Pure Pubs/Flagtime mode

[Kontrolz]

Let me start by saying that I don't intend or want this to be another one of those threads where people bitch about settings and cry about what they want changed. I'm just curious about something and I hope that a lot of you ex-pubbers respond to this with your own personal reasons.

I know a lot of people gave up on pub when ?go base first came around but at least those people still played in pub now and then. Right now almost no decent basers play in pub. I don't know why. That's the purpose of this thread, why.

Why do decent basers no longer want to base in pubs? What has changed? Is flagtime mode good or bad for pub basing? What would it take for basers who left the pubs because they stopped enjoying them to come back?

I'm not asking for someone to step up with one answer that is right for everyone because that doesn't exist (and often just starts figths). I'm asking for every ex-pubber who has quit to give their own personal reason why, and maybe to offer up certain condtions, that if met, would bring them back to pub basing.

I just feel like the pub basing is dying, or turning into a mutant cross-breed between pub and ?go base that doesn't seem to be working. I'm hoping that if enough ex-pubbers come out with their own pesonal reasons, and that if a lot of them are the same, and able to be fixed, maybe something can be done to bring the experienced players back to pubs to show the newer guys the ropes. Like it used to be.

[Galleleo]

Like 5/4 years back when I still played pub, and I played it alot back then, getting over the million points and stuff, I don't know I just had fun in pubs, people would base in the pubs, the one lt that would spring up would be shot down fast and lts would mostly give up. But you just had alot of good players in pub to keep the basing quality up and stuff. I can't remember if it was because of #mythrandir and later .?go base that I gave up pubbing, but nowdays after 5 min of pubbing I get bored and frustrated by the "newbieness" in the pubs, people keep ramming mines, terrs doing nothing else then suiciding, no one wants to be a shark, everyone is javving, etc. etc. etc.

Then again I get bored easily alot in more then just pub, also in base and javs, twd is really the only thing that is still interesting for me, so It could be just me.

[PH]

Speaking for myself, I can give two reasons that I refuse to pub anymore.

1) http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7369/2manyjavs9oo.jpg

2) http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/8...aggoted6pw.jpg

No sense in playing with settings that encourage players to act like they have Down syndrome.

[Galleleo]

I think a couple of years back the balance was better in pubs too, like people knew that we didn't need more javs on a freq, but we needed sharks so people played them, we needed spiders so people played them. Instead nowdays everyone does what he wants and not what the freq needs, wich causes chaos and boredom for me.

[Sufficient]

Play more PB and DSB Gall ... they have pretty good pub games.

[Galleleo]

I have never been able to get into other zones.. the hitting someone a million times and them still killing me kinda turns me off mostly... Maybe because I am used to having someone die when you shoot 1 bomb.

[Sufficient]

I have never been able to get into other zones.. the hitting someone a million times and them still killing me kinda turns me off mostly... Maybe because I am used to having someone die when you shoot 1 bomb.

It's diff ... but once you get into it it's very fun. I know what you mean, esp in DSB where I feel ppl are even more laggy than the avg TW player. But I can guarantee that you'll love PB (smallpub) if you give it a chance (play 10+ pub games). Next time I play DSB or PB I'll pm you.

The zone 17th Parallel is also worth playing ... their pub is usually decent when there are 40 or so ppl playing (it has balling and flagging I think ... as well as KOTH all in pub).

[soup]

I have never been able to get into other zones.. the hitting someone a million times and them still killing me kinda turns me off mostly... Maybe because I am used to having someone die when you shoot 1 bomb.

same here, shooting like crazy and they just WON'T DIE

[Izor]

Although it wasnt necessarily fun to be in base getting 7fered by a levterr it WAS fun to set up a good trap and kill one that had high bounty. Theres just nothing to do in wb now.

[Hakaku]

I have to agree with galleleo. Pub used to be fun and people would actually try and base properly. Now, pub is just super lame ever since #myth, then base. Another reason for me is I dislike the color-theme in pub, it's just too old in my opinion.

[Hydride]

I think having a lag limit, like gall said

The basers and whatnot play TWBD all the time and people who don't die either get put in spec or are told to spec by a moderator

With public a person could have a ploss of 5% and still play, it's ridiculous

[Doc Flabby]

Now they fixed the timer in purepub its great

You can get a private freq and hold pub with the timer.

Only problem is the rest of the pubbers tend to ALL be javs so you can hold fr with just 4/5 ships....

Over xmas pubing got better - and the reason was the large weasel.

I have never been able to get into other zones.. the hitting someone a million times and them still killing me kinda turns me off mostly... Maybe because I am used to having someone die when you shoot 1 bomb.

That seems to happen in tw alot as well....

eg pub is great!

[Jacklyn]

LMAO that is not true..i play in pub.. i consider myself half-decent...at least brookus says so

[bounty]

I love when the bots are down ..so LTing can happen in the first 2 pubs on the list. A couple of 5 fers really puts the sting into the basers LMAO.

[Fluffz]

pub is great, pub 0 and 1 that is. there is no way base is better than pub. its just considered 'elite' and all the rookies that get picked there these days can act like they were the shit. which is ok, we all were like that for like 5 minutes when all this secret basing started, but seriously, get over it already.

the rest is below crap. also tw lacks people which is no wonder, i blame staff. nothing is getting hosted, the map is like 10 years old and today i watched someone trying to tk a 250 bty jav for like 20 minutes and no mod ever showed up. thats what changed.

also if you have played this game for some time there are no 'accidental' tks. i dont mind being tked by some pro shot, that goes trough base, lagkills an nmy terr and hits it again in spawn. but if you bomb a shark and tk someone its no accident. ban the guy or he' ll never learn it. it was like this but these days we have javs without a clue randomly shooting around in base and noone cares.

recruit some pub players for staff.