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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 16, 2010 9:45:27 GMT
the server is just sitting there losing its ranking lately wtf??? there is nothing wrong with the server its based in london and they host thousands of these things. heres how it works... in order for people to play on the server we need to be on the server to promote 'casual connections' through the play now feature of the game. if its always empty then it will most likely remain that way. im going to do a few things to spruce it up... i will make a better banner and set an auto spam once every hour to get people to add us to our favourites. I will also go through the server list and attempt to come up with a better, user friendly name with more meaning, not starting in [OS] (this should improve people finding it in the future). you have to remember having your own clan server can be legendary... our rules... our decisions. no messing around if someone is being a tard we just kick em. now personally i like a bit of team vs team we could load up some smaller games like squad rush and play against each other. this will allow the following: a) LAN style gaming the way we know best b) increase in ranking to get more people playing on our server. so there we have it... support your server... FOR AWESOME TIMES!
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 16, 2010 9:55:10 GMT
I've been barking up the "hey there's 6 of us online, lets jump into a squad rush/squad deathmatch game 3v3 until some randoms join, then change the gamemode" for about, i dunno, since launch day?
Often met with silence or a legendary greebo si "meh"...
The frustration is, this is incredibly short-sighted. You play squad rush/SDM for a little, randoms join, the server fills quickly.
Then, you can set it to change to conquest/rush etc on the next round, when there's like 16 people on, more randoms join, et voila...
There's also the MW2 noobs who've played the game for 2 weeks, and gone back to MW2 (not a bad thing, but like every game, player numbers are always exponentially higher in the first couple of weeks).
But i agree, barnett. When there's 4+ of us on TS wanting to play, we should start on our server with a smaller game mode until the "play now" people start to trickle in, then move it forward from there.
I won't be online much the next few days, late night tonight and late night tomorrow running the Longton store, a "lol 1.7million a week store" pretty much by myself tomorrow night 0_o
But you don't need me to do this shit. Take the initiative! Rally forth!
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 16, 2010 9:57:34 GMT
hey man im up for that shizz i mean... look at my KD ratio.... LOOK AT IT. bloody sucks! lol. working as a team is all i got
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 16, 2010 10:00:14 GMT
hey man im up for that shizz i mean... look at my KD ratio.... LOOK AT IT. bloody sucks! lol. working as a team is all i got Jesus, you replied before i finished editing my post
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Post by si on Mar 16, 2010 10:27:05 GMT
Having the choice between playign deathmatch on our server or a larger game on another server, I choose the forign server everytime. I'm not a fan of Team Deathmatch - It fucking sucks. No debate... and even this game was design ed for 4 full teams,.. When u have less the game sucks more and it makes me not want to play. Having a 2v2 (or similar size) just doesn';t work for me in this game -- maybe in MW2, but not this! Also, Stuart you may recall one evening we did try playing this gamemode until the server filled up.. You may also recall that the server in fact NEVER did fill up.. In fact no-one even joined.. Then we all crashed Then we all joined a better server
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 16, 2010 11:33:19 GMT
Flawed argument. That particular night, people were having issues connecting due to the ea servers being whack; an important fact you conveniently ommitted So of course noone joined!
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Post by si on Mar 16, 2010 11:54:45 GMT
Flawed argument. That particular night, people were having issues connecting due to the ea servers being whack; an important fact you conveniently ommitted So of course noone joined! Not really.. We tried it a few nights... Hey, you go ahead and try it tonight to prove me right
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 16, 2010 12:15:53 GMT
Flawed argument. That particular night, people were having issues connecting due to the ea servers being whack; an important fact you conveniently ommitted So of course noone joined! Not really.. We tried it a few nights... Hey, you go ahead and try it tonight to prove me right Can't tonight. Am at work late and prepping/having my annual review, an hour session where I say, and get told, how awesome I am...
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 16, 2010 12:48:29 GMT
Not really.. We tried it a few nights... Hey, you go ahead and try it tonight to prove me right Can't tonight. Am at work late and prepping/having my annual review, an hour session where I say, and get told, how awesome I am... righhht... obviously thats just tescos way of appeasing you, leading you into a false sense of security whilst they drain every ounce of life from your soul untill you become nothing but an empty lifeless tesco carrier bag. and si... yes... as STU mentioned we dont need him all the time, he isnt the master of all things online. i will be on tonight, lets try out these game modes for some LAN style fun.
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 16, 2010 12:56:19 GMT
Can't tonight. Am at work late and prepping/having my annual review, an hour session where I say, and get told, how awesome I am... righhht... obviously thats just tescos way of appeasing you, leading you into a false sense of security whilst they drain every ounce of life from your soul untill you become nothing but an empty lifeless tesco carrier bag. and si... yes... as STU mentioned we dont need him all the time, he isnt the master of all things online. i will be on tonight, lets try out these game modes for some LAN style fun. Text a few people today, Rik, Lime, Rob, aim to get about/at least 6 people online, if only for an hour, get everyone onto our server, play for a bit, see how many randoms join and if it picks up. Treat it as an experiment; and you can analyse the results later, and get what you want from that. Now, I would have naturally lead this and just fucking sorted it, since nothing ever happens if I don't (trips, excursions, event days, jesus i'm losing count), but i'm not able to with this. Time for someone else to shine, take the lead. I leave it in your capable hands, padawan Barnett. Do me proud.
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 16, 2010 13:09:02 GMT
righhht... obviously thats just tescos way of appeasing you, leading you into a false sense of security whilst they drain every ounce of life from your soul untill you become nothing but an empty lifeless tesco carrier bag. and si... yes... as STU mentioned we dont need him all the time, he isnt the master of all things online. i will be on tonight, lets try out these game modes for some LAN style fun. Text a few people today, Rik, Lime, Rob, aim to get about/at least 6 people online, if only for an hour, get everyone onto our server, play for a bit, see how many randoms join and if it picks up. Treat it as an experiment; and you can analyse the results later, and get what you want from that. Now, I would have naturally lead this and just fucking sorted it, since nothing ever happens if I don't (trips, excursions, event days, jesus i'm losing count), but i'm not able to with this. Time for someone else to shine, take the lead. I leave it in your capable hands, padawan Barnett. Do me proud. OMG RIP Stu McAwesome? you make it seem like your counting the days left in your multiplayer gaming life lol. but yes stu's right.... i got a text from him only yesterday asking why i wasnt playing with them. i misjudged you. OK... well ive cleared it with the GF i'll be on tonight. Please join guys. i'll setup some team deathmatch on the server. We should go through different game modes but right now i'll be honest i miss the good old LANS. a bit of team deathmatch with friends will be good for the soul
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Post by si on Mar 16, 2010 13:34:54 GMT
For the record: I didn't organise this because i'm really not interested I'll join you if I have notheing better to do for your experiment... "Dragon Age origins: Awakening" has just been leaked though so chances are slim!
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 16, 2010 13:46:05 GMT
i gotta go now... contrary to drummer si's post i prefer to be slightly more positive. BAD COMPANY 2 ROCKS. SEE YOU ALL ON IT TONIGHT WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 16, 2010 16:17:13 GMT
just had a nose at the server stats... 9 people are on it. Woohoo! Probably just needed a reset.
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Post by si on Mar 16, 2010 16:47:12 GMT
Well, Dragon age will take me a while to download, so i'll sign up for some BC2 MP whilst I wait.
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 16, 2010 17:08:03 GMT
just had a nose at the server stats... 9 people are on it. Woohoo! Probably just needed a reset.
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Post by si on Mar 17, 2010 9:38:07 GMT
just had a nose at the server stats... 9 people are on it. Woohoo! Probably just needed a reset. Server is stil offline - Sort it out B!
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 17, 2010 9:47:45 GMT
update: last night was fun untill people stopped entering the servEr.... i did a full reinstall on it last night to see if that helped (i also noticed we never get full capacity so thought it might fix that) but its still offline. I'll try and fix it on my lunch. If we keep getting problems i'll use a different host for next month. Stu.. I quite liked squad deathmatch... its not to everyones taste (ian and si werent too impressed). We'll have a session in a few days again and pwn some randoms... Till then i'll set it up for conquest
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Post by si on Mar 17, 2010 10:22:55 GMT
update: last night was fun untill people stopped entering the servEr.... i did a full reinstall on it last night to see if that helped (i also noticed we never get full capacity so thought it might fix that) but its still offline. I'll try and fix it on my lunch. If we keep getting problems i'll use a different host for next month. Stu.. I quite liked squad deathmatch... its not to everyones taste (ian and si werent too impressed). We'll have a session in a few days again and pwn some randoms... Till then i'll set it up for conquest It's a good way of getting peeps into the server to prepare for Conquest et al. But it's GAY in the sense that there's no objective.. You just wonder around aimlessly until you see someone, then shoot them. At least in the other game modes you have to get to/ or defend certain points and the enemy always spawns ahead of you, instead of random locations.
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 17, 2010 10:27:25 GMT
I like Squad Rush/Squad Deathmatch in hardcore mode. I like conquest/Rush in normal mode. Battlefield games are made for thos big, epic engagements with tanks and choppers etc. But SDM/SR are great to start with a few of us, to lure randoms in, before changing the game mode... And re: last night, greebo si.... .....i told you so
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