Natural Selection Server Reviews
ChanM
Join Date: 2004-06-25 Member: 29518Members
Join Date: 2004-06-25 Member: 29518Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Reviews on servers that I have played on</div> Okay the reason why I am doing this is to give some of you a heads up on what to expect from the servers I played on. To be fair I decided four days per server will be sufficient enough to post a proper review. I also take in consideration if the server have a special event that happen on that particular day every week. Of course all of this is my personal opinion so don't flame me.
Of course I do not give out my Player name, but if you want me to check out a particular server leave the IP address here (I will only play on the server if my ping is 150 or better). Not without further delay I will start this post with two servers that I have already played on for more than 4 days each.
NS ARMSLAB[B][U]
Okay I decided to check out one of the highest ranked NS servers out there. I have also heard good things about this server from some of my friends who played on it. After have playing on the server on the for several days I must say this, 7 out of 10 times games will be stacked. So be prepared to go in and lose most of the time. Most of the players are veterans but sometimes you may end up playing with a team full of rookies or semi-rookies. There isn't a single major player on the server can turn the tides of a game.
I remember playing on a server which I forgot the name, a player named RenHolder when once turned to a fade can easily annoy the marines game after game and go on to have a 40 and 5 finish almost every game. You won't find a player of that caliber on this server.
You might go on to say then what about the stacked games you were talking about. Well it's rather simple some players with a blue Icon next to their names which are donaters to NS ARMSLAB, usually when 2 blue iconed players go on the same team all the good players go on that team and the game becomes stacked. It literally happens 7 out of 10 times. There's also the case of the admin AL Gorge, its truly quite amazing when this player joins a team everyone wants to be on his team. With AL Gorge playing, games will be stacked 9 out of 10 times.
Perhaps one the better features of the server is that every friday is Captain's night. In which one donater and one admin are captains and pick who they want on their team. During captain's night mostly good players are on, and the games played aren't stacked and are enjoyable to play. Although you might find some players that are too serious about winning sometimes during captain's night.
Overall this server rates 2.5 out of 5
If it weren't for the stacked games that one will experience on this server often it would rate much higher. I pinged about 100-130 most of the time sometimes you might find the server really lagging horribly. I think a random plug-in will make this server alot better as it will prevent stacked teams. I have checked out their forums and found that a player has posted a topic about a random plug-in and the admins weren't so thrilled about it. Captain's night is awesome and if you want an enjoyable game of NS check out tomorrow night at 10 PM eastern time. Also make sure you have Team Speak as that is the only way to speak to your team and get the password from the admins to get in to the server.
Of course I do not give out my Player name, but if you want me to check out a particular server leave the IP address here (I will only play on the server if my ping is 150 or better). Not without further delay I will start this post with two servers that I have already played on for more than 4 days each.
NS ARMSLAB[B][U]
Okay I decided to check out one of the highest ranked NS servers out there. I have also heard good things about this server from some of my friends who played on it. After have playing on the server on the for several days I must say this, 7 out of 10 times games will be stacked. So be prepared to go in and lose most of the time. Most of the players are veterans but sometimes you may end up playing with a team full of rookies or semi-rookies. There isn't a single major player on the server can turn the tides of a game.
I remember playing on a server which I forgot the name, a player named RenHolder when once turned to a fade can easily annoy the marines game after game and go on to have a 40 and 5 finish almost every game. You won't find a player of that caliber on this server.
You might go on to say then what about the stacked games you were talking about. Well it's rather simple some players with a blue Icon next to their names which are donaters to NS ARMSLAB, usually when 2 blue iconed players go on the same team all the good players go on that team and the game becomes stacked. It literally happens 7 out of 10 times. There's also the case of the admin AL Gorge, its truly quite amazing when this player joins a team everyone wants to be on his team. With AL Gorge playing, games will be stacked 9 out of 10 times.
Perhaps one the better features of the server is that every friday is Captain's night. In which one donater and one admin are captains and pick who they want on their team. During captain's night mostly good players are on, and the games played aren't stacked and are enjoyable to play. Although you might find some players that are too serious about winning sometimes during captain's night.
Overall this server rates 2.5 out of 5
If it weren't for the stacked games that one will experience on this server often it would rate much higher. I pinged about 100-130 most of the time sometimes you might find the server really lagging horribly. I think a random plug-in will make this server alot better as it will prevent stacked teams. I have checked out their forums and found that a player has posted a topic about a random plug-in and the admins weren't so thrilled about it. Captain's night is awesome and if you want an enjoyable game of NS check out tomorrow night at 10 PM eastern time. Also make sure you have Team Speak as that is the only way to speak to your team and get the password from the admins to get in to the server.
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TEXAS [HK] PALACE
This server has a random plug-in that works great. Rarely will you see games stacked, and the players there are fun to play with. Sometimes you might find a few players that are a nuisance and spam on the mic. You might find some rookies on the server but what server doesn't have some ? Again there isn't a player on the server that can go on one team and completely own the other team by him or herself. Sometimes you might find players casually talking to each while playing the game, which is nice. As I said before games are rarely stacked because of the random plug-in. But the one flaw with the plug-in is sometimes you'll end up playing on either marines or aliens for 3-4 maps straight. And one you try to F4 to switch teams after joining one there is a 60 second delay before you get back in the ready room. As for Ping I averaged about 70-90. I am not sure whether or not the server offer donater slots but I'll check on it in the next few days.
Overall it rates 4 out of 5
Games are rarely stacked, the players are fun to talk to, good ping almost all the time and it allows players to choose what map they want next by a vote.(Although there is one map that crashes the server). Come to this server if you want a good game most of the time.
That's it for today folks, I'll add two more servers in 4-5 days.
voogru's a fun server to play on, but don't expect to find any level of skill there. it's not unusual for me to get twice or three times the kill ratio of the next person when i play there. good thing is, no one complains and everyone plays the game with some sense of sportsmanship :X.
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Oh, and voogru's servers are awesome, though expect stackage if hulk is playing. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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voogru's a fun server to play on, but don't expect to find any level of skill there. it's not unusual for me to get twice or three times the kill ratio of the next person when i play there. good thing is, no one complains and everyone plays the game with some sense of sportsmanship :X. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
And thats camo we're talking about here. Boy voogru players stink <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I like the <b>OldF PJ blabla</b> server. I don't pub often, but the crowd there is usually not entirely aweful, and a few decent players frequent it.
Otherwise theres redphive and LoC (whynar central, gg) and a few others. I like LoC, its like the drama of a clanmatch without any skill at all.
There is no way to stop it turning into a flame war
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and I didnt think we were allowed to discuss servers on here?
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