by Teron » Mon Oct 03, 2016 1:53 pm
About the reboots.
1. Generally, it'd help to keep the game up as long as possible, because:
- shops get more unique items and cps
- there are more corpses stored in the nooks
- there are more epics available
- there are more choppers available.
You could make a 2-weekly reboot schedule, starting on a Monday, but if we can safely run 3 weeks - why not?
2. Then there are chop days.
An ideal scenario for a chop day would be to reboot on the 14th, so:
- it doesn't crash on 15-16th and poof our specs/pops
- we have time to pop specs
- we have time for epics to spawn for chop.
(I've discussed these lamentations with Ezekiel and Dr, so I'm speaking also for them.)
Now, with rebooting for a chop day, we can't reboot every 21 days, so the resulting reboot schedule looks like every 1st and 14th to me.
Of course, I understand that you might need to reboot urgently to get your code in, so I leave this opportunity for you, too.
About the shopkeepers.
I completely agree with Gorka.
I've also been suggested that improving the shopkeepers was in order.
Earlier, we had crashes every 3-5 days, a 7 day crash-free week was a miracle.
At that pace, the amount of gold shops had didn't make much difference.
Now, with regular 2 week regular uptimes, we do need:
- more gold on the shopkeepers, I see no point in limiting it, really - players do need gold
- no limit on items in shops, because the prices already scale
- if there's a short limit on total items in store, they should disappear much faster.
Currently, AH does have a jeweler - it's Five Hands, but he has only like 100k gold total. I suggest adding enough gold on him.
Also, doesn't Allie buy the tokens, so there's two buyers on AH and BH?
As a frequent seller, I'd also welcome the auctioneer improvement.
One reason cited not to redo it was spam, so here's a suggestion:
- accept all the items ASAP
- post the announcements out every minute
The alternative to anouncements is to make it more concise:
- anounce the same items in brief say, eg, Gorka posted 21 tokens, from 70 to 80k min, 90-100k buyout
- or combine 3-5 different items in a single announcement done every 30 seconds
You could count the time since the announcement and report the "auction is about to end" msgs in the same way you announce someone consigning them (ie, if you anounce 21 tokens in 1 msg, you say they are all going to end in 1 min in 1 msg).