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my guide to fixing the population on the LRP servers without using the hub as life support
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 12:47 am
by imsxz
Bottom post of the previous page:
we only opened up the extra servers(other than manuel) to deal with the sseth overflow, now that the pop has died back down the population is thinly spread across them most of the time, the issue very much noticeable during dead hours like EU in this image.
Re: my guide to fixing the population on the LRP servers without using the hub as life support
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 11:41 am
by oranges
it's literally 200 players higher and that's almost 1/3rd more than before
Re: my guide to fixing the population on the LRP servers without using the hub as life support
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 11:51 am
by terranaut
just hide all the server names, only let players connect to "tg" and let the servers sort out where to put them based on pop
(:
Re: my guide to fixing the population on the LRP servers without using the hub as life support
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:10 pm
by capn_monkeypaw
200+ extra players is not "back to around the same level of players as we were pre-ssethtid."
Re: my guide to fixing the population on the LRP servers without using the hub as life support
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:11 pm
by capn_monkeypaw
Not everyone wants to play on a server with 70+ players all the time. It's not a bad thing to have a server with 15 players and a couple of others with 30-50.
Re: my guide to fixing the population on the LRP servers without using the hub as life support
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 6:02 pm
by Cobby
the assumption here is that players are too dumb to go on the """correct""" server, either because of some server-loyalty or because they dont know how to use the website/server hop verb if it still works.
It could just be that people enjoy low pop and non-MRP rulelist constraints. If you think that it's incorrect, just hop in and tell them there's more pop on the other tg-hosted server.
Re: my guide to fixing the population on the LRP servers without using the hub as life support
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:42 am
by oranges
There are definitely a lot of hubbies who ask me why tg is down when servers are not on the hub, I find it hilarious
we should promote our website more
Re: my guide to fixing the population on the LRP servers without using the hub as life support
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 6:03 am
by XivilaiAnaxes
oranges wrote:There are definitely a lot of hubbies who ask me why tg is down when servers are not on the hub, I find it hilarious
we should promote our website more
Pretty much this. Non Event Hall servers pretty much require you to stumble across them by accident unless someone specifically tells you about them.
Back when I started, I picked the event hall server because it was one of the highest pop servers on the hub. I didn't notice there were other (less shitty) servers until I googled tgstation for... I don't actually remember why.
Re: my guide to fixing the population on the LRP servers without using the hub as life support
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:36 am
by Coconutwarrior97
Auto-Hub has worked well, we don’t want to change this. Though we agree with some ideas brought up in this discussion about advertising our other servers better on events. We are planning add something to the MOTD on events along the lines of, “We have other servers too, you can find them here: tgwebsite.com ."
Headmin votes:
Coconutwarrior97: Yes.
Phuzzylodgik: Yes.
TWATICUS: Yes.