Goonhub
11-09-2020, 08:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2020, 08:09 AM by Sundance. Edited 1 time in total.)
I'd be against player cap personally, even though I loathe anything above 70 because my prehistoric set-up shits the bed, but the thing is I have that choice not to play and go on overflow instead.
Can we all agree on one thing and that it would be preferred if both servers had more equal share? It's just the nature of the cap that's on the table here. It's good to remind that this would also be beneficial for overflow, where on lowpop where it's numbers are 7-8, it could be bumped up to 15-20.
I think there should be some proactive encouragements to the population numbers.
I like the idea of player counts on other servers being shown. I'd recommend a player count also being shown on the text box when new rounds are announced currently.
One idea that I was toying with is that Mentors / HoS get a click-to-join message if the other server is low on Mentors / HoS ? This could give overflow servers a needed boost, while maybe causing a little bit of a drain on the absolute units of main and RP main.
I agree with Carb in that high pop isn't a desired state, there is undeniably a performance issue when it comes to the code at pops 85+. There is a lot of wonk that needs to be ironed out and I hope that the TGUI stuff (is that what it's called?) will rectify some of the interface jank.
The point that was raised regarding after a certain threshold of 80-90, the station just devolves into Staff Assistants everywhere and Security becomes a hellish nightmare. Here's a bright idea maybe at High Pop, increase the number of slots on most jobs, add in the "Trainee" option such as "Medical Trainee, Security Trainee (see other thread), etc" on limitless and actually put a cap on the number of Staff Assistants on the station, say around 15 or less?
What this does is in high pop is it limits the amount of station degradation and encourages job performance without being too heavy handed.
Can we all agree on one thing and that it would be preferred if both servers had more equal share? It's just the nature of the cap that's on the table here. It's good to remind that this would also be beneficial for overflow, where on lowpop where it's numbers are 7-8, it could be bumped up to 15-20.
I think there should be some proactive encouragements to the population numbers.
I like the idea of player counts on other servers being shown. I'd recommend a player count also being shown on the text box when new rounds are announced currently.
One idea that I was toying with is that Mentors / HoS get a click-to-join message if the other server is low on Mentors / HoS ? This could give overflow servers a needed boost, while maybe causing a little bit of a drain on the absolute units of main and RP main.
I agree with Carb in that high pop isn't a desired state, there is undeniably a performance issue when it comes to the code at pops 85+. There is a lot of wonk that needs to be ironed out and I hope that the TGUI stuff (is that what it's called?) will rectify some of the interface jank.
The point that was raised regarding after a certain threshold of 80-90, the station just devolves into Staff Assistants everywhere and Security becomes a hellish nightmare. Here's a bright idea maybe at High Pop, increase the number of slots on most jobs, add in the "Trainee" option such as "Medical Trainee, Security Trainee (see other thread), etc" on limitless and actually put a cap on the number of Staff Assistants on the station, say around 15 or less?
What this does is in high pop is it limits the amount of station degradation and encourages job performance without being too heavy handed.