avaloafe wrote:hi, that was me. as a full time working adult, i’m really ONLY on this site for the pound and pet adoptions/events for my pet collections. why is that a bad thing for users to log on for the pound, do some trading then log back off? we don’t HAVE to use the forums. we don’t have to use oekaki boards. we are allowed to sign on for adoptions and JUST the pets only. there’s no harm in that. i’ve gotten one ER and one rare pet in the past like 25 openings. everything else has been EU and under. so no, i see no harm in people coming on for a few minutes whenever the pound/l&f open up
I did not say that it was a
bad thing -- do not put words in my mouth. I said it was up to the individual player, and it is not on us (the userbase) to say how players should enjoy their time on the site. It should be down to the people who run the site, the ones who make the rules for how it works.
But what I
did say, and the part that's relevant to your point, is that it's a harmful tool in as much as it causes an influx of players, lag, and the pets go too fast. Does that happen because so many people come in at once off the discord tool? In part, yes.
Is it those users fault? Not really, no.
The point that I was making, and I think is clear in my post, is that the way the pound works, and the possible solutions, do not fix the issues that players are having off of the back of this. What people want -- easier access to actually getting a pet from the pound -- will not be fixed by more pounds with less pets or less pounds but more pets, partly because of how large the desire to get the pound is.
The numbers stipulated are not enough to accommodate for the desire for the pound. The players all arriving on one chunk and refreshing is a large impact on lag and are why it empties so fast. These are not the fault of the user, they are an intrinsic issue with the way that not only the pound works, but the site operates as a whole. Servers are expensive. This website is, to my understanding, a side project to Tess and Nick's real lives as opposed to an overt business. But there are enough players on here that reasonable accommodations need to be made to the functionality of this site as a whole.
Though it is technically irrelevant to the poll's question, but relevant to your comment on how people can just come here for the pets, I think there's also problems there. December 18th causes a high demand chaos that they try to account for on the day itself, but it still has issues. The pound feels a hundred times slower when the player base is increased during events with banners. This is something else they should be addressing. This website cannot cope with a higher than average active playerbase.
My remark at the end about how players should not be punished for not using the discord is as it says -- they shouldn't be. But they are, because they can't know as quickly. Again,
I am not blaming the discord bot or the people using it, I am saying it is an unfair advantage to people who do not use it. That is something that, in my opinion anyway, should be accommodated or addressed in some way by CS staff. Not necessarily by requesting the bot is banned, but they should at least evaluate the whole context.
Nicnova wrote:I agree with this, but I don't think the solution is to make changes that would lower the amount of players on the site. That's detrimental to the growth of the site in general. We should WANT more players on the site, it's what keeps the site alive. The issue is that the site can't handle it, and these are the changes they need to make. They need to be able to handle a large influx of players coming online for the pound.
I also agree with this, it also covers some of my above points. It's not the players fault that the site cannot handle the way the players interact with it. It needs to be adapted. It is an important part of getting regular player attendance and interaction on the game. I will say that there
should be more than just the pound to come for, that's maybe suited for discussion on another board, though. I wonder how the pound drive affects advertising revenue.