Form S2 Suggestion

[Ahm2d]

The requirment to get 10-15 hours monthly to play s2 is a genius idea but u cant force people to play s1 for that amount of hours just to play s2 dont get me wrong its a very good idea to help s1 pop but i think if you reduce the time would be even better make it like 5 hours. I personally like to play s1 as a cop but some people dont like to play s1 reducing the hours is fair for both. And with the 10-15 hours the people that dont like to play s1 they will just join and afk because they have so much hours left to get to play s2 at that point it will be uselss pop like there is so much pop but most people are afk if you get what im saying.

Edited February 26 by Ahm2d

[Rocketneo]

24 minutes ago, Ahm2d said:

The requirment to get 10-15 hours monthly to play s2 is a genius idea but u cant force people to play s1 for that amount of hours just to play s2 dont get me wrong its a very good idea to help s1 pop but i think if you reduce the time would be even better make it like 5 hours. I personally like to play s1 as a cop but some people dont like to play s1 reducing the hours is fair for both. And with the 10-15 hours the people that dont like to play s1 they will just join and afk because they have so much hours left to get to play s2 at that point it will be uselss pop like there is so much pop but most people are afk if you get what im saying.

To be fair you can afk those 10-15 hours, cops cannot. I feel as though it is a fair trade to play dom

[Ahm2d]

2 hours ago, Rocketneo said:

To be fair you can afk those 10-15 hours, cops cannot. I feel as though it is a fair trade to play dom

To be honest what asylum needs now is active players not people who joins the server and afk just to get the hours then the hours requirment is pointless if you want a pointless player count then just add bots to the server its the same thing as people afking. When you see like 80-90 players on the server you would think that you gonna have interactions with people imagine if you join a server with that pop and you have no interact with anyone most of people would leave the server because it will be boring because most of people in the server are afk to get hours to play s2.

Edited February 26 by Ahm2d

[Ahm2d]

Put 5 hours requirment in a month and if you can do a system if the player doesnt move for 30 minutes it kicks him out of the server Problem Solved.

[Gagss]

The idea is good for 5hrs but 10-15 hrs is excessive some people still got lives and don't have the time to be putting in asylum like a part time job and wanna hop on Dom a few times a week without worry about how much time they have on s1. 

[Donald]

If you bring back dom with a 10-15 hour requirement right out of the gate, dom will be dead on arrival. 
 

My suggestion: Release S2 Dom with no playtime requirements and see how it does for a month. If there is a lot of people playing it every day, then you can test run a 5 hour requirement on S1.

 

Having a requirement like that out of the gate is shooting yourself in the foot. I don’t imagine many people will be excited that they have to play on S1 like it’s a chore. You will end up with a server sitting at 50 pop but the server is actually dead because everyone is AFK. Might as well shut it down at that point. 

 

 

[Fried Rice]

The trade off for S2 dom is the playtime requirement, they want pop on S1 that's why S1 dom was created. If people don't want a playtime requirement then they wont do S2 dom. 15 hours a month is quite doable. 

[Donald]

3 hours ago, Fried Rice said:

The trade off for S2 dom is the playtime requirement, they want pop on S1 that's why S1 dom was created. If people don't want a playtime requirement then they wont do S2 dom. 15 hours a month is quite doable. 

Well currently there is no pop at all. Opening dom up right away will have a surge of players and many of those will trickle over to S1 as a result. If Asylum can actually retain a decent playerbase then maybe it can think about having playtime requirements. 

The administration are so desperate to get people back on the server and then you all come up with ideas like this to piss the players off even more who just want to play a Dom match on their day off, and potentially hop on S1 with their buddies afterwards. Asylum does not have any room to leverage its players on this because the server is flat out DEAD right now. 

When the server is functioning properly and actually has players you might have some room to negotiate, but right now you have none. If you expect people will hop on S1 in its current state for 15 hours a month to play Dom, you are delusional. S1 will need a complete overhaul for this to work, otherwise you are relying solely on Dom players to populate server 1 which is not sustainable at all. It might be time to move on to a new game mode for S1 if this is the approach.

[Fried Rice]

2 hours ago, Donald said:

Well currently there is no pop at all. Opening dom up right away will have a surge of players and many of those will trickle over to S1 as a result. If Asylum can actually retain a decent playerbase then maybe it can think about having playtime requirements. 

The administration are so desperate to get people back on the server and then you all come up with ideas like this to piss the players off even more who just want to play a Dom match on their day off, and potentially hop on S1 with their buddies afterwards. Asylum does not have any room to leverage its players on this because the server is flat out DEAD right now. 

When the server is functioning properly and actually has players you might have some room to negotiate, but right now you have none. If you expect people will hop on S1 in its current state for 15 hours a month to play Dom, you are delusional. S1 will need a complete overhaul for this to work, otherwise you are relying solely on Dom players to populate server 1 which is not sustainable at all. It might be time to move on to a new game mode for S1 if this is the approach.

Look man, it was hard enough to convince the owners of thinking about S2 dom. The whole point of it is to get people on s1, if they don’t want to play s1 we won’t have dom. If they can’t play on s1, Dom serves no functionality for the health of our server. We arent a domination only server, it’s a cool perk we have when s1 has population.  Also you clearly missed the rest of the meeting when they talked about Malden which in turn IS a complete overhaul of S1.

[Ahm2d]

3 hours ago, Donald said:

Well currently there is no pop at all. Opening dom up right away will have a surge of players and many of those will trickle over to S1 as a result. If Asylum can actually retain a decent playerbase then maybe it can think about having playtime requirements. 

The administration are so desperate to get people back on the server and then you all come up with ideas like this to piss the players off even more who just want to play a Dom match on their day off, and potentially hop on S1 with their buddies afterwards. Asylum does not have any room to leverage its players on this because the server is flat out DEAD right now. 

When the server is functioning properly and actually has players you might have some room to negotiate, but right now you have none. If you expect people will hop on S1 in its current state for 15 hours a month to play Dom, you are delusional. S1 will need a complete overhaul for this to work, otherwise you are relying solely on Dom players to populate server 1 which is not sustainable at all. It might be time to move on to a new game mode for S1 if this is the approach.

Im more of an s2 player but this hours requirment is very good idea imo but 15 is way too much even 10 is too much 5 is fair.

[Iuke]

10 minutes ago, Ahm2d said:

Im more of an s2 player but this hours requirment is very good idea imo but 15 is way too much even 10 is too much 5 is fair.

if you play for 3 hours per day it will take 5 days to reach the requirement, out of 30 days...

[Rocketneo]

5 minutes ago, Iuke said:

if you play for 3 hours per day it will take 5 days to reach the requirement, out of 30 days...

Also it is a rolling 30 day just to add to this

[Donald]

1 hour ago, Fried Rice said:

Look man, it was hard enough to convince the owners of thinking about S2 dom. The whole point of it is to get people on s1, if they don’t want to play s1 we won’t have dom. If they can’t play on s1, Dom serves no functionality for the health of our server. We arent a domination only server, it’s a cool perk we have when s1 has population.  Also you clearly missed the rest of the meeting when they talked about Malden which in turn IS a complete overhaul of S1.

If S1 needs dom players to populate it then there are much bigger problems. Also, a map change is not a complete overhaul if the game plays the exact same way. Changing the map will have a month of hype then die again. The server needs to evolve more than that.

[Chris Peacock]

sneed. 

[Bob Danaloo]

On 2/26/2025 at 5:08 PM, Fried Rice said:

The trade off for S2 dom is the playtime requirement, they want pop on S1 that's why S1 dom was created. If people don't want a playtime requirement then they wont do S2 dom. 15 hours a month is quite doable. 

Pretty sure the people who want to play dom don't want to play server 1, so saying "You can play dom, just do 15 hours of something you don't want to do every month" isn't going to get the influx of people you seem to think it will, just going to end up with 2 dead servers instead of 1.

[Fried Rice]

10 hours ago, Bob Danaloo said:

Pretty sure the people who want to play dom don't want to play server 1, so saying "You can play dom, just do 15 hours of something you don't want to do every month" isn't going to get the influx of people you seem to think it will, just going to end up with 2 dead servers instead of 1.

Then we won’t have an S2 dom. It took months of asking for it and they finally considered it. If that’s not something you all want then it is what it is. Multiple staff members tried and this is what the compromise was. 

[Tom]

If you don't want to play 15 hours over a month on the server then you really don't wanna play dom.

It's called compromise.

[Bob Danaloo]

On 3/1/2025 at 1:17 AM, Fried Rice said:

Then we won’t have an S2 dom. It took months of asking for it and they finally considered it. If that’s not something you all want then it is what it is. Multiple staff members tried and this is what the compromise was. 

 

1 hour ago, Tom said:

If you don't want to play 15 hours over a month on the server then you really don't wanna play dom.

It's called compromise.

Good luck I guess

[Ahm2d]

2 hours ago, Tom said:

If you don't want to play 15 hours over a month on the server then you really don't wanna play dom.

It's called compromise.

this doesn't make any sense 🤣

some people dont want to play s1 for that huge amount of hours or lets say they are not big fan of s1. 15 hours gonna hurt the s2 pop bad probably less than 20 players average and its gonna die again. Or s2 players join and afk to get the hours which is not a good thing for the server.

Edited March 2 by Ahm2d

[Rocketneo]

1 hour ago, Ahm2d said:

this doesn't make any sense 🤣

some people dont want to play s1 for that huge amount of hours or lets say they are not big fan of s1. 15 hours gonna hurt the s2 pop bad probably less than 20 players average and its gonna die again. Or s2 players join and afk to get the hours which is not a good thing for the server.

afking is still more players on the server

[Fried Rice]

9 hours ago, Ahm2d said:

this doesn't make any sense 🤣

some people dont want to play s1 for that huge amount of hours or lets say they are not big fan of s1. 15 hours gonna hurt the s2 pop bad probably less than 20 players average and its gonna die again. Or s2 players join and afk to get the hours which is not a good thing for the server.

So I think this is where the misunderstanding is coming from, the owners do not care about having a server 2 up and running. The goal is to get server 1 population up and higher than its been. Server 2 dom is meant for the people who are playing on server 1, kind of like a reward "hey thanks for playing our server, heres that old s2 server you all loved so much." If people don't want to play S2 dom because of the playtime requirement, they simply wont open it. It doesn't affect them in any type of way.