Do something.

[Izor]

Why is it that you have a mission statement which says purepub bad, and blah blah blah, yet ~ 6 weeks later we still see no change? The huge 'marketing campaign' has ended up being a grand waste of time, since the playerbase has noticably declined over the past few months again. This is more evident to me than most because I keep mental note of things like this when I log on and I also look at the numbers of people in pub sometimes when I wanna play pub. I'd say as far back as 6 months ago those top 2 pubs were filled 24/7 regardless of the time. Now when I want to pub at late nights I have to ask to have priv freqs allowed in pub 0 cause the second one has ~ 20 players. Basically it comes down to one pub, with no private freqs during these hours. And a half pub with them. Before some idiot like Rich can predictably say 'thats because the top pub is more fun' I'll point out that this has to do with the filling order and the fact that the pub has more people playing making it more fun.

What is taking so long to get rid of them, honestly? There should be no holdup. Theres currently a map in development which will get people like me to stop playing pub entirely, and drop the pbase some more, although it will make the remaining people base I suppose. Why do we need to wait till this is finished to make changes? Why cant we eliminate useless arenas like javduel and wbduel and ?go javs?

[Chao.]

Wbduel is actually pretty active most of the day, but I agree about the other two.

[Izor]

Its not whether or not wbduel is active that bothers me. It's that it takes away players from elim

same with javduel/javs and belim. It would be wise to cut back arenas is all. Especially weekend tourny but I think thats a bit much to go after

[duel pasta]

Bot coders are working on a basebot so be patient

[Izor]

whats basebot gonna do exactly?? and is it geared for the current map or this new thing

[Ignominy]

I still say changing it to ?go 1purepub is a great solution. Without filling and without zoners the quality of play will increase anyway. And if it needs either of those to live, perhaps it's not such a hot idea.

Then you can do whatever settings you want for it... special map, the works... without affecting the rest of pubs.

[Sumpson]

Marketing Campaign is not a waste of time. We first need to change the TW website which attracts people to download the game, this takes much work and is currently being worked on. After this we can continue with the marketing campaign and try to bring people to the website.
I know bot coders are currently working on the Pub Bot too, this also is allot of work and I heard the person working on it has been sick for a while now.

[Izor]

Sure marketing campaign is a waste of time, since its not working and people are still leaving.

You have an interesting definition of success!

[Sumpson]

it is working.. on a website
succes will come after.. :/

[kthx]

Diakka since you are making some changes, how about not having wbduel/javduel/javs on except on weekends for a week, and see if people have more fun with larger elims and baseelims, this might also improve hosting quanity as most hosts like to host for large amounts of people, not 10-15. Especially in this "still a few months until the next TWL" season, we could do with less automated arenas. Why not try this for a week?

[Sweet]

I will say that arenas like 'javs' and 'javduel' have become a popular place for members of twjd squads. unfortunately it has greatly hurt the population of arenas like ?go baseelim. I would personally like to see a long over boost in baseelim. I just dont know if scrapping other arenas is the way to do it.

[Jerome Scuggs]

it scared the fuck out of me when, a few days ago, i logged on and type ?arena, and saw only THREE public's. FFS, there used to be like 10. Even in the last 7 had like 5 people, it was still more comforting.

[Kolar]

it scared the fuck out of me when, a few days ago, i logged on and type ?arena, and saw only THREE public's. FFS, there used to be like 10. Even in the last 7 had like 5 people, it was still more comforting.

The arena limit was extended to 40 not too long ago.

[duel pasta]

The guy who got the basebot assigned has been sick for 4 weeks not able to program. So I don't think we have to wait much longer for da bot.

[Aquatiq]

People who are complaining about baseelim being dead... it's going to take a LITTLE effort on your part. You've got to start playing belims with not many people. You've got to suck it up and ignore the fact that there aren't 20 people playing, but instead just go there and play anyways. Stop waiting for there to be 30 people. There won't be, if all you do is wait.
I honestly can't believe there are people out there who are going to look at this post and think of PLAYING A GAME as being a CHORE, but I'm probably just gonna have to accept that.