Gamezaion Player Traffic

I was thinking. What is missing on every aion website that im looking for? then i realized. Its missing User traffic on the server. i always wonder. how many asmodians/elyos are on at he moment and on each server. what im suggesting is to add a ratio bar or player count to the website, an example of this is on here (www.molten-wow.com) (right side of the website) it tells you the ratio of Horde/alliance and how many players are online. Most wow websites do that. and when im looking for a new server, its the main thing i check out. If that gets added to the website somewhere, i think you would attract those people (like me) who look for population on a server.

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NightWolf92

 

Good idea tbh.

 

thank you very much. i noticed about most aion servers is that you have no idea how many people are on... the balance between elyos and asmodians... For me i went asmo cuz i heard there werent alot.. to help the balance. alot of my friends and I when searching for a new server like to pick the server with the most players, it shows success. Adding the player count IMO would be a good addition and im not sure but i dont think it takes that much effort.

 

nice idea..
good job

 

bump! nice idea.

 

thank you very much guys!

 

I like this idea ^^

 

Yea i like this idea also

 

With Gamez's population, I don't think it will attract more players as it has so much players at the moment. It's so crowded, ZERG vs ZERG is sometimes the fight you can witness. But as sometimes means, it's not all the time But indeed, good idea!

 

In fact, should be a system that can tell how many players are online when you try to connect in game! So you can figure out about what play ... If you enter the game and theratio to be always or only in higher percentage Elyos

 

The only issue with this is when those are added to the site, it needs to gather information from the server, for example every 5 to 10 minutes. The amount of players on the server that it needs to calculate is big enough the it will cause server crashes more often.

 

I like the idea, I believe I suggested something similar a while back but until this is implemented, there is something you can do to know how many players are online. (this is what I do anyway).

Press V on your keyboard, go to search and then search all zones, it'll give you the amount of players online (to the max the list can display) if you want to be more detailed about it, you can do a quick search zone by zone and you'll know how many players you have online.

If you have an asmodian character and an elyos character, you can do the same on both sides and you'll know how many are on over all.

It's not exactly the ideal thing to do but it helps me calculate how many users are on when I'm on.

I do hope that your idea is taken into consideration for any future site updates.

 

I dont like this IDEA, if I was a newbie and I was to choose a race, I'd choose the winning one/the more dominating one. Showing who's stronger on a website is a very very bad spoiler to explore the server.

 

This is not an idea we have not discussed about in the past.
Do you really think they will implement a system such as this? Open your eyes.. it's Gamezaion.
Putting a system like that would only make people cry/flame about it. We all know that asmodians are outnumbered , even though many of us don't want to believe it. Plus , when the people will see stuff like "50 Asmodians online" they will change race to be with the many because it's gonna be more fun and the newcomers will also chose the many players' side , they have highier chances to get free kinah and items...
And the reason are the staff members. I logged on today with a friend's account and when i spawned in elysea , i found dunamis next to me. The staff members on the elyos side are so damn many , they don't play asmos.. that's one of the reasons people go for elyos. It's the staff's "Favored" race.

Im tired of this subject personally , i spend more time on the forum , it's entertaining. Unlike the game server , which only makes u mad because of the bugged skill abusers.


EDIT: Last time i checked with the V -> Search function , the elyos were 168 and the asmos 94.
Today we had 127 Asmos online ^^.. and lots of elyos zergs , even in heiron. I guess elyos had about 200 on lol

Oh and what Fynie said is right , sending requests every minute to see how many players are online is like making a DoS attack.. it'll lag the server or even crash it.

 

It don't really need to gather that much info... It can just be an integer variable that saved in a SQL query.
That would equal to 0 when the gameserver start,
increase itself +1 when the user login and decrease itself -1 when he quit.
So the site will communicate with the server database every 5-10 min and read from a specific SQL query.
It don't cost to much ram/cpu...

 

I was talking to the devs when I was GM, and they said it was enough to crash the server,and I believe them since they were the ones working on the server everyday.