I'm really tired of losing my shaman turn to it. Always has been annoying but now I'm losing my shaman turn because of silly updates on a game I don't even play. Atleast give us a longer countdown or warning before non urget server restarts. Thank you.

I'm not certain, but shouldn't this be in the Suggestions topic? Also if you don't play the game, why does it even bother you?

i agree with lazaar bc my saves are precious and i vote lazaar for transformice president ok thank!!

my saves and ratios and stats are extremely important pls make longer countdown pls thank you

Musicaholic a dit :

I'm not certain, but shouldn't this be in the Suggestions topic? Also if you don't play the game, why does it even bother you?

I thought it was clear that this is about Bouboum updates forcing restart on Transformice.

Lilyblol a dit :

my saves and ratio s and stats arE extremely important pls make longer countdown p lsss thank you

It's not even save or experience or ratio lol, it's simply that I enjoy shaming and it takes some 20 minutes to get there. Also yea I don't think asking for a longer countdown before server restarts is too much of a deal, every other shitty online game has it.

Lazaar a dit :

I thought it was clear that this is about Bouboum updates forcing restart on Transformice.

Actually no, it wasn't.
But you do offer a point. In fact...why is Bouboum on the same server?

I thought they were different games so they need to be in different servers(but yet that means that people will have to recreate their accounts since they are using their Transformice account to log in, creating the link between the games, making them the same server)

wait what tfm restarts for bouboum updates? that's pretty dumb

Lazaar a dit :

I thought it was clear that this is about Bouboum updates forcing restart on Transformice.

I'm sorry, but no, because you never even once mentioned Bouboum in the OP.
I didn't know that TFM restarts for Bouboum updates. That's weird.

Haruhitastic a dit :

Actually no, it wasn't.
But you do offer a point. In fact...why is Bouboum on the same server?

Probably because Bouboum isn't that popular and doesn't require an entire server to run it and can easily/less expensively be handled by Transformices servers. Possibly considering that the game was already running on Transformice before, it may have just been easier to do it that way (Plus the game might still be in beta? Not sure at this point).

This is the only thing I can really make sense out of it besides the Admins not wanting to run it on another server or some complicated technical reason.

I do agree it makes little sense to have to restart TFM because of Bouboum updates, but the fact that this is the reality makes sense from a technical point of view. I'd love to hear from the admins whether there are any plans on changing any of this..

Two ideas to make this more bearable that do not require any coding whatsoever:

1. Choose specific update times, used for all games. Just like (for example) Microsoft has a dedicated "patch day", so too could Atelier801 choose to declare a specific day of the week/month as update day. Making this publicly known will give people a chance to adapt to this thing and thus empower them to deal with it however they wish.

2. Somewhat similar to the first idea, but still relevant, is the idea of bundling updates. Less restarts = less frustration. The only risk here is that debugging these updates may become trickier when doing this.

Musicaholic a dit :

I'm not certain, but shouldn't this be in the Suggestions topic? Also if you don't play the game, why does it even bother you?

It is in the suggestion area -_- /support

/no support

2 mins is 1 round, that's plenty warning for me. It's a "oh, gotta stop playing now :(" moment. If it told me "server will restart in 15 mins" I'd be all "woop woop i got lots of time", would continue playing, promptly forget there was a timer involved, and only notice again when i got the 2 min warning anyway.

just personal tho, i'm a scatterbrain.

also, anytime i've ever seen the server restart come up all people do is complain and start swearing (which i don't understand... surely you want maintenance/updates? :S ) and this negativity would last even longer if they were given more warning.

Half-support maybe?
I agree, when there is a server restart and there is like 1 minute left, I worry and try to become faster in building.. but eh :x
But well it's not the end of Transformice.. you can have many more turns as a Shaman in one hour. Plus remember, you're not the only one who would be loosing the turn.. other Shamans get angry when they don't have the time to build, so what'd the solution? let's say admins gave us a warning one hour before a server restart, and then 1-2 minutes left, and it's a Shaman's turn, it'd be just like the same exact thing.. just different minutes/hours warnings before a server restart.. and at last a it's someone's turn and bam, server restart.. So yeah you're not the only one..

Squirrelmows a dit :

also, anytime i've ever seen the server restart come up all people do is complain and start swearing (which i don't understand... surely you want maintenance/updates? :S ) and this negativity would last even longer if they were given more warning.

I agree with you.. i get happy when there is a server restart even if it's my turn as a Shaman.. o_o

e1/ i just realized this thread is from 2013. rofl ops oh well