Reset Idea

[Deadwood]

I was thinking that, especially after the last reset where the server crashed, that we should change things slightly.

At the moment things reset at 12:00 for the people in the USA and at 5:00 for people in the UK. At this point the game completely resets.

What i was wondering is, if things could be changed so that tokens being given out cut off at say 11:00 for people in the USA and at 4:00 in the USA, but that the game still resets at the current times. This would give people a whole hour in which to spend up and for cartels to arrange their final teams. If an hour is too long, then it could be reduced to 30 mins. It wouldn't matter at what point people cashed out in this hour or 30 mins for example, because tokens have been cut off so there is no reason to delay things to the last minute.

I think this is a possibility because the larger window in which to spend up / cash out would avoid so many people being on at the same time ( in theory ) and hopefully would mean we dont see the server crashing again.

Its just an idea, what does everyone think?

[Cheese on Toast]

i like it. not many others will be i like it. thats all that matters. make a poll man and see who votes for what ;)

[gotalot2do]

I was thinking that, especially after the last reset where the server crashed, that we should change things slightly.

At the moment things reset at 12:00 for the people in the USA and at 5:00 for people in the UK. At this point the game completely resets.

What i was wondering is, if things could be changed so that tokens being given out cut off at say 11:00 for people in the USA and at 4:00 in the USA, but that the game still resets at the current times. This would give people a whole hour in which to spend up and for cartels to arrange their final teams. If an hour is too long, then it could be reduced to 30 mins. It wouldn't matter at what point people cashed out in this hour or 30 mins for example, because tokens have been cut off so there is no reason to delay things to the last minute.

I think this is a possibility because the larger window in which to spend up / cash out would avoid so many people being on at the same time ( in theory ) and hopefully would mean we dont see the server crashing again.

Its just an idea, what does everyone think?


Whahat?

[Puppy Dogs and Ice Cream]

wont ever fly

[Deadwood]

wont ever fly

nothing ever flies around here :(

[tca]

not a chance deadwood

[Jacx]

not actually a bad idea..not sure people would really for it...but whats a hours playing time...humm, means reset is actually a house early ending but a hours worth of spending up, moving players, upsetting the rivals and general bitchfest time in the forum...great.

Now bugger off and stop coming up with ideas to keep us busy

[Blueeyes]

nothing flys around here except the name calling and being called out

[Cushion]

i like the idea myself would make reset less hetic and would give some of the bigger cartels time to lug around 40 players or so, good idea deadwood u shit :P

[Spork!!!]

Great idea!

[Buckledmac]

not a bad idea, however, wouldnt it slightly favour the bigger cartels?

gives them more time to maximise their 40-60 players, just a thought anyhow

[Cushion]

check my comment si ;)

[tca]

check my comment si ;)

you hinting towards reds warriors 40 players there? ;) (a)

[Cushion]

Red's only have 25 in A games i was thinking more of tokers aoy untouchables :P

[tca]

lol i know fool, i was just taking the easy shot ;)

[Cushion]

yeah shit house :P back to subject anyways i think its a good idea and should stop all fuck ups in future :)

[tca]

^^ what this muppet said :P

[Deadwood]

Thanks for all those showing some support.

Nobody wants the server to crash again like the past reset; i just think that with this idea in action we can significantly avoid it for reasons i stated in my initial post. :)

I cant see this being very hard to implement either. Especially with the game growing and growing the server may be more prone to crash.

[Pot4life]

i like it , would save alot of strain on server if it was for hour, but i think it would mean admins manually stopping tokens for hour, until the make a bot or script to do it, like someone said, make a poll and see what gets what

[Timoteo32]

I also think it's a good idea. the hour would also give people more flexibility depending on what time zone they're in. some people won't have to stay up as late or maybe get up as early. it would hit more lunch breaks or afternoon breaks for people who work during reset.

[Psychostyle]

i fail however to see how this will reduce server load, as everyone will STILL wait till the last 5 minutes of the round to do most of their moves, and still cry about it if something goes wrong..the concept is ok, but the nature of the game kills it.

[Cushion]

fair point coming to think of it if i spend one hour before reset and im top of the room and looking at a good score im sure within the hour someone would have thugged x amount of times :)

[Spork!!!]

i fail however to see how this will reduce server load, as everyone will STILL wait till the last 5 minutes of the round to do most of their moves, and still cry about it if something goes wrong..the concept is ok, but the nature of the game kills it.

Thinking a bit outside the square, do we NEED the EXACT reset time "set in stone"?
For example, "This Round will run from 12mn cst Jan 1st, until 11pm-12mn on Jan 31'st".
Freeze tokens for last hour so no benefit waiting too late, and issue 4 extra to start so the total for the game remains the same...

I know we need the "approx" time, I think a one hour time frame would be acceptable. Anyone see any merit in that, or should I "get off the grass"?

[SNOWBLIND]

Anyone see any merit in that, or should I "get off the grass"?

Yep that is what I would do....lol...j/k...*cough*...*cough*, I have to agree with pstyle on this. Everyone will still be on at the same time. Whether it be spending tokens or money. Everyone wants o see final results, or get that last "oh shit I forgot to do this". It is a free game so lets leave it like that, please. If they have to put more work into it, it won't be free much longer.

[Pleb]

I like the idea, although as the man says, it probably ain't gonna reduce server load a whole lot....unless there was a freeze on spending tokens for the last hour....and I reckon there would be war over that :D

[the squid of despair]

After 3 pages I still don't see the point of this. Freeze tokens for an hour? So 4 whole tokens gone. Most people aren't waiting for those last few tokens to spend up, this game is all about the last minute spend to surprise everyone. Plus if you move to early, you risk a good suiciding ;-)

[Spork!!!]

I like the idea, although as the man says, it probably ain't gonna reduce server load a whole lot....unless there was a freeze on spending tokens for the last hour....and I reckon there would be war over that :D

/me drinks shakes and takes my brave pills. Anyone got an asbestos jacket?

Stop any jumps, for that last 1-60 mins. Maybe even limit access to games to cabinet members only? Thugging wont hurt, unless the machinist is hoarding (tokens)... Other "worth" players could cash out.
I'll show my ignorance of things serverish... are the game and the forum on the same one?
(Until now) Have you ever heard GUNNERS complain about "missing reset"?

But as Blindman points out, we don't want to make this game so much work that it becomes "pay to play"...

ps. I won a one gallon (4.5l/142 std. drinks [approx] bottle of Johnnie Walker) today in a raffle.
Maybe admin could "raffle" premies, donation codes, custom forum titles etc? PayPal, and maybe some free "tickets" for premie account owners?

[Dirty Northern Bastard]

is a fantastic idea , gives me a whole hours target practice, higher chance of spotting the clever horders that have kept out of sight

[Deadwood]

is a fantastic idea , gives me a whole hours target practice, higher chance of spotting the clever horders that have kept out of sight

lmfao, i get the point lol, it wont work. :$

[tca]

/me drinks shakes and takes my brave pills. Anyone got an asbestos jacket?

Stop any jumps, for that last 1-60 mins. Maybe even limit access to games to cabinet members only? Thugging wont hurt, unless the machinist is hoarding (tokens)... Other "worth" players could cash out.
I'll show my ignorance of things serverish... are the game and the forum on the same one?
(Until now) Have you ever heard GUNNERS complain about "missing reset"?

But as Blindman points out, we don't want to make this game so much work that it becomes "pay to play"...

ps. I won a one gallon (4.5l/142 std. drinks [approx] bottle of Johnnie Walker) today in a raffle.
Maybe admin could "raffle" premies, donation codes, custom forum titles etc? PayPal, and maybe some free "tickets" for premie account owners?

hide your keyboard when your drinking :P

[siggins]

fair point coming to think of it if i spend one hour before reset and im top of the room and looking at a good score im sure within the hour someone would have thugged x amount of times :)


Cushion imma take a cheap shot....... if you have already spent what do you care if someone thugs your 15 times? It would do nothing to your score you noob. lol i would be more worried about getting suicided in jumps then getting thugged. (Y)


Anyway i like the idea but people would still spend in last 5 mins to avoid getting suicided. Now Something to go with this idea is as well as no more tokens the jumping ability is also taken away in that last hour. Now that would make it so people could spend at any time over that hour and then cart leaders could move accounts around. Thats my 2 sence now someone shoot me down like imma noob :O

[Psychostyle]

this entire thread boils down to ...nothing, sorry guys..if i cut tokens and gunning off at 11, i'll be suiciding you at 1058-59..not only did i just totally fuck you over..you cant even retaliate now, ha-ha. all this would really do is make mega-merges easier, and you know how i feel about those....