Jan 28, 2011, 07:23 PM
hmm, I join servers because friends are on it, and I want to play with them, if a server plugin stops me from that, I don't play there. quite simple.
A community I played with, implemented auto-scramble, it scrambled every time. and often just messed up my play together with 1 or more friends.
Yes at times its fun to play against friends, but at least I want the choice.
I cant remember if I stated it here before or somewhere else. but stacking teams happens on both sides always. to me that makes gameplay way more intense because small teams on both teams are just waging war on each in the game. the individual play is just fine for spy's, way easier for them.
example, I play often medic on blue, I medic my friends, and heal anybody, go with the flow, look how they set out, and uber the class thats needed to uber. On red, I play often engy, and friends all of the sudden stay around as pyro with the homewrecker etc spy checking. or blast away stickies, rockets etc. I place my stuff there where its most handy to them to tank and have a overview.
when I'm not on the team with the friends, nobody does clean the backyard, and help out to keep it free from spy's or pushthru's... no pyro just sweeps the area with fire or w/e
A community I played a lot on, decided to try out a auto-team join plugin, and a auto-scrambler... I mostly never got to play with friends, and lost my fun there because playing medic for who"m? sure I can get my heavy on top of the scoreboard, but most of my friends are decent players... and know I uber when they realy go down in health, not 10 seconds BEFORE we meet anybody. Its the small things that are quite logical with playing with friends that make it a enjoyable experience. when preventing that, ppl will look elsewhere.
Due to above, I cant find a server anymore with more than 1-2 friends on it. A shame really, I've played in above mentioned community with like 15 friends on it, devided over both teams. they all moved to other servers.
as for forum changes... I don't think each server should have its own subforum or w/e. General chat subforum here is the home for all servers... not handy to split the community based on what server they play on.
if servers are empty, maybe ppl should try to start the server more often, by having a small group jump on the server, play till there are 20 ppl on, and then move on to the next server to fill that one
its what I did with admins on servers. on the right time, it fills a server in 20 minutes. The map rotation after should make sense tho... but can't really comment on that for sourceop because I don't play on it and really have no idea what rotations are on it.
tl;dr: autoscrambling/autoteam joining etc hurt the community on the servers. Fill teams on servers, forum changes: nah.
A community I played with, implemented auto-scramble, it scrambled every time. and often just messed up my play together with 1 or more friends.
Yes at times its fun to play against friends, but at least I want the choice.
I cant remember if I stated it here before or somewhere else. but stacking teams happens on both sides always. to me that makes gameplay way more intense because small teams on both teams are just waging war on each in the game. the individual play is just fine for spy's, way easier for them.
example, I play often medic on blue, I medic my friends, and heal anybody, go with the flow, look how they set out, and uber the class thats needed to uber. On red, I play often engy, and friends all of the sudden stay around as pyro with the homewrecker etc spy checking. or blast away stickies, rockets etc. I place my stuff there where its most handy to them to tank and have a overview.
when I'm not on the team with the friends, nobody does clean the backyard, and help out to keep it free from spy's or pushthru's... no pyro just sweeps the area with fire or w/e
A community I played a lot on, decided to try out a auto-team join plugin, and a auto-scrambler... I mostly never got to play with friends, and lost my fun there because playing medic for who"m? sure I can get my heavy on top of the scoreboard, but most of my friends are decent players... and know I uber when they realy go down in health, not 10 seconds BEFORE we meet anybody. Its the small things that are quite logical with playing with friends that make it a enjoyable experience. when preventing that, ppl will look elsewhere.
Due to above, I cant find a server anymore with more than 1-2 friends on it. A shame really, I've played in above mentioned community with like 15 friends on it, devided over both teams. they all moved to other servers.
as for forum changes... I don't think each server should have its own subforum or w/e. General chat subforum here is the home for all servers... not handy to split the community based on what server they play on.
if servers are empty, maybe ppl should try to start the server more often, by having a small group jump on the server, play till there are 20 ppl on, and then move on to the next server to fill that one
its what I did with admins on servers. on the right time, it fills a server in 20 minutes. The map rotation after should make sense tho... but can't really comment on that for sourceop because I don't play on it and really have no idea what rotations are on it.
tl;dr: autoscrambling/autoteam joining etc hurt the community on the servers. Fill teams on servers, forum changes: nah.