The Obvious Problem With Invasions

Jack Cannonskull

Jack Cannonskull

Pirate Lord
So, as you all know there has not been a single invasion in TLOPO (as far as I know) yet when Beta came out this was in the release notes - "Invasions are now available." This made me excited since I really like invasions so on the first day of Beta (I'm pretty sure I was asking the TLOPO Team or maybe the support/moderators who were in game and on the IRC chat when will there be an invasion. I'm pretty sure they replied "You'll just have to wait and see!" Of course at the time I had no problem with that answer because why would I? It was just the first day of Beta and I expected that TLOPO might either not quite finished with the invasions or planned to release them on a specific day or maybe even both! On New Years Eve many people thought that there would be an invasion. As you know there was not. Time has passed its been nearly 3 months since Beta was first released and still no invasions. I understand if back then the TLOPO team just didn't want to release quite yet or had it planned for a special day but what now? Why are they in the Beta release notes. I also understand if it was a surprise back then and that's fine! But its been a while since beta released and I feel that the TLOPO team should really tell me/us why.


Please note two things if the TLOPO team responds It isn't quite finished or were still working on it that's absolutely fine!! All I want to know is if its ready or if its not and why its not here. I don't have to get a specific answer like it will be released on Feb 23 Its ready but we aren't going to release it yet is also fine! even it was in the Beta notes as a mistake is fine!

This is not intended to be mean to the TLOPO staff because they didn't add a feature I liked. The TLOPO staff are to be thanked for all of their free time they have used to make such a great game and they have made mine blowing progress due to their small team and time constraints so Thank You TLOPO. This is only intended to understand why invasions were in the release notes and not in the game now.


For all those who were to lazy to read the other paragraphs this is a thread asking the TLOPO team why invasions were in the Beta release notes and aren't here. :D

EDIT: sorry I misspelled some things and I have fixed most of them
 
Thank you all for your replies but what I am looking for isn't that invasions be added but why they were in the release notes for beta.
 
I'd actually be terrified to have invasions in the game at its current point. I fight two enemies at the same time and my game plummets down to 2 FPS. I can't imagine what 50+ Pirates and close to a hundred enemies spawning would do. Main focus should be on maintaining stability in the game rather than adding more content.
 
I mean, kind of a cart before the horse situation. First, AI is not up to par in the slightest to make invasions fun and worthwhile. On top of that massive amounts of people in the same area are already putting stress on the server WITHOUT players attacking NPCs or hostile NPCs attacking in return (Think about being on kingshead while someone is training grenade, invasions would be much worse than that). Over all it is just too early on for this to be realistic.

Jason O'Connell said:
Do you recall which version mentioned them? I don't remember seeing it.
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Here is the forum post mentioning invasions. 7th bullet from the top and a large subsection dedicated to invasion fixes. Ironically it is the initial beta release. My guess when this version was released it was planned that invasions would work with low server population but the number of people who wanted to play beta was probably really high making invasions unrealistic. I mean, flagships are on there but they were taken down for the same reason. Hope this clears things up!
 
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To go with what Horns said, it was in the initial feature list for beta release. However, I don't think they were anticipating near as many people on as there are now, and there was no way to predict that something would cause a massive amount of lag. So if the devs were to try to test an invasion, chances are there would be hundreds of threads complaining about the lag, even if they said that it was solely for testing purposes.
 
So again guys I don't think you understand I was just trying to figure out WHY they were in the release notes. I feel like most of you were thinking I meant that they should be in the game and that I wanted them to be in the game. The last two posts were helpful though. I was also really hoping a TLOPO staff member might reply.
 
Jack Cannonskull said:
So again guys I don't think you understand I was just trying to figure out WHY they were in the release notes. I feel like most of you were thinking I meant that they should be in the game and that I wanted them to be in the game. The last two posts were helpful though. I was also really hoping a TLOPO staff member might reply.
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they were probably disabled before any happened due to the turnout they received when beta opened, i dont think the servers would have been able to handle invasions after a certain number of players were online not to mention the aggro issues at launch it might have been included as a mistake as well, they could have drafted the notes at one point before as they were compiling all the features but removed it before it was posted due to some unforeseen bug and forgot to remove it when beta was finally released and it was posted
 
Christopher Cannonskull said:
they were probably disabled before any happened due to the turnout they received when beta opened, i dont think the servers would have been able to handle invasions after a certain number of players were online not to mention the aggro issues at launch it might have been included as a mistake as well, they could have drafted the notes at one point before as they were compiling all the features but removed it before it was posted due to some unforeseen bug and forgot to remove it when beta was finally released and it was posted
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I think that could have very well happened your probably right. Btw there are still tons of aggro issues :D
 
I personally loved invasions, but i simply think that thy are to taxing to currently add to the game. Since we are in beta, the game isn't very well optimized, as made apparent with the low FPS and frequent crashes. i can only imagine the nightmare invasions would be.

*not meant to bash the developers, they are making huge progress and will figure it out eventually!*
 
Chasemand1 said:
I personally loved invasions, but i simply think that thy are to taxing to currently add to the game. Since we are in beta, the game isn't very well optimized, as made apparent with the low FPS and frequent crashes. i can only imagine the nightmare invasions would be.

*not meant to bash the developers, they are making huge progress and will figure it out eventually!*
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Wholeheartedly agree.

While i personally look forward to invasions, it would definitely be much to taxing on the game itself at this point in time.
 
ElizaCreststeel said:
Many of us LOVE invasions but until the lag issues are dealt with, any invasion would crush a server.
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Greyvicee said:
I'd actually be terrified to have invasions in the game at its current point. I fight two enemies at the same time and my game plummets down to 2 FPS. I can't imagine what 50+ Pirates and close to a hundred enemies spawning would do. Main focus should be on maintaining stability in the game rather than adding more content.
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Chasemand1 said:
I personally loved invasions, but i simply think that thy are to taxing to currently add to the game. Since we are in beta, the game isn't very well optimized, as made apparent with the low FPS and frequent crashes. i can only imagine the nightmare invasions would be.

*not meant to bash the developers, they are making huge progress and will figure it out eventually!*
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ArabellaDrummond said:
Wholeheartedly agree.

While i personally look forward to invasions, it would definitely be much to taxing on the game itself at this point in time.
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All of you I agree I'm simply saying that I was trying to figure out why invasions were in the release notes but not in the game. Of course invasions shouldn't be in the game it would be too much trouble. I think we have gotten through the problem so this thread can be locked
 
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