Could it be a rotating time slot? Eg Week1 06:00, week2 14:00, week3 22:00, then restart to 06:00 again (the actual time slot is not 6 14 or 22, but they should be the outcome of some other timeslot polls, the rotating s weekly or monthly depends..). Yes it s harder to organise and the crowd's size will be reduced since any time slot works for some players and doesnt for others players, but for sure that everyone in the server will has chance to catch the event at least Once per month. I ve been here for few months, but got 0 GM event and 1 Dragon Tournament because they r both at my 3-6 AM.
We tried doing a rotating weekend event for about 1-2 years previously, but people have a hard time remembering when event is now much less an alternating schedule. It just creates confusion and frustration for players, which then creates frustration by staff having to answer the same question every week.
It is not a matter of organizing events being hard, but more that they are time consuming. The current event takes around 3 hours each Saturday (from setup, to pre-event, to post event), and this is at a time that Hater would normally be spending with his girlfriend or eating dinner. Adjusting his schedule one day a week for a specific block of time is manageable and reasonable, but asking more than that is not. It creates uncertainty for him for scheduling things, and would just lead to greater cancellations. I am more inclined to cancel events entirely than to put that pressure on Hater again.
Adding an additional GM to run those events is not applicable either. For one, the staff we currently have have their own tasks, and Hater is the one that has the most experience with doing events. For two, recruiting and training a new member is more difficult due to the fact that the access level required for doing event stuff is the same level as having access to development tools.
Ignoring the access level needed, recruiting staff requires a level of trust I do not have for most people; the history of abusive/corrupt GM on Dragon's Prophet is pretty ridiculous. If I do not personally know or trust someone, they do not get GM, and even if they have GM that is generally with restrictive access. There are also very few people I trust on our network to have any form of authority without abusing it, and those few people
do not want to be GM. One of our requirements for GM is that you do not actively play the game, and that is a deal breaker for many people.