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Game Help / Re: The Ridgecrest Hotel
« on: September 15, 2017, 03:57:00 am »
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Wanting to buy 30 sets of combat armor mk 2 helmet and armor. Looking to spend 25k each set but willing to negotiate.I can get you some
This is exactly what this game has needed for a long time. Now, for this to make much difference, leave it like this for 3 years. Allow the population count to gradually rise. Then switch it back to full harsh, and watch most of the would-be quitters hang on for dear life (rather than quit)! The outcome: more players.10/10 much analogies, very wow
At the doctor's office, a parent has to endure the cries of his children as soon as they are told they are getting a shot. "Yes but it only hurts a little", isn't good enough - those kids cry bloody murder. Same here.
As for 3-year timing, think of the population count as grass growing in a horse pasture. It's not just the acreage of grass - it's also about the length of the grass. In order to support the full herd of horses there, the farmer has to tank the expense of buying feed for the horses, and keeping them elsewhere. His pasture must grow up first. Then the horses can be brought back and the farm can support them all. That takes time, and there's a period of "tough times" before it gets better.
What we have however, is a case where the horses ate all the grass down to the nubs. Now even more hungry, the remaining horses too eagerly eat whatever grass they can find, oblivious that they are destroying their own system, that could otherwise be sustainable.
(Too many servers splitting the population is the other primary factor in lower numbers, but gets mis-perceived as the only primary factor because it's more obvious. Look deeper.)
Another analogy is the party. This game is like a big house party. Kilgore is the host, and thus also the bouncer. Some guys get kicked out, but if you really want to clean up a party you have to get rid of all the riff-raff. All of it. Decent guys don't stay long at a party with too many jackasses. So let the jackasses complain and leave. I'd rather take a population hit now, and gradually recover to a higher quality of party-goers.