Thomas12255 wrote:

I was like having the most kills then those people never came back for some reason.

I'm sure it was because of you having the most kills

Yeaaaaaaaaa!!

I was like having the most kills then those people never came back for some reason.

I'm sure it was because of you having the most kills

oh well that sucks then.
devs should set some people to advertise the mod

Well, hopefully this team will get started sometime soon.

Actually, for a number of things this is the case.  BF2142 is really just a (albeit very advanced) mod of BF2. However, it adds alot of things to the game engine, most of which are not open source meaning we can't just copy the bits over to BF2 that we want to copy over.  Walker code is one of those things, I belive

I wouldn't want us on BF2 anyway, yeah they would be more players, but there wouldn't be epic visuals like This, I would really miss that .  FS has it's busy periods and it's quiet periods.  Right now, it's getting quiet again, but I'm confident that will change soon.

US Server was up for US players -> At one point, US servers outmatched the EU servers. However, the Euro servers still always had more players on them than the USers.  Advertising the mod (for major sites) requires being able to contact those officials on Behalf of the FS Dev team.  Most the people interested in getting FS "out there" don't have any status in FS.  It took me over 2 weeks of pestering to even get FS 1.4 hosted on Battlefield.Filefront.com.  This was about 3 or 4 months after it was released too.

remember that most populated servers on most games are from US

Erm..only for US players. You'll also find servers in Europe populated 24/7 by euro players..same for asia and australia.

The biggest nail in the mods coffin is that fact that 2142 was never as popular as BF2, with most seeing it as little more than an expansion rather than bringing anything new to the series. FS chose 2142 however because the walker made it possible to have better anims for the ATST or something. Not only that, it also suffers from mod syndrome, as in many people are afraid to try it in case it does something to their vanilla game, or they have to change settings they normally dont touch. The average computer user is actually pretty useless when it comes to doing anything other than mash the keyboad or press a switch.

There was, for a while, a few American servers up, and there were events such as the "American Community Game" which was hosted on one of those servers.  Few people showed up.

As to making something like the ISD move..I haven't tried it but I believe the collisionbox is too large or something.

Advertising would be great.

Stats we have. We cant have offiical 2142 ranked servers because its against some kind of EA/Dice rule I believe, running a mod on a ranked server could lead to cheating. That can end up with your player account deleted and your cd code made invalid.

Project Reality, for Battlefield 2, is featured by DICE and on the BF2 front page: We can have this done for FS, especially because DICE loves FS after the FS "Dev Team of Old" met up with them.

ISD's are NOT to big to move, they are just to big to be player controlled and moveable.  They can move just fine, with a little bit of fancy coding.

-weekly updates, pics makes ppl go DO WANT! more and follow mods
I agree, except I'd rather see the devs working on fixing the current ingame bugs than working on new content.

-a new trailer showing the mod features
Agreed, and has been getting recently discussed in some community groups.

-ranked servers
FS has stats, unfortunately the stats server either needs maintenece or upgrading, and is VERY unrelaiable at this time.

-announce the mod on every Star Wars and Battlefield sites/forums as posible
Something I have done a little of personally.  Being an official representative would change the reception to the advertising.  For one thing, you can contact bigger sites like FileFront and Planet Battlefield to discuss things with the highups, instead of just advertising on forums and the like.

-More updates on Moddb
It's been mentioned to one or two devs already, but we NEED an update on ModDB saying the launcher now DOESN'T play with vanilla content, anymore.  This will bring a number of people back, I belive.

-post this mod everywere as if it were a Battlefront III (i know its not but ppl will get excited and will try the mod and will see that FS is far better than battlefront, more balanced and no arcade-ish so it will atract ppl trust me)
We're simply not Battlefront, even saying we are is enough to send some of us off for a lie down.  It's better to show FS for what it is, instead of say something it isn't and hope the crowd we attract (one thing: SWBF crowd - we don't want to attract most of them) sticks with us.

Regarding the boarding: FS tries to stay close to Lore as possible, there are no indidents (which would work in FS) where the rebels board an ISD.  The best I can think of would be Tantive IV, but I can't see much chance of the devs doing this any time soon - it involves alot of custom models etc.   There aren't any lore-acurate situations where there 2 large ships in the air deploying troops while throwing missiles and stuff at each other. If we could find one, there would still be alot of work in making interiors for the ship and messing around with (the rather complex) Titan code.

I think publicity would help too, but a lot of people don't play because they get annoyed at dying, it seems.

The weekly updates, it's definitely possible, but the devs are... umm... somewhat lazy:P.

Right now we prefer smaller maps because we don't have a lot of people.

We really need a trailer.

I really doubt that we will lie about FirstStrike being SW Battlefront 3. It's just not right.

The Star Destroyer is simply too big to move. It has to remain as a static object. I've already asked about it in a thread.

Well, I just said what I thought. I'm no FSdev, so I could be wrong about some things.