8 Reply by FSDev| TALON (edited by FSDev| TALON 2009-11-11 14:09:35)

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Re: Does anyone play?

Welcome to the forums and the mod Flandrin, just hang about on the servers at around 7 or 8pm GMT and you should run into some people, also the weekends are a good bet with Community Games running from around 8pm GMT.

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Re: Does anyone play?

Hi Flandrin! I bought 2142 just to play the mod too.
There's quite a lot of us who play. I'm having 2142 issues at the moment... but most week nights you'll find some people on.
The weekends is when big games happen, we have 'Community games' on Saturday and Sunday nights where lots of people show up.

Theres even quite a few Spanish players I know who play. smile

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10 Reply by Safe-Keeper (edited by Safe-Keeper 2009-11-11 19:14:23)

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Re: Does anyone play?

It's a textbook example of Prisoner's Dilemma - we all realize that someone needs to get on the empty servers, but no one wants to be the one to do so.

Let's illustrate - let's say that in a timespan of 10 minutes, 30 people hop on game-monitor to check the FS servers. They find empty servers, and only three of them hop on. The rest of them see 3 people on, causing some of them to join - but the server still only gets 5-10 people or so.

By contrast, if all those 30 people hopped on, we'd have a great game going. Instead, we have a mod that doesn't get played as much as it deserves for no better reason than that it it doesn't get played as much as it deserves. An evil circle in my eyes.

If everyone hopped on servers even when they were empty, we'd have loads playing. But people don't want to do it, creating empty servers.

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Re: Does anyone play?

RSF Angel wrote:

Theres even quite a few Spanish players I know who play. smile

Oh! Spanish players! How fun! tongue LOL!
Man so yeah, long time no see. It's been 10 months or so since my HD crashed and never bothered to reinstall 2142. Anything new? Was it just 1.3 back then or was it the 1.4 release? I can't remember. Well, one thing hasn't changed, there still isn't much of a community except on the weekends packed full of you die-hards I'm sure. smile How have you guys been?

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  • From: Kortrijk, Belgium
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Re: Does anyone play?

We've been doing fine, just that us "die-hards" would like some more people to play so we can play more big_smile
There's a new map on the way so we're exited for that (I want it nao!!)
Also, if you start playing again now, you get cookies.

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Re: Does anyone play?

ADULTSWIM wrote:
RSF Angel wrote:

Theres even quite a few Spanish players I know who play. smile

Oh! Spanish players! How fun! tongue LOL!
Man so yeah, long time no see. It's been 10 months or so since my HD crashed and never bothered to reinstall 2142. Anything new? Was it just 1.3 back then or was it the 1.4 release? I can't remember. Well, one thing hasn't changed, there still isn't much of a community except on the weekends packed full of you die-hards I'm sure. smile How have you guys been?

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1.4 was released Xmas time 2008. Other than a few bugfixes here and there, not much has really changed.

Right now we're in a quiet period in FS, a few months ago we could get populated servers almost every day.  Now, we'll usually get about 9 to 12 on a weekday if we start early enough, and our CG's seem to be going down in players a little, but this happens quite a lot and the numbers will increase again.

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Re: Does anyone play?

Gwynzer wrote:

Right now we're in a quiet period in FS, a few months ago we could get populated servers almost every day.

Yeah that was the summer so it's not really surprising that the numbers have dropped.

It was great back in the day when RT would populate their server every day with a bunch of people, that really kept the mod going. Nowadays you don't see many of them and it's basically just us BI and a few RSF'ers every now and then that populate and even we can't be arsed to do it every day. The mod just gets too repetitive and boring with that kind of activity when you've played it for ages. It would be great to get some vanilla clans to play regularly, would also give us someone to challenge to a scrim (once they get some practice of course.) tongue