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wipe server periodically
Andr3aZ:
Most players don't really test, they just wanna have fun in this fallout world, their way.
But players and their choices make testing possibly. I think with more wipes we would create more different active player scenarios (as some posters here already told) as the players are kinda forced to do something. Nowadays its hoarding stuff and TC to improve your BA-carpet. If somebody wants to do something special for testing or not, its always kinda artifical and didnt come from alone (and it sometimes takes too much effort / gets destroyed by others too fast)
JovankaB:
--- Quote from: Surf on May 24, 2011, 12:40:47 PM ---And what purpose does it do for testing stuff for the beta (as long as it was not a bug - then I can understand you) ?
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You seem to be confused. This is game suggestion (or call it server setting suggestion, whatever). Its purpose is to make gameplay better, by making period of low/mid tier longer relatively to whole season, not to improve testing somehow. It has nothing to do with testing, just like most sugesstions in this board have nothing to do with testing. We "tested" long seasons already I think it doesn't work very well, because people hoard items and level up new alts ad infinitum. Or they get bored eventually and stop playing.
I think there is a need for shorter seasons with many "win" conditions (or rather achievements).
Rascal:
4 months sounds optimal for me. Its enough time to gather good stuff and ejoy having it. But not that much u have on evry hex of ur tent/base ba or camk2 :F (ofcooz it depends from gameplay style).
Surf, wipe always bring a lot of people back to the game, server is alive, wasteland is full of wastelanders, cities are full of life etc. Currently we have situation that players have tooons of stuff so they dont need to craft/farm/hoard/pk their stuff - they have no motivation to do so. Therefore only whats left is PvP whats in couse of swarms/mercs/militia i boring as hell too. So servers stats simply shows month by month drop of active player base.
When wipe comes everything is different and server is alive. Just stop being blind to facts.
Surf:
--- Quote from: Rascal on May 24, 2011, 01:35:34 PM ---
Surf, wipe always bring a lot of people back to the game, server is alive, wasteland is full of wastelanders, cities are full of life etc. Currently we have situation that players have tooons of stuff so they dont need to craft/farm/hoard/pk their stuff - they have no motivation to do so. Therefore only whats left is PvP whats in couse of swarms/mercs/militia i boring as hell too. So servers stats simply shows month by month drop of active player base.
When wipe comes everything is different and server is alive. Just stop being blind to facts.
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http://fodev.net/forum/index.php?topic=15771.msg130530#msg130530
Andr3aZ:
--- Quote from: Surf on May 24, 2011, 02:02:59 PM ---http://fodev.net/forum/index.php?topic=15771.msg130530#msg130530
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This is not a good answer in my opinion. The ones who want periodic wipes want it for getting the server full of life for gameplay improvement. In your linked post Lexx answers to Wichuras "2238 player stats have sunken because of the new travelling speed" that the devs would still develop the game if there were 0 players. But here we don't talk about players vanishing because of a feature (maybe the ones getting bored of the current server state), but how to get the server more action-loaded so it attracts more players to play it active.
I think both topics have nothing in common.
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