what? collaboration between non-existent guild allies to find out when specific groups are active?) will go the same way.

To be honest this is scary LOL they'll know your addresses next.

Blood Type next

Credit Card Details Next!

so we can know when it's party time

It’s starting lmao

*indentifies* *walks 10 tiles* *"Please type in your card number to continue."*
*"Please select credit or debit."* *"Enter your PIN number."* *signature* *"Would you like cash back?"* *"Receipt failed to print due to lack of external printer."* *"Transaction complete."* *walks 10 more tiles* *"Please re-enter your card number to continue."*

yeah man automatically picking up your timezone based on your location so times can be shown in your local time and not EST or UTC sure is terrible and an invasion of your personal information :rolleyes:

We are using the standard list of time zones found here:

https://www.epochconverter.com/timezones

Android and Flash in particular don't seem to get the proper time zone from the system they're on so we had to implement the option to set it yourself.

The same system that automatically determines and sets your country also attempts to provide your local time zone so most people shouldn't have to go into their profile and set it manually.

We plan to use the system to display accurate timestamps where needed.

My time zone is from Buenos Aires, but theres a lot of argentinian citys. And not La Pampa where i am from. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...fdb93da069.jpg

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That's not supposed to be your city, it's your timezone.

I mean, there's a lot of Argentinian places may this only be Buenos Aires i think.

La rioja, Salta, Ushuaia

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Same timezone.

do youa speaka da ingles

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No, i have a bad english.

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Idk something fishy going on here

The Graal Snowden will eventually let us know the truth

#protectTHEkids
stalkers

Is that a higbey reference?

Could be used for Christmas gifts openings!

Would someone toggling a VPN affect this in any way? For example a certain sparrer VPNing to a different continent to gain an advantage, how would this affect their timezone?

no.

everybody would change their timezone to open them early and it would cause so much server lag.

bad idea.

Agreed. Certain sparrers have resorted to VPNing in order to gain an advantage, I could only imagine how bad it would get if many other parts of the game were now encouraged to VPN to change their timezone.

agreed. There are a few outliers who abuse VPN in any opportunity to get an advantage in any setting applicable and it is exploitative and disgusting. Shame. Shams. Shame. Tsk Tsk Tsk

Yeah, I see your point. Certain people could VPN to countries in asia when they're really from europe, and then say they're on a "business trip", "vacation" or "internship." I think this will only be used for player sided messages from NPCs like "check back at 9:00 for your new bounty!" rather then the "must wait inbetween bounties" message.

Otherwise I don't like this at all. For example, you could be a girl PC sparrer in the guild (endeavor), VPN to canada, but say you're from texas (where the server is so you'd have no delay), but have a considerable delay/lag when your flag is canadian while also saying it's a flag glitch. It's obvious you're lying but there isn't an effective anti-VPN measure so you'd get away with it.

This is purely theoretical, and I used endeavor only because they're one of the top spar guilds rn and I have immense respect for them. They'd NEVER cheat or break the rules and I know this because they reported every other gst team last season because they thought they might have been breaking rules, so don't take this the wrong way anyone.

Exactly man, I don't think timezones should affect things like Christmas Openings or Bounty. Only thing I can see it applying is aesthetically like a Day/Night system which I suspected, or for what I heard suggested like knowing timezones for your members for NGS.

I don't think timezones will be able to be locked like countries, as FP4 said the flash player won't pick it up correctly. But if they would to be locked, many people could abuse vpn to exploit the many features that this could make viable. Especially the competitive community, in particular the spar community, with certain people who have many belts and a super high ratio but all achieved unfairly due to breaking the rules.

Especially if someone is in, lets say, France, but VPNS to, lets say. China, wouldn't it disrupt the atmosphere of it being night in your home country, France, if it's day in-game? It's like Animal Crossing, it's better if you play it right and not time-travel.

Interesting idea but no, this is just for displaying times accurately.

Maybe admens should check chinese IP in game of that french person to see if they're vpning to China or not 🤔

Maybe the french person should just stop vpning alltogether


the possibilities are endless afterall this is only theoretical idk of any vpning french girls with heavy narcissistic qualities