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in the forum, on your left side just above the topics you find this:
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in the game i have no idea if theres a clock (would be helpfull if in your buildings it had the time of completion along with the remaining time)
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in the game i have no idea if theres a clock (would be helpfull if in your buildings it had the time of completion along with the remaining time)
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It's awesome to have the ingame clock on the contest stat page. It already helps a lot for contests specifically.
But I've run into cases where I've tried to explain that I start my batches of steel every 48 hours, around noon french time. Except when I'm visitng my kids in the states, and need them around noon pacific. And also that they could send me coal and iron anytime they wanted, but it didn't need to be earlier than in the mornings of the days I produce them. Oh, and also that the next batch would be starting at noon (french time) the next day...
I would welcome an ingame clock AND calendar (well, not a complete fancy calendar, just the day printed out). Not neccesarly on every page, but at least on one of them, to have solid common grounds when negotiating long-term regular contracts. The ultimate feature would be that each of us could input our local time someplace, and then send buisness cards to a company reading "[this company] would love your wares at the latest [this time] every day". And the company sending the card would write it using their local time, while the company receiving the card would read it converted into their own local time. But give us just an ingame clock and calendar, and I'll be glad to do the conversions myself... Oh, and also, if you see a friendly coal and iron producer, running around with a solid headache, please give them an aspirin for me; I never heard of the person again
But I've run into cases where I've tried to explain that I start my batches of steel every 48 hours, around noon french time. Except when I'm visitng my kids in the states, and need them around noon pacific. And also that they could send me coal and iron anytime they wanted, but it didn't need to be earlier than in the mornings of the days I produce them. Oh, and also that the next batch would be starting at noon (french time) the next day...
I would welcome an ingame clock AND calendar (well, not a complete fancy calendar, just the day printed out). Not neccesarly on every page, but at least on one of them, to have solid common grounds when negotiating long-term regular contracts. The ultimate feature would be that each of us could input our local time someplace, and then send buisness cards to a company reading "[this company] would love your wares at the latest [this time] every day". And the company sending the card would write it using their local time, while the company receiving the card would read it converted into their own local time. But give us just an ingame clock and calendar, and I'll be glad to do the conversions myself... Oh, and also, if you see a friendly coal and iron producer, running around with a solid headache, please give them an aspirin for me; I never heard of the person again
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Just thinking out loud here ...Soul Systems wrote:I would welcome an ingame clock AND calendar (well, not a complete fancy calendar, just the day printed out). Not neccesarly on every page, but at least on one of them, to have solid common grounds when negotiating long-term regular contracts.
How would you feel about just one page out of the office, a "time" page with a big Server Time across the top, then a list of times/dates for different locations? Would that meet the need?
There seems to be a tug of war between those who want a single clock to clarify, and those who want specified clock to reflect what they're doing. And the two are just going to confuse each other.
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KnollsHow would you feel about just one page out of the office, a "time" page with a big Server Time across the top, then a list of times/dates for different locations? Would that meet the need?
Sure. That sounds wonderful. If it's going to be a dedicated page with a clock on top, and a table below with other time zones ticking (and some code already calculating those times anyway), I think it would be neat to actually have 2 columns in that table. One where the clocks are ticking the current time, the other where you could input a given time, and see that time converted for all the time zones. Something like "current time" ticking away on the left part of the page, a seperator in the middle reading which zone the time is for, and then a custom time on the right, not ticking, just listing your custom input for each time zone row.
I'm sorry if it sounds like asking for more than what is offered, but the real goal of the time conversion in long term contract negotiation, is not so much to convert the current time, as to convert the time -and, if applicable, the day- supplies need to delivered in order for production not to halt (and allow suppliers to prioritize their batches across the board of their customers' time zones). If there is already going to be a conversion tool anyway, it feels like it would be somehow incomplete, if it only did half the conversion job, and still left you to manually do the other half.
Still, it is better to have that half, than nothing at all (especially since it's the harder half
). And certainly, if the code can't be easily re-used for a second column, a server time ticking on top, with a single column list of times/dates for various locations would already be a fantastic improvement. It wouldn't do all the work for us, but it would make that work easily manageable, which isn't really the case right now =)-
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