Player Count, your opinion.

[Jay]

Here's a message Pedro sent to me in PM:

Warning: Do not read it if you're almost falling asleep. (it's a little big )

Hi there,

The reason why I'm not posting it in CSI is because I'll mention other servers bellow and I don't to advertise them here.

The firsts minutes that the Player spends on the server is enough to decide if he’ll come back there again or not.

Today I was at this server and I really liked the way they receive their players. That's just one zone, they have more.

HostName: Impulse99 [0.3c - Euro] - Stunt/Race/DM/Drift
Address:  94.23.231.160:7777
Players:  243 / 492
Ping:    42
Mode:    Stunt/Race/DM/Freeroam
Map:      Stunt/Race/DM/Drift






Perhaps we (mappers) could build something interesting and attractive to receive the new players, not only, but mainly for them.


I don’t know exactly how you’ll add the new maps to LVP and, therefore improve the stunt zone on there, but I have some suggestions to do.

Even having in the server’s name the ‘stunt’ word, when a new player joins LVP apparently he doesn’t have anything interesting to do.
LVP has a game mode much better than servers with over 100 players online. The big problem is that some people, particularly the new players cannot reach the good features that LVP offers to play. Most servers or at least the servers with a higher player count are using something like this.

I understand it might take a lot of work to change it, but I think it really should be done, at least for now only for the most important commands. (Every command is supposedly important, otherwise I believe you guys wouldn’t have lost your time scripting them, but the commands related to the stunt zones and minigames should be a priority. Even though about the /minigames when you type it, there’s already a menu.)

You told me you’re considering of moving the stunt zone to the main world and you have been discussing it with the rest of the crew/developments, however I think I have a better idea.

That’s the main positive aspect that I see about adding it to the main world:
- It’ll be easy for the new players because they have everything that is possible to do only in one world.

Negative aspects:
-If you really want to add the /vr command to repair the vehicles, it will take even more work since you’ll have to limit the zones which would allow people for it.
-It should not cause a huge lag, but yeah, LVP wouldn’t be as smoothly as it is at this moment and the DMers would “cry” about it.

The first one might be the big problem.



What I think that could be done is concentrate the whole stunt maps at another world. There would be 2 words:

One with the normal LVP game mode and another one only for stunt maps: when someone joins the server he/she could be teleported to one room (that room should be attractive since it might be for some people the first time they’re on LVP. ), with 2 doors and they would enter on the door they prefer.

- If he/she stands on the first door, it would show a table with the currently features of LVP (Gang system, properties, exportation, etc…) and it would have 2 options like: “Accept” and “Cancel”.

- If he/she stands on the other door, it would show another table with a simple text about stunt, or perhaps show one picture of the maps. They would “Accept” or “Cancel” as well.

- At the stunt, world non-english could be allowed in the main chat or if not, mix the main chat of both worlds.

- I suppose there will be different stunt zones, so imagine I join the SF airport. It should say in the main chat “eF.Pedro has been teleported to SF airport ( /Sf ).” (This information shouldn’t be showed in the “main LVP” since  the “main chat” could become way too spammed.

- It should be well visible in the screen how to come back to the previously room to be able to come back to the “main LVP”.

- Also, the commands should be as short as possible and easy of memorizing.

-When you’re at the “main LVP” there could be also on the ship a door or something to get access to that room.

-You should be able to join the /minigames from this world as well.

If you completely hate the “room idea” and/or think it would be possible but it’s too hard to do or would take too much work, then allow the /vr command everywhere except in LV and it would reduce a lot of work.


And finally thanks for reading,

Pedro.

^ I love it