Thursday, March 12, 2009

Game Update 8

Kudos for the improvements on City management and Guild management. More details can be found here.

As far as TMB is concerned, it falls at a bad time, with FCTS and Demolition Day, nevertheless, something to look forward to on other servers.

For the greater Scylla server, the guild management system offers a powerful insight into server population. I should make a serious count, but from the overall look, about 700-800 players are guilded on the server. Adding a completely guesstimate about non-guilded population of 25% of server population (given that it's a veteran server with many alts / multiple accounts), that would put the Scylla population in the small 1000's.

The new management systems enable also to check players' offline time, which, taking the example of TMB, can go in 4 digits numbers for some citizens (and yet, their structures are not abandoned. Should look into that too at some point).

Thus, Scylla's server population of an approx. 1000 has to factor ghosts. No guesstimates on that. Guessing the server forum may wake up from its lethargy in reaction to the new tools.

As far as TMB is concerned, this time from a mayor point of view, city update will take place in two days. There will be another city contraction, it is unavoidable, with 10 citizens short of the required level for "City" rank (i.e. Rank 4).

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