Mirus worked for 7+ hours, from 4pm until after 11pm CST the first day, and came back for a couple hours the next day. I'd have to say that a seven hour stint, doing work for everyone who walked into his tent was more than one could reasonably expect an alterer to do to encompass as many people as possible.
I agree that events should be staggered in time to accomodate as many players as possible, and I intend to see to it that players of all time zones will see some events thrown their way. What is, sadly, the unavoidable truth however, is that events are always going to be scheduled in a way that players who play at peak times will see more of them. While we want to include everyone, we want the most bang for our buck, so to speak. If we put a large amount of rescources into low usage times, more people would see less, and only a selective few would be happy.
Luckily for those of you who are not in the US, or who have weird sleeping patterns, I have a rather odd sleeping and availability pattern myself, and am likely to run and or schedule events accordingly. When we get weddings released, you can expect the presence team to become more event oriented with roleplaying, events, and surprises on a whole to be more common.
Obie,
Director of Game Presence
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