Haaai~ This is Shin's first edition of #ProjectSaveNF2. Enjoy~
Eden's Chinese translation: 汉语翻译请点击这里
嘿哎哎呀~~~民那桑，这里是Shin的拯救大海战2项目的第一版，有什么不满意的的地方，你他妈来打我呀~
警告：此贴初步定为大工程向，并且包含相当部分无关内容。如果客官不喜欢卖萌风，或者只是想知道结果，请直接看底部简概部分（斜眼看人渣，认真读一下能死）。
从目前来看，大海战2的情况非常不容乐观。先是新游戏资料的匮乏，加上以窜稀速度下降的玩家数量让匹配系统变成一坨渣，这些不可争辩的事实都在变相地赶走新玩家。估计现在新玩家已经没多少了吧（或者说根本没有）。所以，既然暑期马上来临，我还没为这傻逼的物理学位找到工作，那还不如来帮忙拯救一下大海战2（eden：这傻逼找不着工作是正常向展开）。说不定超简单呢（手动滑稽）？开发组要是认可了我还能混个实习生当当，对吧。顺便，我可以帮你们编编舰队战的代码啥的。
废话少说，无用不整。我的第一个计划，拯救大海战2项目之~~~“装逼时间”~~~
首先解释一下这个计划到底什么目的，什么作用。现在大部分玩家都对无新内容追加的游戏深感厌倦（SDE除非你现在还没意识到，沉船奖励非常无聊，完全无法称之为一个“活动”）。玩家一登进游戏就被绝望地扔入小房间的死循环，还妄想着只在传说中存在过的8对8。最终，现实是冷酷无情的，他们渐渐退出了游戏。为何？我想原因并不是游戏无聊，而是单调的重复性。这里也是我天才想法的根源。
装逼时间：基于玩家进行的每周活动。
活动简介：我们首先在每周设定一个特定的时间段，在此时间段内我们将进行预先决定好的主题战斗。举个例子，在这一周，我们先开始一些简单的：仅限T8参战（没错我决定首届主题因为是我想出了这个主意）。先把你的T11放起来，就一小时。我知道你已经厌倦它了，而且，新玩家们比你更厌倦。
其余主题可以包括并且不限于：T5大混战，3对3巅峰锦标赛，战列与航母，以及小学生（驱逐舰）的聚会。
我们在初期阶段会避免战舰种类的限制，因为这极有可能削弱部分玩家的参加积极性。
活动规则：只能使用T8及更低等级的战舰。组队严厉禁止。模式：旗舰模式（避免占领模式的短时间结束）。
活动时间：开始于17:00 PST 周五 = 20:00 EDT 周五 = 0:00 GMT 周六(抱歉了苦逼的欧洲) = 8:00 UTC+8周六 = 10:00 UTC+10周六。
对于某些时差白痴，我也为你们准备了倒计时：倒计时
很不幸我无法决定一个让任何人都满意的时间段。先不管延迟或者提前一个小时，或者直接向后推迟一天，对于这周，我们就按照我所提议的时间进行活动。
当然，我们可以之后再讨论第二次以及之后活动的时间。
更改：由于我在地球另一边的小伙伴们的严重时间冲突，我们增加了一个备选时间段如下：8:00 PST 周六 = 11:00 EDT = 15:00 GMT = 23:00 UTC+8 周六 = 1:00 UTC+10 周日。
倒计时链接：备选倒计时
为了避免很有可能出现的小型房间循环，请积极参与全局聊天频道。如果你找到了一场战斗（在进入游戏前的五秒之内）或者刚刚结束了一场战斗，请在全局聊天频道冒一下泡。
“这傻不傻？”“这不可能有用”“真智障？”。大海战2将与你们的消极同死。
这项计划的重点是将此活动进行宣传，同时散布出去在这个时间点大海战2玩家会非常多的消息。如果我所选择的时间不是太糟糕，我相信会有一大批已经搬去战舰世界（或者其他游戏）的玩家会乐意拿出一小时时间参与进来。因此，核心思想莫过于相信很多人会参加活动。即使还不清楚这项计划有没有实际效果，我们还是要全力把消息散布出去。比如“挖槽我听说一整只舰队都会在线”，就非常具有吸引力。
物理第一定律，对称性的应用 – 如果多米诺效应可以毁掉大海战2的玩家群体，那么它也一定可以重新建立起来。
我很清楚这项计划的问题会有很多。比如，我们怎么才能保证活动规则？多谢SDE，我们现在还没有房间系统，这基本让玩家对玩家的管理只能靠吼。大海战2的玩家的整体素质并不低，加上他们所擅长的批判性思考能力，我认为在当他们可以拯救大海战2的时候，完全可以相信他们会遵守规则而不是无谓的去刷T12。如果真遭到更多玩家的拒绝，这游戏可能已经不值得拯救了吧。
“这个真的很不错，Shin，但是这个到底如何来拯救大海战2呢？到头来也仅仅是一个小时而已。”你给我到此为止了啊啊啊啊，我选择乐观！我不选择死亡！显而易见，这仅仅是一个开始。这最起码会让已经转移的老玩家有动力回归，并且，如果装逼时间效果非常出色的话，我们完全可以加入更多。反之，如果效果并不理想，我那神奇的小口袋里还有一堆其他的新点子。
以上就是我的计划，如果客官还喜欢，就请大力宣传我们的活动吧！时间还有4天，充分利用起来吧。如果不喜欢，好吧首先问候您祖上三辈，然后也请大力宣传我们的活动吧！当你还在等着SDE用那不知道什么时候才能完成的舰队战来拯救游戏的时候，我们，作为玩家，将会拯救大海战2（或者充点金让他们开始编代码）！所以动起来吧，翻出来当初为了港口战而建立的舰队邮箱列表，使劲安利吧！
简概：检查两个倒计时，在特定时间点登陆游戏，使用T8或等级更低的战舰参与游戏，船种不限。
倒计时 备选倒计时
意淫一下2020年大海战2论坛的签名：
Shin – CHN 大海战2自愿拯救者
Beeshin – NF2JP
翻译：EdenSion – CHN
WARNING: This is a long post with lots of irrelevant stuff. If you just want the details, or don't like my attempt at being a comedian, there's a TL;DR at the bottom. douchebag.
So NF2's pretty dead. Aside from lack of end-game content, the exponentially decaying population turned MM into garbage which just serves to shoo away any possible newcomers. Not that there are many (or any at all) to begin with. So since summer is in the horizon and I still haven't found a job with my stupid physics degree, I thought I might as well try and save NF2. Ezpez. Who knows? Maybe SDE will recognize my achievement and let me be their slave intern. Maybe I can code that fleet battle thing for you or something.
Without further ado, I present to you my first attempt of #ProjectSaveNF2: ~~~~POWER HOURS~~~~
So so so so, a little explanation. Why is this going to solve anything? Most players are now just bored from lack of new content and meaningful event (YES SDE, unless you haven't realized it yet, repeating ship bounty event is boring and not even worthy of being labeled as an event). They log-in, they get thrown into the reserve battle loop desperately hoping that maybe, just maybe, they'll get one of those rumored 8v8 battles. Eventually reality sinks in and they stop playing. Why? Not because the game isn't fun, but because it is repetitive. Aaaand here's where I come in with my superduber idea~
POWER HOURS: Player-started weekly event. We set up a specific hour every week where we'll hold predecided theme-based battles. For example, this week, we'll start with something simple: T8- only ships (yes, I get to decide the first theme cause it's my idea :P). Put your T11 to rest for an hour. I know you're tired of it. The new guy is also damn tired of it.
Other examples of themes include: T5 trolling, 3v3 Superplatoon tournament, BB+CV capital ships, DD fest, etc. We'll try to avoid class restrictions at the start though since that may put off some players.
Rules: Only play with ships that are less than T8. Platoons strictly forbidden. Mode: flagship (just to avoid Occupy 1min battles)
Time: Start at 17:00 PST Friday = 20:00 EDT Friday = 0:00 GMT Saturday (sorry europe) = 8:00 UTC+8 Saturday = 10:00 UTC+10 Saturday
And for you dummies who can't do time conversions: countdown
Unfortunately we'll never be able to accomodate everyone with the time. Except for a +/-1hour adjustment or maybe pushing it back a day later, let's keep this fixed for this week. We'll discuss it for the next one.
Edit: Due to strong opposition from our friends on the other side of the globe, we'll add a 2nd time slot for the event: 8:00 PST SATURDAY = 11:00 EDT = 15:00 GMT = 23:00 UTC+8 SATURDAY = 1:00 UTC+10 SUNDAY
Obligatory link for dummies: 2nd countdown
General communication channel (Teamspeak/Discord/Skype/whatever..): TBD
To avoid feeding a potential reserve battle loop, please participate on general chat. Say it if you found a battle (obviously within 5 seconds before it starts) or just finished one.
"This is stupid"? "This is never going to work"? "Get real scrub"? Kbai. Enjoy NF2 dead seas with your negativity.
The main idea is to spread out the word that we'll have a major gathering at one specific hour. If the timing isn't too bad, I'm sure there's a good bunch of people out there that are more than willing to put WOWS(or whatever they moved on to) down for an hour for a light mooded and popular event. The important point here is to believe that many will join this event. Even if we still don't know that it will work, just spread the word. Something like "Yeah I heard the whole ---- fleet will be there!" will sound very attractive.
Application of Physics law number 1: Symmetry, if the domino effect could kill NF2's playerbase, then it must also be able to build it back up.
Yes I am well aware that there are a lot of problems. How do we enforce the rules? Thanks to SDE, we still don't have a room-based MM. We're pretty much forced to just deal with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Believing in the good-nature of the NF2 player base and their critical thinking, let's just hope that people will know better than to farm for their pointless T12 when they can help revive NF2. If we get to the point where more people refuse to abide to the theme than those who do, well too bad. Game's not worth saving then :P
"Ok that's all great Shin, but how exactly is this going to save NF2? Now instead of a dead sea, we'll get a dead sea - 1hour. Good job Shin." Haaaaaaaaai soko made da, I can't hear you over all my pile of optimism! Obviously, this is a start. This will at least motivate people to play again. We'll start adding more power hours if it works out well. If it doesn't, I still have a few more ideas in my physics-bag-of-wisdom-and-optimism.
So that's that. If you liked the idea, SPREAD THE WORD! 4 days left, make them count! If you didn't like the idea, well fak you and SPREAD THE WORD anyway! While you wait for SDE to magically save the game with its who-knows-when-it-will-be-finished fleet battle, we, the players, will revive this game (and maybe manage to get them some money so they can get started on their coding). Now GO! Go spam that fleet mailing list that you set up a year ago in anticipation of HA, which you would have realistically never used otherwise.
EDIT: Rip NF2 forum formatting
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TL;DR log on NF2 in countdown + buy/take your T8 ship out. Come on, we all know you have 10mill+ creds from killing noobs every single day.
Edit: Due to strong opposition from our friends on the other side of the globe, we'll add a 2nd time slot for the event: 8:00 PST SATURDAY = 11:00 EDT = 15:00 GMT = 23:00 UTC+8 SATURDAY = 1:00 UTC+10 SUNDAY
Obligatory link for dummies: 2nd countdown
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In anticipation of NF2 forum signatures in 2020:
Shin - CHN ~ Self-appointed savior of NF2
Beeshin - NF2JP
Shameless advertisement: Physics senior undergrad looking for slave-type summer job in exchange for reference letters.