AdmiralSarek
2015-10-06 |  | Boost Turn based servers |  |
Talking with fed members on Normal speed, we think that a good way to boost players on the turn based servers would be to change the ratio of decent planets from exploring. So planet size and U class chances go up, small rubbish with no ore and X.class goes down.
Having to explore for 6 months in addition to doing research is just not great and puts people of.
As the exploration applies to all players it would also benefit existing empires, as apposed to new player bonus`, so everyone wins.
Thoughts?
How hard is it to change this in the code, since we have it available? |
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PistolPete
99+ day(s) ago | Well maybe i wasn`t accurate enough. I very much agree with Masta. Changing the gameplay at the slower servers would mean that some of the people at the slower servers would probably turn more inactive.
What could be a solution though would be to spawn some new servers and make these speeds somewhere in between ultra and RT. I dont see what that shouldn`t possible, if we are talking about making some more drastic changes. |
GalacticMercenaries
99+ day(s) ago | I would be happy with dm to be a normal server |
MastaKilla
99+ day(s) ago | The point of the slower servers is that the gameplay is completely different from RT/Ultra. You have to think about how you use your turns most efficiently and not just build random ships like on RT, and that opens up an entirely different gameplay. Those of you who doesn`t like that playing style can stick to RT and DM, if that ever opens again. If ppl can`t spend 6 months setting up an empire, those servers are just not for them.
On every server the older empires have an advantage. On slow/normal its planets and research on RT it is massively gordoed planets. That doesn`t mean newer empires can`t be competitive. Have fairly young empires on both normal and slow compared to many others and I can compete very well in the ranks. |
AdmiralSarek
99+ day(s) ago | Yes that is what I meant , more turns, and more turn storage, but the same DP length in hours. |
DarthCaedus
99+ day(s) ago | speeding up the servers but keeping dp times the same PP except maybe for real time |
PistolPete
99+ day(s) ago | Speeding the servers up would mean i would have to go into VM a lot more often, as i cant be available enough to keep up with faster turn gen, and DP cycles of only 12 hr. |
AdmiralSarek
99+ day(s) ago | Both of you have valid points.
If we speed up all of the turn based servers, lowered the research turns required and made exploring better, we might have more people on these servers. |
DarthCaedus
99+ day(s) ago | thanks again for being a ass. slow is dead not many people will disagree on that point. they will disagree on the idea of closing it though |
Renegade
Game-Admin
99+ day(s) ago | Thank you again for your constructive post. |
DarthCaedus
99+ day(s) ago | tough nuggests slow is dead |
Renegade
Game-Admin
99+ day(s) ago | What if you close slow and I only play slow? Where are you going to reward me? |
DarthCaedus
99+ day(s) ago | well they would be compensated with minerals and cash they had on other server -__- |
AdmiralSarek
99+ day(s) ago | Also maybe increase the turn generation and turn storage on all of the turn based servers, speed things up a bit. I men why not. Leave the DP the same, I like having servers where I don`t have to log on every 5 minutes. |
Renegade
Game-Admin
99+ day(s) ago | True AS, I think that would help them more though :P I do like the idea a lot - definitely something I think would help as well.
You can`t close servers, DC. People get a little angry when their accounts disappear and become unplayable. |
DarthCaedus
99+ day(s) ago | ha. u dont need a extra RT server. cut RT server DP to 12 hours make it more interesting and more planets on the table. and close slow server it is dead. fast server as well needs closed. speed up normal server and ultra server turns and keep RT |
AdmiralSarek
99+ day(s) ago | Merging servers doesn`t really change the idea of making exploring easier on the turn based servers so that it doesn`t take forever to start an empire. |
Renegade
Game-Admin
99+ day(s) ago | Yeah Sarek, but there`d be more interesting empires, and a few more people. Fewer servers to check also means more time to spend per server, more inclination to fight instead of explore 3, hit research and log out.
As a guy who has 8+ year old empires on all 4 TB, I would fully support the merging of Slow and Normal into one, and Fast and Ultra into one. |
GalacticMercenaries
99+ day(s) ago | Cool idea to have a faster server than RT :) |
AdmiralSarek
99+ day(s) ago | merging the turn based servers might not help, some of us are on multiple servers so would just end up in the same place |
Wigglytuff
99+ day(s) ago | Also new codes could be also try on the new server with minimum impact to existing empires |
