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Colonel
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You work odd hours. Perhaps you live someplace weird. Whatever the reason, you are here, playing PS at 4 am on a tuesday morning, along with 20 or 30 other people. On maps designed for hundreds or thousands.
No matter how awesome prime time is, there will be times when populations are tiny, and the gameplay designed to support thousands will pretty much fail completely when trying to support dozens. Aside from just abandoning your character for the night and switching to a different server, What can be done about this? I have a few thoughts. -As population dwindles, lock down continents for the night(this also serves to protect the land fought over that evening from a one sided 75% pop that happens frequently at these times). -Taking the first a step further, Have a couple tiny maps that open up, suited for and designed specifically for populations in the sub 100 range. -Somehow allow players to temporarily move their character to a more active server and play there, or combine the server populations. Last edited by CutterJohn; 2011-07-19 at 01:00 AM. |
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I like the idea of scaling continents based on number of players. They could simply lock continents with few or no players on them and port those players to some other location (or simply make the hexes uncapturable and make it so no additional players can go there, and empire missions cancelled). Like a cave closing the warpgates could just be powered down. They can just start with the continents with the fewest players on them.
Its a good concept to help funnel people into the same area. PS isn't much fun when the pop is that low. It would be good to shepherd people to a handful of continents. |
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[Ignore Me] #5 | ||
Major
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They actually seem like they wanted to go with 1 server with multiple planets if they are able to. The game has serious Eve online envy in more ways than one lol. Maybe its cause they don't want Dust 514 to have anything over on it.
Anyway about locking stuff down I dunno. Might be hard to strike a balance between giving late nighters even less of a reason to log on an stopping the 3 AM surprise raid for territory. One thing for sure I think they could do would be to have resource mines output less during the off peak hours. So that it matters more during prime time when people are really there to fight over it. |
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[Ignore Me] #8 | |||
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![]() (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ Last edited by dachlatte; 2011-07-19 at 03:39 AM. |
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[Ignore Me] #10 | ||||
Colonel
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Sandbox doesn't mean you get to do whatever the hell you want. If it improves gameplay, most will approve. Last edited by CutterJohn; 2011-07-19 at 04:24 AM. |
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[Ignore Me] #12 | |||
Colonel
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Flown your titan into Jita? I bet you do a lot of reverse engineering of faction and officer loot too. Found the blueprints yet to make rigs from materials instead of having to have the silly step of using scrap from a ships explosion? Also, found the blueprints yet for implants? Sandbox is a mindset, nothing more. If the game shipped with 2^256 continents that could be fought over at any time, I've little doubt people would want there to be some restrictions so that people can actually find a fight. |
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