Friday with(out) Means - June 10th, 2011: An Experiment

[lainbr]

Hmm, 50C too low. That must be in Swedish sauna, not a proper one ;D

Pff. There are no living place where temp is 80C. Hmmm did I said 30C in winter? *checks* Yes I did /shrug

[Gora]

Off-topic, but on-theme:

I found some floating trees in Varmint Woods and want to report their location. I remember reading in another FWM the person to whom I should report this, but I can't find that thread now. Point me to it, please?

If it saves time:

(10:38) Extended location information:
(10:38) - 2091.1, 2412.6, 22.1 (2091.1 2412.6 y 22.1 600)
(10:38) - Pf Proxy: Model=51100:600 GS=0 SG=0 R=600, resource: 600
(10:38) - zone: 6952, area: "Varmint Woods Heartland"
(10:38) Server id: 3116, character id: 50000:2706024451, time: 2011-06-14 16:38:09 (UTC)
(10:38) Version: 18.4.5_EP1, map id: 18.4.5.3_02.06.2011_19.39.55, build: 49618.

[Technogen]

Lindu or Genele

[Dagget]

Chrisax on RK2 has a dB with all that in it. He cataloged something like 160 trees in VW that were 'floating'.

[outercontrol123]

new engine pic

http://www.abload.de/img/00007ekar.jpg

[Arriviste]

[ http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/...st?query=42001 ]

Oh, HAI! You like for have swim on land? Stand still for drenching! YAY! 96% humidity ftl. FTL.

[lainbr]

[ http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/82398.html ] Winter on a semi-arid city :x 78% humidity hell T.T

P.s: /me just checked now the pic posted by FC_AO on twitter.

OMG! Parset drink so much Cola. Has he still a liver?

[-Klod-]

new engine pic

http://www.abload.de/img/00007ekar.jpg

Not good, not good at all. Nobody would play it, everyone would be just roaming/looking around.

[Traderjill]

I've already posted in Game Suggestions but going to be repetitive because I feel strongly that someone should look into how battlestations works currently and make some adjustments.

Right now you get a BS invite and upon acceptance are immediately warped into the BS decontamination room. If, for some reason (which happens quite often in my personal experience), not enough folks signed up on one side or the other you get another box saying this, a few points and you're kicked out of BS and to the main BS sign up area.

Maybe this made sense way back when but with today's population this is not working. Can someone please go in and adjust the code such that we don't get warped to decontamination until the confirmed minimum on both sides have clicked accept and then get a popup message saying "sorry can't do this round, care to re-enter queue?" if the minimum has not accepted within x minutes?

Why is this an issue? Let's take my shade yesterday as an example. I was doing the Penumbra Xan progression quest when I got an invite to BS. Mind you I'd signed up for BS about 3 hours prior. I accepted, got warped.. lost all of my buffs (which I had to dual log and relog 3 times to get fully buffed up) only to get kicked out of BS about a min or 2 later due to not enough folks on the omni side accepting the invite. I can tell you that in the future I am going to be one of those people that does not accept the invite if I'm in Pen or some other spot that takes me any bit of time to get to... because there is no guarantee that my sacrifice of leaving what I was doing is not going to be in vain. In other words, the dynamics of the way battlestations currently works puts us all on a negative path of not getting into a working battlestations round.

[Ebondevil]

Can someone please go in and adjust the code such that we don't get warped to decontamination until the confirmed minimum on both sides have clicked accept and then get a popup message saying "sorry can't do this round, care to re-enter queue?" if the minimum has not accepted within x minutes?

So you're saying you want us to sign up, wait for enough other people to sign up, then when that happens sign up again, and then wait yet again for enough other people to sign up again, before the round starts, is that the general idea?

I'm all for delaying the round from starting for a minute or so after there's the numbers, just to be sure and then aborting the run if there's not enough people signed up, or even kicking people from the queue automatically if they're afk, but it sounds more like the abort mechanics are broken, more than the signup mechanics to me.

[Traderjill]

So you're saying you want us to sign up, wait for enough other people to sin up, then when that happens sign up again, and then wait yet again for enough other people to sign up again, before the round starts, is that the general idea?

I'm all for delaying the round from starting for a minute or so after there's the numbers, just to be sure and then aborting the run if there's not enough people signed up, or even kicking people from the queue automatically if they're afk, but it sounds more like the abort mechanics are broken, more than the signup mechanics to me.

No..

I'm saying don't warp me into BS if enough people have not ACCEPTED the invite. What is happening right now is that you get an invite and when you accept you get IMMEDIATELY warped into decontamination.. sometimes by the time you're run to a first cap point you get a message that not enough of one side has ACCEPTED and you get kicked out.

I'd rather wait an extra 2-3min after I have clicked accept to get warped than to get warped from what I am doing and then find out that BS can't run.

The suggestion to get the pop-up to re-signup was just a matter of convenience ... the main issue I a experiencing is that I am getting warped into a BS before the system has even determined that there are enough players accepting the invite on both sides to allow it to start.

[SoapTarder]

its not a bad idea. if you click accept, and theres a waiting period of a few minutes for enough people to accept invite, and if not enough accept, you get a message saying not enough people to start round; thats far better than getting into bs and it then telling you theres not enough. plus it would fix the bugged bs problem a lot of people are having.

two birds with one stone, whats not to like?

*edit* and if it keeps you in the queue, and sends an invite again, that would be gravy, but i doubt the coding involved for that would be trivial.