03-08-2016, 03:54 AM
Purpose
Less of a punishment for turning off your computer for both casual and competitive players, and to allow more frequent of maintenances for swifter updates and issue resolutions without the worry of affecting thousands of players online at the time.
Goal
To allow offline progression similar to other idle games, while rewarding those who are online with a slightly more effective rate
Issues
-Any negative aspects of being offline make it impossible to go offline and play competitively
-Diminished community due to a large portion of players going offline compared to before
Proposed Solutions
-DPS is to be calculated by the server based on all upgrades for a -true- calculated average dps
-Gold/XP gains to be based on party DPS.
-When a player goes offline, they ghost for <x> hours, meaning they deal a high percent close to what they would normally do online.
-Rested time becomes a post-maintenance currency as a bonus, instead of an offline reward
-While offline, receive a high percentage of what you would have gained online of XP and Gold (but not cards)
-DPS will no longer be calculated client-side which will improve the speed of the client by a small margin (or big for those calculating dps over a longer period)
Bonus Resolutions
** No more worrying about a player who is having troubles, or getting kicked after a maintenance while they are sleeping or at work
** No more worry about which zone, planet or tier some troll is bringing you to for gain loss
** No more worrying about turning your PC off at night for dust and spiders to invade
Please discuss, and keep in mind 'something' definitely needs to be done here. This is an issue with IOU that i'm sure many of you are fine and comfortable with after this long, but it's an issue that needs to be rectified very soon. The costs of the servers for running so many connections/rooms needlessly, you have to imagine, is not overly efficient on my end either.
The ability to be able to run an emergency maintenance or scheduling a maintenance 30 mins from any given time for quick updates would be absolutely amazing if it didn't affect people nearly as poorly either. We have some pretty big issues even right now we need to update but we worry about kicking players off all the time and have to wait to fix / update things because of this.
Less of a punishment for turning off your computer for both casual and competitive players, and to allow more frequent of maintenances for swifter updates and issue resolutions without the worry of affecting thousands of players online at the time.
Goal
To allow offline progression similar to other idle games, while rewarding those who are online with a slightly more effective rate
Issues
-Any negative aspects of being offline make it impossible to go offline and play competitively
-Diminished community due to a large portion of players going offline compared to before
Proposed Solutions
-DPS is to be calculated by the server based on all upgrades for a -true- calculated average dps
-Gold/XP gains to be based on party DPS.
-When a player goes offline, they ghost for <x> hours, meaning they deal a high percent close to what they would normally do online.
-Rested time becomes a post-maintenance currency as a bonus, instead of an offline reward
-While offline, receive a high percentage of what you would have gained online of XP and Gold (but not cards)
-DPS will no longer be calculated client-side which will improve the speed of the client by a small margin (or big for those calculating dps over a longer period)
Bonus Resolutions
** No more worrying about a player who is having troubles, or getting kicked after a maintenance while they are sleeping or at work
** No more worry about which zone, planet or tier some troll is bringing you to for gain loss
** No more worrying about turning your PC off at night for dust and spiders to invade
Please discuss, and keep in mind 'something' definitely needs to be done here. This is an issue with IOU that i'm sure many of you are fine and comfortable with after this long, but it's an issue that needs to be rectified very soon. The costs of the servers for running so many connections/rooms needlessly, you have to imagine, is not overly efficient on my end either.
The ability to be able to run an emergency maintenance or scheduling a maintenance 30 mins from any given time for quick updates would be absolutely amazing if it didn't affect people nearly as poorly either. We have some pretty big issues even right now we need to update but we worry about kicking players off all the time and have to wait to fix / update things because of this.