Goonhub
11-07-2020, 01:00 PM
The quality of the Main server has been infamously dreadful to a point that a number of players stay away from it like the plague. The code for it exists and while I know that it apprently needs a number of tweaks but I think it's about time it's activated.
The game straight up isn't prepared to deal with the current player numbers. 90 player rounds are becoming common place, but a number of things can't keep up. It takes only about 50 players to fill in all the job slots if you include HoS and NTSO, gimmick jobs but don't include the infinite Staff Assistant job slots. I don't think its fair to anyone and especially to new players that for 'normal' rounds, they don't get the chance, or get forced out of a job just because there's too many people.
While the Staff Assistant role may be infinite, the Security Officer role isnt. A team of 6 Security members (7 if you're foolish enough to trust the Detective) can't possibly deal with a station averaging between 70-90 players. That's upwards of 10 crew members to one Security officer. And this lack of strength in Security results Sec not being to handle everything at once and properly, which in turn means greytiders and self-antags are more free to get away with like mobbing Security, breaking into the brig, breaking into the armoury and being an overall nuisance.
Some maps can also only fit a certain capacity of people. At a certain point, Medbay can't effectively heal people due to the lack of resources and staff to match the number of players. With that comes the lag of loads of players all playing at once.
Why a population limit though? Because it's the easiest implementation as of now.
There's always a better way of doing things. However, currently to do that you'd need to implement a system of dynamic job slots increasing depending on the number of players or any other fitting system. However, that's a considerable project that would take time to design, implement and test. However, the code for player population limits already exists and we now have overflow server that would be able to accomodate the people who bubble over from the main servers and let them enjoy the game in their own way.
Personally, I think a limit of somewhere between 60-70 would be perfect. Alll the job slots are filled and that leaves a solid number of 10-20 to take the rest of the slots. It's also just before the lag starts to really kick in and the right mix of enough players to be a bit chaotic but not obnoxiously too much
The game straight up isn't prepared to deal with the current player numbers. 90 player rounds are becoming common place, but a number of things can't keep up. It takes only about 50 players to fill in all the job slots if you include HoS and NTSO, gimmick jobs but don't include the infinite Staff Assistant job slots. I don't think its fair to anyone and especially to new players that for 'normal' rounds, they don't get the chance, or get forced out of a job just because there's too many people.
While the Staff Assistant role may be infinite, the Security Officer role isnt. A team of 6 Security members (7 if you're foolish enough to trust the Detective) can't possibly deal with a station averaging between 70-90 players. That's upwards of 10 crew members to one Security officer. And this lack of strength in Security results Sec not being to handle everything at once and properly, which in turn means greytiders and self-antags are more free to get away with like mobbing Security, breaking into the brig, breaking into the armoury and being an overall nuisance.
Some maps can also only fit a certain capacity of people. At a certain point, Medbay can't effectively heal people due to the lack of resources and staff to match the number of players. With that comes the lag of loads of players all playing at once.
Why a population limit though? Because it's the easiest implementation as of now.
There's always a better way of doing things. However, currently to do that you'd need to implement a system of dynamic job slots increasing depending on the number of players or any other fitting system. However, that's a considerable project that would take time to design, implement and test. However, the code for player population limits already exists and we now have overflow server that would be able to accomodate the people who bubble over from the main servers and let them enjoy the game in their own way.
Personally, I think a limit of somewhere between 60-70 would be perfect. Alll the job slots are filled and that leaves a solid number of 10-20 to take the rest of the slots. It's also just before the lag starts to really kick in and the right mix of enough players to be a bit chaotic but not obnoxiously too much