I’m all for the staggered rollovers; especially if we could choose.

Maybe give each account/user a choice of 3?

Domination brackets following rollover is a great idea, but you’d need to make sure the choice (if given) of times was a once only, or at least once a week thing. I suppose you could let people change their time only if they had no scoops?

Evil Trout Posted:

Well each account that signs up would be bumigned a random number between 1-24 that would designate the hour of the day their rollover would take effect.

Then there would be a countdown clock on their character page (or somewhere else) that would say how many hours to go until their new visits come.

Then instead of running the deliveries and stuff overnight, they would happen every hour for the users with that time.

Shiny.

Abyssinth Posted:

Put people into domination brackets based on their refresh times, then you don’t have issues with domination.

What for? This doesn’t make domination any more random or unbalanced than it currently is.

People getting rollovers before a round is about to end are no more different than people entering a round with 12 stored visits.

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aSh-gangSTA-685 edited this message on 12/05/2010 3:30PM

Is the Random Rollover idea going anywhere? Haven’t heard anything in awhile.

Did someone vote your **** down Evil Trout? Log in to see images! Razzlesnaff edited this message on 03/12/2008 9:20PM

A simple solution could be to limit the possible hours for rollovers to less than 24. Maybe 22 or 23, since the end of a domination round will probably have alot of lag. That way everyone will have gotten their turns at least two hours before the end of the domination round.

It’s pretty simple, but it’s not perfect.

I’m not sure if it’s possible, but has anyone considered posting a static maintenance page and taking the site offline for a few minutes each day to accommodate a speedy rollover?

I was just thinking in terms of lag. People gripe about not being able to get yellow scoops because of lag. I’m certainly not suggesting that it’s the only solution, just throwing it out there.

Evil Trout Posted:

This doesn’t solve the problems with deliveries though. Although perhaps they could be stepped out as well? Interesting…

The problem with stepping out deliveries is then you’d have to really rethink how to deliver the high-priced ones, if the theory that it’s your great timesulative credit that determines your deliveries, rather than having them determined forum-by-forum. Of course, that’s just a theory…

n00b65 Posted:

The problem with stepping out deliveries is then you’d have to really rethink how to deliver the high-priced ones, if the theory that it’s your great timesulative credit that determines your deliveries, rather than having them determined forum-by-forum. Of course, that’s just a theory…

Yes this is also true. Right now it basically adds up all the cred you earned, then divides that cred into neat little rewards. It would still work in smaller segments, but the gifts would be a lot less interesting Log in to see images!

Evil Trout Posted:

Yes this is also true. Right now it basically adds up all the cred you earned, then divides that cred into neat little rewards. It would still work in smaller segments, but the gifts would be a lot less interesting Log in to see images!

Only for the stalkers who use their one visit every 6 hours. For more casual players, it wouldn’t make any difference, except that they get their deliveries faster. They’d still log on and get their deliveries once a day, and the calculation would be the same, bumuming they used their visits within the same 6-hour slot.

EDIT: By the way, I borrowed this idea from strategy web-based games which have hourly rollovers, and hence hourly incomes.

Skyreal edited this message on 03/13/2008 4:37PM