Geez! The newbs now rule the servers. No DM-DeckImpossible, no Megatomb, No Deck 14.. Life sucks!

I hope its just because Herm's been too busy to put them on. Priorities run amuck.

I'll have to get back to annoying Brits..

Give Me Deck Maps Or Give Me Death!

Schwantz

I still call Deck 16 home. All those fun evenings fraggin and The schwantz in the rafters. :wink:

He got lot Decks on House of Hermskii

Well I'd like to see them back on CG as well but it's Herm's server's .

Oh well.. Battlefield 1942 here I come again.

Later guys

Schwantz

I'm sorry Schwantz. I decided to try to take CG back to it's humble beginnings where any (even 56K'ers) can connect on a single attempt. I had steered away from that somehow over the last year and wanted to get back on the path to the light. Scify is right. HOH has all of the old maps and I just put one another one I happened across the other day. You'll be very pleased to know it's a Deck map. It's called Deck][Ruin and it is funny to see and I imagine hard to play. It looks like what Deck 16 should look like after a typical Redeemer match was played in it. I wish they would have added more damage but it's still funny as is and I'm glad to have it. I mentioned already that I am now taking skins and will be happy to add more maps but I'd like to keep them simple still. That reminds me, Scify sent me one a while back I need to look at. Gotta go. CYA

Ah yes. I would say that was the Dark City of SRA. Not in the sense that it sucked but that it got a lot of Play amongst the regulars Like DC gets on CG. Aaahhh those were the days. Seema like only yesterday. Sniff. :cry:

Herm

I would do a study of participation rates now that CG is back to barebones.

I still believe that only numbers attract more numbers. If 8 people are playing on Bo's, others will want to connect. Unfortunately, that is the limit there! I've already noticed fewer people playing on CG.

The regs are the core of the servers, and it is their numbers that attract other players. We have now built up a great international community of people, but they are slowly being lured by Bo's. My thought is that you should rely on your superfast downloads (which you were the first to implement, and which explains the great success of CG) and throw great maps on. Forget about HoH -- it splits the community.

If for nothing else, you should at least put on DeckImpossible on for Schwantz, LMAO. I'm not sure he can play anything else, LOLOL!!! :lol:

Just 2 cents, American.

... and Deck16 II for N6NU

I'm sticking with the good pings boys. You can have your forty players in the arena at once. I've found that I enjoy a lower ping when playing and that the number of people (As long as its not all bots) is fine below 8. With NWRO & HOH running why do we need CG. Let the Newbs have it. Thats what CG's purpose was in the first place remember, a training ground so to speak.
As far as fast Downloads go NWRO easily is the fastest for me. I'd love for us all to play on the same server at the same time but lets face it , regardless what kinda bandwidth your looking at or regardless of what type of superstar setup you have a large number of players is still gonna have a negative impact on pings. With HOH and NWRO running that should be enough space for most of us to play and CG is always there if god forbid you need that Redeemer fix and the other 2 are full. Perhaps you can drop the number of bots you have on CG to 8 to see if pings improve across the board. Perhaps this is also what is causing the occasional crash. Nothing personal Hermskii but I spend most of my time on NWRO now because it's pings are right on the money and it doesn't crash. This is just constructive critisizm please don't get bent.

Hey Mah I noticed in a couple of your posts what sounds like maybe cheapshots at Bo's server. Did he wrong you in some way. Not trying to stir the proverbial stick I was just wondering. Maybe I'm just reading to deeply into things..

HELLO!

me and some of the gang from the cold norh, have a bad ping all the time :evil: :evil: don't make is worse play. :cry: :cry: :cry: :twisted: 8)

lol, NO -- I didn't mean anything I said to disrespect Bo (BO, I hope you didn't anything as an insult).

My thoughts on Bo's server is that it is great for new maps for advanced players. But right now, his server isn't equipped to handle more than 8 players (and of course, this is not his fault -- I'm not ripping on him here).

What I'm trying to express is a concern for loss of marketshare. When CG's went down for alittle bit, everyone migrated over to Bo's. But our community is bigger than 8 people. It was hard to get on sometimes.

Herm's was always the place where all of us (or many of us) could congregate *together* and play. It is also how we managed to recruit so many newbies and bring them to the community.

That's all I was trying to say. Sorry if it came off like I was dissing anyone. You know I would never do something like that except in the spirit of a joke.

M

I hate to say it folks but CG is going to get cut back even further I think. I know all the points you've made are valid. Many players prefer the new maps that Bo offers. Many see better pings there. hell! I can't believe how great mine is there for that matter. We use the exact same company for our highspeed downloads so if one seems faster than another, then it should be due to your location in relation to where the servers are. Servers are different and they change from time to time depending on the admin.

CG was really always meant for newbs to have an easy way to get addicted to this game we all love so much. I steered off of that by adding maps and such to see how many people I could get on at once and test the connection. That's all done now! I personally love NWRO and I think it runs great. I've asked Bo to up the player max since while I was on and it was full I hade no lagg. KidCapri has the best ping of them all for me. I also had steered away from the basic plan since Missile Madness was originally and exact duplicate of CG almost. HOH has always sat on the side and that's fine for me. Mah has a great point about player loads but I want to stay the course because I think it will pay off big time just as it did last time with all of the newbs easily getting on. This plan works and I'm sticking to it. I will try to Make HOH better as time goes but we'll see.

MapVote is coming OFF CG soon! CG is getting a PIII 500 because this 350 in it now still isn't strong enough. I'm getting about 700 more in ram and that box will be totally maxed out for what it can do. As far as crashes go, since CG and HOH have been in the new home, I haven't had one (not 1) crash of either server yet. If they are down, it's due to me tinkering. I'm almost done with that and I will then enjoy the fruits of my labor as Jarg put it I think. Myself, I'm anxious to get to spend more time at Bo's and I want to try to see if there are any single file DM maps left out there that I can put on HOH.

This will all pay off and it will seem more right after all the dust settles. Peace all and I really don't have any other opinion about it at this time. Love and Kisses!

It's cool Mah. Like I said I'm probably just reading into what you said. Bo's a good guy and I'd hate to see him take offense for anything directed toward his server. For the same reason I'd hate hermskii to take anything to heart that I'd say about CG or HOH. If it's just constructive critizism then I'm sure he''ll understand.

Hermskii I think thats a great idea as far as the Map Vote for CG goes. Force the Newbs to play every map in the rotation. This way they learn to play instead of stagnating on Dark City & Crane. I've nothiced this has actually become a bit of a chant for some of the regular Newb guys on CG. One guy kept sayin Crane Crane crane crane to get some of us regs that were in to vote for it. Of course that didin't happen. :wink: Hence the reason why I think giving it back to the newbs is a good idea. My opinion shouldnt count much anymore anyway because I just don't get in enough to play. Too busy chasing johnny Reb all over the country.

Anyway I've given my 6.5 cents (Moroccan) :wink: