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Topic: Log-in screen display proposal

Add information in login-screen that displays how many accounts are logged in game at that time.

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It can't be worse than people looking at general chat and extracting conclusions from that...

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This would be a very nice feature.

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+1. Minimal effort, maximal benefit.

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I don't see the real benefit to this.

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Accurate information on how many accounts/people are playing the game for everyone, so no guesstimates have to be made off General Chat population which is frequently in the 20-30's these days.

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Syndic wrote:

Accurate information on how many accounts/people are playing the game for everyone, so no guesstimates have to be made off General Chat population which is frequently in the 20-30's these days.

But why would you want to know?

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Ludlow Bursar wrote:
Syndic wrote:

Accurate information on how many accounts/people are playing the game for everyone, so no guesstimates have to be made off General Chat population which is frequently in the 20-30's these days.

But why would you want to know?

Because for new people it makes online population numbers look a bit less worse than when they just look at the numbers in general chat. Is that that hard to understand?

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Ludlow Bursar wrote:
Syndic wrote:

Accurate information on how many accounts/people are playing the game for everyone, so no guesstimates have to be made off General Chat population which is frequently in the 20-30's these days.

But why would you want to know?

I'm curious, and I'm sure a lot of other people are too. Why shouldn't I know? What's the big deal?

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Not many games doing this.

F2P games i have seen yet tend to only show "server population "low - medium - high - full"
subbed games with Instanced servers seem to show accurate numbers more often.

would you want the accurate number in a location where only subbed player can see it (agent selection screen) or before that, where you only need a client to show?

the later probably will never happen -> remember the reason the grafical online feed was removed wink

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16 Reply by Ludlow Bursar (edited by Ludlow Bursar 2012-07-16 19:34:55)

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Syndic wrote:

I'm curious, and I'm sure a lot of other people are too. Why shouldn't I know? What's the big deal?

No big deal, it was a genuine question.

At current levels of population, though, I think it will probably be detrimental to the game to display logged in characters. Firstly, the low number could put-off some new players before they give the game a fair stab. Second, to know how many players are on, players currently have to get out there in Nia and do stuff (roam etc) rather than log in, see the number and just think 'Nah! won't bother".

I am, however, also curious.

17 Reply by BandwagonX9000 (edited by BandwagonX9000 2012-07-16 19:47:53)

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Annihilator wrote:

Not many games doing this.

F2P games i have seen yet tend to only show "server population "low - medium - high - full"
subbed games with Instanced servers seem to show accurate numbers more often.

would you want the accurate number in a location where only subbed player can see it (agent selection screen) or before that, where you only need a client to show?

the later probably will never happen -> remember the reason the grafical online feed was removed wink

In that case they are better off removing the count and the member list of gc. A new player is nto going to see the graph, but the chat channel. And an old player doesn't need anyone to tell them what the current population level is...

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Ludlow Bursar wrote:
Syndic wrote:

I'm curious, and I'm sure a lot of other people are too. Why shouldn't I know? What's the big deal?

No big deal, it was a genuine question.

At current levels of population, though, I think it will probably be detrimental to the game to display logged in characters. Firstly, the low number could put-off some new players before they give the game a fair stab. Second, to know how many players are on, players currently have to get out there in Nia and do stuff (roam etc) rather than log in, see the number and just think 'Nah! won't bother".

I am, however, also curious.

Pretty much summarizes my thoughts. As much as I'd like to see and know I fear it would be off-putting to any new people who happen across.

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I just don't want to fire up the old perpetuum client and go, man theres only 50 people online, *** this, I'm going to play Hello Kitty Online, and get banned by moderates for calling everyone *** carebears.

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Ludlow Bursar wrote:

No big deal, it was a genuine question.

At current levels of population, though, I think it will probably be detrimental to the game to display logged in characters. Firstly, the low number could put-off some new players before they give the game a fair stab. Second, to know how many players are on, players currently have to get out there in Nia and do stuff (roam etc) rather than log in, see the number and just think 'Nah! won't bother".

I am, however, also curious.

I personally think the most detrimental thing to the game is when a new player logs into General Chat with 20-30 accounts in it, asks if General Chat is local or global, then disconnects never to be seen again.

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EVE displays it as soon as you boot up the client.

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This should be done. ... its not technically challenging the number could be updated every few minutes.
if the DEV's think this would be off putting to some people then well .. they should get more people to play the game.

This however can be used for tactical information and planning .. . If i see 300 people online I may not want to move my Scarab MK2 4 or 5 jumps into gamma. but if i see only 30 people online I wouldn't think twice about it.   

There are pros and cons to this idea ....... but for the simple reason that Syndic is suggesting it I will say no to this idea .. there's other more important things to program and worry about wink

someone else make a new topic and suggest this so i can get behind it in full force smilebig_smilelol

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Tux wrote:

This should be done. ... its not technically challenging the number could be updated every few minutes.
if the DEV's think this would be off putting to some people then well .. they should get more people to play the game.

This however can be used for tactical information and planning .. . If i see 300 people online I may not want to move my Scarab MK2 4 or 5 jumps into gamma. but if i see only 30 people online I wouldn't think twice about it.   

There are pros and cons to this idea ....... but for the simple reason that Syndic is suggesting it I will say no to this idea .. there's other more important things to program and worry about wink

someone else make a new topic and suggest this so i can get behind it in full force smilebig_smilelol


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