What to do in Trench Wars when you don't play Distension?

[Zerzera]

So it's Europe's peak time in Trench Wars on a Friday night. No basing in public (there's a public of 40 but it has.. brb counting: 8 levi's and 3 LT's) base is down and no events are hosted.

Except of course Distension which receives daily dedicated hosting like no actual Trench Wars events.

--Logging off at 9pm.

[Liquid Blue]

Has there been a stated reason why we still don't have a pure pub back yet? Is the bot still down?

People have been asking for pure pub for weeks and weeks

[404 Not Found]

This is one of the reasons as to which I deleted this game from my computer. Zerzera sums it up pretty well.

[DankNuggets]

i wait until the next hosting, ofc

try as you guys might, you can't make distension out to be "just another event"

it gets "dedicated" hosting because there are a ton of "dedicated" participants


I could just as easily say the same thing when i log on and Distension's not on. There's nothing else to do if you're so unwilling to play pub. And what else would you want to do anyway? Obviously if you can't play purepub then you log off.

Well, purepub's still there my friend, it's just that people would rather play in the levi pub or distension. What does that tell you?

There's nothing that stops ER's from hosting during distension AFAIK, in fact I see them advertising during it all the time. Base is down? It's only up when there's enough people to play... would you want to play 2 on 2?


I played purepub the other day, I don't know what makes you think it's been down... It's the same as it's always been, just that it's not pub 0, it's the 2nd pub in the list.

Maybe you meant people have been asking to switch pub 0 to the purepub and make the Levi pub the 2nd one? I'll get back to you later today after I look through the interviews I've conducted and let you know what the ppl in pub have been asking for. Off the top of my head, the ususal reponse to 4) Which pub(s) should allow levs? goes along the lines of "all", "just one", and a few "none", in that order. I don't think ppl care too much whether it's the first or second pub, as much as they care that at least one pub has levis.

[CaptainPoopface]

Purepub has been busted for the last couple of days or so. RoboBoy/Girl may come in briefly, but as of right now, there are basically two levi pubs and no timer.

Correlation is not causation, but it seems like every time Distension runs, the bots break. In this case, I'll concede it might be because Maverick did some requested bot stuff so people could rig their own practice games, and maybe some vital cords got tripped on in the process.

Zerzera's point is that there is a dedicated contingent of players who love purepub and not so much the levi pub or Distension, and that contingent gets shafted often, in terms of bot breakage and repair time. Which, as 404 points out, leads to player attrition in our already dying game. It would be nice to get more lovin' for purepub - that's what we're saying.

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REINSTATE GUANOBOTf

[Dameon Angell]

I can get a dedicated European <ER>, but I dunno how many people will actually show up to his events.

Any suggestions?

[roxxkatt]

I could just as easily say the same thing when i log on and Distension's not on. There's nothing else to do

mine is bigger

lets count tws ers... 1,2,3.........3........3?

also,
:distensionbot:!start -------> some <er>> ZOMG TIEM TO HOST NAO PLS!

[freddie]

Why is distension in TW anyway? It's not like pub nor it's an event. It should be its own zone. And Im not arguing if it's fun or not, thats besides the point.

[Nockm]

I don't see why people give so much of a damn about distension. I don't enjoy playing it, therefore I just don't play it. It's a successful event, so people must be enjoying it a lot - I can't see how you can criticize that. In fact I think it should be applauded.

For those saying it's killing pub or such, I think most of the people playing it wouldn't go to pub when distension is over anyway. That's more of a clue that pub should be improved rather than removing distension or whatever.

I'm not pro or anti-distension really, so I'm happy to see arguments either way.

[soup]

Distension sucks
Aquatiq sucks
whoever made distension sucks



Seriously, tourny is off just because you faggots want all the people to go to distension.

Assholes.

I agree with zerzera.

[Soilderz]

I don't see why people give so much of a damn about distension. I don't enjoy playing it, therefore I just don't play it. It's a successful event, so people must be enjoying it a lot - I can't see how you can criticize that. In fact I think it should be applauded.

For those saying it's killing pub or such, I think most of the people playing it wouldn't go to pub when distension is over anyway. That's more of a clue that pub should be improved rather than removing distension or whatever.

I'm not pro or anti-distension really, so I'm happy to see arguments either way.

It's not killing only pub, It's killing javs,base, elimbeta and belim gets inactive. Even TWD is affected.
Put Distension into another zone then because like this TW isn't getting more active. Distension is.

[Soilderz]

I don't even remember when I saw an ER last time host a game, Why has that been reduced?

[Nockm]

If you put distension in another zone, and current players go to that zone... isn't that likely to make TW less active? Doesn't that completely defeat your purpose of making TW more active?

It just seems that people are jealous that others are having fun, because they're not.

But I do see what you guys mean, distension is quite zone-like... but IMO it's just a huge well-organised event which has just as much right to exist as anything else.

[getting pwned]

It's not killing only pub, It's killing javs,base, elimbeta and belim gets inactive. Even TWD is affected.
Put Distension into another zone then because like this TW isn't getting more active. Distension is.

Yea, thats real smart. I'm not bashing dist, seeing as I play it and enjoy it, but giving it it's own zone would probably bring TW to an end except for those hardcore pubbers. Two times a day, for ~2 hours at a time, 50 or so people are in distension arena. Yes, I said 50. How are that few people gonna kill Trench Wars? The rest of the people are in pub, javs, elim, base, and various bd/jd/dd/sd's.

Stop this useless crying that dist is killing TW.