Goonhub
05-05-2017, 10:03 AM
Hey Arborinus here, time to make one of my barely-coherent-always-ignored posts:
The biggest problem, to me, is the lack of admin involvement.
In the game, I feel like the administration is scared to do anything fun. I think that's a problem with the current community as much as the admins. Any amount of action from an admin MUST be in a set-aside "admin fun round", antag tokens must shower from the sky, and if anything is not completely perfect deadchat will moan and moan. One would think the introduction of antag tokens would have made the admins feel like they have more freedom to have fun. An incident that really sticks out in my head is when Daeren had a basketball wizard round. There was some confusion about getting the spells from the radio thing, but after that everyone was having a blast. But one player died and complained that it was an admin fun round, and Daeren left thinking he was bad at having admin fun - from one person.
Now I know not all admins want to do this, some don't have the powers or whatever, but I can't remember the last time I saw the pool filled with monsters and the ladder removed. It doesn't have to be a perfectly constructed intricate thing, just put a "button that will kill you if you press it" somewhere sometimes. Don't worry about the one person that whines, because the silent majority are busy having fun. The best memories I have of this game were because of some sort of admin involvement in the game.
In the community, the forums are almost completely ignored. People spend way too much time making way too long posts like this one only for nothing to come of it. Some admins browse sometimes but that's usually a coder looking at a bug report or because someone linked a particular thread in the IRC. I don't mean to jab at anyone, but look at the posts in this thread. I don't think you should take this farting game simulator forums completely seriously but those one-line quips are the only posts we ever see from most of the admins.
Changes to the game are added quietly usually without community input which coders have every right to do, but I would definitely love to see some sort of "State of the Goonion" thread or admin-only subforum where the admins actually post and the community actually hears what's going on lately.
You are likely to hear more from admins in the IRC, but it's really quiet most of the day. The times when the topic is SS13 it's usually just reminiscing about "the good ol' days" and how people don't have time or motivation to play.
I think a "Jump Day" set aside once a month or week where everyone joins and tries to take up a particular department (One day security, one day Quartermaster, etc.) would help. But we've seen how that sort of thing works out in the long run with Day of Destiny and Ass Day.
A lot of effort was made to make this silly little web game into something more, but that's left a lot of slack that needs to be picked up.
The biggest problem, to me, is the lack of admin involvement.
In the game, I feel like the administration is scared to do anything fun. I think that's a problem with the current community as much as the admins. Any amount of action from an admin MUST be in a set-aside "admin fun round", antag tokens must shower from the sky, and if anything is not completely perfect deadchat will moan and moan. One would think the introduction of antag tokens would have made the admins feel like they have more freedom to have fun. An incident that really sticks out in my head is when Daeren had a basketball wizard round. There was some confusion about getting the spells from the radio thing, but after that everyone was having a blast. But one player died and complained that it was an admin fun round, and Daeren left thinking he was bad at having admin fun - from one person.
Now I know not all admins want to do this, some don't have the powers or whatever, but I can't remember the last time I saw the pool filled with monsters and the ladder removed. It doesn't have to be a perfectly constructed intricate thing, just put a "button that will kill you if you press it" somewhere sometimes. Don't worry about the one person that whines, because the silent majority are busy having fun. The best memories I have of this game were because of some sort of admin involvement in the game.
In the community, the forums are almost completely ignored. People spend way too much time making way too long posts like this one only for nothing to come of it. Some admins browse sometimes but that's usually a coder looking at a bug report or because someone linked a particular thread in the IRC. I don't mean to jab at anyone, but look at the posts in this thread. I don't think you should take this farting game simulator forums completely seriously but those one-line quips are the only posts we ever see from most of the admins.
Changes to the game are added quietly usually without community input which coders have every right to do, but I would definitely love to see some sort of "State of the Goonion" thread or admin-only subforum where the admins actually post and the community actually hears what's going on lately.
You are likely to hear more from admins in the IRC, but it's really quiet most of the day. The times when the topic is SS13 it's usually just reminiscing about "the good ol' days" and how people don't have time or motivation to play.
I think a "Jump Day" set aside once a month or week where everyone joins and tries to take up a particular department (One day security, one day Quartermaster, etc.) would help. But we've seen how that sort of thing works out in the long run with Day of Destiny and Ass Day.
A lot of effort was made to make this silly little web game into something more, but that's left a lot of slack that needs to be picked up.