I hit the daily ki limit yesterday (around 16 hours ago) and i'm curious when it will reset, is it 24 hours from when you hit the ki limit or is there a specific timezone?

its usually like 2 AM for me
my GMT -6

Pretty sure it is exactly 24 hours after the first game u played on the day before/first game u played on the day that counted to ur qi

I always thought it resets at 00:00 GMT

i think it resets in 24 hours on the exact time you hit the daily qi limit

if you hit the daily qi limit at 4:00 PM, then the next day it would reset at 4:00 PM.

Each match you play resets after 24 hours.

Take note of when you played the day before so you know when you're good to start again.

So basically if you hit your QI limit it will reset exactly 24 hours after the last match you played.

The entire thing yes, but as each match resets individually after 24h you don't need to wait beyond the first before you can start earning again.

Why is this even a thing, is qi really that big of a deal.

This function prevents people to farm to a high rank really quick, which is not the way this game is supposed to be played.
Next to that, if you're playing in an official server and you've hit the qi limit, you also won't get tc from winning anymore, so it also prevents people to farm that.

Seems like skulfuk answered the original question pretty much already. Closing.