Distension discussion

[getting pwned]

YOU JUST ADMITTED TO SUCKING SHIT.

GG

Who the hell let the troll back?

Jngy, on the left hand side of your keyboard, there's a key called 'Caps Lock' Try pressing it.

[Pub]

YOU JUST ADMITTED TO SUCKING SHIT.

GG

Maybe I missed the part where he admitted that. Can someone put this guy back in his fucking cage and throw a girly manga and a comb at him until he learns how to read and groom?

[Ivan]

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooool pub
funny how newbs call champs suck, when they havent even play on it
oh wait, he cant, he has caps lock, its illegal in TWL 13

[Lizard Fuel]

funny how newbs call champs suck, when they havent even play on it

Nice English homie....

1:Lizard Fuel> whos worst terr in tw?
1:getting pwned> jngy
1:Everett> jngy
1:Pub> jngy
1:comrad> jngy
1:dald> jngy
1:USOi> who da fuk is jngy
10lluX> im jr5
1:flibb> im half azn and half euro

[roxxkatt]

5ankNuggets> just logging back on to complain about the stupid "can't change ships while re-arming" that just got me d/c'd for too many ship changes.

this
2 complaints in 1 space, ez

[Stabwound]

That was added to stop a bug.

(which I might add didn't seem to help)

[Lizard Fuel]

Schedule

Can we please fix it now that TWL is over? Not just because less and less people are starting to show up for hosts, but because the weekend times in particular suck ass, especially now that TWL is over. I see no reason why we can't have a day host added for the Americans (Night for Euros) and keep the 1AM one we have now for the diehards and aussies.

[KuNi]

yep. schedule needs to change. how about 3 hosts a day? 4-6pm, 9-11pm,1-4am EST
omg, why do i even play this game anymore?

[dako]

Why distension is becoming unpopular:

1. The novelty is wearing off.

Distension is no longer a "new" event, no one else is joining in on the mayhem. My suggestion is to rehost this as a 48 hour weekend event sort of thing (last time this was done, there were no crashes) and publically announce it.

2. The hosting schedule sucks.

This is pretty obvious. It was fine for winter break and the like, but most americans, who i presume consist of the vast majority of distension players, cannot play the 1-3 PM host because of school / work, and a lot aren't willing to play at 9-11PM, preferring sleep instead.

3. Lack of motivation to grind.

Grinding is fine to an extent, but when your next upgrade is about a week of constant play away, people get disillusioned and bored with playing the same exact ship.

4. Lack of variety among ships.

I would also think this obvious - spider eventually just becomes a warbird minus thor with faster firing, lancaster is just a warbird with multi shot, leviathan is just a lancaster with faster EMP bombs and a higher top speed. Weasel is just a slow warbird with multi and cloak.


Things to implement:

Bouncing bullets. Why is this not done already? Especially on warbird or terrier, who dont get a lot of bullets out to begin with...

Tac Ops assist share. I would think tactical ops would get a part of the RP for a kill if the person was orbed / blinded, as VB does with weasel. That and tac ops levelling is slloooooooow.

[project dragon]

3. Lack of motivation to grind.

Grinding is fine to an extent, but when your next upgrade is about a week of constant play away, people get disillusioned and bored with playing the same exact ship.

4. Lack of variety among ships.

I would also think this obvious - spider eventually just becomes a warbird minus thor with faster firing, lancaster is just a warbird with multi shot, leviathan is just a lancaster with faster EMP bombs and a higher top speed. Weasel is just a slow warbird with multi and cloak.

So... you want ships to upgrade faster, but you hate that all the ships have all those goddamn upgrades all of a sudden.

Also, bouncing bullets would seem to be a good novelty at first, but people seemed annoyed enough with 'random burst killing them', so having wb's and terrs not care about aiming and just letting their bullets bounce wherever is probably not going to help with anything.

[Peace_Maker]

reply to Dako

2. The schedule should be better, especially on the weekend.
3. Qan has always said if the game can not sustain interest without leveling he does not think the game should exists at all.
4. I am not sure how you came up with the assumption that all ships are warbirds but I find that humorous. The ships are all based on ships in Trench Wars.

Bouncing bullets, no way, should never happen. There are more than enough bullets flying around as is.

I am not sure the majority of distension public cares about Tac Op to make it a priority for any change since less than 10% of the players have never played it or even have it.

[Stabwound]

We can probably change the schedule, but I doubt there will be anything like 1-4am on weekdays. I've already had to shut down the bot early this week (and during a much better time slot) because it was like 6v6 and just a big pile of crap.

I was thinking of getting rid of the early (1-3pm) time slot altogether because that one seems to be pulling a pretty poor crowd lately. What about that and extending the later session to 8-12pm -- 7 days a week?

As far as abilities and whatnot go:

Bouncing bullets will probably never be enabled, not only because it would be annoying as hell, but because they cause server crashes in TW for some reason.

qan also mentioned adding some sort of system where you can restart your ship from rank 0 (like remorts if you've ever played MUDs) but with some sort of bonus/upgrade/whatever that's only attainable by doing that. I think that would be pretty cool, and it would give an incentive to keep playing ships after there are no fun abilities to look forward to.

As for 'lack of variety' amongst the ships, let's put it this way: there's only so much that can be done with the Continuum engine running from a subgame server. How would you recommend the ships be changed to make them more unique?

qan has good ideas in store for Distension when TW finally gets a new server running so that the bot can login locally. There is a lot of potential for new abilities and such if things can be done in realtime rather than with the lag etc. For example, warbird bullets could potentially engine shutdown/emp ships with their level 3 bullets if they don't outright kill them.

On the other hand, I mentioned before how I find that Distension is becoming more and more annoying as people unlock higher abilities and most people agreed. Do you think it would maybe work better with a bigger flagroom?

[KuNi]

What about that and extending the later session to 8-12pm -- 7 days a week?

8-12pm sounds good, but people would play 2 hours a day more than previously. People will rank a lot quicker... schedule now isn't too bad(i know i said schedule needed to change a few posts ago) just add the 9-11pm slot on weekends as well as the 1-4am and remove the 1-3pm on weekdays
occasional 48 hour weekend host in future maybe?

Do you think it would maybe work better with a bigger flagroom?

People were talking about this earlier.. would be a good idea, levi emps wouldnt be so annoying, same with level 2 bombs, and bursts would be easier to dodge. Why is distension even out of beta? there's been so many changes.

edit: I'm so sad, posting things on spaceship forums during school -.-"
I officially have no life.

[roxxkatt]

i like the frs how they are =/

if anything, more cover could be added...

[McVicar]

I was thinking of getting rid of the early (1-3pm) time slot altogether because that one seems to be pulling a pretty poor crowd lately. What about that and extending the later session to 8-12pm -- 7 days a week?

Meh, you really wouldn't be catering for euros would you, since 8pm is 1am in UK time, and that extends further for the rest of europe. I would say either breaking up the 4 hour session by an hour so say 5-7 and then 9-11 or 6-8 then 10-12.

And as for the fr, i think we could make it a little bigger, but we could try putting more cover i.e blocks and such in there as suggested.