Distension discussion

[Peace_Maker]

Thoughts on terrs assisting please. As a high ranked terr the bot will not allow me to assist unless the imbalance is about 150-200. At this point 2 or 3 others should have already assisted. Is it wrong for terrs to assist even if the teams are that uneven?

[TagMor]

To have a MMORPG with such strict availability is rediculous.
It is unfair to those who have other commitments, or live in obscure time-zones.
Also, it is preventing alot of new people from being introduced to the game as they are unaware of the schedule.
24/7 is the only way it can survive as a genuine game people will invest time into.
I like the idea of reduced RP for people who grind through many hours a day. If it is capped at a time limit you will have alot of people complaining and also using alias'.

[kthx]

since when was trenchwars an mmorpg based zone? You don't get to complain about it not being 24/7 because that isn't how mmorpg's work when your playing a in a zone that isn't a mmorpg in a game that isn't a mmorpg.

[Liquid Blue]

To have a MMORPG with such strict availability is rediculous.
It is unfair to those who have other commitments, or live in obscure time-zones.
Also, it is preventing alot of new people from being introduced to the game as they are unaware of the schedule.
24/7 is the only way it can survive as a genuine game people will invest time into.
I like the idea of reduced RP for people who grind through many hours a day. If it is capped at a time limit you will have alot of people complaining and also using alias'.

1) Trench Wars is not an MMORPG zone

1) It's a sub-event in Trench Wars, not the main event

2) it's a free to play, online game so making an absurd claim about how ridiculous it is that you can't get what you want 24/7 is well- ridiculous

4) There's little evidence of the programming to be consistently stable, so even if it only causes server recycles oh every 3 days instead of every day- it still shouldn't be up 24/7

[DankNuggets]

Quit Being Obnoxious Trolls

I'm not calling anything radical, chill out. I'm just wondering why even metion running it 24/7 when it's not ready to get there yet. I know you guys are happy it's running smoother (and I'm happy for you) but it's still too soon to really be worrying about that.

i'm very chill, i smoke mad weed in my free time dude, hence the name. Why mention it? It's called planning. Discussing ideas, directions to take the game.

why do you think it's still to soon? It was in beta for a year, then publicly released in novmeber(?) only to be altered to make it better. A bug in the code could be fixed in a day, a week, who knows. But even if it's a month before it's all good, then it's not to soon to talk about how it should run after this "minor bump in the road".

keep in mind, that it was working perfectly fine for a LONG time, and continues to work fine ATM. I haven't heard anything concrete on why it caused recycles, or why it hasn't caused any recently when AFAIK nothing's been done to "fix" the code before Stab decided to see if it was really malfunctioning last weekend.

since when was trenchwars an mmorpg based zone? You don't get to complain about it not being 24/7 because that isn't how mmorpg's work when your playing a in a zone that isn't a mmorpg in a game that isn't a mmorpg.

he didn't say it was an mmorpg based zone you fuckwad. how's this: You don't get to tell him what he can complain about. See if either works, asshole. fallacious argument to start with, no logic in your post what-so-ever.

1) Trench Wars is not an MMORPG zone

1) It's a sub-event in Trench Wars, not the main event

2) it's a free to play, online game so making an absurd claim about how ridiculous it is that you can't get what you want 24/7 is well- ridiculous

4) There's little evidence of the programming to be consistently stable, so even if it only causes server recycles oh every 3 days instead of every day- it still shouldn't be up 24/7

as much as you disdain wark, you're very quick to gobble up everything he says.

1) see above; Tagmor never said it was a MMORPG zone, thank you for stating the obvious.

1) (nice #'ing btw) it's a sub-ARENA. but really the difference is grayer with some arenas, like wbduel that you probably wouldn't call an event but needs to be hosted, or tourny that's on ~24/2 but's called an event.

2)wtf do you care. let tagmor be tagmor, which is oft times ridiculous.

4)DO YOU INTENTIONALY DISREGARD THE EVIDENCE ?? It probably recycled <12 times, and was hosted, i don't know, hundreds of times, if not close to thousands by now. When was the last time it caused a recycle? that's right it hasn't since it's been running again, and it's starting to look like it was another problem/conflict within Continuum. And it IS something that could be a one-time fix, done and working for good. HISTORY within the beta and begining games show that it's relatively quick for qan to fix a bug when he has time to work on it. quick as in like a day, and 99/100 of the bugs didn't/don't cause recycles.

When will you grow up and let tagmor, myself, and other distenion players talk about something we enjoy amongst ourselves without you trolling us everytime someone makes a post. Neither one of your posts served a purpose at all.


Not trying to get it 24/7 tomorrow dude, maybe you should chill out. you probably (most definitely) wouldn't even know what was going on with distension if it wasn't for this forum, and the fact that qan doesn't want it going back to a private arena. So do us a favor, back out of this thread, and forget it even exists.

[kthx]

Well don't bring up stupid ideas like making this sub arena 24/7 and I will "back off" your little thread here.

[Liquid Blue]

i'm very chill, i smoke mad weed in my free time dude, hence the name. Why mention it? It's called planning. Discussing ideas, directions to take the game.

What? I don't care if you smoke weed, why mention it?

There's not a problem with discussing it, I just don't see the point in doing so right now.

It's too soon to be thinking about running this 24/7 because pub still hasn't major strides in improvement yet. You might not care, but having an engaging pub with strives being made towards improvement should take higher priority than implementing a 24/7 sub-arena and dealing with any issues thereof.

TagMor started to get back into his habit of bitching about what he thinks is ridiculous in the world according to tagmor style again, which is fine because it's Tagmor. He's acting like it's a crime for Distension to not but running 24/7 even though it's a sub-arena in an MMO that isn't an MMORPG centered zone. That's why wark and I got on him about it.

But in regards to you hopping all over wark's and my post, why are you doing it? Are you really going to start to quote every piece of my posts again? You don't need to feel compelled to defend Distension with long posts like that and you're just going to incite wark to post more shit, so just smoke your weed and chill out, homie.

edit- Wark, in the words of dank

"gobble gobble gobble"

[Ivan]

Man, played almost 6 years in TW...
TWD..
TWL...

Gotta be honest with you guys, distension is the best shit I've ever played in TW. It definitely got the potential to increase the TW population again!

Only played 3 weeks, already falling in love with it!!

Now what distension need is some monetary support! I am up for it!

[Peace_Maker]

join the chat. chat=distension

[PH]

i'm very chill, i smoke mad weed in my free time dude

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[paradise!]

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[Lizard Fuel]

I guess I have to reiterate and clarify. Stop giving wark and LB any attention in this thread. Neither one of them have any say whatsoever about anything regarding distension at any time, and never will. If they disagree with you, let them, the zone has more to lose than to gain by shunning distension and its players. Internet people troll, get used to it.

On Topic: Has qan seen the idea about a level unlock for both weasel and lanc? Im now the kill leader every single round I play in, and still cant get lanc, frustrating.

[Trunks_rage]

Yeah at some point this needs to run 24/7 because the limited time slots are making it very hard to get people to play anything but their favorite ships and limiting the number of high level terrs overall. If you can only play 2 hours a day on this why would u want to play anything but your preferred ship? We are about to get to that threshold where new people won't even want to play it because the majority of people who already like it crowd them out of the small time slots and are so much higher in rank that it's very hard to catch up.

[Stabwound]

I can almost guarantee never run 24/7 on an unrestricted basis.

It is possible it WILL eventually run 24/7 (not during TWL or special events) with a restricted amount of play per day. qan was talking something like 1-2 hours per day per player, which sounds about right to me. However, I think Distension would need a much larger player base for this to work.

The bot is still unstable and anything like this is probably far off into the future, if ever.

[jngy slate]

Most of the time when I play it's because of Distension. If not it's pub. I go to events every now and then but don't like most of them because I like playing terr only. But that's just me. I agree with distension being available 24/7 but for 4 hours a day. Distension right now is being hosted 2 hours in the morning/afternoon and 2 hours at night.

About weasels, they do seem too overpowered right now, specially with portals. I don't remember them being this powerful in the beta.

IMO terrs shouldn't be able to assist. A lot of the time a player will not read the text in the chat saying a terr has gone to assist the other army and will spend a few more seconds looking for another terr. I know it's only a few seconds, but it adds up, specially with many players. These few seconds could make the difference in a game.
As a terr I have never and don't ever plan to assist, I ask others join me.