Hello I really miss the old times when there were about 2-4 servers with at least 8 players you coluld choose from and you had pings clearly under 100ms. At the moment I can see two servers with players... but the ping is about 120 average. For me there are only two servers with a ping of less than 100ms and one of them has bad lagspikes. I've been trying to get enough people on the only server that is playable for me, but it didn't work until now. I've noticed that there are less JPL, BSID and other clanplayers on the servers. Maybe they play pub-games less often... that could be one of the reasons for this situation. I think it's quite strange that Empires improved and has more advertising going on (new website, steam, more frequent updates etc...) but less people play it. What do you (especially other european players) think about this? Is there a time when europeans can play Empires? What is the reason for the decreased player count? Regards Metalhead ... back in the Empires fanclub
Did ya see all the threads about the servers getting DDos'd? (Distributed Denial of Service) That's still happening ya know? I wish they'd go away because 2.25 is actually a lot of fun again, but hopefully they'll be dealt with soon.
Get a better internet connection or move away from australia (if that is the case), kkthxbai wtf? atm (iow right this moment) the following clanners are online on empires main (59ms, fk ye): Nihia (EPIC) Youzy (EPIC) Trickster (EPIC) Willey (PRKL) FN198 (JPL) Duke pending (BSID) Deif (EPIC) Mahtipakaret (EPIC/PRKL) LordDZ (EPIC) Kenji (odd clan name) Tiba666 (CW) Centron (JPL) Xiamanou (EPIC) Cyberkiller (EPIC) Balder (PRKL) The deadman (JPL) Harlequin (BSID) I think its just fine, but i want more bsid faggots and jpl'ers to be online. Europeans can play 24/7, even at viper i get 130ish ping The decrease is cuz JPL are now officially hontards and BSID realised they aint #1 and are now all emo... + their leadership fail... and they are afraid of scrims. (4-0) :D The major issue atm is all the bloody ddosing which cuts down the player count.
Given the community-wide DDoS attacks we were (and still are) dealing with, it's understandable that player activity has had somewhat of a decline. As well, you must consider that right now is a busy time of the year for older players who are at university and finishing up their semester projects and final exams. The summer should be pretty lively, we have an array of things planned for Nachos and Juicebox, and I'm sure G4TC & VIPER will rolling out either league matches or synergy games at some point.
SHANDY, THAT'S NO EXCUSE. HIT THE FUCKING RECOMPILE BUTTON ON YOUR MAPS SO WE CAN PLAY ON MAPS OTHER THAN EMO_CANYON, OLD ESCORT*, VEHICLETRAINING AND SLAUGHTERED. (wtf is it doing in the rotation instead of alt5 on VIPER, Sparky?)
Well BSID is hardly ever on except for weekends, and when they are on its only about 3 guys per server. BSID is so old that it's composed mainly of forum lurkers/retired players that just don't play any more. JPL is quite common and theres cw that you can see a lot and then there's EPIC that plays all the time. Plus there are coming up smaller clans like .IO. and EBND. oh and a difference of 20 milliseconds of ping is nothing so 100-120 is a bad argument. oh and its also a good thing that there are 2 servers with 50-60 players instead of 4 servers with 8 players each. look at those statistics thats like 110 players vs 32 players. THAT MEANS WE ARE MORE POPULAR THAN BEFORE I ACTUALLY DON'T SEE HOW YOU THOUGHT YOUR ARGUMENT WAS WORTH SAYING!
I didn't mean a difference of 20 ms. Often it's a difference of 60ms to 120ms or even more. When I wrote "at least 8 players" I meant one server with 8, one with 12, one with 54 and one with 30 or something like that... not 4 servers with 8 players each. The point was that there were more servers you could choose from. At the moment one of the populated servers requires downloading quite much... and I don't know why, but It takes very long. I have 20mbit internet, so that's not the reason. The other server often has a map like district or escort, which I don't like. Sometimes servers are modified in a way that totally ruins gameplay. When you have four servers to choose, you will more likely find one that suits your needs...
PreDom seems to think I use hacks in empires because I have a vast knowledge of how to actually make them, that picture there showing someone using hacks. I used to use material replacement hacks in CSS and I did make a batch for empires (no wh, just fullbright models) but Predom whines incessantly because last time I played him on district, I spawned camped his entire team for about 2 minutes with about 40 melee kills. No doubt he'll say otherwise though.
A: You've posted pics of wall hacks on escort. B: I was on your team that month-ago-game-of-district, idiot.
I didn't make those hacks, nor have I ever used them. That was from an IRC chat with MOOtant or some other dev, where he was asking if things could be made transparent without editing the material itself. I said no. It turns out I was wrong, when Siro came back with that. You have to edit every vmt separately, but it proves what's possible. But regardless, he never released them and I don't know the VMT pointers for it.
