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Post by Sentenza on May 17, 2010 22:54:17 GMT 1
As already said by many (Import, Ham, God), it seems the game is in a very bad health since some weeks, only a fistful of guys are still playing (mainly some Arabs, some men from East Europa and some Brazilians). The game was already close to die many times, as far as i remember it was the case in november/december 2008, more even in september 2009, but never so much that at the present time. Sad because we have several serious servers which are running and which are empty 95 % of the time... as well as a new dedicated website. So here is a poll, which i hope will identify WHY there is so few people which still play our beloved game. Poll will run for 120 days (until the 15 september 2010), so with that i hope that all the guys who check this forum only 1 time per month will give their opinion. You can select until 3 choices. But remeber that you have to choose why MAINLY you give up the game, what is THE THING, the main problem which caused your renunciation to play at GO. ANY SUGGESTION OR IDEA ABOUT HOW TO SAVE/ HOW TO NOT LET GO DIE ARE WELCOME ! Just post them after the poll. I post it too at www.globalops.co.cc and at dbka.freeforums.org/index.phpPlease the admins of this forum, if they want and when they have time, invite a maximum of people (send a mail to all forum members ?) to let them tell us what's goign wrong between them and GO. Here are the complete names of the poll's choices:: 1) I continue to play regularly, or i will play for sure very soon again. 2) Too much lag and laggers. Can't shoot, can't play fairly. 3) Too many spawnkills, teamkills, etc. Rules not respected. Cant play becase that. 4) Bad ambience (flaming, insults). Very less fun because it. 5) Game is too old (graphics suck, other games are much funny). 6) It's too difficult, i (dont want to) can't progress, evreyone call me noob, and/or teams are unballanced. 7) No time to play. Not even 1 hour per day/some hours each week/week-end. 8) I have some time, but when i come in a server there's too few/no one people around, so i can't play, i quit. 9) I have problems when i play / i cannot play (antivirus, bugs, ...) 10) For another reason (always the same map(s) is/are played ; my friends don't play the game anymore ; i prefer to wank ; i have become stupid/gay/ill/dead etc...).
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Post by Sentenza on May 21, 2010 1:16:59 GMT 1
Well there is obviously very few ppl still here, despite the 20+ guests i see at the forum-counter each day, should be Google.. So I invite all the old GO players who comes here perchance to join our two still active forums : dbka.freeforums.org/ (forum of the servers) and www.globalops.co.cc/ (site of the league which should hopefully start soon). However there is the copy/paste of the post at dbka forum: Without anticipating too much results of the poll, fact is already to find solutions for all these problems. For spraying we cannot unfortunately do anything, its very boring for some men of course, but 80 % of ppl are using it as it works very fine, and it's they right after all, like using LAWs or even Gas, though an abusive use of it is (LAW) or should be (Gas) not tolerated.
For the others points, solutions can be found also, for example:
- for 3) and 4) it's easy: more admin coverage. If someone votes and insults everyone continuously he should be kicked next banned some hours, at the appreciation of the admin.
- for 10), about the maps, that's easy too : new map distriution/more maps (or some changes in the distribution each month).
- for 2) now, that's more difficult, but for many the lag is one of the if not the bigger current blow for the game. For this problem i dont see any other solution that to fix a ping limitation in ONE server, i think 110/120, reachable 3 times, is a good figure (though there is several/more and more players with a rather good 60-100 ping who lag too... maybe its the server also sometimes), so for those who cannot bear at all the lag, they can play there it will limit a few the problem at least, of course this has sense only if there is more than 15/20 players connected at the same time, with that number it could have a good distribution, i mean for ex. 12 ppl at the server with no ping limitation and 8 at the other with the limit. This could solve the point number 6) as well : differences of levels are still important between newbies and top players ; supposing that generally the high pingers are more noob that the 30-40's ping ones (apart some exceptions like sheep,dark,ham and 2/3 others), the good players could play in the ping-limited server and the others in the others servers, ideally it means the good ppl will say less "noob", "lagger" to the newbies which could themselves play more calmly sometimes, between us, and without saying "cheater" or "fu" everytime they're killed by serial killers Smile.
Btw about the lag i want to remind to all server's owners/hosters, even if they know it, not to forget to restart the server regularly (at least 1 time per week, ideally each 2 days), cause after some time there is more lag & bugs. For example at DBKA #1 lag is currently TERRIBLE.
- Now about the point number 8.. First i encourage all the palyers to download (and to use) the program made by Art : dbka.freeforums.org/small-server-monitor-tool-for-players-t787.html with it we can know when someone join a server, so when we will not be alone if we decide to launch the game. But i think another program could be build, if possible. A program which would mark which players are available to play : we launch the program, we write our name, and it means we have time to play, we are available, and this WITHOUT HAVE THE NEED TO LAUNCH THE GAME (and to wait sevral minutes ingame if you're alone). So the available man can continue to surf on internet, and when there is a second and a third name in the "waiting list", if he launches the game he's almost sure that other ppl will rejoin him. Well i hope my explanation is clear, it would solve the problem of "I join the server at 2:00 pm, i stay 5 min, no one comes, i quit. 2 min later, another guy join a server, he stays 30 sec, no one, he quits. 3 min later, another guy launches the game, he sees there's nobody connected, he quits too, etc, and at final never 2 players were together in the same time). I think it could be particularly helpfull in those times (very few actives ppl), or at off-peak periods (after 11 PM until the afternoon). Finally, i think the better thing to do is still to call up again all the old players, as Beergod done several months ago, by sending a mail to each forum members. I hope with this poll some of them will tell us why they stayed only 3/4 months and then left the game.
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Post by Sentenza on Jun 3, 2010 9:22:29 GMT 1
Lil update : It seems that the general tendency is to let the game almost inactive this summer, and to start the league in september/october when hopefully a lot of old peeps will come back again as they will have time only at this period. So until then very few players (and mostly noobs or laggers) ; check with the GO server monitor tool when sometimes theres more ppl around if u want to train a few
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Post by essy88 on Jul 28, 2010 14:39:11 GMT 1
go dead? >.<'
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Post by Sentenza on Aug 6, 2010 10:42:21 GMT 1
Ohhhhh Essy ! No dead, only sleeping a bit, come back in september/october to play
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Post by Sentenza on Sept 9, 2010 17:07:09 GMT 1
I wanted to let run this very participated poll for 45 more days, until the end of october, as 90 % of old players still didnt comebacked since may, but i cannot modify it on this forum... Anyways as notified TLP was Once upon a time so old players still alive should all come to dbka.freeforums.org/index.php or www.globalops.co.cc where theres still activity (33 votes on DBKA forum for example when only 5 here). GlobalOps not dead !
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Post by elhasi on Nov 24, 2010 22:23:01 GMT 1
def too old got no time for online shooters lately anyway and there were too few people playing it too.
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Post by Sentenza on Dec 2, 2010 11:32:39 GMT 1
Yeah its possible the game is definitely dead now, as theres very few players since april and almost nobody this winter. Everything we (I) tried on DBKA forum don't got enough enthusiasm, too few ppl still care about this game.
Miracle still could happen though.
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Post by Ultralisk on Dec 8, 2010 0:45:55 GMT 1
ESSY!!! remember me?
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