Best Times to Raid by Land Tier

Conflicts are not scheduled by Earth2. They appear when Property Owners leave E-ther uncollected and Cydroids from different Owners are already waiting. Earth2 says more than 50,000 conflicts open every day, but the Command Deck only shows the ones you are eligible to fly.

Two things limit what you see:

• Rank. New Pilots begin on Tier 2 land with Common frames. Tier 1 and Tier 1 Special open later as you rank up.
• Your own filters. Rank targets, minimum pool, minimum split and speed or storage bands all hide conflicts.

The Deck's Missed Conflicts counter splits misses into those your Rank locked you out of and those your filters removed. If the board looks empty while that count climbs, the problem is eligibility, not matchmaking. The Deck now also tells you plainly when you are outside your tier's busy hours and how long until the next window.

In the first sample (five weekdays, weekends excluded, all times UTC), E-ther tended to go unstable like this:

This explained a common first impression. A brand-new Pilot at 06:00 UTC saw row after row locked by Rank while Tier 2 sat quiet, but at 14:00 the same Pilot saw a much busier eligible feed without changing any filter. Tier 1 and Tier 1 Special together also produced more conflicts than Tier 2 overall in the sample.

Earth2 changed when E-ther becomes unstable, not who creates conflicts. The stated goal was that no location in the world misses out, whatever its Rank level. The practical effects:

• Peak hours are less tied to a single tier's window than they were at launch.
• Your own time zone still affects how many conflicts you see, because activity follows when Owners collect.
• Earth2 warns the pattern may shift again with Player behaviour or changes to daily E-ther processing.

No official schedule exists, and Earth2 describes any timing guide as an observation, not a promise of when the next raid will appear.

• Watch the Missed Conflicts counter. Locked-by-Rank misses mean you need to climb. Filter misses mean you should loosen up.
• Loosen filters during quiet periods. Turn off minimum pool and minimum split, and tick more tiers and rarities in Rank targets.
• Use the tier and rarity bars. They show where current volume sits so you know if your filter is aimed at a busy area.
• Use Freeze when it is busy. It pauses the board so you can compare conflicts before joining one.
• Use Practice Flight when it is quiet. It needs no conflict and costs nothing.
• Keep a log. Note when you see the most eligible conflicts in your time zone, since that is more reliable than any table.
• Rank up for more options. Each new tier opens more of the board.

The original observations were in UTC. To convert to your time zone, add or subtract your UTC offset. For example, 14:00 UTC is 09:00 in New York (UTC-5, winter) and 01:00 the next day in Sydney (UTC+11, summer).

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Source: Earth2 Reality Thread 9 announcement on earth2.io. Earth 2® is a trademark of Earth Version 2 Pty Ltd. E2 University is an independent community resource.