May 31, 2013, 11:27 PM
I adore SourceOP, was the second or third server I joined when I first started playing and it stuck with me. I remember two years ago, playing for a good eight or nine hours into the night and stopping in the early morning with the server still fully populated. I really miss those days.
I fully support a revamp of the reserved slot system. I can't count the amount of times I just quit because I had my slot stolen by a reserved slot only a few minutes after joining the server. The last few times I've tried to get on I've been plagued by huge queue times (exacerbated by reserved slots butting into the queue and stealing spots) and just quit. I think I've tried to get on during peak times three or four times during the past couple weeks and gave up after a half hour of waiting and seeing people with reserved slots join just fine. I don't doubt this has turned huge numbers of people away from the server at that.
Make reserved slots a privilege, I like the idea of turning it into a monthly pledge with tiered benefits (different ranks of some kind of special sparkly weapon or something). I've also wondered why SourceOP isn't a server that comes up for quick-play, if nothing else can, being added to that list could certainly alleviate our emptiness.
I'd also like to throw out the idea of adding an RTV and a vote to turn all-talk on or off. Since the server tends to go back and forth between tactical chatter and bullshitting it would certainly raise the appeal, especially since we used to be a pretty tight knit community of regulars and conversations would always get cut short during auto-balances and map changes.
Also, Enforcer for admin.
I fully support a revamp of the reserved slot system. I can't count the amount of times I just quit because I had my slot stolen by a reserved slot only a few minutes after joining the server. The last few times I've tried to get on I've been plagued by huge queue times (exacerbated by reserved slots butting into the queue and stealing spots) and just quit. I think I've tried to get on during peak times three or four times during the past couple weeks and gave up after a half hour of waiting and seeing people with reserved slots join just fine. I don't doubt this has turned huge numbers of people away from the server at that.
Make reserved slots a privilege, I like the idea of turning it into a monthly pledge with tiered benefits (different ranks of some kind of special sparkly weapon or something). I've also wondered why SourceOP isn't a server that comes up for quick-play, if nothing else can, being added to that list could certainly alleviate our emptiness.
I'd also like to throw out the idea of adding an RTV and a vote to turn all-talk on or off. Since the server tends to go back and forth between tactical chatter and bullshitting it would certainly raise the appeal, especially since we used to be a pretty tight knit community of regulars and conversations would always get cut short during auto-balances and map changes.
Also, Enforcer for admin.