SMR2 - HoF stats/breaking news

Post by **RandyOrsolo** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:32 am

15 min delay in updating the HoF stats, and one hour delay in breaking news.

If this has been covered already, delete the topic. I do want to make sure this is put in though.

Post by **OmegaRenegade** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:35 am

Post by **RandyOrsolo** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 8:36 am

Hof: so people need to actually do work to find out people are moving/trading, it's unrealistic to have people camp HoF stats and be able to tell if they're moving. I think it was an unintended addition and should be changed.

Breaking News: Realism; you should have some semblance of time before every alliance in the game knows what you're busting and what you're doing. It promotes action but is very unrealistic, and unfair to alliances to move heaven on earth to try to keep their movements a secret from everyone but their target.

Travdan · Post by **Travdan** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:00 pm

I would even be for a daily update of the Current HoF, and a "gamely" update for the HoF.

Breaking News: I think we should discuss a delay, but not necessary put a specific time on it yet.

Post by **OmegaRenegade** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:27 pm

You still need to do some work on the player stats, its not like you can look and it will tell you exactly what someone is doing, I am against changing the HoF stats to have any delay. Sure it may give you an idea of what someone is doing, but it doesnt tell you what exactly or where.

Breaking News: Isnt the whole term breaking news mean things that are just happening? Sure it may help fleets who are doing something remain in secret, but a fleet shouldnt need to work in secret, look at last night, both Epic and Rein saw u guys were raiding, both went to bust up your op, however you guys finished your raids and walked away with a few kills, I think only 3 people got away alive (me, MIA and DW I think). Sure a delay would help limit op hunting, but thats part of the game, a damn fun part at that.

Bottom line, though I am against HoF delay its not a big issue to me, and if we decide to add one, I'll support the decision. However, I am deadset against a breaking news delay, I dont think its needed and I think its unrealistic

Travdan · Post by **Travdan** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:54 pm

Breaking news is part of the game, that's why I'm willing to discuss whether anything happens with it or not.

Current HoF, on the other hand is not part of the game. It is part of the extraneous statistics. It should not be used at all to enhance an individual or group's gameplay.

Post by **Trigek** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 5:52 am

RandyOrsolo wrote:Hof: so people need to actually do work to find out people are moving/trading, it's unrealistic to have people camp HoF stats and be able to tell if they're moving. I think it was an unintended addition and should be changed.

Breaking News: Realism; you should have some semblance of time before every alliance in the game knows what you're busting and what you're doing. It promotes action but is very unrealistic, and unfair to alliances to move heaven on earth to try to keep their movements a secret from everyone but their target.

Pardon me but none of us live in a space age such as SMR, so how do we really know whats realistic or not as far as this goes? You can really twist it to support any view point. Worry first about gameplay and realism is really secondary.

In any case, its not unrealistic to think a planet sends out some distress signal, which is picked up by media outputs who spread the news around the universe almost instantly.

Personally I think breaking news adds to player interaction which is a good thing.

HoF stats I agree with, needs to be some delay, pick a hour, 6 hours, every day, whatever.

Post by **Prince Valiant** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 6:39 am

i agree i actually think we can impliment this next game

Post by **RandyOrsolo** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 9:10 am

I can live w/o the breaking news delay, although I'd still like to see *some* sort of a delay (5-10 mins, even). Seems like we're all in agreement about HoF stats; they were never supposed to be used to find parking planets and figure out what people were doing.

Vtreka · Post by **Vtreka** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 12:20 pm

I see no point to the breaking news delay... most of the time it comes up is when there is 10+ people doing an op so they can't be thwarted easily if they are organised.

I agree with the HoF stats... daily would be good, log in ince a day to see how well you've improved etc...