set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
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set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
sybil is in the doghouse. a barren wasteland. yet there are still lots of sybil players hanging around.
the issue is that all of them are not playing at the same time. they see a low playercount and don't join, which creates a self perpetuating cycle of dead rounds.
recently dramazing had the great idea to post a time for admins to join sybil and game to get the numbers up and it worked. we saw a return of players for a short while.
i propose that we set a permanent time each week for everyone to join sybil and game. this way we're all co-ordinated and have some confidence that there is a specific session where players will be present.
could do it on friday/saturday evenings.
the issue is that all of them are not playing at the same time. they see a low playercount and don't join, which creates a self perpetuating cycle of dead rounds.
recently dramazing had the great idea to post a time for admins to join sybil and game to get the numbers up and it worked. we saw a return of players for a short while.
i propose that we set a permanent time each week for everyone to join sybil and game. this way we're all co-ordinated and have some confidence that there is a specific session where players will be present.
could do it on friday/saturday evenings.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
I think this is a good idea. It is how most servers start out and helps build pop. Some dedicated ppt in discord role and either an autopinging bot or a person pinging would be a great reminder for folks.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
i like this idea. the beasts need some proper structure in their lives
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
Do it. And keep the total round conversion events to a minimum during the period.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
I’ll show if we do something like that
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
Biting you
But also this is a good idea it would be cool to see it done no bias.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
It's a good idea. The bagil event last weekend was really fun.
Just remember: the natural chaos of the game itself playing out is pretty fun; not every round in an event needs to be an admin-run event.
Just remember: the natural chaos of the game itself playing out is pretty fun; not every round in an event needs to be an admin-run event.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
this is a good point to bring up, it would suck if every one of these sessions turned into bus rounds
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
What time works for you guys? I'll bring snacks.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
i'd show up every day if we kept the guns :3
probably a week night for NA east after 5 is our best bet, but not a weekend. seeding on weekdays will lead to establishment on weekends.
if we get spice back..............
probably a week night for NA east after 5 is our best bet, but not a weekend. seeding on weekdays will lead to establishment on weekends.
if we get spice back..............
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
it should be earlier than later. People will stay on after the initial round so there isnt a reason to delay it too much
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
I wanted to follow up on this a few days ago but then the forums died lol.
I'd love to help implement this! The vibes I'm getting are "we want a set time weekly, no adminbus just game." I'd be happy to tell the mins to keep adminbus to a minimum during these period for you guys if that's what you'd like. Is there anything else I'm missing?
In terms of actual implementation, I'm going to speak to Oranges/MSO about getting a new role set up within the next few days hopefully on the Discord to be pinged for the weekly "seed" round that'll hopefully kick off pop for the night. While I'm figuring that out, the old fashioned way works even if a bit less effectively. Let's decide which day of the week and which time of the day to do it on— hearing division between early and late, and weekend and not. I'd like to hear more opinions to make a final decision on when it should be, just so we can get majority consensus. Tell your friends, vote now!!!
Once we at least have a day/time weekly, I'll make an announcement in the #newsbus channel of the Discord, hopefully with the role ready at that time to apply the roles to all wishing to partake and making a ping for it when the time comes. Or, perhaps I ought to just use the "event" option on Discord?
I'm tired and going to bed. I want to help you guys bring Sybil back up. We're all in this together, let's all work together. No kumbaya singing though, I feel like we can do better than that.
I'd love to help implement this! The vibes I'm getting are "we want a set time weekly, no adminbus just game." I'd be happy to tell the mins to keep adminbus to a minimum during these period for you guys if that's what you'd like. Is there anything else I'm missing?
In terms of actual implementation, I'm going to speak to Oranges/MSO about getting a new role set up within the next few days hopefully on the Discord to be pinged for the weekly "seed" round that'll hopefully kick off pop for the night. While I'm figuring that out, the old fashioned way works even if a bit less effectively. Let's decide which day of the week and which time of the day to do it on— hearing division between early and late, and weekend and not. I'd like to hear more opinions to make a final decision on when it should be, just so we can get majority consensus. Tell your friends, vote now!!!
Once we at least have a day/time weekly, I'll make an announcement in the #newsbus channel of the Discord, hopefully with the role ready at that time to apply the roles to all wishing to partake and making a ping for it when the time comes. Or, perhaps I ought to just use the "event" option on Discord?
I'm tired and going to bed. I want to help you guys bring Sybil back up. We're all in this together, let's all work together. No kumbaya singing though, I feel like we can do better than that.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
Just don’t do event spam, like maybe one event is ok but spamming events causes a lot of pop lost I’ve noticed
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
Love this idea; when the Bagil reseeding event happened, the pop actually went through the roof, but then slowly declined over the day and then dropped back to almost nothing by the next day. Maybe consistency is what's needed to truly reseed a server. Friday/Saturday evenings sound like the best time slot for these sessions.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
So is the idea to have a scheduled seed event on each week?
I like the idea a lot, just trying to wrap my head around how it applies policywise.
I like the idea a lot, just trying to wrap my head around how it applies policywise.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
It doesn’t really but this is a more official place than player’s club and a slower medium for putting communique in stone. It Has My Blessing.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
Friday or Saturday evening would work for me. Friday around 4-5 PM CST? I dunno how that would work for people in other timezones but that'd be good for me.
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We could shoot for Saturdays at 3pm PST, working out to 5pm CST and 6pm EST? That's decently early in the evening, reckon good enough to kick off for the night.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
Sounds good to me those times
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
So uh we doing it today?
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
Yep yep, put out the ping! Please reply to this thread again if the time was good or not, and we can always shift it around to accomadate popular demand. I also sent out a ping to all my sybilmins and other admins who jump on Sybil to keep round conversion/wide scale events to a minimum on Saturday’s when the seeding is happening as per your guys’ request here.
If the time changes, likewise I’ll tell ‘em to keep the new time event-light. The role should be pingable on the discord for if I’m not around at the time but I will genuinely time out anyone who misuses it for a whole day. Please let me trust you guys with the power to coordinate yourselves <3
If the time changes, likewise I’ll tell ‘em to keep the new time event-light. The role should be pingable on the discord for if I’m not around at the time but I will genuinely time out anyone who misuses it for a whole day. Please let me trust you guys with the power to coordinate yourselves <3
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
I do feel like the role wasn’t advertised enough a lot of people didn’t know about it
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
ok so first session happened and we reached a grand total of uhhh... twelve players i'm pretty sure
things we should iterate on for next time:
put out an @everyone advertising the role. like four people had it when it was pung
sync up role ping when the server restarts. no one wants to latejoin a 1 hr+ icebox shift, regardless of the seeding event. probably needs an admin on like half an hour to quarter of an hour before the agreed upon time to end the round in a reasonable way
if possible, set up a discord bot that auto-pings when the server restarts
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things we should iterate on for next time:
put out an @everyone advertising the role. like four people had it when it was pung
sync up role ping when the server restarts. no one wants to latejoin a 1 hr+ icebox shift, regardless of the seeding event. probably needs an admin on like half an hour to quarter of an hour before the agreed upon time to end the round in a reasonable way
if possible, set up a discord bot that auto-pings when the server restarts
yearrrrp
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
I agree a simple @ everyone “hey if you want to know whenever a sybil reseeding is happening type this code into tg gen chat@
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
@everyone would probably be good- I've been stingy with those since the last reseeding event where people reminded me I was going too hard with them, but this is worth one. I'll try to remember to get a min online soon enough to try and end round— I'll ask one or two right now. At least with an @everyone p much everyone will get the role that will need it, and hopefully tap the fuck in.
Still, please keep showing up to the seeding events! Perservering through slop can get other folks to hop in with you, and that's the prayer here.
Still, please keep showing up to the seeding events! Perservering through slop can get other folks to hop in with you, and that's the prayer here.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
i've been staring dead-eyed at the word "pung" for four hours it made me spiral into a dissociative episode
also, people will always complain about pings for whatever reason. your house could be burning down and you ping the owns-a-fire-extinguisher role and someone will be like "umm this is an electrical fire? maybe don't fucking ping the foam extinguisher owners?" like woops oh sorry i interrupted your 4 hour session of watching youtube and jerking off to cartoon characters it's not like you can MUTE PINGS ESPECIALLY @EVERYONE PINGS WHEN YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR THEM
so just do it anyway
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
Forum user moment, I didn't even know it was THIS weekend until after the fact. We got to 18 people at one point last night, but it wasn't nearly the same as the bagil event a few weeks prior. I was too tired by the time we reached 18 people anyhow--even though my favorite comms agent spawn point was there for the taking.
Lowpop begets lowpop. That's just life.
Lowpop begets lowpop. That's just life.
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This is just the start! The ping is allocated, the time properly settled on. Next weekend goes stronger.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
it would be nice if you could do something for non-discord users! i think that would help a lot. i'm not in the discord & and am very tapped out on ss13 because of the pop issues, but only heard about the event from a friend who is in the discord, which means that most of the target audience you're trying to loop back in is probably unaware of the events.
i was imagining you could try to have a little bulletin on the main tgstation page with a calendar where admins can put in upcoming events (like these) and a special textbox during the event
i was imagining you could try to have a little bulletin on the main tgstation page with a calendar where admins can put in upcoming events (like these) and a special textbox during the event
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I’d like to do something like that but it’s sorta beyond me. I might talk to MSO and see if it’s possible but I’ve not got control or knowledge on doing such things.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
3pm PST works perfectly for me in the AEST timezoneDrAmazing343 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:13 pm We could shoot for Saturdays at 3pm PST, working out to 5pm CST and 6pm EST? That's decently early in the evening, reckon good enough to kick off for the night.
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
the issue is if everyone turns off @everyone because it's spammed too much then @everyone won't be very useful
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
>Be me
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It was fun though
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Re: set in stone a weekly gaming session for sybil
Hey chat we're closing this one and I'm putting up a player's club thread to replace it since this one was kinda mis-categorized in the beginning o7
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