Jake Thomson medal 5000 10 years 24 days ago
So basically, I come on at 20 to 6 (which is when i normally do my setup for 10 to) and the clocks haven't changed... as usual. Then iGP procedes to screw me over even more by not even putting my cars on the grid but I am still apart of the league, therefore losing all hope of the championship with the final race being tomorrow.
Jack Basford medal 5538 
CEO & CTO 10 years 24 days ago (edited 10 years 24 days ago)
Hi Jake,
I understand your frustration given the championship battle you are in. When the clocks change many people are caught out by it, but iGP uses the UTC/GMT time zone and will always remain constant on this time zone.
Unfortunately your fuel supply contract expired yesterday, which is why you didn't race. Saying iGP messed up is a bit misleading then, but perhaps where we did mess up is by not publishing the timezone information more clearly.
Is there any way you think we could make it clearer? Perhaps some kind of notification system? We'd probably need somebody to build a calendar of the days timezones change in order to implement something along those lines.
Jake Thomson medal 5000 10 years 24 days ago
Yeah you could probably notify people about the time zone thing. Also, im stupid, thanks. To be honest though I would have been able to get a fuel supply if I remembered the time thing. I was just being stupid. Sorry!
Jason Mcrae medal 5000 10 years 23 days ago
iam also not happy with the way igp time zone i missed my race by an hour as well. so now my race will start at 8am instead of 9am and now it starts to early for me to play at the time. (so this race i would normal be 1/2 or 1/3 now i came 7/9.
i play other games with players all round the world and that stays at the same time no matter if the clocks have gone forward or backwards.
Jake Thomson medal 5000 10 years 23 days ago
The issue I have is that I now can't mathematically win the championship.
I would have thought that as the time zones change, surely the time should stay the same but in the next time zone? Leagues generally set times because they know that the majority can make it. The league i'm in changing from 6pm to 5pm now means that I will struggle to make it which is a shame because generally I am fighting for wins and championships which shows in the Hall of Fame...
Jack Basford medal 5538 CEO & CTO 10 years 23 days ago
We can't make the races follow any one timezone. If we moved it for people in Britain it would alienate other regions of the world, and vice versa. That's why we stick to GMT, also known as UTC or Universal Time.
Because of experiences like yours and others who can't always keep to a schedule, we're looking at revising the entire league system in 2015. It obviously would have been better if you could have raced whenever you were free, rather than having to stick to a schedule in this case. That's something we can build if popular opinion supports it. It's a big job, but frankly it seems worth it.
Jake Thomson medal 5000 10 years 23 days ago
I thought the clocks went back everywhere?
Guido Bijl medal 5000 10 years 23 days ago
Nope, they don't go back everywhere.
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