Desire-Based Spawning (DBS)

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Do you like the idea of guided spawning?

Yes - I like the proposal given
57
73%
Yes - I like the idea, but not so much the suggestions given
11
14%
I Might like the idea. I need to read more.
4
5%
No - sounds like a bad idea
5
6%
I don't give a crap
1
1%
 
Total votes: 78
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Desire-Based Spawning (DBS)

Postby Doug R. » Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:08 pm

How about a checkbox you can click when spawning:

"spawn on an island you don't have any characters on currently? (warning - characters on roads are not counted as being on an island)."

I think the ability to separate characters more should be encouraged in this manner.
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby masterekat » Sat Jan 07, 2012 10:04 pm

Yes, please! Having two characters "bump" is so awkward.
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby Snickie » Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:49 am

Yes please!
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby masterekat » Sun Jan 08, 2012 5:33 am

I'm sorry, I know this is a little off topic, but since we are talking about checkboxes that could be clicked before spawning, it's somewhat related. Could the players also be given the choice of spawning in a location that currently has more than or less than X amount of people in it? And going one step further, coastal town versus non-coastal town? Maybe this could be something all those credits earned for voting on the voting sites could be used for.
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby Doug R. » Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:39 pm

Well, there's currently no way to earn more credits, so that system is dead.

I hesitate to allow more specific selection. It could lead to wide-spread town death if the majority of players pick the same parameters.
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby masterekat » Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:58 pm

Would that be such a bad thing if it also leads to more active towns elsewhere? If the town is too quiet or noisy for a newspawn they're most likely going to leave anyway or else sleep themselves to death.
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby Doug R. » Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:48 pm

I don't think it's fair to characters that are praying for newspawns to be up against even more than randomness.
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby RedQueen.exe » Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:30 pm

I'd almost rather encourage clumpiness. The english zone is much too big for the current player base and most places just suck.

I would love to be able to pick a region of a few islands where my char would spawn inside, or islands that I do NOT want to spawn on.
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby the_antisocial_hermit » Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:57 pm

I do like this idea. It's not fun being spawned on the same islands over and over and over.

I sort of like the thought of choosing a range of how many characters are in the areas to spawn, though I don't care for the ideas about choosing inland/coastal or getting terribly specific. Perhaps such choices for number of characters could be wide ranges like 1-20 and 20+ or 1-15 and 15+. The wide range wouldn't really change how it already is a lot, it would just get people into smaller or larger communities. I suppose it could be stated on the page as: Community size? A) Smaller or B) Larger (or some better phrasing).

Another thought about spawning in general:

Would it be possible to change something so that the chances of gaining a newspawn are increased for populated locations that have received them less recently? Then once they receive one or two or something, the chances for a newspawn would be decreased for a little while and other populated locations would have more chance? That might be too difficult though, considering all the factors that would have to go into it and how terrible I am at explaining what I mean by such things.
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby Doug R. » Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:11 am

I've proposed several methods for towns to increase their spawn chances, but they were all denounced as "too weird." I still love my "spawn sack" idea. It doesn't have to be an egg (what my detractors called it), they could be anything less weird. Crystals?
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby RedQueen.exe » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:34 am

A catholic church?





Having been raised Catholic, I believe I'm allowed to say that, right?
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby the_antisocial_hermit » Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:59 am

I don't think my idea would require something like spawn egg-crystal-sacks so much as just changing some numbers and putting in some code. lol

It was more along the lines of:

Town A & Town B each have a 50% chance to get a newspawn. Town B is lucky and gets a newspawn. Since Town B has gotten a newspawn more recently than Town A, their chance drops to 25% the next time around while Town A's chance raises to 75%.

Of course, there are way more populated places in Cantr, and I don't know how complex the code would have to get (or if there's already something similar to it).

Anyway... I still like the main suggestion here and don't want to bog down discussion of it with too many side thoughts.
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby Doug R. » Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:44 pm

Any input from other GAB members?
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby Piscator » Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:24 pm

I have nothing against the original suggestion.

Maybe we should try making the spawn algorythm more sensitive to distance first though. If I remember what I've seen of the code correctly, it would probably be very easy.
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Re: Spawn on a new island?

Postby EchoMan » Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:56 am

I like the original idea.

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