Thank you for your answer CCP Dragon. If you would mind to answer me two very important questions about timers in the agency.
From my point of view they add no value for players, but they are irrtating and just stupid.
Generally I like the idea of “daily tasks” which can be completed any time between DT. This perfectly works in World of Tanks for example. In May or June 2016 CCP created awesome event with one simple task: Kill one pirate and get 10k free exp. It could be completed any time between DT. I mentioned it because it shows, that you can make an event like this.
What exactly timers mean for us, players. For example I log in every day on 8PM. Lets assume that I need 30 mins to do a daily task. Everything looks OK until my wife wants to go with me to a restaurant / cinema, or for example I play, but I have a stratop / corporation meeting and so on. So lets assume, that I’m not a basement dweller and I returned from a party at 1AM. In this situation I can decide to skip the daily task (to have access to it next day at 8PM) or do it and have the access to it next day on 11:30PM
I hope that I explained how your idea of timers works outside the basement dwellers world.
So the questions are:
- Is a target customer of CCP the basement dweller who absolutely set up his life to the EVE?
- Are you aware of that non-basement dwellers find this solution irritating and stupid? You have received no one positive feedback and many negative about the timers in Agency feedback threads.
Thanks CCP Dragon for your time reading this. I hope that you will explain here clearly, why do you think that timers make the agency better.