Feedback in regards to Ladder times

[Gariel]

Hello,
First I wanted to say that I really enjoy playing ECB. I personally like the strategy that is involved in this game and the look/feel of card combat. I find I enjoy watching most of my matches and especially enjoy the moments where the match was so close, that it came down to the very last strike.

My only complaint that I wanted to feedback to you is about ladder times. First off, I live in the United States and reside in the Mountain Time Zone. I work full time from 8am - 5pm, which is pretty standard here. So, the first available ladder time during the day is at 1pm and ends at 5pm (Mountain Time). Unfortunately for me (and most people who work full time) this doesn't work as by the time we are getting home; the ladder time has ended. So guys like me have to wait ~4 hours till the next ladder time, which starts at 9pm (Mountain Time). Unfortunately, this is close to when I like to go to sleep; so I am not much in the mood to play this card game.

So my suggestion would be (if possible) to extend the ladder times, in particular to try to capture more people who would be playing in the evening hours here in the United States. I think this would help get more players playing this game that enjoy participating in competitive ladder games (especially those of us on the west side of the United States).

[jlw9pTraveller]

I would like to second this statement. I am on Eastern Standard Time in the US (GMT +5). I sometimes have similar trouble playing on ladder. My suggestion would be to let us play ladder all day long. If you can't support that, then why not let the ladder times change from day to day in a predictable manner. Each day the ladder times could move back one hour. Or you could have two sets of ladder times that complement each other and switch between them one day after another. That way even the very busy people will still have a few days during the season that it is convenient for them to play.