Naab has a suggestion (BRAIN PLEASE CONSIDER)

[naabster]

My concern with the pop limit is rising because for one, the amount of people in one arena should be limited, like in many other zones, because ASSS has a difficult time handling so many outgoing packets at once, which causes us lower connection speeders to lag quite a bit. My lag usually isn't horrible but when more thn 35 peopel come into an arena i get laggy. I wouldnt mind having 40 in an arena because of speccers, but i just wanted to suggest that we drop the arena limit down to at least 50- because of the lagginess. i'm sure some people can agree. Of course when theres large events we can up the limit to whatever is needed but i just wanted to you guys to know my opinion.

[Samapico]

I doubt that has anything to do in Technical Support forum...

[Dav]

agreed moving to devolpment

[Witchie NL]

I dont see what this has to do with ssforum either..

[rootbear75]

move to HS

[»Maverick]

[Moving to Hyperspace forum]

[Dr Brain]

Now that it's in the right place, yes, I will consider putting a max on the number of players in a single pub arena.

[Deathboy-evil]

What's the max number on a public arena? (People will start asking sooner or later so might as well get it out now)

[Dr Brain]

I don't know off the top of my head, but it's probably set rather high, like 150.

[Sharpflame]

o.o 150?

60 sounds nice, IMO.

[naabster]

I think 60 is still high look at eg and tw and all them good zones.. there max is 50 ... eg is 40 i believe... Just from a long time playing i think it should be 40-50...

[Swift Warrior]

problem with that is then there will be 1 stacked arena, and 1 very very very empty with 5 people playing arena cause they cant go into main arena

[naabster]

Yeah...but usually theres either 40- or 60+ peopple on. the time between those two pops is very minimal. We don't have to enact that rule effective immediatly. I just say if the pop goes higher than 70 again please try to do SOMETHING about it. because not being able to play because of imcoming PLoss is.. i can't itarate the annoynace it gives me.

[OrangeeoZ]

I say don't change the "Max players" in a public arena. Just limit the people playing in an arena. In the settings, change the "MaxPlaying=X"

[KoTD]

Yeah, but then at least have a few sub-arenas. Not pub. Maybe OldHS or HSTown...something for the people who are unable to play. I don't really see the population as a huge problem right now though, considering a large ammount of it is in spec. Perhaps Andromeda, if anyone still has that.

[Sharpflame]

Speccers will take up 1/4 of the pop in an arena...They always do, so 60-70 isnt too bad, since you would get about 30-50 playing.

[Deathboy-evil]

I haven't really read much of the other idea's but here's mine.. I vote we put it down to 100 instead 160.. and as our population increases (as I've said it will before).. and we start to get over people.. than i say we limit it down to 70 people per arena.. and as a bigger population comes along.. say around 120 ish.. i'll vote 60 per arena..

[Suicide_Run]

I dont think arena limit should be changed cause HS doesnt have a constant pop of 50+. Something I think should be changed is opening more pub freqs. What I mean by pub freqs is the # of freqs ppl go in when they just select a ship cause theres still that "bug" that allows pub freqs to get more than 6 players if freq 0,1,2,3 are maxed already.

[naabster]

i agree. lol open up 1-10 so people will spread evenly and if they want to change they can do it themselves.

[Masaru]

I feel that not having a limit is a good thing as this point in time. Nothing would dissuade a person looking for a fun zone more than entering a zone with 50+ people in it and being stuck in an empty alternate pub because the main pub is maxed out. When/if the zone gets around 100+ at one time on a normal day, it would be a good time to limit it to around 50 (Much larger chance of having a good sized pop in either pub) Edited April 15, 2007 by Masaru

[11___________]

I believe the speccers are a HUGE part of it. When the zone is at its highest, there are usually 15 speccers. Maybe kick the afk ones after an hour or so. It makes my F2 button feel better, and saves the zone.

[James1293]

here should be more arenas available when one presses "Esc+A". Why does it only show one? can we still go to other arenas that dont have people in them, somehow?

[Suicide_Run]

James, u havent played Subspace for very long have you? lol

 

ESC + A only shows you public arenas that has people in it unless you have staff powers and can see #arenas. You can still go to another arena with "?go "

[James1293]

James, u havent played Subspace for very long have you? lol

No,

i just dont know much about changing arenas.

[11___________]

Kick the spec'ers in the arena over 1 hour or so. This way the people who clog the server and pop will be kicked, taking away the need for another server. Or maybe .?go castle could be reinvented. Or a test arena. Or send people to hstown.