Posted by OG

thallen has unix's email in his pic maybe we can use that

Don't, someone contacted me saying that it isn't an email address he actively checks (even though it's posted on his personal website?)
I sent it to his correct address though, but was asked not to post it here  

Posted by Thallen

Don't, someone contacted me saying that it isn't an email address he actively checks (even though it's posted on his personal website?)
I sent it to his correct address though, but was asked not to post it here

This is why I liked it when Stefan was here. He atleast had a direct email which we could contact him by.  

Even right now. Graal is probably making a lot more money than it did a few years ago.

Then, you have to wonder. What will they do when their profits' rate of increase suddenly lowers.
When that happens, they will just launch new content to keep you in the game.("CRAB CHANCE!!")
I guess upgrading the server or having another one is like a last resort. A panic button for when a lot of people stop spending money on graal.  

What does unixmad do with his weekly income from graal I wonder? most likely spend it on himself. There is no way he will even bother upgrading when the server is clearly hosted for an extremely cheap amount.  

Posted by OG

What does unixmad do with his weekly income from graal I wonder? most likely spend it on himself. There is no way he will even bother upgrading when the server is clearly hosted for an extremely cheap amount.

Can't judge people like that. You don't even know how much they spend.
Unixmad is just the head (probably) of the people that manage graal.
Then there are the people who invest in graal and manage it's money.

I doubt Unixmad is the only person who decides where the money will be spent, and there are most likely a lot of other people that need to be paid.
Advertising, Accountants, Lawyers, etc.

The only thing that shows is that no matter how many of these rant threads are made, people will still play graal, and make ToonSlab more money.  

making a change.org petition for this (probably won't grab any attention but its worth a shot)

https://www.change.org/p/players-and...edium=copyLink  

Posted by OG

making a change.org petition for this (probably won't grab any attention but its worth a shot)

https://www.change.org/p/players-and...edium=copyLink

That is a waste of time...  

Posted by James205

That is a waste of time...

I know it is, but tbh it is really the only thing we have besides people like fp4, dusty and rufus who can most likely talk to unixmad directly.  

Skype him: unixmad  

if you make a petition i think it would be best to make the opening letter/description/text more professionally written  

Don't bother with any petition, I think that would be a complete waste of your time

Something I had just mentioned to someone is that one thing that I think really might be hampering down the server is the fact that the AFK disconnection has not worked for years

You used to be disconnected after 20 minutes and on every platform you'd need to click the button to reconnect - now you auto-reconnect on every single platform (unless the app is in the background and you're multitasking)
That's a client issue, which is something that someone like Stefan used to handle, but maybe local staff could implement some scripts to make this work properly again

I'm sure that some ridiculous percentage of the playercount is AFK and just consuming server resources at any given time  

Posted by Thallen

Don't bother with any petition, I think that would be a complete waste of your time

Something I had just mentioned to someone is that one thing that I think really might be hampering down the server is the fact that the AFK disconnection has not worked for years

You used to be disconnected after 20 minutes and on every platform you'd need to click the button to reconnect - now you auto-reconnect on every single platform (unless the app is in the background and you're multitasking)

That is a client issue, which is something that someone like Stefan used to handle, but maybe local staff can implement some scripts to make this work properly

I was just talking about this to someone an hour ago. The fact they removed it is probably to make numbers look better overall for the game but it really holds down the server.  

Posted by Thallen

Don't bother with any petition, I think that would be a complete waste of your time

Something I had just mentioned to someone is that one thing that I think really might be hampering down the server is the fact that the AFK disconnection has not worked for years

You used to be disconnected after 20 minutes and on every platform you'd need to click the button to reconnect - now you auto-reconnect on every single platform (unless the app is in the background and you're multitasking)
That's a client issue, which is something that someone like Stefan used to handle, but maybe local staff can implement some scripts to make this work properly

I'm sure that some ridiculous percentage of the playercount is AFK and just consuming server resources at any given time

Afaik, unixmad told Stefan to remove it to boost the playercount.  

Posted by Thallen

Don't bother with any petition, I think that would be a complete waste of your time

Something I had just mentioned to someone is that one thing that I think really might be hampering down the server is the fact that the AFK disconnection has not worked for years

You used to be disconnected after 20 minutes and on every platform you'd need to click the button to reconnect - now you auto-reconnect on every single platform (unless the app is in the background and you're multitasking)
That's a client issue, which is something that someone like Stefan used to handle, but maybe local staff could implement some scripts to make this work properly again

I'm sure that some ridiculous percentage of the playercount is AFK and just consuming server resources at any given time

more like %30 imo go look at the bank or graal city in general. Literal afk fest  

Posted by PumaD

Afaik, unixmad told Stefan to remove it to boost the playercount.

I don't understand why he'd want to do that, in respect to what it'd actually do for the game. Anything with metrics sent to Apple? I don't know.

If he wanted to give the impression that more players are playing than really are, he could just ask fp4 to add 20% to the playercount on the damn map or tell his web developer to inflate that number on the website, whatever...