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[Taurus1978 188]

OK GOT YOUR SQUADRON TIMES, But I need to point out there wrong, because some days they start at 16.00, and then sometimes start at 17.00 British time. And the US doesn't start until 02.00, when it is supposed to start at 01.00. something gone wrong here dude. This needs looking into.

 

Squadron Battles for European players:

From 17:00 GMT to 22:00 GM

 

 

British Summer Time (BST - Britain):

From 18:00 BST to 23:00 BST

 

They start at 16.00, and finnish at 23.00hrs British time. But like I said they sometimes don't start until 17.00, but still finish at 23.00. So the finish times are correct at 23.00, but not correct start times.

[FunnelWeb_Spider 2]

Taurus 1978 this is right been happening alot chaning squad times its starts fr me 6 eu time and i twas be for 5 it changes most time 

[SafiraThePilot 0]

I do believe Taurus1978 is correct on this topic.

[Taurus1978 188]

Current schedule for the Squadron Battles:

Squadron Battles for European players:
From 17:00 GMT to 22:00 GMT      THESE START AT 17.00, AND FINISH AT 00.00.
 
In different time zones:
Moscow Time (Russia):
From 20:00 MSK to 01:00 MSK
 
Central Europe Summer Time (CEST - Germany, France, Poland):
From 19:00 CEST to 00:00 CEST       --------- THESE START AT 17.00 AND FINISH AT 00.00.
 
British Summer Time (BST - Britain):
From 18:00 BST to 23:00 BST  ----- THESE START AT 16.00, NOT 18.00. BUT SOMETIMES START AT 17.00.
 
 
Squadron Battles for US, Canada and South American players:
From 01:00 GMT to 07:00 GMT     ------ THESE START AT 02.00, NOT 01.00. WE HAVE A WHOLE SQUAD WHO STAYED UP LATE TO PLAY.
 
In different time zones:
Brasilia Time (BRT - Rio De Janeiro, Hallifax):
From 22:00 BRT to 04:00 BRT
 
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT - New York, Toronto):
From 21:00 EDT to 03:00 EDT
 
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT - Los Angeles):
From 17:00 PDT to 23:00 PDT
 
NOTE THAT TIME CAN CHANGE WITH DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME CHANGES!
 

 

This is what you sent me via a Pm, times are all over the place.

Edited August 20, 2016 by Taurus1978
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[GaYyJinn 459]

times are messed up

[princeof_voguing 114]

3 hours ago, Taurus1978 said:

OK GOT YOUR SQUADRON TIMES, But I need to point out there wrong, because some days they start at 16.00, and then sometimes start at 17.00 British time. And the US doesn't start until 02.00, when it is supposed to start at 01.00. something gone wrong here dude. This needs looking into.

 

Squadron Battles for European players:

From 17:00 GMT to 22:00 GM

 

 

British Summer Time (BST - Britain):

From 18:00 BST to 23:00 BST

 

They start at 16.00, and finnish at 23.00hrs British time. But like I said they sometimes don't start until 17.00, but still finish at 23.00. So the finish times are correct at 23.00, but not correct start times.

 

They always start at 17:00 and run to 23:00 in the current British time, since we swapped to BST it has never started at 16:00, maybe you are remembering the GMT start time which we'll switch back to in I think October. Occasionally SQB starts late or ends early if there is some sort of issue, but it's quite rare, 98% of the time these times are correct to the minute. The US slot starts at 02:00 BST, that's 01:00 GMT which is the other time zone we use in Britain during winter months.

 

I don't know if those numbers in gold are something that was sent to you but they are incorrect, it is 16:00 to 22:00 GMT, which is 17:00 to 23:00 BST, total slot length is 6 hours not 5, seems like a lot of people are mixing up their time zones.

[zerbah 1,340]

OK, this is the schedule that is in the configs, I will check the times in the logs on Monday and see that they are fixed and that they be longer than in case that they start later/end earlier.

[princeof_voguing 114]

To clarify I am not saying there is an Issue with the times, quite the opposite. It just seems like there is a lot of confusion around when SQB are open, and I was trying to clear that up for everyone. 

[zerbah 1,340]

I have checked once more and updated the times as they are set now. If we are talking about London time, the time frames are:

 

From 17:00 to 23:00 (European segment)

From 02:00 to 08:00 (American segment)

[princeof_voguing 114]

Zerbah I have no idea where to post this so I'll ask you here;

 

Has point bleed for personal sqb squadron ratings been deliberately disabled, and if so is that a permanent decision? It seemed to me like it was causing some of the issues with the points not resetting properly, and with the points resetting for everyone at the end of each season it's not as relevant as it was before to have people bleed their points.

 

In case you don't understand what I am describing after 5 or so days of not playing squadron battles a player would bleed a percentage of their score and continue to do so until they played again. I have observed that this feature doesn't seem to be enabled currently, however it is still described in the game if you hover over personal squadron rating. I'd totally understand if gajin had decided to remove this now the points reset after a set period anyway because it could be fairly frustrating (the end of last season for instance pvvd overtook us but they bled so many more points for inactivity we still took first, much to their dismay), In which case you should remove the section of text that describes how bleed works, but if it is supposed to still be working I just thought i'd let you know that it isn't.

 

If it's temporarily disabled but you intend to bring it back could you please let us know when that's going to happen so we're not caught off guard, thanks.

[_Rustle_ 532]

Alternatively... remove personal score.

 

The new system will be a race to get 100 alternate accounts to 1500-1700 points. This is a farm fest, not competition. The grind of the whole thing remains. SqB will not even have a a chance to be credible until this changes.

[zerbah 1,340]

20 hours ago, princeof_femidom said:

Zerbah I have no idea where to post this so I'll ask you here;

 

Has point bleed for personal sqb squadron ratings been deliberately disabled, and if so is that a permanent decision? It seemed to me like it was causing some of the issues with the points not resetting properly, and with the points resetting for everyone at the end of each season it's not as relevant as it was before to have people bleed their points.

 

In case you don't understand what I am describing after 5 or so days of not playing squadron battles a player would bleed a percentage of their score and continue to do so until they played again. I have observed that this feature doesn't seem to be enabled currently, however it is still described in the game if you hover over personal squadron rating. I'd totally understand if gajin had decided to remove this now the points reset after a set period anyway because it could be fairly frustrating (the end of last season for instance pvvd overtook us but they bled so many more points for inactivity we still took first, much to their dismay), In which case you should remove the section of text that describes how bleed works, but if it is supposed to still be working I just thought i'd let you know that it isn't.

 

If it's temporarily disabled but you intend to bring it back could you please let us know when that's going to happen so we're not caught off guard, thanks.

 

The ELO personal point system should not have changed, will check this today.

[kommodus 111]

Hello, could you post actual list of maps in map rotation for SQB or is it posted somewhere. 

[zerbah 1,340]

22 hours ago, kommodus said:

Hello, could you post actual list of maps in map rotation for SQB or is it posted somewhere. 

 

Created a topic about the map rotation here:

 

[_grajas_ 14]

Hello,

 

I have a question about SQB points system.

We have noticed that it is quite easy to get c.a. 1200 pts, but then when someone have above 1600 pts every lost match costs a lot of points.

So it is actually quite risky to play at that stage.

Would it be possible to present how does individual point rating works (equation/algorithm)?

 

Regrettably I have not found any information about this - if I am not correct, and such information exists - could you please supply a link?

 

Best regards,

[Venatores 309]

The SQB point system is built around the 'ello rating'. The basic theory behind it is that you practically don't loose any points until you reach 1500 personal points. If you loose a game under that point range the damage will be minimal. After this threshold however a loss can lead to a bigger reduction of points. The size of this point loss in dependent on the ello rating of the enemy you are playing. If the enemy you are playing has a lower ello rating the point reduction when you loose will be higher than when you loose against a team that has a higher ello rating then your team does.

 

Your squadrons rating is calculated by adding the top 20 players points + 5 % of the score of all the other players in your squadron outside of the top 20.

 

Often times the squadron that wins the SQB season does not have to have the best players, but rather a spread of good players that can grind points.

[Taurus1978 188]

So today. 23/10/16 came warthinder, it says i missed 3 invites, now cannot join. Can someone please tell why is it not possible to bloody post on the launcher eh, gives a bit more warning, or can you not be botherd to do that? Or do we have the use of the force.

Edited October 23, 2016 by Taurus1978
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[japaddp 49]

Are you planning to do a tournament for air 1v1 arcade with 1024 players that start and end in same day? Thanks.

[LordMustang 7,398]

Do these talks still happen?

[Beatey 603]

Hi, I would like to ask, when approximately there will be possibility to make own tournaments via tss? And also would like to ask, will be another talking? 

[zerbah 1,340]

We can organize a meeting in Discord on the January 20th, at 18:00 or 19:00 GMT.

[schtreusel 155]

On 12.1.2017 at 0:17 PM, zerbah said:

We can organize a meeting in Discord on the January 20th, at 18:00 or 19:00 GMT.

Is there a possibility to maybe make it earlier?

As the 4vs4 Tournament starts at 19:00 and I don't want to hop from the meeting straight into the matches.

[zerbah 1,340]

We can meet at 17:00 GMT if it is OK with you.

[schtreusel 155]

Would be good for me.

Thanks

[Drakoumil 166]

So we have meeting   January 20th, at 17:00 GMT ?