Inform players earlier about seasons.

[gray oasis]

The last week to 2 weeks of gens feels like a ffa. That might be the point but it seems very scammy to try and get new players to purchase sunbits to purchase tools they dont know they will only have for a week or so.
So Id like to suggest making it a lot clearer that there are seasons. (maybe along side it advertise how its competitive so its good to reset stuff)
Adding on to this maybe change or add a leaderboard of level top to be levels gained that week. Just something that might make new players try harder.

Thanks for reading (:

[terse fulcrum]

Resets have a 1 week notice as far as I know

Some players would already know when Gens will reset

[gray oasis]

Yeah but not a lot of new players even know about resets. Not the timer itself is needed, just more clarity on it being seasons based..?

[terse fulcrum]

From my experience (since season 7), seasons can end earlier or later than usual, so it's not consistently always 6 weeks

So a timer is probable

[copper jacinth]

How/where would you like to see seasons advertised? Not a bad idea but a lot of suggestions like this, people come up with the idea but no realistic way to implement it, so what are your thoughts?

Also weekly levels is just not a good idea. Due to the nature of inflation, higher level players will be punished with large amounts of xp required per level, while a new player can take advantage of the abundance of tokens in the economy to level up their tools and overall level very quickly. So someone could go from level 80k -> 85k playing 3 times as much as a new player who could go from 1 -> 9k that week. Just not a very fair system

[gray oasis]

That second point is almost the exact reason I think adding an extra leaderboard matters, joining anywhere past week 1 pretty much excludes you from leaderboards so I just dont see the incentive for new players joining this close to season end to stay?

Also I would suggest putting more emphasis on the fact its seasonal, like in the main lobby or in the gens spawn, Like a "Season 22" or something.

Im seeing so many new people getting practically scammed this week in to buying things they DONT KNOW wont last.

[azure hollow]

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[azure hollow]

I don't think any1 really cares about that- the most common excuse I got while saying ur point (multiple times) from top players is "I grinded from the start y would some1 who joined on week 4 will get top placement handed for him?"

[copper jacinth]

If you could find a way to make it fair and pose it as idea then go for it. But realistically. Take Auns right now level 250-300k vs a level 1 player on week 6 of a super inflated economy. Who has the potential to level up more that week? Should he be punished because he "played too much"?

[azure hollow]

ur example is or blown out of proportions or I didn't understand it.
if auns is 250k+ after grinding none-stop for 6 weeks how would some1 joining on week 6 gonna pass him in 1 week?

[copper jacinth]

if level top is reset weekly

[azure hollow]

better player wins?

[copper jacinth]

i feel like you're a little out of touch with how everything works again. Its good to see you so active all the time but realistically you dont play so its hard to make informed decisions

[gray oasis]

Oh I never suggested top level should be reset weekly, definitely not. I just think there should be a separate category for levels gained weekly. At the moment joining mid season doesnt have any incentive to stay imo.

But my main point and main suggestion is to better inform people of the fact seasons exist.

[azure hollow]

well as swoosh said, getting lvls later into the ssn is way easier for a lvl 1 player then it is for any of the top 10

[gray oasis]

which might encourage people to try im thinking. I feel like a lot of people join, then leave knowing what they do in the last week doesn't matter, even long term players, just thinking this could be an incentive to actually play at the seasons end

[azure hollow]

fair, but that makes u stack in somewhat of a paradox: who u value more?
new players that joined late or the same old players who keep getting payouts because they grinded for that from the start of the ssn.
if u want to make it easier to new players to get payouts it means u make it harder for the 'long term' players best u'll get is 'mid-term' players who play for 3 ssns at most... +more overall players
if u don't do anything u keep losing new-players but u keep players who play the 'long-term' +u keep players like peter, auns, 54, lukas and swoosh who play for 5-10+ ssns...

[gray oasis]

I feel that's a bit counter productive to growth.

I do like how this server supports the long term community though.

[copper jacinth]

Simply this is a competitive server. People grind over a series of weeks to play for top spots. Doing what you suggested would turn the game mode into a novelty and I don't think that's what senior staff have envisioned

[gray oasis]

That's why it's in suggestions. If it's against what they're going for then thats fine too.

[terse fulcrum]

In this season yes that came true