public server
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:56 am
Heya guys,
I appreciate the ongoing discussion about about the new matching variant introduced by red-der and while the discussion is up I want to revive an old topic, which the older players might remember.
The fundamental thought about the following is the low amount of new players in our league and that we as league didn't consider trying to involve more bz players into the league, at least we didn't in the past few years (hopefully I'm right about this, because I haven't been following the topics constantly).
Getting more new blood in the league would bring us some more activity and the weaker players would have more possibilities of matching without having to face one of the strong and experienced teams.
The basical problem is, at least in my opinion, that we don't have a newbie-friendly public server from which we can recruit players from. If I'd be new to bzflag, I'd avoid bzf 54.
Why that?
It can't be fun to play vs the strong league players in rogue while having barely a team-colored mate aside.
The suggestion, as brought up by dexter and me in the old forum years ago (can someone dig that out? couldn't find it) is to reintroduce a public server like we used to have when I started playing bzflag, the one that existed before bzf came.
It had the old hix-map with the pyra's in the middle and with 4 teams setting, no rogue, but ctf and some flags.
Why I think that this would be useful:
New players would be able to compensate their low skill by
- using superflags
- playing as team and if not being able to kill a lot still can do caps and "kill" a whole team
- having mates around them (again, no rogue) who can support and assist
When I was the leader of pino I convinced a few players from the league to join the team but also asked some players on the public server if they might join the league and my team, because they were doing well on the public map.
Not imaginable is in our days that there are people playing public server on a regular basis without being registered in the league, but back then I think I recruited like 2-3 people (x0nix, ponnyplut) and introduced them to the league.
So my wish is basically to have a server set up with the old config and have league players playing kind on them and I'm sure, that we'll have a crowded public server again soon. I remember and miss the times when you wanted to play on the public server and could only join obs because every team was already full.
And yeah I know about the criticism related to superflags used by players like laaco, but that's no argument against having such a public server again in my opinion, especially not when looking at the status quo.
I appreciate the ongoing discussion about about the new matching variant introduced by red-der and while the discussion is up I want to revive an old topic, which the older players might remember.
The fundamental thought about the following is the low amount of new players in our league and that we as league didn't consider trying to involve more bz players into the league, at least we didn't in the past few years (hopefully I'm right about this, because I haven't been following the topics constantly).
Getting more new blood in the league would bring us some more activity and the weaker players would have more possibilities of matching without having to face one of the strong and experienced teams.
The basical problem is, at least in my opinion, that we don't have a newbie-friendly public server from which we can recruit players from. If I'd be new to bzflag, I'd avoid bzf 54.
Why that?
It can't be fun to play vs the strong league players in rogue while having barely a team-colored mate aside.
The suggestion, as brought up by dexter and me in the old forum years ago (can someone dig that out? couldn't find it) is to reintroduce a public server like we used to have when I started playing bzflag, the one that existed before bzf came.
It had the old hix-map with the pyra's in the middle and with 4 teams setting, no rogue, but ctf and some flags.
Why I think that this would be useful:
New players would be able to compensate their low skill by
- using superflags
- playing as team and if not being able to kill a lot still can do caps and "kill" a whole team
- having mates around them (again, no rogue) who can support and assist
When I was the leader of pino I convinced a few players from the league to join the team but also asked some players on the public server if they might join the league and my team, because they were doing well on the public map.
Not imaginable is in our days that there are people playing public server on a regular basis without being registered in the league, but back then I think I recruited like 2-3 people (x0nix, ponnyplut) and introduced them to the league.
So my wish is basically to have a server set up with the old config and have league players playing kind on them and I'm sure, that we'll have a crowded public server again soon. I remember and miss the times when you wanted to play on the public server and could only join obs because every team was already full.
And yeah I know about the criticism related to superflags used by players like laaco, but that's no argument against having such a public server again in my opinion, especially not when looking at the status quo.