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Sooo ... how 'bout this weather, huh?

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:06 pm
by Coolhand
Hot as heck for February!

In other news, I wanted to congratulate Zorg Empire on 3000 (or 2999) players. Everybody keep inviting people you know!

Re: Sooo ... how 'bout this weather, huh?

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:10 pm
by Zorg
^^

Soon this number will start to drop though as we will activate auto deletion of inactive players ;)

Re: Sooo ... how 'bout this weather, huh?

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:12 pm
by Coolhand
Zorg wrote:^^

Soon this number will start to drop though as we will activate auto deletion of inactive players ;)
Keep it slow, as far as I'm concerned; active newcomers can use the easy pickings to get a jump-start on their pitch for interstellar domination. I know I took advantage of it. :)

Re: Sooo ... how 'bout this weather, huh?

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:17 pm
by Lukin
As a general rule I don't pick on new players who do nothing to bring death upon them. Until they probe me.

GAMERA SMASH!

Re: Sooo ... how 'bout this weather, huh?

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:21 pm
by Zorg
Of course, it is a strategy and this is why we are thinking to put a long period (something like 21 days of inactivity).

We need to do this for server issues as well; inactive account just eat up cpu time and bandwidth (especially when calculating statistics) that is otherwise useless. Yesterday we spent like 4 hours trying to debug the ranking of alliances which was not showing up at all! (Perhaps you noticed). Eventually we found the source and fixed it and I can tell that the big number of players played a role there.

In other news, the real activity of the server shows up in online players; the higher this is, the better ;)
In general, we are happy with player activity and game progress so far and we are doing our best to keep the server in top speed ;)

Re: Sooo ... how 'bout this weather, huh?

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:36 pm
by Mintaka
Great relationship between forum subject and actual content!

Re: Sooo ... how 'bout this weather, huh?

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:04 pm
by Coolhand
Sorry, was trying to dispel the former drama level with a little levity, but didn't want to be totally off-topic. :/