Limit the Number of PQable Channels

I like this idea. I don't know how difficult it is to implement, but I know that gMS has "chaos" channels, meaning you go to a certain channel and instead of fighting Zakum you fight Chaos Zakum (which is just a really 2stronk Zakum). So I know that this can, on some level, be done.
It's definitely an interesting idea and I think we should at least try it.

 

maybe pq`s could be in ch1 only and bosses in ch2 only or something ?

would be kinda fun ^^

 

We only have 2 channels.... doesn't take much to check both for possible participants.

Oh nevermind, I decided to read the whole post.

I supawrt

 

I don't think we would (or should: BF/HH) be increasing number of channels any time soon, if at all.

Even with one PQ channel, I doubt there will be much competition for it while the server population remains relatively low. Maybe after release when everyone is about the same levels then there would be crowded PQs for a bit, but after that as players slowly trickle in I think the real challenge would be to find a PQ party than getting in.

 

This, basically with the lack.of current players this wouldn't be able to be implemented. Me and @VonBIT had to ask NSFW to KPQ with us just so we had a party of four. Currently there aren't enough players to implement this, since it's hard enough to make a party, let alone.getting into the PQ. I'm sure it's easy to.implement but I wouldn't agree upon this being added in until there is a larger community to play with.

 

I would say it is subjective what the thrill of PQs is for each player. You may feel that it is the challenge of getting in, for others it may be just doing the PQ as a party itself, and for the rest it could be the PQ reward. It is part of the nostalgia and it'll be cool to have some clicking competition back outside Lakelis, but that comes naturally with population and with players wanting to PQ but unable to find a spot.

Sure the population will grow but it will take quite a while before we have enough players to naturally have a few parties waiting outside at KC while a bunch of adventurers battle King Slime inside. And quite a few parties are needed; if there's only a couple of waiting parties, it's easy to record all the names of players around, and each party is unlikely to be able to get in twice in a row. If you had a huge crowd at KC, then it'll be hard to notice if a party just came out of PQ and it'll be hard to notice who just entered. It'll be hard to tell who is just hanging out at KC and who is actually waiting for PQ, and overall hard to find names to track. And when the inside party manages to use this lack of knowledge to get into PQ again after leaving, that would give a real sweet sense of victory. But all this comes at very very high player base.

When that happens (or at least, large enough number of players to have to have some competition), we could give this a shot to try and promote PQ fights. There's no harm trying it now but there would probably be little impact on the game.

Alternatively, we can try restricting PQ to certain times of the day (maybe open them for one hour every few hours) so they are more exclusive and with a limited window of opportunity players may bother competing with each other instead of "PQs are full, I'm too lazy to wait, I'll just grind/AFK." However, this strays further from GMS-like.

While server player base is low, all these may come off as trying too hard. We also lack players AFK-ing in Kerning/Henesys thanks to Trade button.

 

I completely disagree with this suggestion and the posts here. Back in old-school Maple, people would put up with a wait for PQ just because they didn't know where to grind or didn't have the patience for it. A PQ 'war' means that you could potentially NEVER get into a PQ if there is another party waiting... A slow clicker/connection would mean that some people would have to wait until they are the only party outside anyways. I'm almost positive that this suggestion would kill PQs completely -- no one will even bother with them if they come to a full channel.

Most pserver players seem to be way more focused on grinding and leveling than they were 7+ years ago, and you're never going to have people camping out in 'nostalgic' maps unless you deal with them in a custom way. Sleepywood sauna, for example, was crowded just because would spend a week+ at Ant Tunnel grinding inefficiently in 6 person parties, or because people didn't know how to even get out of the Dungeon, or because they thought it 'saved money' to heal in town. If you want these maps to stay alive, you would have to do something like a custom portal from the FM, which would bring you to a 'fake' copy of the sauna map (leaving would bring you back to FM). I personally would be very excited for a feature like this (FM portals to a 'fake' nostalgic maps like sauna, Maya's house, very low spawn HHG, etc). It really is a tradeoff... but it is important to realize that people play the game very differently than they used to, and a lot of nostalgic moments are lost because of it. And the only way to bring back these nostalgic moments is to implement some sort of custom feature, which disrupts nostalgia in a different way.

 

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