PASSWORD IS : thepug Tired of shitty games that last 5 min? Playing with noobs? Check out the Empires PUG v2.0. FORUMS!!! http://www.empiresjpl.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=22 No bullshit, just good fun games with skilled players. First game is coming up Sat April 11th at 3pm EST here are a few other timezones: EST - 3pm PST - 12pm GMT - 7:00pm UK - 8:00pm Germany - 9:00 pm Come out and have fun, bring your friends. For now we will be running it on the JPL server. Around 20 prepug will start and district will run till 3pm EST just for fun if anyone wants to warm up and dick around a bit. Normal comm maps decided by vote will run until 5pm then we'll have a vote including ESCORT. After the PUG there will be awards for most epic win and most epic fail. More information about this once we get the forums up and running. Looking into some stat tracking for the server or other awards, all a few things in the pipeline that haven't been finalized. BUT, nothing is going to be overly complicated, just come out have fun and play and we'll try and setup some fun awards and stuff on the side. We are currently getting forums online for endgame screens/banter and they should be online soon. Rules are: 1. Server runs a pug config that has no specs and a 5 min vote time. 2. No cheating or griefing. 3. Listen to the person who gets voted comm. 4. Have fun. Of course they are subject to change depending on what people think of them. This is a PUG for empires players, having good fun games is the only goal. Join up the steamgroup: Empires PUG v2.0
For now we are doing you just pick your team and hopefully we don't see retarded stacking. We'll try and do whatever is best for the PUG.
let ppl apply for a comm position in before and then pick one spec after the other. like 1st map be choses the first player, then nf, be, and so on ... obviously this will only work out well if we have more than 2 commanders and lots of different maps we could use a forum, maybe even this one if our beloved forum tyrants (aka admins/mods) arent strictly against it, to "sign in" for commander positions. but maybe this is already too complicated and preplanned for a fun event. maybe we could do it on the fly ... dunno just a quick thought ... alternatively we could press autoassing (tho you simply can wait for the team you want to be on ...) ill try to forget my aversion against 2.23 and try to be there
Ok firstly to address the autoassign issue. It was actually something I had considered and I'm up in the air about it. On one hand I don't want super stacked games and on the other I don't want to stop people from playing with friends. I think the best bet is to start out without it then maybe implement something if stacking is ruining games. If people have 1-2 people they want to do a squad with I don't want to be in the way of that. On the issue of applying for comm positions and picking teams I think its just too complicated. I want people to come out have fun and play games not sit around in spec and having team picks and whatnot. There will be a longer vote time so once a team settles on a comm there still should be time to run over some rudimentary tactics.
Sounds fun, Simon. Could you change the name from "Empires PUG 2.0", though? I respect this effort, but you shouldn't be misleading about it. This is an alternative to the current PUG, not a second version of that same PUG. Anyway, I'll be there on the 11th to participate in what sounds like a great time.
Yeah I guess. Too late now. I think people will know the difference. They are pretty different from each other. Anyways, Evan's PUG isn't much of a PUG so much as two giant clans. I'm trying to go for the original PUG feeling that we had when we first started having PUGs in 1.08 testing. Everyone comes out for some good fun games, we play a few maps and have a good time.
Yeah the other PUG really fell apart, and pre-assigned teams and Commander's was the primary reason. So please, auto-assign and let us vote for the Com
Right now I'm not sure if its possible to force auto-assign. For now it is just going to be you join whatever team you want and then you vote for a comm as a team ingame and have 5 min to work out a basic strat. If we can find a way to force auto-assign and people want that I'm for sure open to implementing it. We could even try both and see what people like best. But yeah I don't want really get into this pug/that pug argument but I know personally getting organized for a pug and having 48 people show up to have games in 5 min and the pug end seemed silly. This PUG is all about the players and having fun. I'm fully open to implementing whatever system people think is best. I'm looking into a forced auto-assign plugin being made. Or is it a server command? I know you can turn off spec... The only goal I have is we have good games that are fun for everyone.
its only NFs fault and not even their own. but fighting LTs with good players in them is no fun at all ... besides that, the "pug" was the most fun thing i ever had in empires (at least on that scale, there were some fun scrims too, but i prefer 24vs24 over 10vs10)
Official Pug storyline thanks to pickeled heretic: Some NF guy split coffee on BE guy and then the BE guy was like "OH ITS ON"
I think 2.2x kind of magnified all the things people didn't like about Empires, and the other problems started because of it. That only explains a one on one battle. The story lines from the PUG were nice, but I'd rather have better games.
