Now this is a pretty tall request, and I do not responses that tell me I am being demanding... I am being demanding, but everyone who replies that this is an unjustified demand obviously has no clue on what it is like to host Domination, Harvester, or Attack & Defend.....
Despite the popularity of the sampler servers, which is a "card" that people will play in defense to having all gametypes standard, servers with these gametypes will never be consistently active for more than 1 game with how ID is currently operating...
With an auto invite script where any friend of mine can type anything to me and have an invite sent, and over 1000 friends on QuakeLive (or so it seems), I am having as much trouble as ever getting a game of Harvester going...
It is not that these mods are unappealing to the playerbase, and I can say with confidence that when I get these gametypes running, people enjoy them (actually 'love' is a more suitable word).. Besides being exclusively premium gametypes, the thing that ensures that nobody will ever be able to fill up a server of these gametypes going is that THE STANDARD PLAYERS CANNOT SEE THAT THE GAME EXISTS IN THE MATCH BROWSER.... Except for my few select friends that actually bother to see what I'm playing from time to time, all of the quake standard community doesn't even see that the game exists, and therefore, will never be inclined to ask somebody for an invite...
On a good night, I can create a server and get a quick 5v5 game going by inviting all 150 friends that are online to my server, but due to the lack of player flow in and out, all it takes is one person to rage after that first game to have a domino effect of raging, which results in players missing that are not easily replenishable.... The best thing ID can do for the game is to make all gametypes available for standard players... This would not undermine their business, in fact, it may actually increase it as more people begin to actually see all that ID has to offer rather than just hear through the grapevine about this gametype called Attack & Defend, with all talk but no show.... Keeping the standard map rotation in accordance with these mods, there is no good reason not to make all the gametypes readily available to free users... However, if they want to play premium maps, there will still be a 5 invite limitation and the slot system.... If nobody replies to this idea, it will never get as far as it has potential to get, so I am going to get additional posts on this thread if I need to dig deep into the ground for them....
- Lovingly yours
Rockville
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Originally Posted by Spike_Sage
