Just 1 week and 2 hours until it begins.
I'm still thinking of a schedule, but here's a draft:
December 30th or earlier: Music downloader ready for download
Note to my admins:: You also need 2 add-ons, one for the text board, and one for selecting music. Since it's just a small range of people who need this, I can give this to you guys the day of.
4PM: Party open to public
To fill the 2 hour gap: Fun activities, to be announced
6PM: Sample countdown (GMT-1), with some features stripped. Just a teaser for the next countdown.
Inactivity for ~30 minutes for me
7PM: First semi-full celebration (GMT). Still won't be as celebratory as the primary celebration (EST), but definitely more than the previous celebration.
To fill the 5 hour gap: Fun activities, to be announced
New Years' has to travel 5 hours over the ocean, so I have to plan a lot.
More music selection this year, 300 loops, so I don't have to worry as much about filling the time. This is "the moment" of the party because it will be most populated as the EST midnight approaches.
12AM: This will be the celebration, you just have to attend it (GMT-5). It will be full-featured compared to the other celebrations.
After this, I have another 3 hour period to fill. I don't know what the population of the server will be as I haven't done it after this time.
I've decided that there will be no other celebrations for the middle timezones of the US.
3AM: Final celebration for GMT-8 (west coast), will be as full-featured as the 12AM celebration.
A few notes: The population among timezones in the US is listed from greatest to least: east coast, central, west coast, mountain. I imagine that the server will be most populated for east coast, but the west coast celebration will also be heavily populated.
Fun fact: Excluding Washington DC, New Jersey has the densest amount of Blockland players per square mile. I don't have exact figures for players per square mile, however using IPs used to host does provide an accurate understanding of what state has the most Blockland players. The figures are as follows:
(region => Server hosting IPs per sq mile)
District of Columbia => 1.139
New Jersey => 10.622411693057
Connecticut => 11.405349794239
Rhode Island => 13.205128205128
Massachusetts => 18.781138790036
Maryland => 25.166328600406
Ohio => 28.789338471419
New York => 29.877327491785
Pennsylvania => 30.319289005925
Florida => 32.154034229829
California => 38.525770769593
New Hampshire => 38.636363636364
Illinois => 39.131081081081
Georgia => 39.380384360504
Delaware => 41.483333333333
Virginia => 42.350495049505
Indiana => 52.933139534884
Tennessee => 53.822477650064
Washington => 65.412844036697
North Carolina => 67.867591424968
Missouri => 70.266129032258
Wisconsin => 72.213891951488
South Carolina => 72.279909706546
Michigan => 78.107028753994
Kentucky => 79.388998035363
Colorado => 86.889816360601
Alabama => 87.219633943428
Vermont => 90.698113207547
Louisiana => 96.897196261682
Texas => 97.70134594398
Minnesota => 97.904279279279
Utah => 98.71976744186
Arkansas => 106.78514056225
Oklahoma => 117.6734006734
Arizona => 126.94654788419
Oregon => 156.90749601276
West Virginia => 170.6338028169
Hawaii => 198.74545454545
Iowa => 200.25622775801
Mississippi => 204.34599156118
Maine => 218.42592592593
Kansas => 277.96283783784
Nevada => 300.4375
Nebraska => 359.78604651163
New Mexico => 406.65217391304
Idaho => 407.65853658537
South Dakota => 856.84444444444
Montana => 885.79518072289
Wyoming => 914.18691588785
North Dakota => 1386.2745098039
Alaska => 1817.1698630137
Timezone data, showing EST being the most populated, is as follows:
-0500 => 17439
-0600 => 11476
-0800 => 6639
+0000 => 5428
-0700 => 3953
+0100 => 3949
+1100 => 1851
+0200 => 1144
+0800 => 888
+1300 => 602
-0200 => 411
+1000 => 398
-0900 => 365
-0400 => 302
+1030 => 287
+0700 => 132
+0300 => 121
-0300 => 105
+0400 => 91
+0500 => 67
+0000 => 55
+0900 => 38
-0430 => 27
-0330 => 23
+0530 => 10
+0600 => 3
