Testing

Xliest

Is there a chance in the future we have some time or maybe it’s a new server/round where the ticks are quite fast like every 10minutes to test things out more vigorously? I don’t know if the feasibly of that just spitballing

TheKeeper

Xliest Sure, what do you think about it @Lord Thane ?

Lord Thane

TheKeeper yeah I think that would be a good idea for this beta test, help get more features tested quickly, especially with mechanics not available in protection - war/etc.

I think for the first real round we should probably just keep the ticks normal, keep it casual. Then later if/when there's more players that can support a "quick round" we could do that.

For now with small player base I don't think it would be a good idea, just a handful of very active people would quickly win lol

trupheus

For those who remember the spinoff Call To Arms about a decade ago, tick rate was played around with. My opinion, yeah for any testing shorten it up. If you can get a dedicated group of people to very actively test, super short tick rates would work.

Real rounds though, 1 hour. More people can be competitive, otherwise just like @Lord Thane said it's going to be the hyper active that quickly dominate the round.

AdinTheDark

The quick tick for testing should for sure just be for testing only. Having a open test for all to join would have those issues of people getting out of hand. The call to arms was super fun when the testing was over though and he switched it to 10 min ticks. I think at one point I went 9:1 schools and just earthquake everyone's buildings to dust. That was fun. lol.
What we have now is perfect for my brain now with adult responsibilities I didn't have back then. This being as new as it is I came in with the mindset we are just trying to find some bugs other than this being a real "round"

Lord Thane

AdinTheDark yeah I guess it is just for bug hunting, it sure feels like a real round tho lol. When we set a date for the first "real" round I'm gonna blow a fat wad on ads to try boost signups and maybe find some of the old players.