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Relic · 08-21-2016

So we actually streamed tonight with voice chat streaming from Teamspeak. Myself, James, Cud + others floating in and out throughout the night (Rusty, Kosma, MK, Pae).

It was really fun and we actually enjoyed it a lot. Only got 29 people max at once, but this was totally unplanned and we basically just PMed whoever was around. Had a couple admins stop in for a little while as well which was surprising. We were just messing around really. Talking about random ****, making jokes, trash talking each other, showed a few series on stream.

There's probably some work to be done to make it more presentable (just fixing up screen regions, adding some other interesting visual stuff) and professional (we weren't too worried about the content in twitch chat or voice chat for tonight since it was such a small group of mostly just sparrers, so it got... interesting... at times).

I think a dedicated stream once a week or every couple weeks for some series, guild spars, things like GST, etc could actually gain some traction if we announce them ahead of time.

What would pull in more people is if we could convince an admin to even do something as simple as sending an admin announcement saying "Hey this stream is doing interesting stuff, go watch them." or something similar. However I feel like there's not much chance of that happening (unless maybe Owl & Bastablook can vouch for us being somewhat entertaining?)

Also with some admin support this could reduce load on the servers during GST and get some more accessibility for people to watch GST. The support needed could be as simple as summoning some accounts into each GST spar room to get smooth footage for the stream (since the viewing area lags). It could also be as complex as streaming every room, featuring certain big matches and having people also commentating the big matches as they go. From there it would be trivial to embed the twitch stream on the facebook page, graalians, classic.graalonline.com, or even in-game if there was a need for it. This could reduce server load by moving large volumes of players away from the viewing areas (that many players in one place = RIP server).

Either way, it was interesting. James will possibly (no guarantee) be able to cut the footage from the broadcast and take out the parts that people seemed to find somewhat entertaining to put into a youtube video, so people will hear about it if that happens.

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Relic Banned Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Canada Posts: 264	So we actually streamed tonight with voice chat streaming from Teamspeak. Myself, James, Cud + others floating in and out throughout the night (Rusty, Kosma, MK, Pae). It was really fun and we actually enjoyed it a lot. Only got 29 people max at once, but this was totally unplanned and we basically just PMed whoever was around. Had a couple admins stop in for a little while as well which was surprising. We were just messing around really. Talking about random ****, making jokes, trash talking each other, showed a few series on stream. There's probably some work to be done to make it more presentable (just fixing up screen regions, adding some other interesting visual stuff) and professional (we weren't too worried about the content in twitch chat or voice chat for tonight since it was such a small group of mostly just sparrers, so it got... interesting... at times). I think a dedicated stream once a week or every couple weeks for some series, guild spars, things like GST, etc could actually gain some traction if we announce them ahead of time. What would pull in more people is if we could convince an admin to even do something as simple as sending an admin announcement saying "Hey this stream is doing interesting stuff, go watch them." or something similar. However I feel like there's not much chance of that happening (unless maybe Owl & Bastablook can vouch for us being somewhat entertaining?) Also with some admin support this could reduce load on the servers during GST and get some more accessibility for people to watch GST. The support needed could be as simple as summoning some accounts into each GST spar room to get smooth footage for the stream (since the viewing area lags). It could also be as complex as streaming every room, featuring certain big matches and having people also commentating the big matches as they go. From there it would be trivial to embed the twitch stream on the facebook page, graalians, classic.graalonline.com, or even in-game if there was a need for it. This could reduce server load by moving large volumes of players away from the viewing areas (that many players in one place = RIP server). Either way, it was interesting. James will possibly (no guarantee) be able to cut the footage from the broadcast and take out the parts that people seemed to find somewhat entertaining to put into a youtube video, so people will hear about it if that happens.