Thank You For Breaking Empires

Exactly, I know that, and I'm the opposite. I find shit like slow strafe, lowering your weapon to sprint, dolphin diving, stupid recoil etc all really boring, even if they are realistic. It makes everything feel way more clunky and slow.

 

2 things that are Breaking Empires

1.
What's really breaking empires is server map rotations that allow district to be followed by money, then escort, then rainbowroad, then urbanchaos, then one decent map, then back to district, and so on. Im so dead serious about this; it's killing the game.

You server owners need to get together and just make a tough decision to cut out ALL the joke maps, leaving only escort and district (getting rid of money and anything that is gimmicky).

Do this for one or two months, Viper and Epic server, just to make people learn the other maps, because Im sure that once they do, they'll want to play them. This is fucking killing the game man. I'm convinced that there are more like me, who join once in a while only to ragequit when the nextmap is ALWAYS a gimmick map, or district.

2.
I may be alone in thinking this, but does anyone else think that Empires went to shit after servers went above 40 slots? I think that multiple facets of gameplay are diluted or otherwise ruined by having a team of 32 people.

I could list a bunch of reason for this but the biggest reason is just the amount of spam and the deadly accuracy of rifles in a game that has a majority of really open maps.

With 20 v 20 you could see your contributions to the game, now it's just a retarded clusterfuck all over the place, communication is more difficult, and it gets laggy. People will probably say I have a dubeecomputer, but seriously, the game lags in late stages.

I also believe that the 64 player servers prevent us from having multiple populated servers. We used to have 3-4 servers at any time, when the cap was 32-40, Is it better to only have one server running? Or wouldn't more make sense, to allow new players to be more important to their teams performance in a smaller game?

IDGAF about weapon scripts, theyre pretty good atm, and getting better all the time, what I really fucking hate about playing empires atm is overcrowded games on fucking stupid maps.

Get rid of the joke maps for a while so that new players can get a look at some of the truly awesome gameplay some of the other maps can provide.

/rant

 

Totally agree with most of it. I'm sick of the attraction in Empires being gimmicks, rainbowoctagonparachuteturbodamageindicatorinfantryonlyfaggotry. I use district to seed EPIC, and I love district, but I know how bad it is for gameplay, and it pains me to say it but I really need to throw it up less. And in terms of player numbers, I think it's really really heavily map dependant. If there's 50 players on a server and no-one notices the nextmap is urbanchaos, it's just shit. But some maps like emp_king thrive at the high player numbers.

 

This is actually a huge issue. There are alot of shitty ass maps, and after playing a few rounds of empires and then seeing money, I almost always just quit for most if not the rest of the day.

 

when maps get nominated if they have been played earlier make it a longer time period before you can nominate it again so more different maps are played through the day. I like cyclopean and slaughtered and stuff but shit man it's played all the time.

 

if king is so popular it needs to come up more; so far, i can only ever recall playing that map twice.

and what happened to homeland? i've heard that it's broken and all, but what really happened to it? i thought that that was a decent map.

 

i like rainbow road .. i like octogons too.. i like every map this shandy guy did. i think he should make more =D.. i say combine rainbow road and octogon concepts and make a super map.

 

Just another thing to add to the list of why you're mentally crippled.

 

Where Did Martin N. Pace A.k.a. John Shandy Go

 

damn all caps doesn't work

 

Actually octagons looked as though it could work. I never got to play it but as an exercise in design it merits testing.

Rainbowroad is a piece of shit though.

 

The good thing about the EPIC server is that it has every single empires map known to man, so you always get something different.

 

The bad thing about the epic server is that all of the maps are shit.

 

The ugly thing about this, is that people will bitch and moan about bad maps, but somehow the worst maps are played all the time, and nobody wants to betatest the new custom "classic" maps.

 

It's basically
1. Rush APC to elevator
2. Seize high ground
3. Snipe enemy base

It would probably be interesting if not for the stupidly high hex territory in the middle.
Edit: By interesting, I mean that it would be Rainbowroad².

 

Amusingly the epic server does have some of those and I would prefer it if trickster just got rid of all the crappy broken and terrible ones and left those in.

 

dont you ever wonder why these "shit" maps are always picked?.. because either people want to play it cause its awesome or they are trolling. ..

 

If they're anything like me they keep accidentally pressing 1 2 or 3 because they're switching weapons when the stupid vote box pops up.

 

theres a !revote command (well depends on which server you play on).. but usually you are busy rushing, you probably wont type that in.