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I’m not sure I like the idea of choosing your hour, unless we have some sort of limit. We could end up with clumps, which would partially defeat the point of this. I’d rather see something where we can choose a span of some number of hours and then semi-random within those bounds. |
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Posted On: 03/10/2008 11:11PM | View Starfang_42's Profile | # | ||||||
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Randomness is my preference. Can’t wait for this! >.> |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 12:01AM | View Razzlesnaff's Profile | # | ||||||
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Marvelous idea, Mr. Trout. I don’t think the Sisterhood has any issue with it. We’ll pwn you all anyway, even though rollovers will be at weird hours. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 12:13AM | View Virtual_Eyes's Profile | # | ||||||
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If this were a democracy, I would vote for this idea. Anything that cuts down on the lag is an improvement. And thanks for the extra visits! |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 12:23AM | View BlazeKnowsWORA's Profile | # | ||||||
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I don’t see random rollovers being an issue to me. I don’t even hit this site until about noon when I’m on my lunch break. Also in a weird way it’d be nice to have different hours that I could play.
Right now I’m used to wasting all my forum visits on my lunch break. It’d be nice every once in a while to have to wait until I come home and waste my time later in the day. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 12:23AM | View CreepPipe's Profile | # | ||||||
I think it’s a great idea. Morning folks can still blow their wads in the morning. (Not that I realy care, you know. Morning people make me all Log in to see images!
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 12:33AM | View pOOpey's Profile | # | ||||||
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Hehe, I actually logged the extra two forum visits as a bug, thinking that the repeated error messages this morning might have had something to do with my visits not being recorded properly. I’m glad it wasn’t a bug though and thank you for those extra visits.
As to the topic at hand, a random rollover time works for me. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 12:43AM | View Little Fawn's Profile | # | ||||||
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sounds good to me boss! |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 12:45AM | View ParadoxControl's Profile | # | ||||||
I like it. I like the idea of choosing rollover as well, but won’t complain if it’s just random. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 12:51AM | View Escher's Profile | # | ||||||
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Starfang_42 Posted:
Most of our traffic comes from North America, I think it was 90% last time I checked. If people could choose their rollovers we’d probably get a lot of clumping around highly desirable playing hours.
Then again, maybe not. I think what I’ll do is focus on getting the 24 hour rollovers working properly first, since choosing your rollover is really just an extension of that. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 12:55AM | View Evil Trout's Profile | # | ||||||
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For me the rollover happens around 10pm, so that’s a pretty decent time for my playing schedule, but you gotta do what’s best for the game. I say go for it. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 1:13AM | View Al Kusanagi's Profile | # | ||||||
Why not just make it so that you get 1 visit every 6 hours? That way you aren’t subject to the RNG as to when you get your visits. You get one at 12, one at 6am, one at noon, one at 6pm. or hell, switch it up a bit.
That way you’d probably have people playing all day, as opposed to all at once.
edit: you could also make it so that after pwning a forum, you get your deliveries 6 hours afterwards. that would keep people on the site all day, but not TOO much. Hoodie edited this message on 03/11/2008 1:34AM |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 1:31AM | View Hoodie's Profile | # | ||||||
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that would probably fix the problem. I don’t think people are gonna stop visiting at 7, (or in my case 9 EST,) because we have that routine where we hunker down and cash out junk, and spend spend spend our visits…
but its a good idea to separate that from the time when servers are cranking out the algorithms. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 1:37AM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
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Web 2.0 junkies are always so happy that they’re following 37signals web standards until the see the bill. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 1:40AM | View CreepPipe's Profile | # | ||||||
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I was wondering where those 2 forum visits came from. Thanks! And I decided I’ll stop playing late at night (4am for me) because it just gets too laggy for me. Insomnia is a ****. This is a good idea, even if we don’t get to pick our times. Makes my nipples hard just thinking about it. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 2:10AM | View Balloon's Profile | # | ||||||
I think the biggest deal is deliveries. Deliveries is what makes me login in the mornings, not forum visits.
I would recommend that you randomize deliveries somewhat.
Maybe you could provide an incentive to players to log in at certain times rather than force them to do it. That’d be the ideal way for everyone. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 2:12AM | View Corion's Profile | # | ||||||
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well deliveries happen at rollover too.
so randomizing rollover would randomize deliveries. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 2:13AM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
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Staggered or random rollovers are a very good idea. No complaints about that. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 7:19AM | View SlaveToAnguish's Profile | # | ||||||
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Evil Trout Posted:
Sure sign that this is a great idea: I came in here thinking you meant a completely different thing by “random rollovers,” and wrote the first two sentences of a post describing your idea as my own and better than yours before actually reading your post. 007Bistromath edited this message on 03/11/2008 8:04AM |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 8:03AM | View 007Bistromath's Profile | # | ||||||
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Sounds like a decent idea, go for it. |
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Posted On: 03/11/2008 8:27AM | View Opportunity's Profile | # | ||||||