300 players per sector????

Fleet · 29 Oct 2018, 8:17PM

with the new format for consolidating sectors, they are in a sense cramming us in like sardines, this will not work, 300 players per sector or 3 diff full alis per sector, this just will not work, 4/5 of the game board gonna go byebye. wowowow. i was expecting 50% of game but this is just to much.

de witte · 29 Oct 2018, 8:19PM

in old days there were sectors with 3000 players, sometimes it was 3 weeks to get into those sectors.But comms were buzzing and sector wars were a week long event

Fleet · 29 Oct 2018, 8:21PM

with 3000 players per sector just imagine what pve targets are gonna spawn like, u wont be able to see any water on map lmao

Joshua Philp · 29 Oct 2018, 8:22PM

de witte said:

in old days there were sectors with 3000 players, sometimes it was 3 weeks to get into those sectors.But comms were buzzing and sector wars were a week long event

Those sector wars were fought with BBs and Levis.
You could lose several fleets and be back up and running a few hours later, would be days now...

estrauss11 · 29 Oct 2018, 8:22PM

I miss having full sectors, and the sector consolidation should kill some lag to, less sectors less server resources need. The only thing will be silo targets will have to increase.

de witte · 29 Oct 2018, 8:26PM

Joshua Philp said:

de witte said:

in old days there were sectors with 3000 players, sometimes it was 3 weeks to get into those sectors.But comms were buzzing and sector wars were a week long event

Those sector wars were fought with BBs and Levis.
You could lose several fleets and be back up and running a few hours later, would be days now...

yes, one reason to lower repair time or cost.s spent 100 coins a week then.Now 100 per month max, not that insane to coin a fleet repair every 30 minutes or so at 40ish coin each.

TheDragon · 29 Oct 2018, 8:26PM

think lag is bad now. just wait haha.

TheDragon · 29 Oct 2018, 8:28PM

also i think its funny how theyre doing all this testing. bet you its on their private lagless server.

estrauss11 · 29 Oct 2018, 8:29PM

TheDragon said:

also i think its funny how theyre doing all this testing. bet you its on their private lagless server.

Probably since it would be in house, and no lag.

Skoden · 29 Oct 2018, 8:36PM

Fleet said:

with the new format for consolidating sectors, they are in a sense cramming us in like sardines, this will not work, 3000 players per sector or 30 diff full alis per sector, this just will not work, 4/5 of the game board gonna go byebye. wowowow. i was expecting 50% of game but this is just to much.

So you honestly believe there are still 300000 players playing? Hmmmmm Pretty sure this isn't the case. I think you are way overestimating how many people are left, and are making a big deal out of nothing. This is by far the best change they have suggested in the past 2 years.

xdoghouse7 · 29 Oct 2018, 8:41PM

I see it being the same average number of players per sector. They are just reaping 80% of the bases, because they are dead.

Angus_B · 29 Oct 2018, 8:45PM

there will really be no need to increase spawn rates as those inactive bases that are going to be removed don't spawn targets; so that aspect of the new consolidation just proves that the "company" has no idea of what is going on. Have to just say this HAHAHAHAHA complete and utter bullchit

Once again "smoke and mirrors"

Fleet · 29 Oct 2018, 8:47PM

ClickBait said:

Fleet said:

with the new format for consolidating sectors, they are in a sense cramming us in like sardines, this will not work, 3000 players per sector or 30 diff full alis per sector, this just will not work, 4/5 of the game board gonna go byebye. wowowow. i was expecting 50% of game but this is just to much.

So you honestly believe there are still 300000 players playing? Hmmmmm Pretty sure this isn't the case. I think you are way overestimating how many people are left, and are making a big deal out of nothing. This is by far the best change they have suggested in the past 2 years.

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ty for point out my obvious math mistake, it will be 300 per sector. edited to reflect

MC MUDBONE · 29 Oct 2018, 9:16PM

Fleet said:

ClickBait said:

Fleet said:

with the new format for consolidating sectors, they are in a sense cramming us in like sardines, this will not work, 3000 players per sector or 30 diff full alis per sector, this just will not work, 4/5 of the game board gonna go byebye. wowowow. i was expecting 50% of game but this is just to much.

So you honestly believe there are still 300000 players playing? Hmmmmm Pretty sure this isn't the case. I think you are way overestimating how many people are left, and are making a big deal out of nothing. This is by far the best change they have suggested in the past 2 years.

ty for point out my obvious math mistake, it will be 300 per sector. edited to reflect

That number 30.752 isn't how many people are playing battle pirates it's how many players are playing at the same time over all the Kixeye games. WC, VC, & BP's now lets divide that number by 3 we get 10,250 players playing battle pirates give or take a few. Now lets divide this number by 5 worlds, we get 2050 players per world give or take. Now we divide this number by 20 we get 102.5 players per sector give or take a few players.

GenGrant · 29 Oct 2018, 9:26PM

MC MUDBONE said:

Fleet said:

ClickBait said:

Fleet said:

with the new format for consolidating sectors, they are in a sense cramming us in like sardines, this will not work, 3000 players per sector or 30 diff full alis per sector, this just will not work, 4/5 of the game board gonna go byebye. wowowow. i was expecting 50% of game but this is just to much.

So you honestly believe there are still 300000 players playing? Hmmmmm Pretty sure this isn't the case. I think you are way overestimating how many people are left, and are making a big deal out of nothing. This is by far the best change they have suggested in the past 2 years.

ty for point out my obvious math mistake, it will be 300 per sector. edited to reflect

That number 30.752 isn't how many people are playing battle pirates it's how many players are playing at the same time over all the Kixeye games. WC, VC, & BP's now lets divide that number by 3 we get 10,250 players playing battle pirates give or take a few. Now lets divide this number by 5 worlds, we get 2050 players per world give or take. Now we divide this number by 20 we get 102.5 players per sector give or take a few players.

Then double it for the number of players on fb and add more for gameroom and other platforms. The bottom line we don't know the numbers

Laredo · 29 Oct 2018, 9:33PM

GenGrant said:

MC MUDBONE said:

Fleet said:

ClickBait said:

Fleet said:

with the new format for consolidating sectors, they are in a sense cramming us in like sardines, this will not work, 3000 players per sector or 30 diff full alis per sector, this just will not work, 4/5 of the game board gonna go byebye. wowowow. i was expecting 50% of game but this is just to much.

So you honestly believe there are still 300000 players playing? Hmmmmm Pretty sure this isn't the case. I think you are way overestimating how many people are left, and are making a big deal out of nothing. This is by far the best change they have suggested in the past 2 years.

ty for point out my obvious math mistake, it will be 300 per sector. edited to reflect

That number 30.752 isn't how many people are playing battle pirates it's how many players are playing at the same time over all the Kixeye games. WC, VC, & BP's now lets divide that number by 3 we get 10,250 players playing battle pirates give or take a few. Now lets divide this number by 5 worlds, we get 2050 players per world give or take. Now we divide this number by 20 we get 102.5 players per sector give or take a few players.

Then double it for the number of players on fb and add more for gameroom and other platforms. The bottom line we don't know the numbers

This is the correct answer.

MC MUDBONE · 29 Oct 2018, 9:34PM

GenGrant said:

MC MUDBONE said:

Fleet said:

ClickBait said:

Fleet said:

with the new format for consolidating sectors, they are in a sense cramming us in like sardines, this will not work, 3000 players per sector or 30 diff full alis per sector, this just will not work, 4/5 of the game board gonna go byebye. wowowow. i was expecting 50% of game but this is just to much.

So you honestly believe there are still 300000 players playing? Hmmmmm Pretty sure this isn't the case. I think you are way overestimating how many people are left, and are making a big deal out of nothing. This is by far the best change they have suggested in the past 2 years.

ty for point out my obvious math mistake, it will be 300 per sector. edited to reflect

That number 30.752 isn't how many people are playing battle pirates it's how many players are playing at the same time over all the Kixeye games. WC, VC, & BP's now lets divide that number by 3 we get 10,250 players playing battle pirates give or take a few. Now lets divide this number by 5 worlds, we get 2050 players per world give or take. Now we divide this number by 20 we get 102.5 players per sector give or take a few players.

Then double it for the number of players on fb and add more for gameroom and other platforms. The bottom line we don't know the numbers

all FB or game room is, is a portal to log into kixeye from. once you click the play battle pirates link via FB or game room or any other venue you are redirected to kixeye site so the numbers you see have you included as well. No need to double numbers these are the live number of players.

E McCaslin · 29 Oct 2018, 9:34PM

Hard enough now trying to find FM ,Chore & raid targets now . When this happens it will be near impossible !!

MC MUDBONE · 29 Oct 2018, 9:36PM

IMHO once it's all said an done I'll wager everyone will be pleased with the outcome.

KIX_JustMike · 29 Oct 2018, 10:08PM

The number is certainly beyond 300 players per sector. The idea was to level out activity. Some sectors are buzzing with activities while others were more sparse. The sector collapse has two pieces. Tomorrow when this goes live if you are a packed sector you won't see much change in activity, but spacing and screen clutter should be reduced. Next week there will be another deploy that will further address spacing of targets to make the screen even more pleasing to the eye. As far as lag reduction, while it certainly could and should help lower speed connected players, I do not think this will be an appreciable improvement for LPBs, but by no means will it make it worse.

VvVvVvVvV · 29 Oct 2018, 10:23PM

Fleet said:

ClickBait said:

Fleet said:

with the new format for consolidating sectors, they are in a sense cramming us in like sardines, this will not work, 3000 players per sector or 30 diff full alis per sector, this just will not work, 4/5 of the game board gonna go byebye. wowowow. i was expecting 50% of game but this is just to much.

So you honestly believe there are still 300000 players playing? Hmmmmm Pretty sure this isn't the case. I think you are way overestimating how many people are left, and are making a big deal out of nothing. This is by far the best change they have suggested in the past 2 years.

ty for point out my obvious math mistake, it will be 300 per sector. edited to reflect

That number, while not the number of BP players, is a good indicator.

I ran some tests during events -- had some friends logon, participate in the event, hit one target and earn only a few points.

They then checked the Leader Board - with only a couple of points, they'd be near the bottom of the list.

They'd finish about 22,000th for most events -- meaning there were 21,999 players ahead of them on the leader board -- to get on the leader board, you had to be an active player -- so about 22,000 active players participating in that event.

The last event, only had about 10,000 participants.

so while that number isn't accurate, it's a good barometer of how things are going. It overstates the actual number of active players. Leader Board are a good way to see how many players are participating. Those numbers have been trending downward -- but no surprise, all the recent events have been pretty bad, nothing new or interesting about them -- designed just to do lots of damage to try and increase coin-coin from repair. Not about fun gameplay, just monetization of every aspect of everything.

AnEyeForAnEye · 29 Oct 2018, 10:34PM

Fleet said:

with the new format for consolidating sectors, they are in a sense cramming us in like sardines, this will not work, 300 players per sector or 3 diff full alis per sector, this just will not work, 4/5 of the game board gonna go byebye. wowowow. i was expecting 50% of game but this is just to much.

I disagree, the 4/5 sector consolidation is basicly what we see right now, 1 full sector followed by 4 mostly empty ones. Yes it can vary in some world, but it what is has become. Lots of dead base who wont be back when consolidation start.

But is also shows how badly the situation is with the player base and how much the player base as shrunk and continues to shrink.

Personnaly i dont mind it, it will make sector more active, increase the number of targets and reduce travel time.

James Leon · 30 Oct 2018, 4:33AM

I think this will be a good fix. BP might be like the old days except we have fifteen hour hull repairs instead of three,lol. I think this should also show the conspiracy people some love so that they can see that they were right about diminishing numbers of players. I believe that a lot of people might be afraid of something that might turn out to be beneficial and fix a lot of what the complaints are. Maybe with less sectors there will be less lag?

Whiteagle1965 · 30 Oct 2018, 4:53AM

Only thing that gonna really hit anyone is the foul mouth in chat. Really need someone that can suspended that coz by those parties who start it AS of now the world chat is so unbearable to see how many peeps shouting and foul mouthing against players like a child with no manners, I would disjust that they should have someone in chat to monitor that Crap. So when we shirk in less sector we gonna see a lot in reg Comm chat and no one gonna like it period and that 1 reason we like those quiet sector so we can talk without those loud idiot that have no respect for other in the game.

InSidious_66 · 30 Oct 2018, 4:54AM

James Leon said:

Maybe with less sectors there will be less lag?

The stress on the Kix servers will defo go down, but not necessarily on our laptop/pc.
Here's the problem...
Not all sectors are loaded on your laptop/pc when u log in.
The sector you're in is what loads and eats memory and cpu/gpu power. When u travel to another sector there is a loading screen, so that sector now loads.
But with each sector having many more players, my guess is lag will go up because of that.

I could be wrong as to how this stuff works tho..

Sputnik001 · 30 Oct 2018, 5:01AM

KIX_JustMike said:

The number is certainly beyond 300 players per sector. The idea was to level out activity. Some sectors are buzzing with activities while others were more sparse. The sector collapse has two pieces. Tomorrow when this goes live if you are a packed sector you won't see much change in activity, but spacing and screen clutter should be reduced. Next week there will be another deploy that will further address spacing of targets to make the screen even more pleasing to the eye. As far as lag reduction, while it certainly could and should help lower speed connected players, I do not think this will be an appreciable improvement for LPBs, but by no means will it make it worse.

So for those players that may want to go to a quieter sector, are there going to be any???

Those that like the sedate life, just cruising the 7 seas without a worry, only occasionally flying the skull and cross bones...

Sleeping Bear · 30 Oct 2018, 5:02AM

A sector setup includes 36 Sub Sector Resource Bases set up in a 6x6 pattern. With that said 360 active bases per sector only equates to 10 bases around a Sub Sector Resource Base. I would expect more in the 20-25 range so 720 Bases per sector is very doable.

Loco266 · 30 Oct 2018, 7:07AM

@MC MUDBONE said:
GenGrant said:

MC MUDBONE said:

Fleet said:

ClickBait said:

Fleet said:

with the new format for consolidating sectors, they are in a sense cramming us in like sardines, this will not work, 3000 players per sector or 30 diff full alis per sector, this just will not work, 4/5 of the game board gonna go byebye. wowowow. i was expecting 50% of game but this is just to much.

So you honestly believe there are still 300000 players playing? Hmmmmm Pretty sure this isn't the case. I think you are way overestimating how many people are left, and are making a big deal out of nothing. This is by far the best change they have suggested in the past 2 years.

ty for point out my obvious math mistake, it will be 300 per sector. edited to reflect

That number 30.752 isn't how many people are playing battle pirates it's how many players are playing at the same time over all the Kixeye games. WC, VC, & BP's now lets divide that number by 3 we get 10,250 players playing battle pirates give or take a few. Now lets divide this number by 5 worlds, we get 2050 players per world give or take. Now we divide this number by 20 we get 102.5 players per sector give or take a few players.

Then double it for the number of players on fb and add more for gameroom and other platforms. The bottom line we don't know the numbers

all FB or game room is, is a portal to log into kixeye from. once you click the play battle pirates link via FB or game room or any other venue you are redirected to kixeye site so the numbers you see have you included as well. No need to double numbers these are the live number of players.

Nope. Facebook plays on Facebook and is not reflected in the numbers here, nor are AG and Kong.

Loco266 · 30 Oct 2018, 7:10AM

@kixeyeuser_1417385361947_1062541018 said:
James Leon said:

Maybe with less sectors there will be less lag?

The stress on the Kix servers will defo go down, but not necessarily on our laptop/pc.
Here's the problem...
Not all sectors are loaded on your laptop/pc when u log in.
The sector you're in is what loads and eats memory and cpu/gpu power. When u travel to another sector there is a loading screen, so that sector now loads.
But with each sector having many more players, my guess is lag will go up because of that.

I could be wrong as to how this stuff works tho..

I think it loads on a world basis, not a sector basis. You only get a loading screen when switching sectors if you do it through a relay tower. I scroll to other sectors all the time, no loading screen involved at all.

Dazandren · 30 Oct 2018, 8:29AM

estrauss11 said:

TheDragon said:

also i think its funny how theyre doing all this testing. bet you its on their private lagless server.

Probably since it would be in house, and no lag.

i'm hoping they are using proxies from the other side of the world to get a truer sense of what the lag is like.

Fred-Flintstone · 30 Oct 2018, 8:48AM

My phantom fangs are ready and waiting Sir.............no more searching the seas for fleets to snipe.........thank you Kix for bringing all those fleets together for me. I play to snipe and the day you stop snipping is the day I stop playing and so will lots of others, Until that day let the crying begin, I love to hear you **** moan................................. Kix I will continue to generate some coins for you -----Snipping Rules

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300 players per sector????