Remove the ability that a purge can happen, when NO ONE is online.
As soon as a player is >10mins online and the purge-bar is over the threshold -> START the purge.
If players go offline after that -> its their own fault (or make 1 warning, that a purge will soon happen so dont leave and if you really have no time, then leave the server!)
Not everyone has a 9-5 job. Police or emergency drivers for example or shift-workers.
On the weekends I mostly start after >22 (also very often during the week), because I do sth with my family/partner or go outside.
I’ve always thought it rather odd how all the Official servers for a given game type always have identical settings.
Seems like it would be a simple fix to take a few un-populated Official servers in each geographical region and modify their settings to remove the 6-10pm purge window and require at least 1 player to be online. This wouldn’t be terribly different from how there are some servers without ping restrictions.
That said, I wouldn’t want such a change applied to the official PvE I play on. While I might prefer if the window was 7 to 10 instead of 6 to 10 (gives people more time to commute home, eat dinner, etc.), having the purge window open at a set time has helped build a nice sense of community on ours. I’d be loathe to see that go by the wayside.