Teh newbs are here! Great day! LOL much fun many frustrations....so many players in choke points can't move lol. :D GREAT JOB EVERYONE! Heard no bitching about lagging or graphics.....but a lot of fun. Luv the counts on the servers!!!!! Thx also Dee (steam friends thing....) I am adding 2 more seeders for the torrents..... Woo Hooo!
/me whacks Krenzo on the back and yells, 'fuck yes, congrats dude!' Gratz to krenzo and all others who helped/submitted bugs/commited 1337 spec stax trying to figure out wtf was wrong for a bug report!
There's currently 250 people playing: 11.20 am GMT, or 6.20 am EST, which could very well be the worst time of the day to be counting players. So yes, i think we will have more players this evening as well. And that KM server was awesome. It had 48 players, while my ping was still 29. They lowered it to 40 now though. 40 is enough I still can't believe how non-noobish most people behaved. I think most of them have played 1.071 before or something. I just can't explain it otherwise.
I just love being able to choose what map I want to play, and if the next map isn't so good, I just quit and join another :D so fun!
According to the steam statistics webpage there are 459 players and 99 servers. I only see 34 servers in my list (no filters). What's up with that? Let's guess the peak number of players today (including next night): Silk sais: 780
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so, we shuttin' this whole forum down, or what? /starts singing mournfully ohhh danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are callllling.....
No, we're not shutting anything down. I thought the league site would go down with so many downloads and diggers, but neither of us went down.
I think old buttery means the 1.08 forums. Are they going to be shut down, or turned into RC release + discussion forums?
To my surprise we had almost no griefers and the only problems that were there were with people using potty mouth language (Too much; like WAY too much...) Though I think we should all organize one last PuG with all of the vets some time around...
According to vida the new players are not as skilled as i thought. Apparantly as long as you're playing on a clan server (jpl, cw, ...) you'll have good games, where the new players work alongside the clanmembers. But on public servers there doesn't seem to be much teamwork. I wouldn't know since i haven't checked out other servers yet
When I try to assemble a small team people just ignore and go "lol", when I wanna take a small group to assault from a less obvious route.
commanding newbies 101: newbies won't attack areas with APC's, so if you're gunna last more than 1 death per newbie, get them to make a barracks wherever they encounter the enemy. ok, fine, you might do that anyway on a vet match. the difference is, with newbies, once they find something fun like an outpost to defend, they'll just sit there as scout doing nothing for the whole game. so as soon as you capture the area, unless it's directly on course for where the enemy base is, recycle the barracks. that means that you don't end up with your whole map spread out across the map, all doing nothing. if they only have one obvious place to spawn (and perhaps one or two behind your lines), then they'll work together and they're pretty good. oh, also, when you're playing, if you're gunna do something away from the main task force, bring one or two newbies with you, in your vehicle (running around they'll get lost)... they've actually saved my life a few times
yey according too steam empires is beating natural selection, team fortress classic and insurgency. i am honored to have helped such a great mod. :D :D
