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Only if you let me kill you and light you on fire
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Epic
fantastic idea
wonders why not
all those new pubs and people possibly wanting to join eGO
ill say it again epic
great idea
I feel like with this change to follow it would help us in the DOD area regain some strength back into our servers. With us adding a FF type server it could change our member base. Also you never know current members from other div would start to play on it since its a new idea for eGO server
sumac keep up the good ideas
Epic
fantastic idea
wonders why not
all those new pubs and people possibly wanting to join eGO
ill say it again epic
great idea
I feel like with this change to follow it would help us in the DOD area regain some strength back into our servers. With us adding a FF type server it could change our member base. Also you never know current members from other div would start to play on it since its a new idea for eGO server
sumac keep up the good ideas
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Sumac
Nothing to butter up, this is simply for people's opinions on the subject. While I understand your point, do you agree that we would probably gain more players from changing a dying map to a FF server than we would by simply changing it to a new non-FF map?
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I'm in support of the FF map. As you said if we made anzio our FF map we could snatch people from the BG anzio server (in which even I play when our servers are empty or there are ppl only in ava and its full) and also we would offer something new to the pubbers, something they haven't experienced in eGO before (correct me if I'm wrong) and get them more interested in coming to our servers and eventually joining our community and division.
It would also bring some variety and change for us older members too and I think that it'd have a good influence on everyone and we'd get a new depth on our everyday gaming. We could and would need to communicate more possibly using vent and also in-game.
So in a summary of what I think of it is that I'm supporting this idea 100 %.
It would also bring some variety and change for us older members too and I think that it'd have a good influence on everyone and we'd get a new depth on our everyday gaming. We could and would need to communicate more possibly using vent and also in-game.
So in a summary of what I think of it is that I'm supporting this idea 100 %.
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I think our admins will be up to and looking forward to it . Give it a try what can we lose.
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I give my +support for this one, it sounds like a fun idea.
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There's a niche there for sure and I have seen many 'FF server?' questions over the last year just from regular players alone.
So I certainly can see the upside in making a move to try and revitalize what would be a quiet server.
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we've tried rotations that have failed, we haven't tried FF?
Like you said before, most people have had this game for awhile and are pretty much gonna stick with the servers they like. This may bring a few new faces but I'm just not sure how many. I say go for it, there really is nothing to lose.
and I believe BG is not FF, and thats pretty much the only other Anzio thats stable . I first started on BG argentan, and I still see a lot of the same guys switching between the two, so its gonna be tough pulling players off. Once again i would love to see something done with our lonely servers.
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I don't see that being necessary. You are going to simply delay doing something with a dead server. Why not get it going and try to fill it. I'm not saying FF is the answer to all our problems, we need to do a lot more than that, but it's a step. This division isn't like others, we have less time to react to things and are forced to change things up to keep rolling. Delaying for this division is rarely a good idea.
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I really love the idea!
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That is a good idea Quaffer,
My point was that trying it as an event is less of commitment than doing a full change over. Historically it has been very difficult to break the DoD division out of its rut. A weekly event lets us make a change without running into the stonewall of "we have popular servers we don't need to make any changes."
It will be much more palatable to try it on a part time basis and if the response is good we will have a much better argument for going to a 24/7 change.
Sorry everyone, this all stemmed from Sumac wanting to be able to kill poor 'ol Skippy whenever his heart so desires, not just when he's on the other team.
But seriously though, I do enjoy some of the Donner FF games on other servers, and I think we could definitely get it to work with the right planning.
But seriously though, I do enjoy some of the Donner FF games on other servers, and I think we could definitely get it to work with the right planning.
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Sumac
I would disagree that the 'stonewall' is in the minds of most people. I think most people that play this game understand where it is headed without constant movement. This division doesn't have the same luxury that others do, too much waiting around for something to happen would in my opinion prepare DoD:S for being rolled into another division. We have some successful servers true, but why leave a dead server dead?
I don't see the logic behind the concern for 'making it palatable', it has far fewer potential negatives being on a completely dead server than it's potential positives.
Why the commitment issue? Is it that changing a server to FF is really that difficult? Is it a concern that a dead server would still be dead with the change? Too many complications to work out first? Or is it a concern that there are better options out there? The last two concerns I would agree with to a point, there may be better alternatives out there, including changing to 100 tick, doing away with some dead servers ect. But remember we are not talking about changing a successful server in anyway. If a change to FF brings even 10 players a day to Anzio, that would be an improvement.
I guess I just see this as a huge opportunity to bring in a new group of players we have never seen before. I really don't see the downside, maybe I am missing something. Thinking things through is always a good idea, testing the waters is a good thing too. We would be able to iron out any bugs with mods ect. But really this is something that can have an immediate (potentially) impact on our player base. Again, putting this on a dead server is a testing ground. If it's successful, who knows maybe we could switch another dead server over at another time, if not simply roll the two together.
These are all my opinions, I am not trying to pick on anyone or single anyone out. I enjoy the discussion so please keep it coming. Just know that my personal belief is geared more towards action at this point rather than in my opinion over thinking the issue.
I laud your enthusiasm and wish you every success.
