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  On 1/12/2025 at 12:01 AM, Shin Magmus said:

How bout another new server shard just for everyone fighting on these forums to be sequestered from society?

 

We can call it "Sanctuary"

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Sequestering a bunch of people on one shard with me would be like herding them into the mountain lion enclosure at the zoo.

 

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Get busy living... or get busy dying.  That's goddamn right.

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  On 1/11/2025 at 3:08 PM, Luminara said:

 

Yeah... that wouldn't actually make any difference.  See, Captain D here has very specific expectations and notions.  For example, defenders who use anything other than heals or buffs are "wrong".  Tankers who press any key that isn't Taunt don't know how to play.  Controllers = nope.  Dominators are worse controllers.  Et cetera.  Consequently, his recruitment qualifications tend to dissuade some players, disallow others, and extend the process unnecessarily.

 

When he finally gets rolling, his requirements have historically driven players to depart ASAP, thus a delay as he stops to recruit replacements, who will be, as noted above, have to meet certain qualifications, or are booted shortly after joining if they're not played the way he wants them to be played, or they hightail it when they realize what they've gotten themselves into, creating further delays.

 

He's also restricts himself to lower level play, for various (and hilarious) reasons, so he has a limited target set, and he only runs certain arcs at those levels, so he's competing against the DFB/TF-to-20 crowd.  And the AE crowd.  He's basically dredging the bottom of the barrel at that point, only getting people who want a badge for something he's running or who have just started playing and are only joining his team because his announcement was the first they saw.

 

In a nutshell, he's spent five years training people to avoid him and is reliant on newbs for teams.  And we ain't exactly overflowing with those on any shard.

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Luminara,  please don't beat about the bush here.... 🙄😄🙂

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  On 1/11/2025 at 3:08 PM, Luminara said:

 

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If I played a Changeling kheldian in-front of Captain D, here? His brain would instantly explode. You cannot change my mind.

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Posted
  On 1/11/2025 at 10:56 PM, biostem said:

So Excelsior, per the current forum count, has a little over 1000, and Everlasting has nearly 600, so there would definitely be a queue if the shards were consolidated, (assuming your numbers are correct)...

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If you consolidated everything onto one server, sure. But if you kept just the two highest-population servers, you still wouldn't be anywhere close to queue numbers. Hell, if you just vaporized Indomitable, Torchbearer, Reunion, and Victory and those players suddenly found themselves instantly teleported to Everlasting, it would still only have just about the same population as Excelsior does right now. The only real effect on anyone would be that multiboxing would no longer be allowed most of the time since both Excelsior and Everlasting would be in the red aside from the slow hours of the day.

 

  On 1/11/2025 at 11:10 PM, Diantane said:

I play on Excelsior. the population used to be much higher here 2 years ago. If was fast and easy to put teams together for several hours every day. The LFG chat was extremely busy. Today it barely moves.

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The average population on Excelsior in January 2023 was slightly lower than it is today, so your statement is factually incorrect.

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  On 1/12/2025 at 1:47 AM, macskull said:

If you consolidated everything onto one server, sure. But if you kept just the two highest-population servers, you still wouldn't be anywhere close to queue numbers.

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Excel, alone, was at 2/3 capacity, and that wasn't during primetime.  

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  On 1/12/2025 at 1:49 AM, biostem said:

Excel, alone, was at 2/3 capacity, and that wasn't during primetime.  

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Excel's peak numbers on the weekends rarely exceed 1100, which is the threshold for the red dots. The only functional thing "red dots" mean is that multiboxing isn't allowed on that server. The server queue doesn't start until population on a single server passes 1500 players. For example, here's peak numbers from this Friday:

 

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I can pull up some off-peak numbers as well, but Excelsior often dips below 400 players and the entire population is often between 700-800 during the middle of the day.

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Posted
  On 1/12/2025 at 12:01 AM, Shin Magmus said:

How bout another new server shard just for everyone fighting on these forums to be sequestered from society?

 

We can call it "Sanctuary"

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Great idea!  Instead of the usual interface for Shard transfer, let's have a arc.  Where you help a guy named Logan get to "Sanctuary".  😺

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  On 1/12/2025 at 10:24 AM, Snarky said:

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Benny was under utilized on Supernatural.  Great character and he and Dean had fun chemistry. 

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Posted
  On 1/12/2025 at 12:01 AM, Shin Magmus said:

How bout another new server shard just for everyone fighting on these forums to be sequestered from society?

 

We can call it "Sanctuary"

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I don't think we're fighting in this thread. It's more like the town gathered round to throw tomatoes at the guy that put himself in the pillory...again.

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  On 1/12/2025 at 12:40 PM, Skyhawke said:

 

Benny was under utilized on Supernatural.  Great character and he and Dean had fun chemistry. 

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They did give him some great stories.  His character always “ made sense”. 

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  On 1/12/2025 at 12:43 PM, Skyhawke said:

I don't think we're fighting in this thread. It's more like the town gathered round to throw tomatoes at the guy that put himself in the pillory...again.

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Diantane posts something.  We show up.  "Let's ride!"

 

 

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Posted
  On 1/12/2025 at 12:30 AM, Luminara said:

 

Sequestering a bunch of people on one shard with me would be like herding them into the mountain lion enclosure at the zoo.

 

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Kitty!

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Posted
  On 1/12/2025 at 2:27 AM, Snarky said:

where?

Near Dark' Highlighted Everything That Was So Special About Bill Paxton -  Bloody Disgusting

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Such an underrated film.

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Girls of Nukem High - Excelsior - Tempus Fabulous, Flattery, Jennifer Chilly, Betty Beatdown, Totally Cali, Two Gun Trixie

Babes of War - Excelsior - High Beam (Yay), Di Di Guns, Runeslinger, Munitions Mistress, Tideway, Hard Melody, Blue Aria

 

Many alts and lots of fun.  Thank you Name Release For letting me get my OG main back!

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