Dont bring it out too early!
Dekker
Join Date: 2002-07-06 Member: 887Members
Join Date: 2002-07-06 Member: 887Members
<div class="IPBDescription">I just don´t want it to die like others</div>i know many will flame me now, but anyhow, take your time to finish ns. look at crashes and on ping a lot, and so on, it has been a fault of many dev teams to bring it out as early as possible and then its buggly like hell. It happened to dod (2.0 only 8 players per server, more would lag like hell (meaning ping of 700) or even crash) and i just don´t want to have that. It also happene in Dc, and it lost much comunity. And to be telling, flf 1.1 had 150 servers, all full. but with version 1.2 (it was that buggy and unstable) many lost interest in it and left. Today it is getting more populated again, but there are only 50 servers with 100 players. so please take your time!!!
and to the people who wait for the game:
-please dont flame me, i think it is best to say that. i also cant wait to play, but i think it is better having a good game without lags and crashes and that stuff, than a good game with lag and crashes.
do me stickey so the devs read it <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
and to the people who wait for the game:
-please dont flame me, i think it is best to say that. i also cant wait to play, but i think it is better having a good game without lags and crashes and that stuff, than a good game with lag and crashes.
do me stickey so the devs read it <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
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Also - the devs/PTs read through these forums and if you are looking for a responce from a dev/PT there is no need to sticky it! Not to mention some fourm mods get angry when people tell them what to do. IE - 'mods, lock this'
Flame you? No one here flames! Welcome to NS!
I can relate to that! <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
Anyway, I think everyone really appreciates your post because it hits the nail perfectly: Take your time and produce a good game.
I however believe that a somewhat 'pressing' community can be healthy from time to time - nobody wants this to become another 'Daikatana'.
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oh, back to topic....
u dont have to worry about that dekker, flayra = polisher fanatic <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
And on a completly unrelated note I havent seen an RC pic or news of one in a while <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
Existence's gameplay was wut killed it IMO. I think that the NS team will release the best HL mod till date. NS is such a good map, code, models union that it doesnt look as HL at all right now. It could be a total new game and i know many pple (as me) would buy it. So just wait till NS comes out, and you know when it will be released...When its done.
I am follwing Ns since Februar 2001, so i am not new to ns, i just wasnt registered in the forum tho <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
HL is here to stay for at the very least i predict, 2 more years. CS condition zero may take away a few CS players, but heck, who cares about those people anyway <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> (joking)
So no, i dont think NS will lose players due to the wait, it has gained hundreds of fans since it started and that was 2 years ago, we have a lot of people registered here on the forums that follow development avidly and we arent about to lose them just because they had to wait a few more weeks.
Half Life is NOT losing players, if anything it's gaining them. Do you realize that for Counter-Strike there are over 1000 servers playing dust right now? That's more servers for ONE map on ONE mod than some retail games have right now. Yea it is old, but amazingly games like Half-Life rally and Natural Selection(especially) are proving that limits can be pushed. Yea it lacks some of the graphic capabilities of newer engines, but honestly for a game this old the Mods coming out still look amazingly good.
Even if players were being lost daily, it's better to lose a few daily than an entire community by releasing a bug ridden game that doesn't nearly meet its full potential. Give them time, if Natural Selection plays half as good as it looks then maybe some of those people you say are quiting HL will come back, and then some.
1000? Last I checked it was over 3000 most of the day <!--emo&:0--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'><!--endemo--> . I'll grant you, the one good thing that CS has done for the HL community is to bring in many, many more people who may well have never even heard of HL otherwise.
I'm not referring to myself, of course, heh heh... *cough*
Sure, you died when you spawned, sure sometimes the Hardline got switched around, sure the elevator almost always ment certain doom.
However, I still loved it! The dying at spawn gave a few people high power, while the rest were kinda the 'Backup'. The hardline switching always kept you guessing. The elevator was of course, a gamble, but the trade off was a free ticket to Dr. white that is'nt heavily guarded because everyone got used to seeing just dead bodies in the elevator.
It was amazing... and I can honestly say I liked the first version of existence better than the latest. =\
Stupid XM4...
-_-
/me mummbles something about derailing a post and walks off
heh, Just kidding. ^^;;
i think they should take their time but my god im so anxious D: help meeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
Anyways, it got boring after a while so bleh... we quit...
Oh, and just for the people who dont know, in NS there are NO headshots. STC of course, but i doubt itl change soon anyways.
DC Dev team?