Taken NS 3.2 to lans and seeding it.
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Join Date: 2005-03-08 Member: 44299Members
Join Date: 2005-03-08 Member: 44299Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">When asked WTF, hype on NS 2 and DI</div>Yeah been to a few lans and just craftily seeding. steam installers and NS to peoples comps, or dropping it on the servers dump folders hiding it in the mits of all that porno, till the questions surface across the top of some ones monitor.
Also bringing up the idea of skriming it at lans also gets people pumped.
Then BALM you got your foot in the door.
Not to sound mean or, but another good thing I couldn't do, but some one else with spelling skillz, possible one of them steal your home page and redirect it to UWE and the NS two page. a active X i think it is.
Honestly with a bit of effort from the UWE guys, a mainstay page with ether a flash image or some high definition work blurring reality, with a short line and a enter button that we can direct people too would seriously help. something with a short and easy link.
NATURAL SELECTION 2
evolution just got better
*insert image of constipated Ono's taking a dunk, squeezing out a heavy armor.
*or devouring one.
there are a bunch of online T shirt making companys, and UWE has promotional clothing as well, i think this needs to expand, and we also need links to that some were also
right now the entire UWE web site even once in its sub categories the entire place feels like a forum, honestly a title page with flash or some such would be great.
maybe some high definition better than fraps program could be used as well some a media students touch, i mean out side of UWE how much of our produced work will they take up and assist the spreading with, or Will we require our own hosts?.
I just talk about it most places I go.
Also bringing up the idea of skriming it at lans also gets people pumped.
Then BALM you got your foot in the door.
Not to sound mean or, but another good thing I couldn't do, but some one else with spelling skillz, possible one of them steal your home page and redirect it to UWE and the NS two page. a active X i think it is.
Honestly with a bit of effort from the UWE guys, a mainstay page with ether a flash image or some high definition work blurring reality, with a short line and a enter button that we can direct people too would seriously help. something with a short and easy link.
NATURAL SELECTION 2
evolution just got better
*insert image of constipated Ono's taking a dunk, squeezing out a heavy armor.
*or devouring one.
there are a bunch of online T shirt making companys, and UWE has promotional clothing as well, i think this needs to expand, and we also need links to that some were also
right now the entire UWE web site even once in its sub categories the entire place feels like a forum, honestly a title page with flash or some such would be great.
maybe some high definition better than fraps program could be used as well some a media students touch, i mean out side of UWE how much of our produced work will they take up and assist the spreading with, or Will we require our own hosts?.
I just talk about it most places I go.
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Hum while your down loading that I know a sweet game, oddly enough you all have a copy of it, we can all play just click this installer. Holy ###### instant game ready to join.
*note I am lumping exploitive common uses HTML and other such script that the average Joe doesn't know how to by pass or turn off with out a third party program, in with this as well.
The home page stealer's are annoying and viral yes, pop up's are just a pain and easily blocked, those flash adds are annoying. Sites are allowing people to embedded into their sites are annoying as all ######, msn sells ad space like this often, so annoying. i got all my active x turned off, and 80% of my java as well.
Even a gif or two or a banner wouldn't be so bad, some ###### people can embed any were like avatars, banners, signatures.
If your a hyped up regular UWE fanatic you better have the T shirt the wallet the whole decked out kit and caboodle.
Lets go annoy people, half the reason I wont play bio shock is cos of all the annoying hype.
I liked to plaz against bots with my m8s. But at least they were to stupid (alien).
The point is: A coop mode or a fast classic battle with 2 or more players would push everything up!
I hope u get it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" />
P.S Sorry for my bad english
Granted you can't teach them the game there, but you can get them interested. And give them a sticker so when they happen to glance at it they say, "oh yeah that game looked pretty neat. I wonder what the progress is."
Now any one person can do this in a lan but it will be tougher with the learning curve. I figure though that a dozen or so people decidated to this at any one lan should be enough for 1-2 games at any one time. Should we have some swag to distribute that should help to. Personally I think the real issue is online servers. It's not exactly something we can control per say but how many servers do most people play on and why? Are there enough servers running 20+ players for new people? Are there enough just straight Co and Ns servers, do they have a vote list? Once these new converts are out of the lan where are they going to play? Will they be turned off because they can't find a server they like or the mods they liked or to many mods.
In addition to our lan team and flyer setup I think we need some map print outs because all players know the hardest thing when they were new was figuring out the maps and then perhapes where to play next (server). So to summerize; we need a couple page print out with enough basic information to get any new player through a typical game as a marine or a Kahraa. This needs to have the abilities and upgrades of both sides and all life forms, general play suggestions. How to command and gorge in brief as well as normal tactics. It has to be simple enough for anyone to digest and understand in a short time. We need some maps printed out so people have a refernce as that would help to I feel. Following that we should either have a sheet of suggested servers or just basic information about them so people will know what they are looking at ahead of time.
Even if just one person had all this at a typical lan event I think it would greatly increase traffic and player base.
Now any one person can do this in a lan but it will be tougher with the learning curve. I figure though that a dozen or so people decidated to this at any one lan should be enough for 1-2 games at any one time. Should we have some swag to distribute that should help to. Personally I think the real issue is online servers. It's not exactly something we can control per say but how many servers do most people play on and why? Are there enough servers running 20+ players for new people? Are there enough just straight Co and Ns servers, do they have a vote list? Once these new converts are out of the lan where are they going to play? Will they be turned off because they can't find a server they like or the mods they liked or to many mods.
In addition to our lan team and flyer setup I think we need some map print outs because all players know the hardest thing when they were new was figuring out the maps and then perhapes where to play next (server). So to summerize; we need a couple page print out with enough basic information to get any new player through a typical game as a marine or a Kahraa. This needs to have the abilities and upgrades of both sides and all life forms, general play suggestions. How to command and gorge in brief as well as normal tactics. It has to be simple enough for anyone to digest and understand in a short time. We need some maps printed out so people have a refernce as that would help to I feel. Following that we should either have a sheet of suggested servers or just basic information about them so people will know what they are looking at ahead of time.
Even if just one person had all this at a typical lan event I think it would greatly increase traffic and player base.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
nice, actually i agree with this a lot, and would love to see a revamp of the games installer in the next version even if its a mini release just to add this, you know all the games that flash up images while the installer is on, are their interactive ones out their? if not even just a well judged use of information would work. i remember the manual web page used to load up automatically, perhaps at least before jumping to the read me page and so on once the installer is done give the option to stop the rotating slides your reading,, but hopefully by this point the first few slides got all the information out there. maybe a new button needs to be added to the main menu, create server , find server, noob features, or some such were the obvious suggestion that rolls around the forums could be Incorporated in a future version when its made, that idea being the tester lvl, but also under this menu you could have the map lay outs that show weld points choke points res nodes hive locations and ms as well as a few hinted good relows or siege ranges with a well labeled map key/legend, as well as the game manual link, FAQ, tech tree's and so on all in the installer as well as lots of hints at NS 2 links to the page, donation links.
full on UWE revamp the NS 3.2 game installer make it LAN and noob friendly and revamp the NS 3.2 main menu to feature a noob features menu with links and such to various helpful items, as well as NS2 advertisement/snippets.
Either way we reach a lot of new players and the more we can hand them right off to lesson the learning curve the more likely they are to stay with the game and keep going.
Either way we reach a lot of new players and the more we can hand them right off to lesson the learning curve the more likely they are to stay with the game and keep going.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
the installer could have a print button, and haveing every thing in the main menu means mid game escape can be hit the menu navigated and things recheacked and or new things lernt.
obiously maps lay outs get a little useless in game but know where res nodes choke points siege ranges are are a good thing also i guess.
I have to post about LAN events and NS. I went so far as getting NS as a tournament at the CPL and even advertising in IRC, and on websites for months we still only ended up with about 8 people who showed up. Back when CS was just exploding I held LAN events every month for TANGO and still had very little interest even tho it was a featured game.
I am not trying to say it doesn't work or not to try because it does bend ears but don't expect such an approach to be very effective. To discuss this matter even further I owned Internet Gaming Cafe's (www.gamingcenters.net) and I had it installed on all my computers and gave free time to people who wanted to play it. Unfortunately most just weren't smart enought to understand it or were too impatient to learn.
Lets keep up the dialogue about this stuff as it's great to hear people so passionate. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />