Tactical Gamer, Voogru, National Gaming: Good Job
CrazyEddie
Join Date: 2013-01-08 Member: 178196Members
Join Date: 2013-01-08 Member: 178196Members
I spotted this comment on the NS2 Steam Forum, in The Free Weekend First Impressions Thread:
Please start passwording your servers when all the public slots are filled. As I mentioned elsewhere, you are polluting the game.
Good job, guys.I won't be buying the game. Other than 2 minutes of gameplay, I spent the last 2 hours getting kicked from every server as soon as I joined. Luckily I had to wait for every server to load assets and precache first. It was a waste of time and killed any interest I had.
Please start passwording your servers when all the public slots are filled. As I mentioned elsewhere, you are polluting the game.
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passworded servers are the way to go if you want to keep it regulars
What's wrong is that they look like they're open slots in the browser, so people (especially new players) will connect only to get kicked after spending time loading the map. This quite naturally makes people upset.
Passwording the servers when the public slots are filled would fix this. Some servers operators don't want to do this because it would slightly inconvenience their members. And accordingly, to save their members some inconvenience they are happy to make the game worse for everyone else (especially new players).
normally it looks like 22/22, but if a reserved member tries to join, it boosts up to 22/23.
playing on EU
Reserved slots are dumb without a doubt. You know what I do when I want to join the server that I OWN but it's full? I set it to auto connect when a slot opens. Wow, that was hard...
Not saying there's not a better method that uwe can implement, but in the meantime they could just do what everyone else is doing - where server owners and reserve members aren't getting their way at the expense of everyone else's time.
They pay for their server and they can do whatever they want with it. It's not the server owner's job to cater to everyone and it's not a charity.
Sadface shows as period :S
That's encouraging.
However, it's disappointing that at this time their decision remains to frustrate other players in the NS2 community rather than slightly inconvenience their members.
The main point is basically Just "Why don't you guy's Password your server's when the NORMAL Slots are full?", And i agree with sixty... Let the server owner do what they want. If people don't like the way they do it then move on.... I mean, you don't see me telling people how to cook or How to play a video game Just cause i don't like the way they are doing it.
And By the way, Dis-agree/Agree doesn't Make the post any Worse/Better.
i'd agree with sixty too, if i could blacklist them. one could make the exact same argument for hackers. "it's their game, let them play how they want." see how ridiculous it is? they invade my server list, they invade newer players' server lists. And we have to learn, in an extremely aggravating fashion, to completely avoid these servers. I don't want to have to memorize their names, i don't want to have this be an exercise in negative reinforcement, i want somebody to FIX IT.
Why do you think you have anything of value to add? Hard to take a guy with a Hitler avatar seriously. Go back to Idaho?
You're talking about entitlement? The server renters are entitled children who think wasting 100's (or 1,000's) of peoples time by advertising an open server then kicking people when they try to join is ok.
Of course neither of those things is exactly true but one of them is terrible for the community at large. hmmmm.
EDIT: To add something useful, would it be possible to check for reserved slots BEFORE loading everything else. It might be a smidge of extra work for UWE but no one would care if it didn't take time to load before it kicked you.
Sigh. Untrue, uninformed, and unwanted.
Actually you can't use the excuse for hackers, But that's a different story to tell for a different time.
But it still the fact that if anyone has a problem with these server's, Ignore it! Don't come whining to a Forum, cause it will do you no good Unless your the server owner now and Have all control over the server's. I Mean don't wanna blacklist it? Have No favorite's? Favorite it! And while we are telling people how to run their server's, why don't we just Tell UWE how to make this game...[LIE] I mean I know some COD people who would most likely die for this game to turn into a Shooter VS Alien's with Laser's or something.[/LIE] Yea...No.
4 Disagree's? I..I..I Feel so special :x
Except TG is actively trying to find a solution because people communicated their frustration. So it does do good and ignoring it isn't an option for most of the people who fall trap to it because they haven't yet learned which servers to avoid. Thanks for the constructive "shut ignore it and deal" advice though, that's WAY better than communicating with the community.