To the Distension haters -- we may have something in common.

[kthx]

There is no common ground if decisions are made that have Distension hosted before TWL, the likelihood of the game crashing the zone, causing packetloss, and the fact that this time should be reserved for TWL players to get ready for their matches is honestly just too good of reasons to take away the sunday morning timeslot, and just let them have it from 8-12pm on Sunday night if nothing else.

[2kill]

There is no common ground if decisions are made that have Distension hosted before TWL, the likelihood of the game crashing the zone, causing packetloss, and the fact that this time should be reserved for TWL players to get ready for their matches is honestly just too good of reasons to take away the sunday morning timeslot, and just let them have it from 8-12pm on Sunday night if nothing else.

no one is saying that it will be hosted before twl in fact star said it most likely won't cause of twl. (I agree too that distension shouldn't be hosted during twl) to me this twl issue isn't really a problem its a once and awhile accuring thing, it doesn't matter to me if they cancel a few runs because of something happening in the zone. my post was more of a kill the rumers kind of post since in all the distension threads I see a lot of people posting incorrect info. like tw will become pub (which it won't) that distension is trying to ruin everything about tw.

[kthx]

I don't mind the new schedule its the best schedule so far I think, all I am trying to do is get that sunday morning slot taken out and moved to another day/time or added to another slot while TWL is running. The same as if there was a distension league on Wednesdays I wouldn't randomly start hosting TWL events before it, it is just ignorant.

[HateTheFake]

distension is trying to ruin everything about tw.

agreed

[roxxkatt]

im a misquoting fag

agreed

[DankNuggets]

a thought

TW's biggest poplulations day-wise are on TWL days, it's lowest on non-TWL days. Monthwise, it seems it's highest during TWL, and lowest during the offseason. The logic being that people mostly play when the event/arena they want to play is running. They don't come on to play events that they don't like just to kill time as frequently as they come on to play events they like.

So TWL is boosting the weekend population, and the TWL season.

Look at the other large sect of players, the "distensionites".

The arena is full when it's hosted--> active players when it's on. It's still got a good many people of people who are afk after the game is over + people like me who aren't going to log in if there's no chance distension is running--> inactive players b/c distension is down.


We see things like "121 ppl in a TWLB game" and "600-700 ppl during TWL" because you're giving people what they want to play.


I'm more than willing that to say you'll see the same effects for when distension's hosted and when it's not hosted given some time. Do yourselves a favor and host as often as possible to keep the players active.

You'll see things lilke "2 full distension arenas last night" and "damn 400 ppl on a tuesday, haven't seen that in a while".

It might not be the same scale initially as TWL, but it's not insignificant. It's big enough to not ingore, or risk losing it. Work with both (not by limiting Distension to 1 day a week, we'll see an even bigger difference between on/off days) to keep the population up 7 days a week, not just during TWL matches.

Once again: it's good that TWL boosts the population, and the same logic should follow for distension. TWL is a weekend event, with TWD being the 24/7 watered down equivalent. One option for Distension is to have the RP multiplier events, and the normal, or a % thereof, as the 24/7 equivalent.

Or limit player times if you want to be a facist, but I guess that's one sacrifice I'll make to ensure that people have the ability to play it on their own time, instead of scheduling their free time around this game.

[Zeebu]

TW's biggest poplulations day-wise are on TWL days, it's lowest on non-TWL days. Monthwise, it seems it's highest during TWL, and lowest during the offseason. The logic being that people mostly play when the event/arena they want to play is running. They don't come on to play events that they don't like just to kill time as frequently as they come on to play events they like.

So TWL is boosting the weekend population, and the TWL season.

Look at the other large sect of players, the "distensionites".

The arena is full when it's hosted--> active players when it's on. It's still got a good many people of people who are afk after the game is over + people like me who aren't going to log in if there's no chance distension is running--> inactive players b/c distension is down.


We see things like "121 ppl in a TWLB game" and "600-700 ppl during TWL" because you're giving people what they want to play.


I'm more than willing that to say you'll see the same effects for when distension's hosted and when it's not hosted given some time. Do yourselves a favor and host as often as possible to keep the players active.

You'll see things lilke "2 full distension arenas last night" and "damn 400 ppl on a tuesday, haven't seen that in a while".

It might not be the same scale initially as TWL, but it's not insignificant. It's big enough to not ingore, or risk losing it. Work with both (not by limiting Distension to 1 day a week, we'll see an even bigger difference between on/off days) to keep the population up 7 days a week, not just during TWL matches.

Once again: it's good that TWL boosts the population, and the same logic should follow for distension. TWL is a weekend event, with TWD being the 24/7 watered down equivalent. One option for Distension is to have the RP multiplier events, and the normal, or a % thereof, as the 24/7 equivalent.

Or limit player times if you want to be a facist, but I guess that's one sacrifice I'll make to ensure that people have the ability to play it on their own time, instead of scheduling their free time around this game.

i am glad you brought this up

TWL is so popular because it has the most skilled in TW as well as only happens once a year.

I will be fully behind distension if you pick a set schedule for a certain part of the year (offseason) and host it as much as you want for a couple months. then, once your couple months are up it goes on vacation for another year.

in fact, that is an incredible idea. have a 3 month 'season' for distension and then reset at the end of it. hand out awards to people for being badasses that can devote hours upon hours a week to become the best.

maybe have two 3 month seasons a year?

[DankNuggets]

i am glad you brought this up

TWL is so popular because it has the most skilled in TW as well as only happens once a year.

I will be fully behind distension if you pick a set schedule for a certain part of the year (offseason) and host it as much as you want for a couple months. then, once your couple months are up it goes on vacation for another year.

in fact, that is an incredible idea. have a 3 month 'season' for distension and then reset at the end of it. hand out awards to people for being badasses that can devote hours upon hours a week to become the best.

maybe have two 3 month seasons a year?

I'd actually be ok with this if the season length was sufficient that I didn't have to be like the losers.. oops i mean vets... that log on a couple of days every 6 months.

If TWL was 4 months, and distension was 6-8, i could probably live with this. People have a vested interest in distension, one that increases with time spent playing. The more they can play, the more valuable future playing time becomes to them. I'd say make the end of the season when the mean rank for the entire database reaches 40 or 50, or a number that works better. That way, you'd have people who succeeded in "completing" the game, as well as people who would still want to play another reset to possibly get to that higher rank. Having a season as short as TWL would only keep the same problem going, just split up between the two seasons.

Just make sure you can allow for enough people to get teh really high ranks they desire before resets, and it won't kill it after the first one. People got really pissed when their ships got reset in beta seemingly at arbitrary ranks.

[Zeebu]

I'd actually be ok with this if the season length was sufficient that I didn't have to be like the losers.. oops i mean vets... that log on a couple of days every 6 months.

If TWL was 4 months, and distension was 6-8, i could probably live with this. People have a vested interest in distension, one that increases with time spent playing. The more they can play, the more valuable future playing time becomes to them. I'd say make the end of the season when the mean rank for the entire database reaches 40 or 50, or a number that works better. That way, you'd have people who succeeded in "completing" the game, as well as people who would still want to play another reset to possibly get to that higher rank. Having a season as short as TWL would only keep the same problem going, just split up between the two seasons.

Just make sure you can allow for enough people to get teh really high ranks they desire before resets, and it won't kill it after the first one. People got really pissed when their ships got reset in beta seemingly at arbitrary ranks.

i wouldnt mind seeing 6 months total out of hte year for distension to run.

in fact, go ahead and sandwich twl with 2 times of it. just my opinion based on experience at how TW runs:

have a 3 month span before the twd reset for twl qualifications occurs.
have twl
then have another 3 month span for distension.
then have some other league/leagues (this would be a good time for another draft league/basing cup/ something like that)

set the experience rates in distension accordingly. this will give you half of the year, spaced out in to 2 different times.


the reason i put this up is because dividing TW into different parts is going to be terrible for hte zone. in my opinion, the correct thing to do with our waning population is to give them one thing at a time to do. if you are a die hard distension player, you have half of the year to play your game. you also have it spaced out enough that you will probably play during the offseason of your respected event because there will be another coming up relatively soon.

oh well.

someone shoot the idea full of holes so i can figure out where i messed up. it seems like a fairly solid plan. only problem is that i dont think distension will get evenly spaced.


by possibly allowing distension to wind down and qualifications start and then start it up again towards the end of TWL (during the final rounds of playoffs). it might be spaced better. (while still not allowing distension to be hosted on sundays only)

the more i type the better i like this idea btw

[roxxkatt]

good, 6 months i wont be in tw

[Stabwound]

In that case I vote for Distension to be run 0 months out of the year.

[Liquid Blue]

good, 6 months i wont be in tw

can you avoid the forums with your useless posts as well

[roxxkatt]

but then who will shut up idiots like you...?

[kthx]

Look at the list of zones you are so proud of running "roxxcat" they are all terrible failures, and now you want to come to TW with those ideas that have already destroyed several zones and bring them to TW? Go make another trash zone and ruin that, and better yet, take distension with you back to "BLUECT AWESOME CS PUB ZONE" or whatever terrible 5 player zone that is.

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[Liquid Blue]

but then who will shut up idiots like you...?

that's the thing, you aren't shutting anyone up and you're cluttering topics that are trying to go on with constructive discussion by posting useless trash over and over

you're continuing to perpetuate the cycle you claim you are shutting down