Issue with the hours for Championship Races

[akira3d]

Is anyone else as frustrated as I am by the limited number of hours that one can participate in point races? I've been able to run at most one race a week during these test seasons due to the limited range of scheduled times.

For a game developer living on the West Coast, weekday races are out because I do not tend to get home until long after the last race of the day. And I almost always forget about the weekend races because they fall squarely in the middle of the afternoon (not to mention that I occasionally have to work on weekends).

Do the times (15:00 to 19:10) vary by time zone?

I won't ever be able to participate seriously in these things unless PD starts offering races between 21:00 and later PST...and, even then, I'd be more far likely to enter events later than 23:00. I realize these are still "Test Seasons" and things will likely change when they become official, but dang! I really enjoy the point races too...

 

[goatslunch x]

There needs to be more servers globally. Like the USA, Australia is a large country covering several time zones. We are stuck in the Asia Pacific region whose servers are based in Japan. Therefore on the east coast the first race is at 10pm. New Zealanders need to get up at 1am just to have a race.

 

[AeonGaiden]

In Vietnam the first race starts at midnight. Yea i rarely do them. Just sticking to Sport dailys for now.

 

[stevenhiggster]

The times in the UK used to suit me better with the last race at 10pm but then they changed it so the last race was 9pm which is no use for me most days so I just don't bother with the FIA races anymore. No point anyway unless you're one of the top guys.

 

[pedrocor]

PD needs to sort out this matter.
The regions are too large, have too many time zones to have a window of 4 hours, when some regions have 7 or 8 different timezones.

 

[elderflower]

The times in the UK used to suit me better with the last race at 10pm but then they changed it so the last race was 9pm which is no use for me most days so I just don't bother with the FIA races anymore. No point anyway unless you're one of the top guys.

This also applies to me. If I get home from work on time and have dinner etc, I can just make the 9pm race but most days I miss them. Much preferred the 10pm time slot. I do feel for people who are presented with unrealistic race times though, effectively they are being denied a major feature of the game through no fault of their own.

 

[Voodoovaj]

I liked it more when the times were later in the evening in my zone. Now they're from 1700 -2100 and that's inconvenient. When the races ran later (2300 +) it was easier.

Seeing as you only NEED to do three, that makes it better.