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October 14th, 2004, 05:19 PM
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Re: Is It Just Me Or....
Your answer brings another question Atrocities: who is NOT cranking down on SEIV play? It looks like quite a fashionable trend of late, and replacing players are rarer than a peace-loving tree-hugging Klingon.
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October 14th, 2004, 05:28 PM
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Re: Is It Just Me Or....
I wonder if there is a way for Geo to determine if there are fewer PBW games than there used to be, say, a year or two ago.
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October 14th, 2004, 08:54 PM
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Re: Is It Just Me Or....
We are all preparing for the release of SE5... 
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October 14th, 2004, 08:56 PM
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Re: Is It Just Me Or....
A couple other factors:
Fyrons Quadrant Mod. I love this mod and it's used in a lot of PBW games so I assume many of us love it. The problem is, it doubles (or more?) the number of planets and thereby doubles the ships, units, resources etc. but most especiallly micro-management. I find I can handle only half the games I could handle 2 years ago; the turns take twice as long!
High resource asteroids. These make remote miners etc. very profitable. Even better, when you have enough stellar manip. you can build your own planets, build a space yard then monoliths and before you know it you can't build ships fast enough to spend it all. In the end, once again you have more ships, more resources and more micro-management... and fewer games ongoing.
Yes I'm a little burned out myself, but I am looking forward to starting a small scale game when things calm down.
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October 14th, 2004, 11:11 PM
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Re: Is It Just Me Or....
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I wonder if there is a way for Geo to determine if there are fewer PBW games than there used to be, say, a year or two ago.
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The server doesn't keep track, but I'd say there are definetly fewer games running now. As far as Users, for the first couple years we were pretty steady at about 350 Users a day and around 500 Users a week. Those have dropped now to about 275 a day and 400 a week. Still busy, but measurably less so.
Finding replacement players has always been tough though, even at our height. Most people just don't like taking over for other people.
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October 15th, 2004, 12:36 AM
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Re: Is It Just Me Or....
Although I feel somewhat similarly, I am very much looking forward to Tesco's custom RP game he is working on...
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October 15th, 2004, 02:43 AM
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Your answer brings another question Atrocities: who is NOT cranking down on SEIV play? It looks like quite a fashionable trend of late, and replacing players are rarer than a peace-loving tree-hugging Klingon.
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I'm not cranking down...actually I'm up to 11 games right now! Even though I'm almost dead in about 4 or 5 of those...but 11 is my limit. No more.
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