Is it just me...or?

[Controlled Interests]

What would you change? How would the event run if you were in charge? (Asked in curiosity not in OH YEA BET YOU COULDN'T DO BETTER)

Make it so that we can launch missiles, but not EVERY 20 seconds. I run a stock exchange on the econ. forums, so I'm sure I could figure something smart out

[The National Socialist Philippines]

What would you change? How would the event run if you were in charge? (Asked in curiosity not in OH YEA BET YOU COULDN'T DO BETTER)

Make it so that we can launch missiles, but not EVERY 20 seconds. I run a stock exchange on the econ. forums, so I'm sure I could figure something smart out

or make a 3d version of your nation...

[Breadknife]

Somewhere a little nearer to the gameplay of Progress Quest, mayhap?

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed participating in the crisis testing of the new server hardware, and I'd do it again tomorrw the day after tomorrow (when I'm back on a better network connection than I was on) but it did rather distract me from everything else I'd planned to do.

(Which is, I suppose, all credit to those who gave me the option. You tuned into my own personal fascination and made something even more exciting than the MUD I had been planning to play! But I also eschewed the forums, due to sheer necessity.)

[The Campbell Nation]

What would you change? How would the event run if you were in charge? (Asked in curiosity not in OH YEA BET YOU COULDN'T DO BETTER)

Make it so that we can launch missiles, but not EVERY 20 seconds. I run a stock exchange on the econ. forums, so I'm sure I could figure something smart out

The problem is its too addicting. You get into a cycle where its always just one… more… missile. And then an hour later you realize you've almost cured this region, so you can't quit now.
I would've loved to have gone and posted on the zombie command center more often throughout the event. But the twenty second cool down isn't long enough to do something when you're actively battling for control of a region.
I think the simplest solution would be to increase the cool down time by a lot, make it say, three or five minutes, a measurable amount of time, so that you have time to actually do something in between, and increase the effectiveness of super weapons to make up for the time gap.

This would also cut down on the missile spam and make players think a bit before they fire their super weapons randomly, and hopefully reduce the server load.

[The National Socialist Philippines]

Make it so that we can launch missiles, but not EVERY 20 seconds. I run a stock exchange on the econ. forums, so I'm sure I could figure something smart out

The problem is its too addicting. You get into a cycle where its always just one… more… missile. And then an hour later you realize you've almost cured this region, so you can't quit now.
I would've loved to have gone and posted on the zombie command center more often throughout the event. But the twenty second cool down isn't long enough to do something when you're actively battling for control of a region.
I think the simplest solution would be to increase the cool down time by a lot, make it say, three or five minutes, a measurable amount of time, so that you have time to actually do something in between, and increase the effectiveness of super weapons to make up for the time gap.

This would also cut down on the missile spam and make players think a bit before they fire their super weapons randomly, and hopefully reduce the server load.

then you can exterminate many zombies within 3-5 minutes right..like 30-120 million zombies for the tiring wait :/

[The Campbell Nation]

The problem is its too addicting. You get into a cycle where its always just one… more… missile. And then an hour later you realize you've almost cured this region, so you can't quit now.
I would've loved to have gone and posted on the zombie command center more often throughout the event. But the twenty second cool down isn't long enough to do something when you're actively battling for control of a region.
I think the simplest solution would be to increase the cool down time by a lot, make it say, three or five minutes, a measurable amount of time, so that you have time to actually do something in between, and increase the effectiveness of super weapons to make up for the time gap.

This would also cut down on the missile spam and make players think a bit before they fire their super weapons randomly, and hopefully reduce the server load.

then you can exterminate many zombies within 3-5 minutes right..like 30-120 million zombies for the tiring wait :/

Something like that. I don't know the exact algorithms, the effectiveness seemed to be based somewhat on what percent is still zombified. But that's the general idea. You wait a little longer, time enough to actually do something, and in exchange, the super weapons are extra super.

[Derpyderp14]

I've noticed it since July!

Most people have been trying to break every bone in skate 3.

[The National Socialist Philippines]

then you can exterminate many zombies within 3-5 minutes right..like 30-120 million zombies for the tiring wait :/

Something like that. I don't know the exact algorithms, the effectiveness seemed to be based somewhat on what percent is still zombified. But that's the general idea. You wait a little longer, time enough to actually do something, and in exchange, the super weapons are extra super.

I see that as a great deal, but I see waiting for 3 minutes as pain in the ass

[New Tyran]

I was too busy raping that superweapon button to focus on the role plays I'm in. Besides, I was also trying not to be overrun by zombie hordes every twenty seconds. Therefore, I couldn't sit down and type up a nice long detailed post for a RP, only rush one which wouldn't look good.

[The National Socialist Philippines]

I was too busy raping that superweapon button to focus on the role plays I'm in. Besides, I was also trying not to be overrun by zombie hordes every twenty seconds. Therefore, I couldn't sit down and type up a nice long detailed post for a RP, only rush one which wouldn't look good.

I am going agree with that

[The Campbell Nation]

Something like that. I don't know the exact algorithms, the effectiveness seemed to be based somewhat on what percent is still zombified. But that's the general idea. You wait a little longer, time enough to actually do something, and in exchange, the super weapons are extra super.

I see that as a great deal, but I see waiting for 3 minutes as pain in the ass

By no means perfect. But it hopefully means you don't spend hours straight trying to bring one giant nation under control. Or if you do, you can time it to be able to jump to the boards, or get something productive done.

[The National Socialist Philippines]

I see that as a great deal, but I see waiting for 3 minutes as pain in the ass

By no means perfect. But it hopefully means you don't spend hours straight trying to bring one giant nation under control. Or if you do, you can time it to be able to jump to the boards, or get something productive done.

I see it as useful when you are exterminating/curing/hording people in groups or in a party

[The Serbian Empire]

Maybe some uninterested people decided to skip the whole thing.

Agreed. I've talked to people who decided not to log on till the whole crisis blew over. Others were simply too preoccupied with clickin cure buttons every twenty seconds to return to the forums.

I know I was busy clicking and even found a shortcut to allow 4 cures per minute on one computer.

[Havenburgh]

it seems to be that it got more active when the zombies came, then went back down when they left. like people logged on just for the zombies

[The New Dog Nation]

I don't RP, so frankly I could care less about dem precious markets, in fact, I assume the reason the other forums are dead is because there is this big old "Zombie Emergency Command Center" forum, plus it is the technically the holidays, and people have lives, hopefully anyways.

[Controlled Interests]

I don't RP, so frankly I could care less about dem precious markets, in fact, I assume the reason the other forums are dead is because there is this big old "Zombie Emergency Command Center" forum, plus it is the technically the holidays, and people have lives, hopefully anyways.

Eh. Living is overrated.

[Bears Armed]

Eh. Living is overrated.

"It's a zombie! KILL!"