i typed up a nice long post but stupid piece of **** firefox ****ed the whole thing u
i typed up a nice long post but stupid piece of **** firefox ****ed the whole thing u
Danzig is the map that ofers the newb to get warm with the game. I really love the map, since its well thought out and booth sides can win. I played nothing but danzig the first 2 months i got into RO. I dont have anything against Danzig 24/7..what really boothers me is that people vote for it on a good server while everyone perfectly knows of the availability of the map 24/7....
People get turned down by RO for several reasons...it might be hard to get into...you might up end up with the rifle...its in the hands and minds of the player itself to overcome the obstacles and learn from their mistakes..if they dont...its not the games fault.
Allthrough i agree that you encounter alot of the same people over and over, but in my experience, the gameplay for the individual get just better, given that said individual is open minded enough to develop a certain strategy to survive...rather than disregarding Danzig 24/7 servers, i whould encourage the use of the Voip more....
If you want a vital RO scene..do something about it. It might not click on the first try, but i had enough people i played with on pub who where thankfull enough about a warning, not going a certain path or going around that dangerous corner because enemy was there. HOW the **** should they know if noone is comunicating with them ?
Said that..USE THE VOIP....its there for a reason...
I typed up a good little post with a lot of good little points but lost it all
So here's again my few comments.
Somebody mentioned that 'zig is a good map for new RO players. I disagree for several reasons:
1. The k/d ratio for a new RO Player on 'zig would be 1/300.
2. He would then try to spectate/follow other high scoring players only to learn a generally less better way to play RO.
The reason I think that is because of this:
There are 2 'zig servers in NA, although it's more like 1 - the RTR one, because when it gets full the overflows go to the FK one to practice on bots. By experience and IMHO 80% of people on a 'zig server been there before ahhh let's say... at least a hundred times. I'm sure some players know every single rock, tactic/strategy that is out there. Also if one has good memory it becomes very easy to predict with a high chance of truthability where a certain individual is going to be. The whole game becomes either: killing the largest possible amount of people using the most humiliating way i.e. stabbing or getting as much points as possible, beating your old record, etc..... The second point is also called as statwhoring I think. And God forbid the teams are unbalanced (# of players or skill-wise), the map then becomes a bloodbath.
My point is that Danzig is not the best choice for new ROPlayers. It teaches gameplay that shouldn't be the first type of gameplay taught to ROPlayers. I feel that other default and custom maps are better suited for new ROPlayers.
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To OP: completely agree
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My comment regarding the dwindling community - I do think the number of active players have declined considerably over the recent times. At a very good playable time over here in California there are only 4 or 5 servers with fully human players. The list goes something like that:
RTR Danzig that is full/FK 'zig with 10 people
ro-arad
some TWB server that I'm banned from
some other TWB server with the voting option turned off
and as people mentioned above probably something like ro-EXTREME-L33T-1337-OREL-EXTREMELY-HEAVY-GANGBANG-DAY23of365-pzdf
My point is there are only 2 or 3 servers that are playable at very good gaming hours. IMHO that clearly indicates the RO community is dwindling. To OP: although I don't think anybody can accurately say that too much 'zig is the reason for the decline.
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My last point, directed to server administrators. Turn the god damn mother****ing VOTING on. If somebody can't fall asleep and wants to play some RO at 3am, and doesn't want to play 'zig
don't ****ing make him to play some piece of cum eating piece of horse **** map that nobody on the server wants to play for 50 ****ing minutes. The server like that becomes empty very very fast. And if you don't want certain maps to be overplayed i.e. Danzig just remove them from the maplist. There's no need to force ALL players to play maps that they DON'T actually want to play. Bring democracy back to RO please.
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Cheers
-p.
