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TW flight (like "white flight" but not racist)
I've noticed a continuing pattern in the last 3 months: that of more and more players, if not quitting entirely, at least moving from TW arena (pub or not), to the SVIE servers.
Actually, you can discern the Chaos and Alpah (!! even) servers growing in a non-linear function of population. I'm guessing by a non-scientific manner that the other, more robust servers grow by 1/4 to the detriment of the TW server loss. Factor that in your heads...
I'm guessing that for every 4 players quitting TW, 1 of them is setting up in Chaos or Alpha, and the other 3 are rotating in/out as they explore the uncommon subspace realm. These are the lucky ones. as far as the UNLUCKY ones, its the TW community: hosted games are suffering, Zombies games can be a torture, etc.. depending on time of day, etc... Also, night time (EST) pub is ruined, due to the private freqs. Of course, I LOVE LT-ing, so no complaints there, except that the formula has ruined the "old" LT-ing experience. NO bitching here really, as I am doing a lot of turreting in Chaos for my fun (and its FUN, heheh, cloak and all or all levi, or multi -ship), but PRIVATE FREQS, I counted 7 tonight, is undoing the team-experience.
In CHAOS, or even alpha, the team-based play is dependent on SVIE settings and your fellow team-mates greening efforts. In TW, greens are almost NO matter (other than for the random PORTAL or BURST green for your team terr). Levi-terrs usually help themselves... but having 5 or 6 freqs in a 30 person arena sux....
To CLARIFY: 5-6 man freqs in SVIE settings is fine (fun, really!! go hunt a turret in CHAOS).
5-6 man freqs in Trench SUCKS!!? WHY? Unless you like to get spawned to death, it should be obvious. You have 20 enemy around you in a very, very, very small map!! NOT like Chaos or even Alpha.!!
In conclusion, the Trench Map settings for pub, suck when many private freqencies are allowed with a smaller player base, due either to TIME of day, or to player flight to more fun pubs.
I like TW, and wish the best for it. I welcome positive or critical input as to my comments, but I am content to alert the "non-privilaged-elite" as to a serious problem.
SAVE TRENCH!!!
Actually, you can discern the Chaos and Alpah (!! even) servers growing in a non-linear function of population. I'm guessing by a non-scientific manner that the other, more robust servers grow by 1/4 to the detriment of the TW server loss. Factor that in your heads...
I'm guessing that for every 4 players quitting TW, 1 of them is setting up in Chaos or Alpha, and the other 3 are rotating in/out as they explore the uncommon subspace realm. These are the lucky ones. as far as the UNLUCKY ones, its the TW community: hosted games are suffering, Zombies games can be a torture, etc.. depending on time of day, etc... Also, night time (EST) pub is ruined, due to the private freqs. Of course, I LOVE LT-ing, so no complaints there, except that the formula has ruined the "old" LT-ing experience. NO bitching here really, as I am doing a lot of turreting in Chaos for my fun (and its FUN, heheh, cloak and all or all levi, or multi -ship), but PRIVATE FREQS, I counted 7 tonight, is undoing the team-experience.
In CHAOS, or even alpha, the team-based play is dependent on SVIE settings and your fellow team-mates greening efforts. In TW, greens are almost NO matter (other than for the random PORTAL or BURST green for your team terr). Levi-terrs usually help themselves... but having 5 or 6 freqs in a 30 person arena sux....
To CLARIFY: 5-6 man freqs in SVIE settings is fine (fun, really!! go hunt a turret in CHAOS).
5-6 man freqs in Trench SUCKS!!? WHY? Unless you like to get spawned to death, it should be obvious. You have 20 enemy around you in a very, very, very small map!! NOT like Chaos or even Alpha.!!
In conclusion, the Trench Map settings for pub, suck when many private freqencies are allowed with a smaller player base, due either to TIME of day, or to player flight to more fun pubs.
I like TW, and wish the best for it. I welcome positive or critical input as to my comments, but I am content to alert the "non-privilaged-elite" as to a serious problem.
SAVE TRENCH!!!
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