Distension discussion

[Stabwound]

It was 40 minutes and after 2 adverts. There were 6 people playing and that was slowly diminishing. This is supposed to be to stress test the new bot settings, and testing with 6 people is accomplishing nothing. I couldn't even advert again (even though adverting does nothing) because an ER started hosting. Besides all of that, the game doesn't even work with 3 people per team.

If anyone has any intelligent input on why you used to play and don't anymore, please let us know here. Is it just boring now?

[TagMor]

Stabwound: Can you explain why you shutdown the game 15minutes after the session had begun?

[Stabwound]

Could anyone that played this and suddenly stopped possibly explain why they don't play anymore? It's 9pm and the game barely pulled 4v4 even after an advert. Are people just sick of it by now?

[dako]

Considering 95% of the problems we are having with Distension now were not issues in Beta....I say we put this BACK into beta, and everything that goes with BETA status. I'll try my best to recall how it used to be...

Beta Multiplier...This grind totally blows....Would also allow lowbies to catch up rather quickly...instead of not bothering cuz they are so far behind

Have the bot PM everybody in the zone that has registered for distension letting them know that the module has been loaded. Why did we stop doing this anyways....I as well as 7 squadmates left distension chat because tagmor doesnt ever shut the fuck up.

Not to diss stab, because I dont believe he has anything to do with the recent suckage....but find a staffmember that actually gives a flying fuck about the survival of Distension. Get a mod that cares about how successful this game is, not one that does just barely enough to be recognized. I mean...he doesnt even play flag games anymore.

Heres the point....RESTART THE PUBLIC RELEASE WHEN ALL THE PROBLEMS ARE FIXED. When the recycles are no longer an issue, when lag limits can be discussed and agreed upon, when all the little things are nerfed for the final time (Lanc Leech, Wzl Bricks, etc) When the GRIND issues are discussed and fixed, when distension finally gets its own server....THEN reset everybodys ships, and call it Public Release 2.0 or something.

I should probably have Everett double check my grammar before posting, but...nvm he sucks at English.

This.

So beta is the place where all the bugs are found and ironed out. Why are there bugs now that never occurred in beta, and more bugs in public than in beta?

I'm not saying qan is lazy, or that he isn't doing a good job... but where are these things coming from? Also, why don't we hear much from him anymore? You can only use the "Im really really busy" thing for so many months before people get suspicious...

[KuNi]

could you please go swim in some stingray infested waters? I'd appreciate it.

you want Tag to do a Steve Irwin?

Anyways, how many people is the 9pm testing getting? is it running well?

[D1st0rt]

find a staffmember that actually gives a flying fuck about the survival of Distension. Get a mod that cares about how successful this game is, not one that does just barely enough to be recognized. I mean...he doesnt even play flag games anymore.

Stab is doing a good job prioritizing correctly. Everyone should get off his case for not always being in line with their personal desires.

Also, if you add the beta multiplier back in what happens when people start hitting the cap? You're also going to run into all of the same problems when you eventually take the multiplier out again.

Considering 95% of the problems we are having with Distension now were not issues in Beta....I say we put this BACK into beta, and everything that goes with BETA status. I'll try my best to recall how it used to be...

Beta Multiplier...This grind totally blows....Would also allow lowbies to catch up rather quickly...instead of not bothering cuz they are so far behind

Have the bot PM everybody in the zone that has registered for distension letting them know that the module has been loaded. Why did we stop doing this anyways....I as well as 7 squadmates left distension chat because tagmor doesnt ever shut the fuck up.

Not to diss stab, because I dont believe he has anything to do with the recent suckage....but find a staffmember that actually gives a flying fuck about the survival of Distension. Get a mod that cares about how successful this game is, not one that does just barely enough to be recognized. I mean...he doesnt even play flag games anymore.

Heres the point....RESTART THE PUBLIC RELEASE WHEN ALL THE PROBLEMS ARE FIXED. When the recycles are no longer an issue, when lag limits can be discussed and agreed upon, when all the little things are nerfed for the final time (Lanc Leech, Wzl Bricks, etc) When the GRIND issues are discussed and fixed, when distension finally gets its own server....THEN reset everybodys ships, and call it Public Release 2.0 or something.

I should probably have Everett double check my grammar before posting, but...nvm he sucks at English.

[dako]

Stingrays are actually quite gentle animals. I found one that didn't have a tail the other day while in the ocean and I named it "TagMor". It swam in circles, didn't really do much of anything, and seemed to only confuse/frustrate. the other stingrays that concerned itself with it.

Anyways. Distension doesn't get enough for a 2 base game anymore

Is there any chance we could get a couple ads / weekend event slot? Maybe do something like host trivia / acro while distension goes on with a robobot in the arena? Exposure is the key. That and banning all of the assholes who drive the new guys away

[Stabwound]

I think the biggest problem is that the game has been run too much. 4 hours a day, 7 days a week is a lot of time. Distension isn't really a game you can play forever; anyone that's played Distension daily has reached the limit of how far they can upgrade their ship in any reasonable amount of time. Having to play for 2 weeks to gain +1 energy isn't very appealing. During beta there was a 9x RP multiplier, which means it was much faster going than it is now. Even if you were rank 60 you could still gain another rank within a few hours rather than a few weeks. Maybe the game would have been better suited for long-term play if the rank limit was much higher, but gave much smaller amounts of UP per rank and less energy/recharge per level.

[Jeenyuss]

hmm, tagmor, i'm not sure that popularity has went downhill because of stab. i've played a couple times in the past few months or so, but it hasn't seemed that bad. i played in the beta all the god damn time, and then quit before the full release. why? i got bored of it, as i'm sure plenty of other people did. it's a fun event for every now and then but it's just not my thing and i think the test of time proved that more than anything.

[Liquid Blue]

Uh, running the bot for one session without a recycle doesn't mean that he fixed the recycle problem. You play Distension enough to know that it doesn't recycle every single time it runs, not to mention the countless times qan has unsuccessfully tried to fix the problem with a solution that was supposed to fix it for good.

Frankly, I'm pretty annoyed by the whining and complaining about how I haven't been running the game lately. I'm sorry, but it would be irresponsible to just keep running it when it's been causing server recycles so often lately. You guys know how many times it's recycled, yet we continued to run it in hopes that it was a fluke, or that qan's small fixes would remedy it, but this was never the case. No matter what you think, the fact is that it's completely unacceptable to have a single subarena disrupt the rest of the zone.

glad to see this, hope it turns out for the best Stabwound!

[D1st0rt]

Keep up the good work, Stab

[roxxkatt]

yes, tagmor was banned twice.

good thing everyone who did the exact same thing werent banned, right?

[Stabwound]

Will it auto-save before going offline? I hope so.

No.

And Tagmor, yes, I know that you getting banned twice for breaking the rules makes me quite the abuser, but could you please go swim in some stingray infested waters? I'd appreciate it.

[TagMor]

Funny how quickly interest in distension has declined..
It kept high numbers all through Beta, I would have thought even more people would be wanting to participate since it has been public. This atleast seemed the case when HMS was Mod and numbers continued to grow dispite technical problems... Maybe it is due to the incompetent Mod, namely: Stabwound.



Look I made a nerd-friendly graph so you can all see for yourselves.