Zone Revival/Repopulation Week

[JDS]

Hmmm, ive thought of a good idea to attempt to revive / repolulate SSC... but it would require some co-operation...

 

 

The plan is really rather simple --> Only one SSC zone is open at a time for 24hours (example: day1: 17th parralel is open and all other SSC zones are closed)

 

theoreticaly everyone who normaly plays a SSC zone would go to 17th.. not just because its the only Ssc zone operational, but because it would have 300+ people in it.

 

Then the next day, 17th is closed and another zone is open, and so forth until the week is up.. and then everything goes back to normal.

 

 

Of course Public arenas would have to be modified to fit more people , and more .?Go's should be created to make room for more people and keep everything running smoothly.

 

 

 

benifits of this:

-newer players can enjoy the zones the way they were ment to be played...

-older players can nostolgicly enjoy the way they used to play

-has potential to revive old and great zones

-gives the 0pop zones a chance to show what they are made of.

 

 

proplems with this plan:

- the only problem i could see with this is ignorance on the part of zone owners as would probly happen "No, thats a dumb idea and im not closing my zone down for a few days."

 

 

it would be pretty fun to have a SSC-WIDE event week...

 

 

---

feedback on idea?

[Static Burn]

I counted 25 SSC zones, that's gonna take more than a week

[JDS]

perhaps 7 every month or 2 ? :>

[rootbear75]

it also might backfire that people will just stop playing if they see their favorite zone is closed for a long !@#$%^&* time

[JDS]

i really dont think they would care if there zone was down for a few days considering... Forced change isnt bad change

[★ Purge]

that's a DDos waiting to happen.

[★ Lynx]

I'd say it will be a better idea if more effort was put into BlueGoku's SSC Events idea.

 

This works well in theory, but realistically, doesn't work. :S

[JDS]

In theory yea, it works very well... but unless your willing to try it, it cant really not work 'realistically'.. since its never been tried.

[★ CRe]

I'd say it will be a better idea if more effort was put into BlueGoku's SSC Events idea.

 

This works well in theory, but realistically, doesn't work. :S

[★ 1587200]

Yeah, zone owners are too egotistical to do this.

[JDS]

hmmm blue goku came up with his idea at least 5months ago or longer.... Mabey SSC should grow some balls and actualy do somthing instead of saying its not realistic. Its not the players that are killing subspace, its you egotistical owners who only care about having more popluation than the next guy instead of realizing that subspace should be one instead of many, afterall its subspace central, not SSmy-zone-is-better-than-yours

[★ Lynx]

Well the only way that this will work is that the highest populated zones all be shut down except one - which means that all the players who like the highest populated zones all have to play a zone which they may well not like. I wouldn't call it egotistical being worried about losing a whole population.

 

Maybe a in-the-middle could be suggested? That at the time of peak population, all the zones be shut down for 1 hour and then re-opened after that hour.

 

I still think it won't work though, being elitist is never a way forward. In anything.

 

Also, I'm not too sure that all of the zone's hosts will be able to sustain so much population coming from just one zone. TW has a very low bullet/bomb/burst count, and can run quite stable at such a high population - a zone like EG, Halo or DSB will probably sustain a lot of black outs.

Edited April 14, 2008 by Lynx

[Sketter]

It would fail miserably. Even the theory is flawed.

 

There is this misconception that highly populated zones is the way it is because it has the population. If that is the thought process, then you are seriously wrong. These zones may get the initial response to newcomers, however if their game play is not enjoyable to create a loyal player, then that player would go else where.

 

By closing all but one zone will not bring a significant amount of users. Most likely, you would see a population in that zone, but not substantial to what you want to accomplish. (afkers wounding wtf is going on, then going afk or leaving)

And not everyone willing to play in another zone. Many may not like the settings, and not worth their time, and since their home zone is closed, why even bother staying online. (Oh look my zone is schedule to be on in 5 days...hhmmm...i wounder what my friend from school is playing)

 

This game does not have an issue in varieties of zones, it has a population issue. The savior of this game (by what seems to be only by prolonging the death of SS) is to the one/group that brings new players to a 2D 11 years old game.

 

There is also another misconception about SSC.

 

I think you meant well, but this isn't it.

 

Sketter

[edited to address other posts]

Edited April 14, 2008 by Sketter

[★ Lynx]

^^

[I\/Ir Beefie]

I think all zones should merge together, so theres just one large zone. Zones would be connected to one another, which means TW would be one subarena, Fusion would be another, Paintball (soon to come) would be another, etc.. The public arena would be a lounge of some sort. This way players can move in between zones easily, and keeps everyone together.

[rootbear75]

wouldnt that be too much of a load for 1 server?

[★ candygirl]

[Testtube]

It wouldnt be to much load for one server.

[🜲 Samapico]

It would suck if the server goes down though, there would be no alternative

 

 

i really dont think they would care if there zone was down for a few days considering... Forced change isnt bad change

The thing is, it wouldn't be down for 'a few days', it would be down more than 75% of the time...

[tcsoccerman]

1rst, the theory won't work because as some have mentioned, when people see their zone down they won't play.

 

2nd, all "zones" in one "zone" will not work either because their would be staff mixups, as well as subarena problems. too much as well.

[Delic]

I'm not going to play Extreme Games.

I'm pretty sure that Extreme Games players feel the same

about the zones that I like. People got different tastes.

 

This suggestion is like saying 'let's cancel all NBA, NHL, NFL

games so people will watch more... golf' or something.

 

Good intention I'm sure, but it's totally bat!@#$%^&* fkin insane.

[Sketter]

I think all zones should merge together, so theres just one large zone. Zones would be connected to one another, which means TW would be one subarena, Fusion would be another, Paintball (soon to come) would be another, etc.. The public arena would be a lounge of some sort. This way players can move in between zones easily, and keeps everyone together.

 

 

hhmmm.....spoke to you on msn about this, but...

 

Doable, in fact, there is a good chance one day it will....but not in the way you think or others will.

 

I think this "idea" has already been done in some SVS zones....I could be wrong tho..

 

Right now we are nowhere near a server wide zone merge, but with the decline of population, in order for some zones to stay alive, or semi alive, i can see zones then teaming up by putting their main arena and a few popular subareans to a bigger more populated zone.

 

This is something still years away, (3-5 years by my count) if this decline continues.

I think by the time we have 3-4 or even as less 2 zones left with actual pop, that i see this happening. Right now, everyone still thinks this game has a chance, and fighting for pop.

 

I'm not saying this is what will really happen, but there is a strong possibility down the long road it could very well be. (as long as there is someone that still cares, and in fact something i feel SSC should orginize...or so I feel it would be something they should plan down the road)

 

 

Sketter

[Cancer+]

I stopped reading after awhile...

 

Anyways, this is a terrible idea. If say...DragonBallZ is up for a day, I simply won't play that day and wait for another zone to be up. (Lynx )

 

That is how it would happen for a bunch of zones. Tons of people would do that too. You would lose more population than gaining.

[★ Lynx]

Yeah, and it would all be DBZs fault. But, I think I agree with Sketter on the arenas being merged, we've still got a few years before we need that, though.

 

 

ps. Cancer+, you're a newb. <3

[Incomplete]

I think all zones should merge together, so theres just one large zone. Zones would be connected to one another, which means TW would be one subarena, Fusion would be another, Paintball (soon to come) would be another, etc.. The public arena would be a lounge of some sort. This way players can move in between zones easily, and keeps everyone together.

 

I have said this before and thought it would be a good idea. Maybe we could host eachothers zones in sub arenas if all zones were to shut down for however many days / weeks. It would give an idea of what might happen if all zones were merged into one.