are you guys kidding me? we are going to rape these little noobies so hard that they wont know what hit them.. haha nah but we will rape them.. but they will like it and come back for more
Thats true... No matter how nice you try to be... Experience matters hellota more then anything else in Empires... a good commander will determine the game even if the team is full of chuck norrises (No good com; No amount of chuck is going to save you) So for the first few, veterans will be plowing through the nublets left and right; just because they can say (Oh they are doing this... then this...) while the nubblets dont even know that the boom tank cant shoot
I was actually tempted to say the opposite of lose the clan tags and rather have everyone add <tester> to their name. But after careful consideration I thought...nah :p But seriously, don't comm all the games - for the newbs to be out on the servers themselves is not such a bad idea, may aid in them learning the ropes.
I say we get rid of clan tags for the first couple weeks... Instead all the regulars can put [EMP] as their clan tags. That way in a sense the noobs will think we are a clan and we can show them they can come to us for help. And it will also keep all of the regulars and clanners a whole body of people.
I hope that we can have some fun matches, for all the players, not just the ones with a comm who knows what's going on. If you want to own noobs and feel good about yourself, play football with some children or go to a 24/7 Office newb server. If you want to continue playing Empires against good opponents for a long time, don't scare them all away in the first week
this is how I always try to play.. its no fun spending more time loading the map then actually playing it But I remember krenzo saying something about raping noobs with the release.. and I intend on raping them condomless with the intent to impregnat
a) It's only 1 week b) Only the usual cheap tactics that end/decide games in 1 minute due to the other team not knowing what to do are meant here. Why not lean back for 1 friggin weak to try a different, slower paced gamestyle until new guys atleast have set their controls and know some basics. Allegiance (http://www.freeallegiance.org/) is a very noob unfriendly game but they have set up a working "Academy" Program to teach new players willing to listen. Most of the game's clans send members as instructors and they recruit mainly out of Academy Graduates. I think empires isn't that noob unfriendly but a working academy program could hold intelligence and mature players that don't have the innate ability to conquer every mod in a week. An academy program would also bound said players to the community and the forum resulting in a bigger, more constant playerbase. Just get me right, I don't talk about big numbers of academy participants, perhaps groups of 8 players per instructor that can learn the basics (or if the system works out: intermediate tactics) on private servers. (or special clan servers) The more people get a grasp of "how empires is played" the smoother the games get for everyone. The effort is minimal, you need a private server and an instructor that has 2-3 hours of free time.
You know what... I think im gana sit in com... research nuke tanks and drive one up to there barracks and just keep nuking them every time they step out of the door. <insert horribly evil laugh>
The 1 week really is just silly. I mean it's often weeks before i try out a mod after its release. It's not like every person that will play empires during his lifetime starts playing it the day of the release and plays enough to be able to handle himself in less than 7 days. Instead of behaving like noobs ourselves for a week (i'm not taking down my clan tag btw), it would be better to just be patient with noobs, for several months, and if you're a nice person, every day of your life. Answer questions, don't get mad when someone suicides the cv (unless it was on purpose), and if someone has researched every weapon in the research tree but you're still stuck with LT tanks, tell them what they did wrong instead of yelling at them. And i agree with Shinzon. If clan members act friendly and professional (just no lame tactics that piss them off), they will be the first ones to get bombarded by questions from all the noobs. Answering their questions will make them understand empires much quicker than letting them find everything out themselves. And i agree when he sais that this way people see that the empires community is something you should respect already.
Talks about going easy on the newbs and avoiding lame tactics? Ok, who are you people and what have you done to my Empires community?
This is just a ploy by me so I can wtf pwn everyone with lame tactics when it comes out. LULZ U THOUGHT I WASN"T GONNA NINJA PHYC!!!!!
Is HSM banned? I was looking forward to seeing him have a heart attack trying to deal with all the noobs. (The OP brings up a good point though, I will adhere to that code)
Evan. Non-CV maps were made to break the monotony of game. I like at those non-CV maps when I have played 4 commander maps. They are nice because then you can just shoot stuff and blow stuff up you don't have to think: "Oh now my commander did that, now I must do that but I have to remember that doing that will affect this and that let alone those so I have to do it in this way to prevent those." On non-CV maps like district, you just run to flags, kill people and try to stick with others to win. It's so simple. In my opinion non-CV maps are the most newbie friendly maps. On those they get some sort of hold at the gameplay yet they don't have to understand every single thing how everything is done. They just run and shoot like in every other FPS game. They strategic point of view comes then on CV maps where they have to think a bit more.
Yes but they get somewhat good feeling of the game on non-CV maps and they really should get the point how important teamwork is in Empires on those maps because they aren't that big and without teamwork your team won't win.
I don't really play escort because of the nukes, and i could do without district if necessary, but i would definately leave the server sometimes to go play glycencity on another one.
