Such a thing would seem extraordinarily impractical, not to mention rather unpleasant to use, it would seem more logical to make what is fun and what is conducive to victory to be the same thing, because that will benefit everybody competitive and casual alike, it will mean casual players can play competitively simply out of a desire to have fun, and compettiive players will have fewer boring jobs to do.
<!--quoteo(post=1731220:date=Oct 7 2009, 10:31 PM:name=MuYeah)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MuYeah @ Oct 7 2009, 10:31 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1731220"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->This is the point where you admit that NS is a somewhat niche genre and have to settle with the idea that you can't dumb it down further into TDM. It is blatantly played better in organised games than pubs and that is what the devs should be focussing on: an easy way to make decent pick up games/matchmaking your team to someone elses team of the same level.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Do you mean something like a pub skill rating? I don't really like the idea of that for ns.
I meant in addition to regular pub servers and private servers that you can join as you want now, there should be an option for saying "I want to play a pick up game. I can fulfill <these roles>. I am <this skill>." and it will put you together with 5 other people or whatever maybe with a leader specifying what roles you'll need in a lobby and if you have a server to use or whatever. There should also be an option where your friends can join to make a team (perhaps an option to get a merc/ringer automatically) and you can say if youve got a server and your skill level and it will matchmake you. etc.
<!--quoteo(post=1731254:date=Oct 7 2009, 10:54 AM:name=MuYeah)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MuYeah @ Oct 7 2009, 10:54 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1731254"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I meant in addition to regular pub servers and private servers that you can join as you want now, there should be an option for saying "I want to play a pick up game. I can fulfill <these roles>. I am <this skill>." and it will put you together with 5 other people or whatever maybe with a leader specifying what roles you'll need in a lobby and if you have a server to use or whatever. There should also be an option where your friends can join to make a team (perhaps an option to get a merc/ringer automatically) and you can say if youve got a server and your skill level and it will matchmake you. etc.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I really like this idea. Pubs were always so frustrating to play in for a competitive player. I was never in the better ranks of CAL:NS but i loved to scrim and i loved matches. Nothing compared to competitive play when it came to pubs. Mu's idea would basically be like what we all do in IRC but taking it further. Done right it could be an AWESOME tool.
I would rather see this game either be geared towards 6v6 or another smaller ratio than 15v15. Or at the least two different modes (Pub rules v Competitive rules) or a scaling ability that would judge how many players were in the server and adjust res flow and other in game rules. After all it is your competitive community that furthers the game. Check out CAL:CS for any doubters. That online competitive community made that game popular. Hell people were PAYED to play in CAL-I and compete. Hell i watched matches as if it was Monday night football lol. (NS matches were also great to watch) On a totally side not, any ideas for NS2 for a in game recording device that allows for live play and people too see from every player perspective?
<!--quoteo(post=1731254:date=Oct 7 2009, 07:54 AM:name=MuYeah)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MuYeah @ Oct 7 2009, 07:54 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1731254"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I meant in addition to regular pub servers and private servers that you can join as you want now, there should be an option for saying "I want to play a pick up game. I can fulfill <these roles>. I am <this skill>." and it will put you together with 5 other people or whatever maybe with a leader specifying what roles you'll need in a lobby and if you have a server to use or whatever. There should also be an option where your friends can join to make a team (perhaps an option to get a merc/ringer automatically) and you can say if youve got a server and your skill level and it will matchmake you. etc.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Would be great if UWE implemented such a feature.
posted this a while ago: <a href="http://67.18.238.10/forums/index.php?showtopic=107484" target="_blank">http://67.18.238.10/forums/index.php?showtopic=107484</a> If UWE doesn't implement something I hope to implement a LUA plugin that will accomplish this.
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Do you mean something like a pub skill rating? I don't really like the idea of that for ns.
I really like this idea. Pubs were always so frustrating to play in for a competitive player. I was never in the better ranks of CAL:NS but i loved to scrim and i loved matches. Nothing compared to competitive play when it came to pubs. Mu's idea would basically be like what we all do in IRC but taking it further. Done right it could be an AWESOME tool.
I would rather see this game either be geared towards 6v6 or another smaller ratio than 15v15. Or at the least two different modes (Pub rules v Competitive rules) or a scaling ability that would judge how many players were in the server and adjust res flow and other in game rules. After all it is your competitive community that furthers the game. Check out CAL:CS for any doubters. That online competitive community made that game popular. Hell people were PAYED to play in CAL-I and compete. Hell i watched matches as if it was Monday night football lol. (NS matches were also great to watch) On a totally side not, any ideas for NS2 for a in game recording device that allows for live play and people too see from every player perspective?
Would be great if UWE implemented such a feature.
posted this a while ago: <a href="http://67.18.238.10/forums/index.php?showtopic=107484" target="_blank">http://67.18.238.10/forums/index.php?showtopic=107484</a>
If UWE doesn't implement something I hope to implement a LUA plugin that will accomplish this.