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I have to say when I first saw it, I thought that perhaps the rollovers were now random, then I saw that they weren’t. The lag isn’t really so bad,(for me anywayLog in to see images!) but I do like the idea of random rollover.

I would loathe the idea of one forum visit every six hours. It would ruin the feel of the game for me personally. (Not arrogant enough to think my personal opinion alone wouldn’t stop this from happening though.)

I like the idea of completely random rollover for all accounts. Regardless of the specifics of the random rollover, I think it would be better than it is now.

My favorite idea is to split people into groups. Two, three, four. The number isn’t very significant. Then give the separate groups different rollover times. You’d still have people coming to the website in waves, but smaller a wave.

Skyreal Posted:

Another idea is instead of giving everyone 4 visits per day, give them 1 visit every 6 hours. So yeah, a “minor” rollover every 6 hours.

I thought about that too, but it’s likely that instead of 1 spike every 24 hours you’d get 4 spikes, 1 every 6 hours. Which would mean a worsened situation rather than an improved one. It’s possible that you may have only 2-3 spikes per person due to the spread of timezones, but you’d still end up with more spikes, and probably more bandwidth taken.

Of course, if you made some sort of “recently pwned” bonus that players acquired when they used more forum visits one after another, you could convince players to spend all of their time at the spike of their choosing. This could help spread out the major bandwidth consumption.

plk Posted:

I like the idea of random rollovers to spread out usage. For the people that really want to have compatible rollover times for doing domination, maybe you could offer the option of being able to pay something like 10 or 20 brownie points to choose your rollover time.

But yay for improvements; I like the counter.

... or people could simply commit to saving enough adventures and agreeing to a certain time of day to do domination. Compatible rollover times isn’t really necessary if people plan in advance.

Evil Trout Posted:

The problem is 90% or more of our users are from North America, so letting them choose wouldn’t really fix things much in that regard.

What about using the same time for the end of the domination rounds?

Having the Domination end at “weird” times for someone in North America might give her an advantage, since all other North Americans are busy sleeping than.

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Look, mathematically, it won’t matter when the individual rollover times start or stop, so long as that information is kept private.

Player A’s rollover time WED 10 p.m., one hour after Domination starts. When Domination starts, he could have, at most, 12 forum visits saved up. He uses those within the hour, and over the course of seven days, he acquires 28 more (WED, THU, FRI, SAT, SUN, MON, TUE 10 p.m.) That’s a maximum of 40 forum visits during any one Domination Round.

Player B’s rollover time WED 8 p.m., one hour bedfore Domination starts. When Domination starts, he could have, at most, 12 forum visits saved up. He uses those within the hour, and over the course of seven days, he acquires 28 more (THU, FRI, SAT, SUN, MON, TUE, WED 8 p.m.) That’s a maximum of 40 forum visits during any one Domination Round.

The only difference is when each player has to go for their ‘rush’. And so long as the total number of forum visits available and rollover time of each player is kept private, it’s completely fair.

If you want to hedge the bet about fairness, then don’t have any rollover times occur within 6 hours of of Domination end times (i.e., the last rollover time should be 3 p.m.) That means that for the last six hours on Wednesday, everyone knows that their opponents, like themselves, can’t have more than 12 forum visits saved up. That means the endgame strategy is fair & balanced.

And with 18 possible rollover times left in the mix, that still spreads out the workload for the servers, etcetera.

Simply randomly bumign rollover times, on the hour, between 10 p.m. and 3 p.m. daily. As an option, make it a 3-5 Brownie Point service to choose your rollover time manually.

Echuu Posted:

I think that’s a brilliant idea. It’s a win-win situation.

Thank you, sir.

Personally, I think the idea of having a 3-6 hour block prior to Domination Round endtime to be the best 7 fairest solution to any alleged problems of different rollover times for different players.

Hey, I figure, since I have so much fun here, and I’ve already bought some Brownies, might as well offer some constructive suggestions, y’know?

Of course, I have no clue on whether or not its even programmable, so for all I know, it’s a stupid idea.Log in to see images!