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Topic: Want more players?

Too many people intimidated by playing on the 1 and only server they often find? The Grand Admirals kicking the little recruits butts? Then they get frustrated and leave? How about baby steps, a slow progression getting people familiar with the maps, classes, weapons, vehicles and tactics. Know what would really help that? CO-OP!!! For 2 years I've been preaching this and for 2 years it's left to others to fill the gap. It's like a real page had been taken from Dice/EA with the thinking "yeah we'll just make the game essentials and since it's an online game we don't need to worry about singleplayer or co-op". Ultimately it would help your cause to support bots ingame. Personally I have 6 friends and myself, all SW fans and we routinely play 2142. In the past 2 years I've gotten them to try FS a couple times and exactly like mentioned above they're clueless jumping into a server with 48 people and after 10 minutes of dying they get frustrated and quit. We then tried the singleplayer mini-mod and they liked it but wished it were more complete. Consequently we go back to 2142 online or Hard Justice.

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Re: Want more players?

We've been working hard for quite a while now to implement co-op.  Herbanator was brought on the team for exactly this purpose.  It's just a much larger task then you'd imagine.  We have to rework 90% of the statics in the mod (this is just about done now, thanks to Herb) as well as recode a lot of the vehicles due to people not ever intending to see AI in the mod.  Personally, though, I'm of the same opinion as you, as are the majority of the dev team these days.  AI is extremely important to bringing this mod to life.  It's just a very difficult task.  Perhaps the next release you'll see the Tatooine maps and some space with AI, baring any unforeseen issues.

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3 Reply by SamZi (edited by SamZi 2009-02-13 11:07:47)

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Re: Want more players?

FS isn't any harder than vanilla so how did you learn to play it? By playing. It's not that hard geesh.

If you're so intimidated by not knowing enough about the game, why not read the wiki's and guides? Although they are somewhat outdated, they still help.

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Re: Want more players?

The Grand Admirals kicking the little recruits butts? Then they get frustrated and leave? How about baby steps, a slow progression getting people familiar with the maps, classes, weapons, vehicles and tactics.

It's not always easy to be a beginner in an old mod, especially one introducing lots of new concepts with little in-game documentation compared to vanilla. It was worse when 1.2 or 1.25 was released, though - I have memories of clan members and even testers all stacking up and ruthlessly destroying the other team. Not good for beginners.

Here's hoping for Co-Op, too.

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Re: Want more players?

haha...good times.  Dev team vs. pub was always good fun tongue

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6 Reply by Athlon (edited by Athlon 2009-02-13 14:25:17)

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Re: Want more players?

Pretty sure if the server is poorly populated mosted of the FS "major players" will slow it down a notch to give some of the newer players a chance, the last thing anyone wants is for people to leave the server. And any new players reading this don't worry too much about Samzi, hes a pussy cat really tongue

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Re: Want more players?

I have returned and will pwn all noobs!

ah, seriously, ask in game and most DECENT experienced FS players will offer advice and be patient. Sure, we have a few well known...... idiots, who will all too happily stomp on a noob trying to make themselves look good, but then they are usually the guys that experienced players look to take down a few pegs.

Then of course, me and Samzi can usually be found chasing each other round and round in fighters.

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