• From: Manchester
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Re: Getting the Community Popular Again

Some good ideas there TRON, keep em coming.

As Gwynzer has just said SadWhaleSong was starting to look at getting an North American time friendly Community Game night going, I'll give him a kick up the butt and see where he is with that. I think we have at least one major US based server who runs First Strike that we can approach about hosting this, so watch this space.

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Re: Getting the Community Popular Again

Unfortunately, there is a difference between getting someone to host games for us, and a CG playing well, and thats the problem with the current US servers.

CG's require a good but varied maplist, something that takes into account most types and locations of maps, different enough to keep games interesting.  I don't think any admins of the US based servers  really play enough First Strike to get a good idea of what maps work and what don't.  I think that has been the main issue with the US CG's.

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Re: Getting the Community Popular Again

Well I think if we did get a US server involved with a US based CG night we'd provide them with a map list and settings for such an event so we get the type of gaming experience for the US CG as we get with the others.

I think having an in game admin is essential too, which is why I'll be pursuing SadWhaleSong (or to be fair any other US based FS player who we know well, and is responsible enough, and wants the job) to act as a liaison and be an admin for any such CG night.

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Re: Getting the Community Popular Again

If I have more time in the near future and a US based server available to me I'd volunteer.

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Re: Getting the Community Popular Again

The i hate space maps thing:
Yes, i have heard what also a lot. Most people complain "I don't know there is up & down and there to go"
One exception is IMHO Yavin. Yavin has a ground an a sky, so it's more Aircombat than Spacecombat. So if you remove the spacemap from the server rotation keep Yavin in the maplist.

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Re: Getting the Community Popular Again

Yes, i have heard what also azlot. Most people complain "I don't know there is up & down and where to go"

So what it comes down to, again, is that FS is unintuitive. This is one aspect of the mod that really needs an overhaul, and IMO the devs need to get over the feeling they have that minimaps shouldn't be scribbled on. Objectives and game modes should be more clearly marked, in my humble opinion.

Changing the string "GAMEMODE" in the loading screen to "GAMEMODE - IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ" or something might help, too.

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Re: Getting the Community Popular Again

Seriously, if you can't work out that you simply need to head to the map icons you need to go find a nice game of solitaire. If a game isn't challenging it's no fun and if you need basic instruction for every step then go find a console.
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