
Originally Posted by
YMCMB
Lets put it this way: I hope someday I can play ctf and tdm on public servers instead of being forced to play ca. For that I need a pro account.
If you have read my posts you know I really dislike public ca; I think that's the cancer of quake live and that ca isn't quake, but right now public ctf and public tdm are literally dead. Some people on my location are starting to realize that so they are trying to revive competitive ctf (and hopefully tdm too but ctf is the priority here).
Personally I think that's not the correct approach though. Inviting people to play tournaments and such just makes the usual "talented" 10% of the community play each other, who then leave the game until the next tournament as they think the same about ca as I do but even more so therefore they don't on public servers (that are CA and nothing else). What I want is to cater the 90% left instead, the ca-only noobs, while at the same time making that 10% play regularly.
On both cases what's necessary is reviving public ctf and on decent maps, like q3 and q2 were in their golden days, and right now that requires a pro account.
TBH I can't do much as a premium player (which btw runs out this year) to support ctf and other mods, as I can only join servers. If I had a pro account I would invite standard users and spawn public ctf servers, which for some reason makes people join a lot more than just being on a regular public premium server. I know which greasemonkey scripts are useful for that, for example invite by console (with that one you don't no need to have them in friend list) and automatic invites (someone on the friend list says "invite" and they are invited without me moving a finger), and that idling on the server is of the essence.
(1 year pro would be awesome).