Distension discussion

[DankNuggets]

• top 10 on front

• sounds good, i'm assuming this is top 10 combined rank of all ships - not the top 10 highest ranks
  
  
• news on front
  always good
  
  
• individual ship rank pages
  could also maybe show top 3/5 on front as opposed to the top 10 overall- making the overal a separate section/subpage. either way sounds good
  
  
• dist staff list
  good to know
  
  
• about dist
  could through a blurb on front page as well if there's room
  
  
• page showing upgrades for all ships and levels
  and UP cost too please, including the separate specializations. this could be done very roughly at first, and then refined later as it could be kinda tedious
  
  
• ship descriptions
  good, could probably put it on the top of the above page (upgrades)
  
  
• web-based lvl/lvz download (incase ingame is too long)
  yes, a couple people have had problems with this

colors are fun B)


A few other things i could think of:

• A schedule! that is until it's 24/7. Then you could also include scheduled "multiplier" events if that's the route dist. eventually takes
  
• Screenshots of specific things like "prismatic array" or "firebloom" to help illustrate what they are.
  
• player database where you can search for a player and see their stats
  
• !help, !help 2, !help 3, etc. written out where it's easy to see all the "!" commands and what they do.
  
  
• backstory to the game (might ask qan for this). I remember there was a story behind the names of the armies, why they were fighting?, etc. Probably included in the "about distension" section

edit:wtf with that black bullet, it's not in what i wrote GTFO DAMN SPOT

[duel pasta]

distension should not

go 24/7

[Viruk]

I am going to be making the new distension website, and I need your ideas and suggestions!

Would be nice if upgrade info showed full specifications e.g. weapon speed, firing cost, damage, radius.

[Stabwound]

What's the point in making distension chat a local chat? It seems counter-productive to me. What if people from other zones want to play distension, but don't really like TW? As far as I know, the chat is the only place where new games are announced now.

I just don't see the point in having it a local chat.

[H.M.S. Stargazer]

What's the point in making distension chat a local chat? It seems counter-productive to me. What if people from other zones want to play distension, but don't really like TW? As far as I know, the chat is the only place where new games are announced now.

I just don't see the point in having it a local chat.

We have been having issues with racism on the chat. It is now warnable/bannable.

[roxxkatt]

i have yet to see any form of racism, i call BS.
making the chat local will now prevent ppl playing other zones from knowing when dist is on.


SINCE DISTENSION WAS A ZONE CHAT, it had the exact same moderating capacity as it would as if it were local, you could have done the same either way.


MAKE DISTENSION PUBLIC CHAT AGAIN

[DankNuggets]

distension this weekend?

[roxxkatt]

(MessageBot)>distension: Cheese!> Bot is now fixed, stand by for next distension!

[H.M.S. Stargazer]

i have yet to see any form of racism, i call BS.
making the chat local will now prevent ppl playing other zones from knowing when dist is on.


SINCE DISTENSION WAS A ZONE CHAT, it had the exact same moderating capacity as it would as if it were local, you could have done the same either way.


MAKE DISTENSION PUBLIC CHAT AGAIN

Its not a zone chat. sorry. You obviously are unaware of the trenchwars policies. I suggest you contact a SMod+. Thank you.

[Stabwound]

I have a proposal that I think would be simplest and best for the game. Just make it similar to ?go base/wbduel/javduel and have the bot sit in the arena 24/7. Give some trustworthy players (from both NA and Europe) the basic power just to start the bot if there are enough people in the arena to play a game. It should do a zoner announcement on starting (perhaps only if there are not a certain number of players in the arena), which would let people know it's running and let them get into the arena.

I believe this is the best solution, because:

a) it's very easy to implement
b) better than a schedule, because it will give everyone a chance to play without having to schedule their day around being able to play the game
c) better than having it 24/7, as it will ensure there are enough people to have a decent game
d) uses a tried and true method that's been used in ?go base for years without issue

It's already been proven with last weekend's 24/7 tests that the game is stable enough to be run without staff supervision. I think most players would agree with me that this is probably the best solution. I hope that qan and the rest of staff will consider this proposal.

[Peace_Maker]

Agreed with stab. Let the players decide when it is hosted by being in the arena.

[H.M.S. Stargazer]

Actually I like this idea but I have a few musings:

perhaps an automated timer? With the current set up. the game goes continuously without stop. And perhaps a limit of.. 12 hours a day (as test). There are other things that can be done.

We do not want peopel getting bored with this and seriously .. and really It wouldnt take long for some of those with no lives to get way far ahead of the new ones.. so wed have to institute a (bi)monthly reset or something.

The bot was constantly supervised by staff and had to be fixed During the 24/7 hostathon this last weekend. But I get your point stab.

Btw the base system still has its flaws.. there are times that we still dont have base starting . So perhaps a more liberal access given to staff.

Finally, I hope that we can have this finished by years end.

[Viruk]

c) better than having it 24/7, as it will ensure there are enough people to have a decent game

Not so. Distension with few players is lots better than no Distension at all.

We do not want peopel getting bored with this and seriously .. ,

Who is we? I want to get thoroughly bored of it! I am looking forward to having it readily available so I can play it until I get bored of it. Then I can do something else for a bit and perhaps come back later to play until I get bored of it all over again!

and really It wouldnt take long for some of those with no lives to get way far ahead of the new ones..

So let them. What is the problem with that? That is the point of having a game with different levels!

so wed have to institute a (bi)monthly reset or something.

I think the ships max out at around level 80 or something. According to the numbers Cheese posted here this takes over ten thousand times the total amount of RP of the highest level ship we have so far. Even if I could play for 24 hours every day and find enough other high level players to get decent RP it would take me much more than a month or two to get just one of my ships maxed out at current RP rates. Even with special RP multiplying events I can't see it making sense to reset it more than once a year.

[Stabwound]

I'll say it right now; no one will EVER max out a ship at the current RP rates. It's just not feasible. TW will die out before anyone gets to rank 80 in a ship.

[Zek]

IMHO the current RP grind is extreme overkill. It's reasonable if you only ever play one ship(besides the last 10-15 levels which are absurd) but the system really sucks for people who like to mix it up. Getting multiple ships to the high levels right now is extremely difficult for the hardcore crowd and impossible for casual players. What's wrong with letting people hit max-ish rank in a reasonable amount of time? If they want to keep progressing they can change ships. IMHO, RP requirements should be dramatically lower, say 100k to rank 50 and maybe 10 million to 80. Let's be realistic, most of us don't play Continuum like a full-time job these days.