hi, since most players join s3 cause nocrits just makes sense and is fair ( random crits exist to give bad players a chance of killing better ones ), I suggest making s3 a server where you can only autojoin a team, thus reducing stacking in blue, thus having a better chance on balanced teams and ultimately having a better experience
i've played on autojoin servers only and ppl just join a team cause players would rather play then just spectate till there is a spot.
People want a choice, thats why we have more servers and 1 of them is nocrits. If we change this, then its saying we need another server with nocrits + autojoin, because it basicly removes the freedom of the player. This server fills up last normally, because it doesn't get any f2p players. Changing more might have an impact on that too.
adam, change your profile you old fart still has the stats from 5 years ago. ow and the nocrits server is almost empty now, while the other servers are still full and up going. just to let you know the difference between the servers, thats why it might be a bad call to do so since we barely keep it full. I know it usually is full for the duration that you guys are on.. find me a PROPER plugin for it (alliedmodders) and i'll look into it.
this was a request on AM think thats an even BETTER idea (or people have to say let's stack blu next round)
Your statement about bad players and crits is wrong, seeing as the chance to get a critical shot are dependant upon how much damage you dealt during the last 20 seconds. so it's actually the good players that get the crits. jus' saying...
hehe mkay. As it currently is, blue is almost always the team players choose to play with friends (hell i've done it too). Snelvuur mentioned that S3 is always last to pop, this is true. S3 enjoys alot of regular players but once they start to stop, a serverdrain isnt far away. Still i'd still love to see autojoin only, but maybe not mention it in the servername not to scare off to many players but dont know if much new players would be scared off since alot of the players on s3 are regulars anyway.
and random stays random, i got 3 crocks yesterday god knows where and i didn't even see an enemy so your statement is not all treu eighter it UPS the chance to get crits. it doesn't relly on it. i tinkered with the autoscramble a bit (upped the old values a bit -> well think it's enough) will see how it goes (and this is only on AM3) if teams are unbalance or getting steamrolled and the autoscramble doesn't kick in i'll adjust it again untill the team keep balanced most of the time. (and not atracting F2P players is also an invalid tought because i know a few F2P who play there with me -> yes i tell them what to do and i MADE them go trough the tutorial they are not the best but they did kill me in some nice 1v1 batlles so)
No. 800 damage in 20 seconds is achieved easily when you play certain spam maps, ie the most used public maps. Your statement would be true if it had NO basechance and is 100% activated after a certain, hard to reach, cap. The teamwide 5 seconds crit after a cap in CTF is debatable though. Random crits are for noobs and annoy me. Everytime I pick a fight I should easily when and get 1 shot by a crit I die a little inside. It's not rewarding for my good positioning and play and not punishing the other player for his bad play and positioning. You don't learn to play the game with crits, it only hampers your progress.
Isn't there a plugin that forces you to join a team? I mean there's no screen to choose what side to join, not sure that works with spectate though. I think it would be a nice option, don't mind the steamrolls but on other servers people stay way to long in the spec waiting to join the winning team. Now it doesn't bother me if teams are 5-8 and 11 specs, however they are hoggig slots . Always used the auto join as soon as a slot comes free, now i have to wait for 10 + minutes and still see peeps with 0 points.
let's see how autoscramble solves this issue (need some comments if you see a scramble and how it worked) also does anybody know how frag ratio is counted? (or how it works hahahaha)
I'm not a big fan of scrambles btw, once teams are formed, they should stay like that ( youll never see me yell for scramble ) 50% of the players have to lose anyway, some dont like losing and start yelling scramble
yeah but getting steamrolled (2 minuit rounds) 5 times in a row without even the slightest resistance is not my idea of fun teams xD (and if you are one of the few TRYING on that team sucks even more hahaha) it's auto scramble so this means if teams get more the 5 winstreaks (in a 30 minuit map i think this is something rare or non-existant on pubs haha) we'll see how it works we have to find something. i'm not going to rely on people to stop stacking
Joined it today. BLU was stacked. Doesn't help having it on right now. Top scorer on RED had less points than bottom on BLU. But something has to be done. Even though it is easier to fill nowadays when the !crit option is not in use on the other servers.