Lets Play! Saturday 7th September - 21:00 BST / 16:00 EDT / 13:00 PDT

Time for another pickup game me thinks?

So long as attendance remains good we'll be doing these bi-weekly
Edit: Moved forward an hour.

Steam groups is the preferred method of advertising so if you are not in the "emp vets pug" group PM me your username & I will invite you.

Put this in your diary (!!!REVISED TIME!!!):
7th September @ 2100BST (clicky for local time zone conversion)
(Fellow Britfags & other observers of daylight saving trickery - thats 9pm BST).

I will going to bump the max player cap up to 52 but I really don't want to send it much higher.
Last week's games turned out nice. As always we need willing commanders so step up people!

A note to players:
Help make these games a success;

• Squad up with your bestest buddies for optimum giggles, but make sure to avoid stacks.
• There was some feedback comm vote times were too long so they will be reduced. In consideration of this; Join up quickly! If server gets full unassigned will be kicked with impunity at the start of the round if unresponsive

Feedback required on how long people think these should go on for but I am thinking to cap at about 6 rounds or 120 minutes depending on how many rounds we get through. I want to shut the server before people start leaving en-masse - instead of trying to eek out one half baked round. I would encourage people to relocate to public servers to spec chat about the games and keep on playing till your fingers bleed. Which would give anyone who was unable to get in to the server a reason to populate public servers too.

Because I am lazy (useless) I'm going to fix the map rotation on the server so it is one less thing to worry about. I'm thinking to do something along the lines of: 2 or 3 classic maps, infantry map, custom maps. Suggestions welcomed.

 

My suggestion for an infantry map? Atomic. It's seriously the best option for a infantry map with high population.

Also, I think that link's broken. 2100 UTC is supposed to be 9 PM, but the link says it's 10 AM. It also says that the date is today.

 

I am in.

But would you consider begin the pug at 1900, or at least 2000?
I think we might be able to play more rounds if we start the pug earlier.
Of course, if you would be available at that time.

 

or eastborough.

count me in ehzedkay.

 

If your hosting this on epic give me a shout if you need anything changed on the server and ill sort it out

 

2100 UTC is 10pm UK time btw.

 

Hmm.. wrong copy paste! Cheers, good spot.

 

11 pm is kinda fucking late mate.

 

I honestly think you could go earlier than that. At the earliest for someone living in the United States, that's still only 2 PM.

 

hmm... OK I'll move it forward an hour I guess. Can't go any earlier because I'm working

 

play king??????
either that or id actually like to play commandergrad again

 

Trickster could do with editing the title that appears in the forum, either that or a new thread to avoid confusioon about the time might be a good idea

 

Double post: This will also be a chance for everyone to become Empires famous in the quick start guide screenshots (as long as I remember). More info later

 

Empires famous?

What. You only need to pick a forum section and start shitposting and shitthreading all the time to become "famous". The current standarts are not exactly what I would call high.
Sorry for derail.

 

Reporting in

 

It's a Friday loosen up you euros

 

Imagine i live in a block and tired neighbours don't take kindly to me playing empires with its wonky sound at 4am.

 

Headphones...

 

Makes sense, every time you die in game and all your neighbours can hear is "ooooooooooooooooooh" or "aaaaaaaahhhhh hoooooo" or "uuuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaahhhhh" or "whooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaooaoaooaa". Sounds like you're having an orgasm.

 

Not putting my 'phones when playing empires ever fucking again.
I don't want to become deaf.

Seriously ,that is not an option. Volume levels in empires swing from "barely catched by the ear" to "5 CG apcs with 5 double He heavies" in seconds. Its annoying as it is, and is quite possibly the shoddiest audio work I've ever witnessed.