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Title: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Tonnyl on December 16, 2013, 11:52:01 am
I saw some of the bigger let's players play this game a few days ago, and I thought "YES! Finally they found this game out!"

CinnamonToastKen uploaded a few videos of him playing with Pewdiepie, Cryaotic and Minx, so... I suppouse this should bring more people into this game! Now... the issue with an influx of more players is that... ehm... won't actually know how to play from the start. Hope it all goes smoothly though!
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Sammy B. T. on December 16, 2013, 11:57:41 am
It is always interesting to ride these waves of people. I remember one large wave basically overloaded the servers and made match countdowns slow or even stop. I was in a competition that week and for whatever reason we had decided during the 5 second final bit of the countdown we would chant "Zwaene," a prominent member of the competitive scene. We had to do it for nearly a minute as countdown was so slowed.

Good times.
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Tonnyl on December 16, 2013, 12:00:33 pm
It is always interesting to ride these waves of people. I remember one large wave basically overloaded the servers and made match countdowns slow or even stop. I was in a competition that week and for whatever reason we had decided during the 5 second final bit of the countdown we would chant "Zwaene," a prominent member of the competitive scene. We had to do it for nearly a minute as countdown was so slowed.

Good times.

I expect this wave to be unusually large though. I mean, one of these guys got 18 million subscribers so far.
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Zyem on December 16, 2013, 12:07:31 pm
It is always interesting to ride these waves of people. I remember one large wave basically overloaded the servers and made match countdowns slow or even stop. I was in a competition that week and for whatever reason we had decided during the 5 second final bit of the countdown we would chant "Zwaene," a prominent member of the competitive scene. We had to do it for nearly a minute as countdown was so slowed.
As a programmer, I have no idea how someone could program a countdown system that allows this to happen unintentionally.

Server says something will happen in X seconds. Client gets the time in X seconds and displays the seconds until that time unless the server cancels it. What am I missing?
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Imagine on December 16, 2013, 12:14:28 pm
It is always interesting to ride these waves of people. I remember one large wave basically overloaded the servers and made match countdowns slow or even stop. I was in a competition that week and for whatever reason we had decided during the 5 second final bit of the countdown we would chant "Zwaene," a prominent member of the competitive scene. We had to do it for nearly a minute as countdown was so slowed.

Good times.

I expect this wave to be unusually large though. I mean, one of these guys got 18 million subscribers so far.
We've had a lot of extremely prominent youtube figures cover the game. Much of the TGS (now Polaris) crew played the game and made some videos, we had Hey Ash guys play a lot, itmeJP did a video... but sadly most of these guys only do one video for the game. Ah well.

The point is I think most of the vets are used to large swings of people getting into the game for a couple of weeks at a time :)
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Skrimskraw on December 16, 2013, 12:24:03 pm
Zwaene Zwaene Zwaene :D good times.
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Thomas on December 16, 2013, 12:28:30 pm
As a programmer, I have no idea how someone could program a countdown system that allows this to happen unintentionally.

Server says something will happen in X seconds. Client gets the time in X seconds and displays the seconds until that time unless the server cancels it. What am I missing?

It's a hardware thing.
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: DMaximus on December 16, 2013, 12:42:50 pm
It is always interesting to ride these waves of people. I remember one large wave basically overloaded the servers and made match countdowns slow or even stop. I was in a competition that week and for whatever reason we had decided during the 5 second final bit of the countdown we would chant "Zwaene," a prominent member of the competitive scene. We had to do it for nearly a minute as countdown was so slowed.

Good times.

I expect this wave to be unusually large though. I mean, one of these guys got 18 million subscribers so far.
We've had a lot of extremely prominent youtube figures cover the game. Much of the TGS (now Polaris) crew played the game and made some videos, we had Hey Ash guys play a lot, itmeJP did a video... but sadly most of these guys only do one video for the game. Ah well.

The point is I think most of the vets are used to large swings of people getting into the game for a couple of weeks at a time :)

ASH PLAYED GUNS? WHERE IS THIS VIDEO?
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Imagine on December 16, 2013, 01:22:20 pm
It is always interesting to ride these waves of people. I remember one large wave basically overloaded the servers and made match countdowns slow or even stop. I was in a competition that week and for whatever reason we had decided during the 5 second final bit of the countdown we would chant "Zwaene," a prominent member of the competitive scene. We had to do it for nearly a minute as countdown was so slowed.

Good times.

I expect this wave to be unusually large though. I mean, one of these guys got 18 million subscribers so far.
We've had a lot of extremely prominent youtube figures cover the game. Much of the TGS (now Polaris) crew played the game and made some videos, we had Hey Ash guys play a lot, itmeJP did a video... but sadly most of these guys only do one video for the game. Ah well.

The point is I think most of the vets are used to large swings of people getting into the game for a couple of weeks at a time :)

ASH PLAYED GUNS? WHERE IS THIS VIDEO?
Most of it was streamed so I'm not sure if they have anything on youtube about it (HeyAsh is actually how I found and got into the game in the first place). It was done basically a year ago, here's one with them playing against Muse folks http://www.twitch.tv/heyashtwitch/b/348378455

Edit: Here's the best video http://www.twitch.tv/heyashtwitch/c/1785073 :D
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Keon on December 18, 2013, 07:41:11 pm
Batten down the hatches and be on your best behavior for these new players. Let's welcome 'em aboard and show them why GOI is such a fantastic community.
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Coldcurse on December 19, 2013, 03:50:31 am
welcome enjoy your stay, Shinkurex will park your car when you enter the building.
Blame Shinkurex if your car has been damaged while you are experiencing intense fights in the muse royal HeadQuarters, which is located on Partian Rumble.
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Squidslinger Gilder on December 19, 2013, 04:01:04 am
Getting a mass of players is one thing, keeping a mass of players is another. Which is what we've seen every time these huge influxes happen.

Just more fresh meat to the mine grinder and my block list as far as I'm concerned.
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Shinkurex on December 19, 2013, 07:02:03 am
welcome enjoy your stay, Shinkurex will park your car when you enter the building.
Blame Shinkurex if your car has been damaged while you are experiencing intense fights in the muse royal HeadQuarters, which is located on Partian Rumble.

you...........:P..... This'll be fun though I love it when Muse gets more publicity :))
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Commodore Phoenix on December 19, 2013, 01:13:24 pm
As most of you usually do it anyway can you all make sure you hand out "The dangers of flying with Phoenix" pamphlets.
thank you kindly.
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Squidslinger Gilder on December 19, 2013, 03:31:19 pm
As most of you usually do it anyway can you all make sure you hand out "The dangers of flying with Phoenix" pamphlets.
thank you kindly.

Oh it was the danger pamphlet? Uh oh...I've been handing out the "Cuddlebear Phoenix" pamphlets ;D.
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Byron Cavendish on December 19, 2013, 08:21:56 pm
You should be handing out the "WARNING: Zuka may assault you" pamphlets
Title: Re: Recent attention by the "big" youtubers.
Post by: Squidslinger Gilder on December 20, 2013, 05:56:40 am
You should be handing out the "WARNING: Zuka may assault you" pamphlets

Thats like giving out a zombie outbreak pamphlet as the zombie is gnawing on someone who is screaming.