So, pretty much all of my corp and most of my out of corp buddies know which time zone I’m physically in. What I don’t get is why they call me a guy of different time zones. I know physical time zones are not quite the same as what if often referred to in the game, a guy in GMT might be called a Moscow time zone guy depending on when he’s online. Physical time zone has some relationship to this because few people with jobs are on EVE at midnight to 5 in the morning. Almost everyone I frequently interact with can reply to me with an answer when I ask them what kind of a time zone player, they think I am. So at least over 22 people who I’ve interacted with in the past 3 months a lot call me mostly a GMT or EU timezone guy. Most of these people are British. And 7 people say I’m a US East time zone guy. And three people say I’m a Japan/AU time zone guy. Three others reply that having seen me less than 10 times, they’re not really sure.
In fact one time a Brit and two guys with unknown nationalities who said I was a GMT player overheard me discuss with a Russian corpmate who said I was a Japan/AU player and there was considerable confusion between the 4 since they were all sure they were right and they talked for a while one of them was aggroed at a gate and warped away, changing our attention to the flashy.
Every time I asked what gave the guy his answer and every time I got something like “well, I’ve seen you on at different times, but based on overall trends, you are like players who live in (time zone).” I don’t know the nationalities of most of these people, but I did notice all the Brits think I’m a GMT guy, but at least one Australian thinks of me as a GMT guy too. My CEO says I didn’t fall into an obvious pattern, which is unusual since everyone else here who is online at least once a week falls into a neat bucket. I don’t get why 31 people who know where I physically am are all sure they can classify my time zone based on my “overall trends” but come up with 3 answers. I mean if everyone said “you seem to be a three headed giant rolled into one, so I’m not sure” that joke would at least be consistent, but I got 3 and a half answers. So apparently, I’m a EST, no wait GMT, no wait Japan/AU guy, no wait no obvious category all at once.
