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SouthPaw · Post by **SouthPaw** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:20 pm

High profile douchebags with god complexes.

They used to be a minority.

Zapper · Post by **Zapper** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:28 pm

Games are taking to long to start and the chat is full of @#$%@#s = players leave

We should have map rotation and forced launch on 3-4 dedicated server.. that should get it going

KGJV · Post by **KGJV** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:46 pm

I'll sound like a broken record again :

QUOTE S1. Remove all hiders. 1 account = 1 callsign
S2. Enforce AutoBalance (AB) to be on for game scores to count. Disallow to turn off AB once the game has started.
S3. Review and change the way stats and ranks are computed. Some people already proposed alternative. There are plenty room here for optimization and accuracy. For instance, a rank 20 player getting 50 kills vs (0)s and (1)s shouldnt get any point at all for these kills.
S4. choose 'one core to rule them all': the "community core" ...[/quote]
These are from 3 years ago and It took 2 years to have S4 done so will it need 6 more years to get S1,S2 and S3 done ?!

i'll add S5 too:

S5 : boot (simple boot not ban) anyone idle more than 5mins (in NOAT or team, game running or not).

so may be in 8 years if we're lucky...

spideycw · Post by **spideycw** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:53 pm

lol@enforce AB on for games to count.

Who cares if games count!?

ledfist · Post by **ledfist** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:57 pm

I believe it is the steep learning curve & peeps using newbs to pad KB.
Most people want instant gratification, not to work to get there.

SaiSoma · Post by **SaiSoma** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:21 pm

KGJV wrote:QUOTE (KGJV @ Jul 20 2010, 02:46 PM) I'll sound like a broken record again :

These are from 3 years ago and It took 2 years to have S4 done so will it need 6 more years to get S1,S2 and S3 done ?!

i'll add S5 too:

S5 : boot (simple boot not ban) anyone idle more than 5mins (in NOAT or team, game running or not).

so may be in 8 years if we're lucky...

no to S5. Are you nuts? You would boot me from NOAT if I had to answer the phone before jumping in game?

fuzzylunkin1 · Post by **fuzzylunkin1** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:24 pm

HSharp · Post by **HSharp** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:26 pm

SaiSoma wrote:QUOTE (SaiSoma @ Jul 20 2010, 09:21 PM) no to S5. Are you nuts? You would boot me from NOAT if I had to answer the phone before jumping in game?

Not too hard to rejoin the server when you come back though.

Malicious Wraith · Post by **Malicious Wraith** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:30 pm

Enforcing AB would actually create accurate skill based ranks after all. Something we don't have currently.

Post by **BackTrak** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:31 pm

Perhaps adding more ranks, and making it easier to rank up ala WoW would also provide a draw. People do like to show off, and they like to feel they are improving. Giving them a way to show progress and some bragging rights is a great motivator to keep them coming back to play, instead of having them stuck at rank 8 for 3 or 4 months. That's going to be a little off putting to people who care about such things and enjoy that aspect of other games.

I was thinking of having two ranks. One would be visible only to the current game commander (this would be the current AllegSkill rank) and the other would be the "public" rank which would be tied to the actual rank name which everyone else in the lobby would see?

Or, perhaps detach the AllegSkill number from the rank so that everyone would see:

(8) Expert 1
(21) Expert 7
(3) Intermediate 6
(1) Beginner 2

etc.

Maybe that's too confusing, but something along those lines to let people feel like they are making progress and give some positive reinforcement. WoW has a very careful formula to award levels based on play time to encourage people to play, and it works out for them.