Slight problem that I'll have to go afk for around half an hour somewhen 1-2 hours after this starts x_x hopefully this won't intefere too badly. Other than that, thanks to the time difference, I won't have any interruptions (everyone else in the house will be asleep)
However, being a sunday, I have school the next day (yes, still -_-) and have to be up at 7am. Thanks to the time difference, this will be running pretty late for me... I don't really know how long we were planning on running this for, but I've heard that some of the missions take a very long time, and a lot of time running around in between. 8-10 hours at most here really, preferably the lower.
As for the party setups... I'd say it'd probably be better to just rearrange the parties and do more runs. If we have to do the BCNM with 4 different parties, even 6 or whatever, fine. If it's safer, more chance of success, less chance of death, that's good. I'd rather that than go in with no tank or healer or whatever, think we'll be fine, and end up dying (although I am expecting to probably die a few times on this, it'd be nice to limit it ^^)