So I, like a lot of users, find it difficult to hit at least one shop. Currently the shop open time are as follows:

Geschenkboutique: 6a-4p Food Haus: 12p-10p Gute Ale: 7p-5a

So those are all 10hr windows and there is a bit of overlap. However I work very long days, 11:30a-9:30p so I never see Food Haus unless I sneak on at work from my phone. Granted my situation is unique and not everyone has the same, but a lot of these are time where people are sleeping or at school (Geschenkboutique) or at work like Food Haus..

So, I would like to see the times broken down a bit more. I would rather do away with the rotation entirely but since that is unlikely to happen, why not have them open at 5hr intervals instead of 10hr so that the shop is open at two points throughout the day.

Could go something like this:

Geschenkboutique: 6a-11a Food Haus: 10a-3p Gute Ale: 2p-7p Geschenkboutique: 6p-11p Food Haus: 10p-3a Gute Ale: 12a-5a

I don't really know if this is any better, it might be worse, but I feel like something should be done to make this a bit "fairer" to people. Or even just switch up when the shops are open on different days so all time zones get a shot at the shop that is most inconvenient to them.

Probably to late to do much about it this year, but it would be great if something could be worked out for next.

Ugh please. I work weekends. So putting the only shop I really need during the day only on a weekend is awful and I'd love to either see the times broken up or switched around on different days

Do away with the bloody timers and the shops switcharoo!

I only have a couple hours on mornings to get multiples of several items from Beer Haus. It's super inefficient having to wait till next morning for the next Beer Haus period... The event is so short for playing around. I wouldn't want to sit in front of the comp hours straight in order to get as many items as possible.

Waiting for the whiny preaching about not having to participate in every event/not needing every item. Mind your own business, thankyouverymuch...

I have to get off the PC for a few hours before bed or else I don't sleep and the rest of the time I am sleeping so I miss the Geschenkboutique. But, there isn't much I can do about it except rely on the kindness of friends. LOL I remember them during Peka-boo. I thought WE were the whiny ones for saying anything at all.

The shop timing is the one thing which really bothers me about this event. Subeta is normally pretty good at accommodating for different time zones, but it's been rather thrown out with this. I can see why a rotating shop has been implemented - an event where the main focus is shop where everything just sits there all day would be pretty dull. However, the way it is now just doesn't allow for the level of inclusivity and fairness that events should have. Sure, you could ask people in different time zones to buy things for you, but you really shouldn't have to.

From what I've seen on the forums, during the last day the time limit between purchases is drastically reduced. I think we should have two more NPCs jump in to help poor Gunther out with his shops - that'd make it possible to keep all three shops open for 24 hours during the last day of Alegarten.

Either way, I support the shops being way more available during the event. The staff want this to be an sP sink? Ok, make it more available to people who don't spend 18 hours of the day in front of the computer so we can actually, you know, sink our sP into it.

Because right now, I've gotten eveything I wanted from the Geschenkboutique and the Alegarten food shop and I'm just waiting on 1am my time to roll by so I can try to buy up the last of the beers I need.

^^ Do this, or do away with the timers. Please and thank you. I've got lots of sP to throw at you but you won't let me. I will literally give you 15mil sP in 20 minutes if you GET RID OF THE TIMERS. ISN'T THIS WHAT YOU WANT, SUBETA?!

Yes to this. Or do away with the timers. Either one.

I'd love to either do away with the rotation or with the timers. Having reduced times only on the very last day doesn't help so much when the whole event is already as short as it is... :/

would been nice but yeah probably a change for next year as this ends tomorrow :c

I think the timers need to go. I don't have all night to stay up waiting for the beers to show up :P I do have to make a living you know.

I'm with you. I have important real life problems to deal with, so I need to get off the PC once in awhile. Priorities, I know, but I'd still like to avoid falling terribly behind with my fake life dealings, too. ; )

i only care about the wearables, and my bedtime is the only time geschenkboutique is open, because timezones. also because im currently in assignment hell and super busy. whine whine but do away with timers for the last day??? wheeze

Yeah I really haven't seen much of the boutique because I have class and I work, it's just frustrating because that's the shop I actually want stuff from.

I've never understood the reason for the timers but if they are trying to limit how much someone can buy maybe instead of timer for ever 7 minutes there should be a limit to how much you can spend in an hour. Like you can only spend 1,000,000sP in a hour. (1mil used just for the example, I have no idea what would seem fair in this situation.)

Those freaking timers! It's like you can only buy everything you want if you stay at your computer 24/7. Some of us have jobs and other things that need tending to!

I guess that's why the stuff is so pricey during the rest of the year in the User Shops.

the booze haus is in the middle of the night for me and i tend to sleep in, so i manage to catch just a couple items until it closes. a shorter rotation time of maybe 4-6 hrs would be really good so everyone would have more chances of buying items from all of the collections.

i mean, i'm a complete nolife and i spend nearly all my free time on the computer and even i have a hard time getting some of the items. so i wonder how those who have jobs and school to tend to do. :')

I can't ever get to the boutique. By the time I get up in the morning and do everything I need to do during the day, it's past the closing time.

this would be a great idea. i'm missing so many geschenkboutique items because i'm either sleeping or i have classes in the mornings. :/

also with the timers i often forget that i'm in the middle of buying everything because i have other things to do with my life than staring at the clock waiting for five minutes to pass