Originally Posted by ChibiKika

Light update, I'm at 4.3m (event) now though I suppose that hardly matters as most of my friend connections don't relate to the current strike force here...probably should do something about that...

Your timezone is -8, right? mm.. I see the difficulty, most heavy hitters listed are likely to be online when is somewhat early for you. I think you could receive most help from guys on GMT -4, -5 and -6. I think.
I'll try to coordinate sub-groups during weekend, this was a quite busy week.

Anyways, listed time gaps are just a proposed range of hours which could help anyne to find other players online and kill guards. I understand that work/studies issues and other stuff may affect how long can a player be online.

Let's see how it goes during weekend.

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All right, finally got the time to analyze the time zones adding the heavy hitters factor.
Also, I've been considering the obvious difference (in terms of daily on-line time) between week and weekend days.

Here's how our current strikeforce's time gaps looks like (updated with the amount of available heavy hitters, and some extra time zones added):



Two important things to notice here: First, we have a high concentration of heavy hitters (6) in GMT +1 and +2, but their common time isn't really large compared to other time zones with less heavy hitters. Second, most of the time compatibility can be seen from GMT -8 to -4, with 5 heavy hitters in total, while GMT +7, +8 and +9 have good common times between themselves, with 3 heavy hitters included.

But the green gaps criteria may be a little inaccurate for week days, since work, studies and daily stuff in general most likely will reduce the effective range of those gaps, thus causing players to not find others on-line, even if they're in their green time gaps. Current criteria should be more accurate for weekend days, since those days usually mean more available hours.
I've been setting a more strict criteria for week days, so I've estimated new green time gaps, considering normal days stuff that most people have to take care of. Being that said, I've estimated green gaps from 18:00 until midnight, which means a shorter effective range, but it should be more accurate:



Although this range shortening may look severe, please take it as an estimated reference. Of course, during week days each player may have more hours available, so this doesn't mean that you won't find another player on-line outside those gaps. Take it as it is, an estimated reference.

Going a little further on this point, I've crossed each timezone's compatibility, both under normal (weekend) and strict (week) criteria, as you can see here:



Having all these factors considered, I propose the following:
- In most cases, group A will count with people from GMT -8 to -4, which means 5 heavy hitters are estimated to be on-line. Depending on circumstances, this group can be extended with help of GMT +9 and -3, adding 1 heavy hitter more.
- In most cases, group B will count with people from GMT +1 to +9, meaning up to 9 heavy hitters could help there. Group B should have less hours available, but having more heavy hitters should keep things balanced.
- People from GMT -5, -4, -3, +1 and +2 could (in theory) get to help people from both groups more often, depending on their daily available hours.

That's all. I know we're near the end of this event, but I'm pretty sure that this further analysis will be useful for upcoming Elite Guards events. Also, we still have some days left, and using the forum's live chat as communication channel, these last raids are being really fun, IMO. So let's keep taking those Tomoko's down, and enjoy the show ^.^

P.S.: If you find any mistake, please let me know