Suggestion Ideas for Transformice

Well; I decided to make a thread of my Ideas for easiness when people ask and I forget; And I would also like these to be able to happen as well of ideas on transformice.
Ideas

• Back up server- There should be a back up server that can handle about 5000 mice for when the normal server breaks; crashes; etc.
• Restarter- I think that there should be another person to restart the servers; I mean Tig is doing good but he is in France and if he is busy/sleeping some one else needs to be there. I noticed that there is some one Tig is teaching but I don't think it would work-They are in france as well and that is just *shrug* a bit pointless not trying to be mean so there should be one in like the United States/Australia to restart it for easiness and Tig isn't pressured (seeing how people think it is his fault and threaten him when the server crashes).
• Notes- Also there should be a way that if you are off line or online people can send you a "note" with a limit of 250-300characters (in case of spam :\) So if your tribe leader is going on vacation they can send I note for example:

Note from ______:

I am going on a vacation for

about a week I am leaving

you in charge of the Tribe.

Good Luck~

________

• Homes- I figure that Tribe houses is like a home-but what if you are away from keyboard and a few friends/tribe members are in there yet you don't want them to get mad if you are AFK. There would also be options inside the house when you enter where normally is the Shaman items/First-Second-Third etc.

Options in the house:

Edit the code of the house

Make a new map for the house

Change open settings

Check Notes*

*Optional

Edit the code of the house:

Where you can put the @code of a map to be loaded.

Make a new map for the house:

Opens up map editor.

Change open settings:

Change it to options for people to come in

-Any one

-Mice on friends list only

-No one

-Lock house for -:--:-- (can go up to 2hours)

Check Notes:

Opens a clipboard/mail box with the notes

I like the idea of notes. Really annoying when you want to get a message to someone who lives in another timezone.

Yeah~ luckly i am nocturnal xD but i keep seeing these things for offline messages so all i did was make it a bit better with a actual plan :L; Thank you very much for agreeing ^3^

Back up server's gonna need to be able to hold A WHOLE LOT MORE than 5000 mice. Around 7pm for me, there's over 40k online and if the server crashes and everyone tries to log on at once on a server that can only hold 5k, that'll probably crash too.
Restarter sounds like a good idea... But they ARE physical servers right? How do you restart them from the other side of the world?
Notes, already suggested quite a few times over. Seems legit.
Homes have also been suggested too many times over, wish it'd stop. Homes are useless imo because right you can make a room with symbols and invite them through whisperchat. There's only SO MUCH fun you can have in a 'home', where as you can have plenty on lots of different random maps in a regulare room.

hence the name back up ._. the limit is for it not to crash; and yeah i noticed but if you are afk for to long it will kick you off and some one can come in .3. you have no clue the rooms i go to when 17/23 players are unactive for about 30minutes.
......I have ot say i really don't like this comment. I really find it quite mean that it was just a few ideas and if the home thing has been brought up "so many times" why can't i find them? and i think you "skimmed" than read it.
also if you "don't" like it why did you comment in the first place. pointless.

Backup servers do require more money to pay to the hosting company (assuming Atelier is using a hosting company) and judging by the last few tweets from the official Twitter it seems money is scarce. To be honest, it is best if the Devs look through and find what is causing the problem, whether it be Software or Hardware based and fix that. Also, an arbitrary limit seems unfair on the people locked out.

Didn't a Dev code an auto-restart script anyways? If the fault occurs at hardware level it usually will culminate so that the server can only be restarted in real life, physically. Otherwise restarting scripts are easy to make which would restart the server and start up the required processes.

Your more pointless if you can't take constructive criticism. If they had just gone "Stupid idea I hate it", then you can point out that it is useless, however they have given a valid reason for not liking the idea, so therefore there post has a point. If everything just required postive information nothing will get anywhere.

anyway my thought on you ideas.
When they start to get money in, I believe a backup server could happen, currently though I believe it is too expensive for it to be run. It would have to kick straight in when the server crashes, but with a lot of mice on at the same time, changing them all onto another server in an instant when the main server isn't even working probably isn't going to happen.
I believe the script that has been written is doing a fine job of getting the server restarted. The waits only been half an hour at most the last times I saw it crash.
Notes could be a nice feature for some mice, I'll probably not use it if it's implemented, so I won't go into detail about it.
If you want to afk on your own, go into the map editor. If you want to play with friends in a house, have them in the same tribe as yourself and use your tribe house. Having a separate house for every mouse would just take up too much server space, which would then probably cause more crashes to happen.

The last time I saw it crash it was definitely more than thirty minutes, but that was a few days ago. Even so, thirty minutes server-wise is still a large amount of time for an automated restart. I would say a restart to occur from an automated script would only take at the maximum 5-10 minutes so the question to ponder is "does the script that they've wrote really work in the instance of a crash" and even better "what is causing it to crash".

Prepare for 'the mean' when you go and make suggestions, there will always be cons and I was just trying to point SOME of them out. Also when searching you should look for the thread name, if it indicates suggestion you should check it out. I find it quite rude that you said I skimmed, I read it through. If you can't take valid points against your suggestion you should probably leave.

Tfm for PS3 and App store and Android would be nice. Moepl made tfm on Android, but if it would be official, that would be nice.

Lol you could just leave a note in the greeting message if you were going on vacation..but yeah offline messages would be great.
I also like the tribe house locking idea, although it could be abused (you know, for trolling) it should only be an option for the Spiritual Chief (of course they could set it to certain member's rights too, like everything else)
Nice.

I didn't make this thread to fight; sorry for the harsh words.

Zeldaswiss gave me a Idea ^^
What about separating rooms for a tribe house. I know that there is one map for a tribe house but what if there was like:
A living room (when you enter you go here)
A room per rank; Tribe shaman's have one; Cookers another; etc.
And a Party/conference room.
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About the TFM on PS3; that would take more work then a app with all the coding and designs; Although a android app would be cool and nice to know a fan is making one; wish them the luck that Tig approves and makes it the master app. X3
Edit: making a few images for notes & maybe a few layout ideas u:

<--sorry mod please don't eat me ;u;

That would be great Beavisjr! Come on guys! Vote it up!

I totally forgot about this thread that I forgot to make them ouo ah well it shouldn't take much long than a week (unless procastination kicks in)

I personally don't like the idea of houses. It sounds like the game Club Penguin too much to me.

but you already have a tribe house. all I was saying was to add rooms for ranks

Option to change your name ONCE? Also for there to be an option to state your gender on your profile (in game), some people get confused, especially in room 801.

how u do signature????

idk how 2 do that pic thing that most of u do :\

X3

At the top right where you see your:

Username Inbox Alerts Log Out

Hover over your name and it should bring out a drop down list, there's an option to fix your signature on there.

And if I'm not wrong, I think you mean this:
http://camera.formice.com/

Also when you want to send someone a note but they have already logged off then it's a pain to try and wait until they're on again...