Subject: »[info]Dev Diary #82: Automatic release of NT-players from

Nah, i am Ajax Amsterdam supporter.
Long story short i am not even Czech, there was no Slovak league when i registered (yes i am here so long...). And i also moved to 2 other countries (in real life). I belong to some international league. As my current country is most probably not my last :D.

Please allow me to introduce myself, i'm a man of wealth and taste... :-)

@ Raul : maybe the best funny part would be :



Every one at the same level :-)

I have the same feelings ;)

well you can always do that on separate domain

We even thought about it a while. It's probably the only possible solution to give a chance to own two clubs.

But there are still some problems - if we will support two different domains, then one should be main one. For game promotion new one should be more important (easier for newbies to start). It would affect old domain with shrinking number of users with every next season.

Why not to have both games on the same domain?
Many games (travian f.e.) have several servers with different speed on the same domain. New user can decide which game speed he prefers and register a new team there.

sure, but in that case it's about game speed.
In Sokker case it's about high difference between old users and new one.
So the answer is easy - with two databases new user should move to new one, more achievable.

personally, I would not bother with creating a new server with the same settings as the old one, with the only purpose of the game restart. All new users would choose the new server and the old one would die eventually.

I am not sure if you completely denied the idea of different game speeds. But I could really imagine two Sokker servers. The current one (with the changes you plan to implement) and a new one with higher speed. New users would face the decision to choose a server (or both) based on their personal preference. They could see list of differences between the two servers and number of users perhaps. I would not put the choice in the fashion of choosing between the old server and new server but rather between the slower server and faster server.

I would not mind but the current one should be kept if not we are wasting time currently, and some of us have been here almost since the beginning.

yes, the current one is the slow server in my idea

i think restart should be done when we have a lot of users now it does not make sense as it does not make sense to devs to support 2 games. Though i will be glad to pay for both ..
old sokker with fixed flash and new one that seems will be not the same only think i would like to be transferred from old one is NT achievements.. anyways we started to dream a lot :)

if the gap between new users and old ones will be adjusted, then I see really no reason to restart the current server. And I think that this should be always the prefered solution over possibility of losing the team users cared for many years
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well agree with you but i do not see it happening

I could work up this idea, but I would need the Raul's statement that it is viable option. Otherwise it would be just waste of the time as with many previous ideas.