Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Ardeth]

Out of curiosity, why didn't you ask your FC to run stuff with you instead of disconnecting from them?

I tried. I was, or I should say, I felt like I was being ignored. A couple of them wanted to do Eureka or roulettes, but then nothing would happen. Yesterday, one of the members wanted to spam run stuff to get to 90. I said, "I'm down send an invite." And then nothing. There were a lot of reasons, honestly. They were nice people it's just a lot of the time I felt alone despite being in a group full of people. I was an officer, but I didn't feel like I fit in. Sorry if that was long-winded.

[KatiaRelanah]

To OP (might've answered before, I know I said it before, but since it came up in New Posts (again)):

Prisoner's dilemma. Or some other game theory thing anyway. Everyone on Dynamis assumes everyone else on Dynamis isn't staying for rouletting, so they DC hop. Then/also the "tolerance creep" occurs, where people willing to wait no more than 5 minutes leave; their absence in turn makes people who would wait 10+ minutes never pop, "screw this I'm out", they leave; then the 20+ min people lose their patience; etc.

At some point, you end up with only the vanishingly small number of "oh, this is fine" people with infinite patience, and no one else, routinely (trying to be) doing content. Then, the population/activity level of Dynamis as perceived by someone who's never before had to deal with it on a routine basis but has some level of optimism immediately sees a "over 30 minutes" pop ETA appears to be dead, because it functionally is.

[Ardeth]

To OP (might've answered before, I know I said it before, but since it came up in New Posts (again)):

Prisoner's dilemma. Or some other game theory thing anyway. Everyone on Dynamis assumes everyone else on Dynamis isn't staying for rouletting, so they DC hop. Then/also the "tolerance creep" occurs, where people willing to wait no more than 5 minutes leave; their absence in turn makes people who would wait 10+ minutes never pop, "screw this I'm out", they leave; then the 20+ min people lose their patience; etc.

At some point, you end up with only the vanishingly small number of "oh, this is fine" people with infinite patience, and no one else, routinely (trying to be) doing content. Then, the population/activity level of Dynamis as perceived by someone who's never before had to deal with it on a routine basis but has some level of optimism immediately sees a "over 30 minutes" pop ETA appears to be dead, because it functionally is.

Which is true even when it pops in 5 minutes. I've had 30-minute ones turn into 30-second ones, but people see 30 minutes, and they unque. Almost out of habit. I've sniped FC mates queues to help speed them up. But almost every FC I've been in since coming to Dynamis has no less than like 5 people on something other than Dynamis. That became me. I was super optimistic about it, but after several months of dealing with it, I'm out.

[Themarvin]

plenty of houses still over there...

[Kyrj]

Because Dynamis was an unneeded solution to a problem that we have for 2 weeks every what, 2ish years when an expac drops? Oh and get ready for 4 more worlds to be addded to it. Can't wait to see even more dead wards in the housing districts.

[Zsolen]

Dynamis players might have to set up times to queue one night for say experts or leveling roulette. Encourage everyone to queue at a certain time. 8 or 9 pm US Eastern might work.

The point would be to try to create a small window of pops for a few hours. Once that window is opened, people will know it exists and queue around that time. If all goes well, eventually people will want it open every night and for more things or set up pfs for other things.

[JamieRose]

I had a 90 minute queue for expert roulette the other day...

[Ravenblade1979]

maybe...wild idea here. those of us from other dc's can take time daily to run over to dynamis and help out with queues.

[Ardeth]

maybe...wild idea here. those of us from other dc's can take time daily to run over to dynamis and help out with queues.

Or SE can just add cross datacenter queuing, and then it won't matter.

[grinkdaboy]

its dead now but just wait until 7.0 launches