Hello general! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)Well if its open at specific times like that, thats still not much time. I say we open registration completley for just a bit and see what happens. If the number of people increases too much we can close it but if the number doesnt increase quickly it means we need to spread the word about Feralheart again. Perhaps keep it open around the update and let newbies join. I think opening it completley even for just a bit would be a good jump for the community. We may have a few newbies but I think we need more. Tbh I think the attitude of FH needs to change. Now its just a bunch of advanced rpers that are teaching very few newbies to be exactly the same as them, only accepting super literate people who know what they are doing with super strict rules, all the mass markings, all the items, all the maps. There arent really any mapless or newb friendly rp AT ALL.
I believe we should have registration open during holidays, random weekends, or do something like Flight Rising used to do.
I see your reasoning, though. At the same time, there are newbies that require our aid anyway!~ That, and they seem to learn on their own over time, much like we did.
Pretty much, open registration, watch what happens (what's the worst that could happen?). If i was in charge it's likely have happened already, but i'm not.I think that would be the best option in my opinion
I like this idea.Some people are saying that the admins and such dont have control of the registration. I think that is very untrue. They have changed the registration multiple times. Unless they've some how miraculously lost control over it, its VERY unlikely. At first I thought they were trying to get FH to die down but with this new patch coming out I'm hoping thats not the case
I think there is a fine line on protecting the game and slowly killing it.
Everyone waits for registraction to open to make accounts for friends, I know people waiting months for it to open but lost interest because they don't have as free time as they used to and lack of enthusiasm can damage the game.
I agree that we need new people because the old community grew confident to 'Oh well I am known already' and it's sad because they get so judgemental over newbie characters, 'iliterate' designs and mapless roleplays, even with fandom characters, and it grew to be an obnoxious place to chill to the point whatever you say, do, create might trigger someone.
We need the old Roleplays where everyone, despite the literature, would join. New people need a chance to explore the game and bring new ideas (roleplaying or not) in it.
Unfortunately the new maps have more than enough similar features with eachother so people don't hang around too much and only prefer staying in The Grounds and it's really a recruiting place only so there isn't really any space to roleplay where alot of people are around except from Cherika Valley which is one of the best maps, if not the best, in the entire update.
I missed the horse, deer, fox, dragon, bird, cougar, sabertooth RPs around. The variety of roleplays is slowly dying to three options and even so people still judging everything moving.
I think new people will make the tension vanish and it would be new experience all over again~
Well FH isnt really that popular anymore. If we keep it open yes we'll certainly get some new people but I think its time to get the server like that again. We need to get the bustle and boom back to our community. We cant just keep trickling people in, because we are currently deteriorating faster than we are building. To be honest, it would be great to get the server like that because it would be the jump we need. Newbies are here to greet newbies, experienced players can greet the new, new will be able to make a group and actually get members to join instead of sitting in The Grounds getting ignored by the experienced players because we are too literate for them or they arent literate enough or that they dont know the basics.
It does seem like an oddball choice to have the registration on random for an hour two times a day. They once put it in effect because all the new users registering and playing overloaded the server. Nowadays I'm sure whether that's necessary anymore. However, if we have registrations open 24/7 again the problem could potentially come back. What the staff CAN do with the current player decrease is put open registration for one day in the week. This has been requested many times before to no avail.
Well FH isnt really that popular anymore. If we keep it open yes we'll certainly get some new people but I think its time to get the server like that again. We need to get the bustle and boom back to our community. We cant just keep trickling people in, because we are currently deteriorating faster than we are building. To be honest, it would be great to get the server like that because it would be the jump we need. Newbies are here to greet newbies, experienced players can greet the new, new will be able to make a group and actually get members to join instead of sitting in The Grounds getting ignored by the experienced players because we are too literate for them or they arent literate enough or that they dont know the basics.
It does seem like an oddball choice to have the registration on random for an hour two times a day. They once put it in effect because all the new users registering and playing overloaded the server. Nowadays I'm sure whether that's necessary anymore. However, if we have registrations open 24/7 again the problem could potentially come back. What the staff CAN do with the current player decrease is put open registration for one day in the week. This has been requested many times before to no avail.
Rightnow, WE are the problem. Recently, I've been sitting and observing the grounds and especially yesterday, what made me sad was the fact that someone was sitting there
alone by the water, advertising A MOVIE saying, "does anyone wanna talk?", REPEATEDLY! The only people around were tabbed out or advertising for their own group. Not to
mention yesterday I saw three groups advertising for a DISCORD roleplay in FERALHEART. They specifically stated that they were only advertising in FH and that they wouldnt
be roleplaying in game. These "discorded/sited" groups are whats helping bring us to our knees. Now nothing is wrong with roleplaying on discord. The problem is that people
arent even playing the game anymore. They are feeding off of the community instead of joining back in.
Not to mention the only people I have seen that pay super close attention to the registration, are people who already have an account that want to make another one just so they can change their username. I am guilty of that personally but, this is the one time I will ever do it. I think we need to advertise FH again. If the staff is going to make updates, they should honestly open registration. They cant make an update for a game thats not going to be played. I mean hell, make cool videos, tell others about it, hype up the new update and once its released, open the registration. Let new players and old who lost their accounts come and enjoy a full community again.
Pretty much, open registration, watch what happens (what's the worst that could happen?). If i was in charge it's likely have happened already, but i'm not.I think that would be the best option in my opinionI like this idea.Some people are saying that the admins and such dont have control of the registration. I think that is very untrue. They have changed the registration multiple times. Unless they've some how miraculously lost control over it, its VERY unlikely. At first I thought they were trying to get FH to die down but with this new patch coming out I'm hoping thats not the case
I think there is a fine line on protecting the game and slowly killing it.
Everyone waits for registraction to open to make accounts for friends, I know people waiting months for it to open but lost interest because they don't have as free time as they used to and lack of enthusiasm can damage the game.
I agree that we need new people because the old community grew confident to 'Oh well I am known already' and it's sad because they get so judgemental over newbie characters, 'iliterate' designs and mapless roleplays, even with fandom characters, and it grew to be an obnoxious place to chill to the point whatever you say, do, create might trigger someone.
We need the old Roleplays where everyone, despite the literature, would join. New people need a chance to explore the game and bring new ideas (roleplaying or not) in it.
Unfortunately the new maps have more than enough similar features with eachother so people don't hang around too much and only prefer staying in The Grounds and it's really a recruiting place only so there isn't really any space to roleplay where alot of people are around except from Cherika Valley which is one of the best maps, if not the best, in the entire update.
I missed the horse, deer, fox, dragon, bird, cougar, sabertooth RPs around. The variety of roleplays is slowly dying to three options and even so people still judging everything moving.
I think new people will make the tension vanish and it would be new experience all over again~
Well FH isnt really that popular anymore. If we keep it open yes we'll certainly get some new people but I think its time to get the server like that again. We need to get the bustle and boom back to our community. We cant just keep trickling people in, because we are currently deteriorating faster than we are building. To be honest, it would be great to get the server like that because it would be the jump we need. Newbies are here to greet newbies, experienced players can greet the new, new will be able to make a group and actually get members to join instead of sitting in The Grounds getting ignored by the experienced players because we are too literate for them or they arent literate enough or that they dont know the basics.
It does seem like an oddball choice to have the registration on random for an hour two times a day. They once put it in effect because all the new users registering and playing overloaded the server. Nowadays I'm sure whether that's necessary anymore. However, if we have registrations open 24/7 again the problem could potentially come back. What the staff CAN do with the current player decrease is put open registration for one day in the week. This has been requested many times before to no avail.
Rightnow, WE are the problem. Recently, I've been sitting and observing the grounds and especially yesterday, what made me sad was the fact that someone was sitting there
alone by the water, advertising A MOVIE saying, "does anyone wanna talk?", REPEATEDLY! The only people around were tabbed out or advertising for their own group. Not to
mention yesterday I saw three groups advertising for a DISCORD roleplay in FERALHEART. They specifically stated that they were only advertising in FH and that they wouldnt
be roleplaying in game. These "discorded/sited" groups are whats helping bring us to our knees. Now nothing is wrong with roleplaying on discord. The problem is that people
arent even playing the game anymore. They are feeding off of the community instead of joining back in.
Not to mention the only people I have seen that pay super close attention to the registration, are people who already have an account that want to make another one just so they can change their username. I am guilty of that personally but, this is the one time I will ever do it. I think we need to advertise FH again. If the staff is going to make updates, they should honestly open registration. They cant make an update for a game thats not going to be played. I mean hell, make cool videos, tell others about it, hype up the new update and once its released, open the registration. Let new players and old who lost their accounts come and enjoy a full community again.
I am reading this topic but wasnt responding yet, since i didnt knew what to say.
As retired FH staff and now owner of a new own game i agree that FH has lost a giant amount of its daily online users. A lot have left after the maps update, and who knows what happens to them when some old maps are hopefully get back?
On the other hand, players usually grow out of FH and considering for how long reg is restricted, yes, old players maybe grew out and therefore left, restricted reg however prevents a healthy flow of new ones getting in. Double accounts, right now, probably are a thing to handle again when its needet to. Right now my opinion is that the userbase needs to get healthy again. Considering how many guests are viewing the forum, FH could probably get a whooping 100 to 200 new players at once. And those maybe tell their friends and spread more and more the word of FH so it can grow back to being healthy.
However, i am sure this topic, as hot as it is nowadays, is still a thing to staff. The pros in sight of users probably are big, but things need to be seen and understood from different sides.
I am too hoping that FH rises again, its users and staff are still great and deserve a healthy and active community.
I dont see why they cant contact Raz and have them open registration for a bit. It'll be good if we get full servers. Then they can change it back so that all the people that joined can flourish. RELEASE THEM BACK INTO THE WILD aka fh xD
Admins don't have control of registraction indeed. I think Raz is the only one who's in charge of it and I don't think they want it to die but just protect it, however this over-protection is slowly killing it. People are not as attached and drained to FH as they used to and registraction opening randomly is a huge factor of that. People get angry they can't play the game on they day-offs because they don't have an account so they just give up on it. I think shutting the registraction is a huge problem.
This is why it needs new members. So they can explore together and play with eachother without the need to care about being literate, mapped or realistic. Just to have fun.100% agree.
Maybe we should try to get a bunch of people to vote on this poll? Do you think it would help get attention for the registration? Honestly at this point im terrified FH is gonna die if we dont. Yesterday I saw two more group advertising non fh rps in the game and that scares me.This is why it needs new members. So they can explore together and play with eachother without the need to care about being literate, mapped or realistic. Just to have fun.100% agree.
Yesterday I saw two more group advertising non fh rps in the game and that scares me.I've seen those as well. They're usually discord rp groups.
I agree that the registration is slowly decreasing community activity for a multitude of reasons. The thing is tho, games start to age and so does the community. The "old FH" was when FH was still a new thing. 7-8 years now, the community has dwindled due to a lack of actual game updates. A lot of the people back then moved on, and people who are staying matured and seek more mature roleplays.Well yes we can guide them to make more diverse roleplays. But yes I agree. That is why I'm thinking getting newer members will help a ton. They can move forward just like we did. I realize that it wont be the same as "old FH" because that was us. I do however want a new group of people to help continue to move things along and all the while we can guide them and support them so that those other groups who judge wont have that much to judge. Besides, I think if we open registration, a lot of people will actualy stick up for the newbies. Rightnow old players overnumber new, but if the number of newbs grow, it wont be as bad.
Admins don't have control of registraction indeed. I think Raz is the only one who's in charge of it and I don't think they want it to die but just protect it, however this over-protection is slowly killing it. People are not as attached and drained to FH as they used to and registraction opening randomly is a huge factor of that. People get angry they can't play the game on they day-offs because they don't have an account so they just give up on it. I think shutting the registraction is a huge problem.
Why does the registration work this way?
A lot of people ask the question "why" the registration work this way, and the reason is quite a reasonable one. Feralheart is really just another game online, taken care of and run by people in their free time out of mere interest and love for the game itself. We want to make sure it works as well as we can, and that's where quantity is not the only thing to think about. We want to keep the site and game up and running smoothly without hiccups and issues due to the registration part, and just reduce general abuse of the registration system where users would intentionally hog accounts, those who really want or need an account will get one eventually. Even though a greater number of players is always fun to see, it cannot always be a priority since we need to look a bit further ahead than just that.
Registration was like this back before the hacking; that wasn't the cause, which is good!I couldnt agree more. If they are gonna come out with this new update, I feel as though they should really advertise FH nad work out keeping the registration open, even if just on certain days of the week because if this over-protection continues, there wont be many people at all the enjoy and experience the update. At that point, all the people who worked on the update put a ton of effort into something thatll only be appreciated by a very small amount of people. Id love to see more new people flood in. I mean, 300 is cap the ive seen everyday and majority of those people are tabbed! Fh used to have 500-600. Even if 450-500 could be our cap, it would be better than now. What happens when we dip into the 100's?Quote from: RedWhy does the registration work this way?
A lot of people ask the question "why" the registration work this way, and the reason is quite a reasonable one. Feralheart is really just another game online, taken care of and run by people in their free time out of mere interest and love for the game itself. We want to make sure it works as well as we can, and that's where quantity is not the only thing to think about. We want to keep the site and game up and running smoothly without hiccups and issues due to the registration part, and just reduce general abuse of the registration system where users would intentionally hog accounts, those who really want or need an account will get one eventually. Even though a greater number of players is always fun to see, it cannot always be a priority since we need to look a bit further ahead than just that.
More information on registration can be found here. (https://feral-heart.com/smf/index.php?topic=50461.0/)
At this point- and this is just my opinion - registration having scheduled opening times would be really beneficial. Really. I know it says there that we can't just hope for a greater number of players and have to look at the big picture, but I completely agree with everything that's being said about the registration hampering the game. People really are leaving faster than they're joining. Even after just a year, forum activity seems to really have slowed down. I'm in discord servers where people talk daily about leaving FH; I really hate to see it happening.
About the 'put FH out there more' bit, I remember someone mentioning an official FH youtube channel a while ago. I think that would be such an incredible idea, if done properly. Youtube is how a ton of us found FeralHeart; why not use that fact?
I just hope that however the registration process continues on, it's the right choice.
I hope the admins/mods have looked at this yet. I'd like to hear their opinion on it tbh. I hate saying this but I know the people in charge arent dumb at all and they can see us dwindling but im afraid that maybe they are purposefully letting us dwindle down..Id hope not of course! Its just a fear ive had. I mean if its a capacity thing on the website, they could go through the registry and take down the account duplicates. I know I have a duplicate or two I created a long time ago and I wish I could take them down.I hold a similar opinion to you. I've been playing since I was 10 also, and I am now 16, and I understand fully where you're coming from.
The community back then allowed for growth in learning and wasn't insanely strict on activity. When I first joined, a kind leader of a lion pride taught me the rules of RP and how to write (even though I was a bit of a power-player, which I cringe at to this very day heh).
The disallowing of registration made sense at the time as there was a suffacating amount of people registering and never using their accounts again - however it has gone on for too long and has slowly been crushing the life out of our community.
Furthermore, older players (like us) are beginning to take their leave, and new registered people have nowhere to go and nobody to learn from. It doesn't help that we're harsh on them with our Literacy and such. Opening the registration 24/7 would allow for a new and younger player base to grow and develop into the community we all knew and loved.
Maybe one day it could be random again, but until then, it needs to be fixed.
I also have to agree wirh this. Registration needs to open more, even for just one day out of the week. I don't think it's losing people from lack of updates or change, it's losing people because no one new is coming in to give us old timers something to do. When I first joined I would see 700-800 people online regularly, even reaching into the 1000s. Things got crazy and the lag could become unbearable, but it was a sign that the game was healthy and huge. People were silly and funny, making fast food characters and mate centers, it was hectic and I loved it lol. Now everyone seems so serious and they talk only in groups or something.I too think the update will attract some people. They should open registration for a few days as the update rolls out and if they let the community know they are doing that, maybe we could advertise and hype it up. Also I woould have a tattoo of it by now if I had been old enough. Ill probably get one in the future!
Now if I try to start a conversation it takes a bit of work but in the end everyone seems to have a good time. I think with the new patch coming out it will attract more people, but we need to help them join and let them know that we are accepting new members at this time and this date. The old maps were very simple and didn't really connect at all with each other, now the maps are so detailed and cared for but they are all pretty similar except for the underwater one. I think the new patch will combine everything, extreme detail and care with a lot of variety and little connection to each one. If it is going in that direction then I think registration needs to open up as well, with an update like that people should be flooding in to check it out.
I love this game, I got a tattoo of it on my wrist, I have memories that will never be forgotten. I want to see it continue to develop and grow as much as it can but I'm scared we may not get there in time.
Same here! Being here since its initial or atleast SUPER close to it, I had such an amazing time with all the people. I know Red says to overlook the population and focus on the rp but we cant have rps if there arent enough people and the only kind of people just join an rp and never get on again or are just tabbed the whole time. I miss running around flourite and seeing all matters of groups to join! You cant really do that anymore. Just to get in one rp these days is very intensive. You need to fill out a roleplay sample that to be honest, is judged on the recruiters POV of what is considered "good and literate writing". You have to join their discord, their website, read the rules and regulations, download the map, download the presets, sometimes its required that you have a bio already, you have to sometimes read character creation guides, they make you change minute details about your character IE: "your eyes are a TAD bit too bright/dark", you gotta log and add sometimes long and complicated tags, you gotta pick a rank out of like a million sub-ranks, you have to read some of the lore, etc. By the end of all of that, its exhausting and especially me, i dont have the drive i had 20-30 minutes ago after trying to do all of this to rp. The newbies who come in have no idea how to do ANY of this and we just EXPECT them to know. If you mess up on an RPS just a little bit, you are denied access and never allowed in. Come on! Like, teach the poor guy if his punctuation is like two commas off! Thats how I learned. Not to mention so many of the leaders of these roleplays (especially in warriors roleplays) are ALL THE SAME PEOPLE ALL THE TIME. Every single one of them almost its the same people leading them. These people are so used to being leaders, its like they have this cold wall and they act all stone faced and "professional". Its an rp for gods sake! I get it, you have to enforce rules but when you get suuper into it, like being extra into it, its boring and to be frank, quite irritating. Cool, I tripped up on one small thing and now i have one strike out of three and then im banned. These things to me dont bother me as much as they used to. All of us who have been around a while are used to all of this, numb to it. Maybe its time we get a lot of new people in to teach us how to have fun again.
I gotta agree with this. As someone who has been on this game since it's initial release, I remember when the online user count was 300-500+. Did it cause lag? Obviously, but at the same time it was at it's peak of popularity and it was amazing watching it grow and grow. I understand why the registration closed due to the large mass, but that's also the reason why I believe many users have left to this day. Of course, in general people grow out of things, have a life outside of the online world, etc. But for the people who do want to join, it's a pain waiting for registration to open considering how random it is. I have no issue with registration being closed at times, I just think at this point it should be open more than it's closed, yknow? Or have it scheduled in some way. I have no idea what part the admins play in the registration and whether they have control of it or not, which if they don't, it's completely understandable and I get it's something they can't do. However, if it's possible, I think the idea of having registration open at certain times which people are aware of, or even just for longer periods of time, would be very beneficial. That would draw in more people, especially if it's advertised, along with the new patches/updates we're getting already. I'd love nothing more than to see this game grow once again and continue to develop. It's been open for so long, we're in need of fresh members. Though this is just my opinion, and whatever happens, happens :)
. I miss running around flourite and seeing all matters of groups to join! You cant really do that anymore. Just to get in one rp these days is very intensive. ...................Yup, my observations exactly.
Maybe its time we get a lot of new people in to teach us how to have fun again.
Maybe when the server starts getting too full they can close it?.Exactly! Having it open till we fill up would be a miracle!
The lack of new players makes recruiting for my group painfully slow too. It's really just dropping movie clips for the same people who already decided they aren't interested. (Plus the majority of the Grounds seems to be into packs, clans, or prides now. Only makes it harder to recruit with barely anyone new around.)
I won't disagree that having to take care of a game + your life is too hard and it needs monitoring and it can be difficult for Raz and for the admins respecrtively. All of the admins are working hard on it and people fail to realize they've been pushed alot, judged by their skills alot when more than a few people were disappointed, causing alot of admins to leave their possition and having to take care of this game while they have their own families, jobs and houses to take care on it can be tiring.If this is true, that Raz is the only one who can open and close the registration, then I can understand if it could be a strain on him. Maybe if they want to do this, Raz could pick out days and times that he could open the registration, granted if he has any free time other than what he does to open the registration. Then it would be easier for everyone to get registered. Again, if I knew more about how the registration works, then I could elaborate more on this subject.
I do have to comment on the over protection. I agree that being over protective is slowly suffocating the game and all it's glory, but I do see why they've come to do that. I think they could pull back a bit with the protecting, just a little bit. I have a feeling that if they keep clamping down on protecting it, then the game will slowly die off.
I wasn't around when "The Hack" happened. But almost 3 years have passed since then and I think that the community has had enough time to heal. I know that the staff is doing what they can to prevent this kind of thing from happening again, but I believe that it's time to open the registration
Idk how exactly to phrase things here without my words some how being taken the wrong way. I do want to be honest, especially because I strongly believe that the staff should remain transparent with the community on most things.
Feral Heart is a game similar to some other games but with its own unique set of problems... most of which we can’t address and fix the way we want to because of the lack of the game’s source code. There would be much better approaches to things like registration or even the log in system if we had a means to properly correct the issues at root. For this reason many of the simple “fixes” proposed don’t necessarily work for FH’s case.
Truthfully speaking none of us like the registration the way it is.
It would be wonderful to just open it back up 24/7 again for one of the obvious reasons of it making it easier for new users to join. If FH registration worked this way we would definitely have a lot more new blood regularly coming into the community again. I think we all would love this...
But there’s always issues that follow particular decisions made, either leaving it open 24/7, or keeping it random, or having particular days/hours as open times etc... behind the scenes FH has been made to work at best as it could with its limitations. Sadly this doesn’t always mean that it is reflected well upon the player base, so it becomes more of a balancing issue:
How to keep both the aging broken source code-less game alive and functioning as well as an ever changing and shifting community...The community hasn't had an attitude shift since 2016 and it's blatantly obvious. It has actually become easier to manage since most players seem to either police themselves or keep their rule breaks on the lowest of downlows.
At some point things just can’t catch up, and certain sacrifices end up being made.
It’s frustrating. It’s frustrating to you, and us. It’s frustrating to all of us as people who care about and love Feral Heart and I wholeheartedly apologize for this.
While we can’t make exact promises, I do want to assure you all that this issue is still being discussed and considered. While we don’t have a lot of options we are weighing them and considering things... We share your concerns as deeply as you all do.
For as long as Feral Heart continues to run we will try our very best to work with things and consider all the possibilities. We’ve come a long way and while things may not have always worked ideally we are still trying our best.
You also do not explain why these "simple fixes" won't work with Feral Heart. What are the simple fixes?
I'm loosely aware of how the registration works, and from what I can gather with what little[AKA, none] information I have... The source code shouldn't be having an effect on this.
But then again, I don't know if it's just website side going to the game, or what. Because no one explains anything.
I would be understanding if you guys didn't know because you aren't aware of what's even in the source code, but again, you haven't told anyone anything.
General Information Regarding FeralHeart RegistrationWhy does the registration work this way?
A lot of people ask the question "why" the registration work this way, and the reason is quite a reasonable one. Feralheart is really just another game online, taken care of and run by people in their free time out of mere interest and love for the game itself. We want to make sure it works as well as we can, and that's where quantity is not the only thing to think about. We want to keep the site and game up and running smoothly without hiccups and issues due to the registration part, and just reduce general abuse of the registration system where users would intentionally hog accounts, those who really want or need an account will get one eventually. Even though a greater number of players is always fun to see, it cannot always be a priority since we need to look a bit further ahead than just that.
Out of curiosity, (this one's to everyone-- poll time, maybe? c:), if the registration were to be brought back permanently, what would be your personal opinion on the possible outcome resulting in the game being taken down for periods of time? Would it matter to you how frequently or how long these stretches of time occurred? Would it be worth it if a registration were more accessible? Would the best outcome (tons of people fill up the game and populate the maps) be worth the risk over the worst outcome (the game is taken down for a long amount of time, possibly preventing new accounts to be made)?I think a once a week opening for a few hours would work out fine. Would give a stable time frame for players who were serious about trying it out. Never thought about Raz dealing with the server issues, it does clear things up for me. Thank you!
Out of curiosity, (this one's to everyone-- poll time, maybe? c:), if the registration were to be brought back permanently, what would be your personal opinion on the possible outcome resulting in the game being taken down for periods of time? Would it matter to you how frequently or how long these stretches of time occurred? Would it be worth it if a registration were more accessible? Would the best outcome (tons of people fill up the game and populate the maps) be worth the risk over the worst outcome (the game is taken down for a long amount of time, possibly preventing new accounts to be made)?
Out of curiosity, (this one's to everyone-- poll time, maybe? c:), if the registration were to be brought back permanently, what would be your personal opinion on the possible outcome resulting in the game being taken down for periods of time? Would it matter to you how frequently or how long these stretches of time occurred? Would it be worth it if a registration were more accessible? Would the best outcome (tons of people fill up the game and populate the maps) be worth the risk over the worst outcome (the game is taken down for a long amount of time, possibly preventing new accounts to be made)?
I think the frustration arises from not knowing when the registration will open. I think a solution that could meet both parties in-between would be to have a scheduled registration.
Seeing as registration was closed at the end of September 2012, calculating the average amount of users registered per month would have to start from October 2012 and end at June 2016 (the months after that show 0 new members, despite that being false).
That comes down to 91331 / 45, which equals an average of 2029-2030 new users every month with the current system (according to the statistics center).
Maybe the registration could be opened at the beginning of every month until it reaches the cap of users allowed to register for that month. The cap could be, say... 2000-2500 or something. That way, people will know that if they missed registration, they can just wait until next month. I think it would eliminate at least some of the frustration.
Or it could be opened weekly, on Sundays/Mondays, with a cap of 465-582 new members before it closes again.
The cap would mean that the amount of members who get to register is the same as right now, except that people who want to join will be able to plan accordingly instead of blindly waiting for RNGesus to bless them.
Out of curiosity, (this one's to everyone-- poll time, maybe? c:), if the registration were to be brought back permanently, what would be your personal opinion on the possible outcome resulting in the game being taken down for periods of time? Would it matter to you how frequently or how long these stretches of time occurred? Would it be worth it if a registration were more accessible? Would the best outcome (tons of people fill up the game and populate the maps) be worth the risk over the worst outcome (the game is taken down for a long amount of time, possibly preventing new accounts to be made)?
Out of curiosity, (this one's to everyone-- poll time, maybe? c:), if the registration were to be brought back permanently, what would be your personal opinion on the possible outcome resulting in the game being taken down for periods of time? Would it matter to you how frequently or how long these stretches of time occurred? Would it be worth it if a registration were more accessible? Would the best outcome (tons of people fill up the game and populate the maps) be worth the risk over the worst outcome (the game is taken down for a long amount of time, possibly preventing new accounts to be made)?
ii) The game won't grow overnight so we can allow some space for new members to explore the game and if we don't have new members the updates will pretty much be in vain