About three days ago, I had read the galnet article and decided to help out on an Alert system. I figured 3 days was plenty of time to push a system, so I picked Bi Dhorora(about 20% progress at the time) and got to work.
Over the next few days, I hauled a few thousand passengers, and pushed the system about 20%. Other players have also contributed to push it about 30% more, putting it at about 70% right now. Unfortunately, it's looking like that's not going to be enough, and all our effort is going to be lost in a few hours.
The annoying thing about this is, there's really nothing more I could have done. I tried getting people on it on discord servers and reddit. I hauled a pretty good amount myself. We had enough time to do it, in theory. It was a top 5 alert. I just got unlucky and didn't get enough players on it. And now I'm probably not gonna contribute to Alerts unless I've got a good 5 days to do so, because the chances of all my work going to waste are too high, if I just get unlucky and nobody else wants to do the same system I'm working on.
Unfortunately, that's only going to make the problem even worse from a cooperation standpoint, since the more players get frustrated and don't participate, the less successful the remaining players will be. Obviously, there need to be consequences for failure, but right now, it's basically impossible to accurately predict whether or not you'll succeed or fail, and that makes it nothing more than gambling, with large amounts of your time on the table.
I don't know what the answer is, or if there even is an answer, I'm just saying it bugs me.
Over the next few days, I hauled a few thousand passengers, and pushed the system about 20%. Other players have also contributed to push it about 30% more, putting it at about 70% right now. Unfortunately, it's looking like that's not going to be enough, and all our effort is going to be lost in a few hours.
The annoying thing about this is, there's really nothing more I could have done. I tried getting people on it on discord servers and reddit. I hauled a pretty good amount myself. We had enough time to do it, in theory. It was a top 5 alert. I just got unlucky and didn't get enough players on it. And now I'm probably not gonna contribute to Alerts unless I've got a good 5 days to do so, because the chances of all my work going to waste are too high, if I just get unlucky and nobody else wants to do the same system I'm working on.
Unfortunately, that's only going to make the problem even worse from a cooperation standpoint, since the more players get frustrated and don't participate, the less successful the remaining players will be. Obviously, there need to be consequences for failure, but right now, it's basically impossible to accurately predict whether or not you'll succeed or fail, and that makes it nothing more than gambling, with large amounts of your time on the table.
I don't know what the answer is, or if there even is an answer, I'm just saying it bugs me.
