The parties and racing were odd, odd, odd features of the GC community. You'd be logging on anticipating an actual game, and all of a sudden someone would declare this or that CP neutral or arrange a race or mess around on asteroids, even on full servers.
"One of the bitches actually gave birth while she was attacking, and her puppies joined in on the carnage." --the awesomeness that is Boatmurdered.
People don't always want super serious Got to win battles. Sometimes people just want to goof off a little
On Escape from Hoth one time I spent most the round trying to jump my way down to the Lamda SHuttle in the SD. Ended up having to resort to hoping on top of a bomber and having someone carry me down :-P
Much to my dismay, the lamda was made of cardboard and their was nothing down there. That would have been a great place for a easter egg or actualy making the Lamda Pilotable
Thats something this mod/team currently does not seem to like to much tho
I think if you join a populated server than you really shouldn't goof off. There are already too many people goofing off and teamkilling, fighting over vehicles and everything. If you want to goof off there are like 15 unpopulated servers that wouldn't screw up other peoples gaming experiance or your goof off time. Yesterday, I had one of those idiots that thought it would be funny to shoot at me every chance he got. Well he knocked 30 hit points off of my tank so it was no surprise when a rebel tank wiped me out pretty quickly. Usually, I have found that one team has no teamwork and the other is really corrdinated which makes the rounds kind of dull because the same team wins over and over again.
Exactly. Full server = Regular game. Near-empty server = Bad gameplay, which means you might as well goof off until more people show up.
This is especially true with FS, which currently has a small player base. If I log on and there's many players on, I want to fight, not race around on speeder bikes or throw a "party".
"One of the bitches actually gave birth while she was attacking, and her puppies joined in on the carnage." --the awesomeness that is Boatmurdered.
But if the mod is supposed to grow you have to make it a good playable experiance....I love this mod but I have cut back my hours a lot because I am sick of getting TK'd so frequently and on purpose that or losing because my squad doesn't work together. I learned to fly the lambda on an empty server so I didn't kill half my team. I wish that more people would do that. I can't tell you how many times people have used it as a gunship rather than a transport and killed 6 teammates by crashing it while lifting off or going after fighters.