Construction mode feedback thread

[Marquesas]

Any means to coordinate would make things much easier: it is too easy for lack of communication to waste everybodys time. Something like spawning with those multi-frequency headsets would be awesome, so that 'departments' of people who want to do the same stuff can create themselves. If you want to go fancy, a captain to be head coordinator. A head id at the start to use the comms console would also be useful, because that's when the most chaos comes out, and a big "team x building y" announcement would clear things up.

OOC is not disabled during construction and IC in OOC is allowed.

Question time

As it stands, a station currently gets built in roughly 6 hours, at which point people sort of wander off and the station dies down, leaving 18 hours of a couple of people futzing around sometimes with a room or something. At this point, I feel that 24 hours is far too much for this round to be able to sustain a constant high population. It is the prevailing popular opinion that starting from scratch and the few first hours of coordination are the best bits.

Proposition: I'd like to condense the gameplay of the game mode into 12 hours instead of 24. Disproportionately with this, events would be scaled back from the current once every 15-30 mins to a more compatible every 12-20 mins model (this is the delay between events -- if a siege lasts for 5 minutes, then the next event is counted from the end of the siege). Difficulty multiplier over time would increase by a factor of 1.67, thus an event would become twice as difficult as it was at minute 0 exactly 6 hours in, instead of the current 10 hours.

Pros:

• Less downtime. The last 12 hours of a construction mode are, according to my down observation, slow, with a few players struggling to battle off an attack force.
  
• More intense gameplay. By the end of what I like to call the first phase we have a functional station, threats would be much more advanced than currently.
  
• More people get a chance at starting from scratch a day. I cannot emphasize enough that this obviously seems to be the most interesting bit for most people and thus it should be encouraged that everyone gets their fair chance to participate in it.

Cons:

• You lose 12 hours. You don't get to play, go to sleep, wake up and check out live if your structures are still intact.
  
• More intense gameplay. You just wish the goddamn martians would stop coming altogether.

My current stance is Yes on this, if anyone has sound counter-arguments, please present them.