Anyone else feel this way?

[Ephemeral]

My opinion is that it is the dishonest play that has removed most of the excitement from the season.

How can a win be a good feeling when your squad plays either a known cheater or known lag inducer? Oh wait, lets remove the 'C' word and just talk about lag. Why is it that squads intentionally place known laggers in sharks? Just chance? How many times this season has a person ASKED to be removed from a game because he did not want his lag to influence the game?

And squads/players are supposed to get excited about playing against these kinds of teams?

[Cig Smoke]

If they arent cheating and they are just laggy but under the limits then its fine, sure u can bitch about it, and it mite change the outcome of the game, but learn to adapt. Every squad has laggers, especialy in TWLB when its 16 ppl cramed into 1 little base. Then you add in the fact that there are european squads who are farther away from the server and constantly lag and cant evenhelp it. Look at mootland farmer, the guy cant even play TWL just because of where he lives. Lag has nothing to do with it, every squad has it, its just the good squads can adapt.

[pascone]

bike's idea isn't bad but it sorta is because everyone would complain about getting to play with who they like. of course in sports you don't have a choice... but this also isn't sports. everyones point makes sense but would a limited roster fix anything? maybe. but if leagues were the draft league it would be completely different which could draw interest.

[saiyansoldier]

i agree that twl has lost some mojo. there are no good squads anymore. look at TWLD: Boz, Speed, Squad!!, Warpath, Heavy, United Force, and Ancients. no offense but these teams are only mediocre at best, and frankly i just don't care when i'm playing against guys who backpedal and hold control. maybe it's just me and my lack of patience but i'd love to have played where the real competition was in the earlier seasons.

[pascone]

guess we have to wait til playoffs

[Hercules]

I kind of agree with Bike also. I think if there was more of a roster limit, there would be more teams and more competition. Let's say for example, you cut down Sk8, Pirates, Disoblige, Syndicate, Shinobi, -Final- to lets say... 15-20 man rosters. That would lead to a lot more squad creations and a lot more activity within the leagues. Also, there would be something to look to, but I know many people dont want to do a roster limit because they have 40 friends in the game.

BAM! The leagues are spiced up again. Also changing the maps might help, we have been playing on same maps for like 3+ years. What ever happened to home advatange, away advantage (that was pretty pimp even though it was just graphics, but it was like a home turf thing).

Also advertising would be a big hit, if we could try to get teh game advertised more or sometin.. =/ Sry to repeat, i just think we need a roster limit. something around 15-20 or something, tw is dying, something has to change or its all gonna give.

[MILOS]

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People are just losing interest in the game. They are getting old and life is at this point taking over. I guess the problem does lie in the fact that new generations are really not coming to take over. Some people play at older ages though, so it's not necessarily a rule. But it is true for 90% of us that after a certain age we stop playing games.

The lag/scheduling also doesn't help. We haven't gotten the time we needed for the last two games, and thus played unready. People keep complaining about lag, and they should especially considering players in Canada using cable (myself) get specced for lag whereas Mega Newbie from bloody Brazil on dialup doesn't.

On top of this, it's the summer. World Cup is starting in two weeks, girls are wearing less clothing, and there’s just more to do now. So to answer the question of the thread... sure I'm feeling exactly the same.

[Broly]

People are just losing interest in the game. They are getting old and life is at this point taking over. I guess the problem does lie in the fact that new generations are really not coming to take over. Some people play at older ages though, so it's not necessarily a rule. But it is true for 90% of us that after a certain age we stop playing games.

The lag/scheduling also doesn't help. We haven't gotten the time we needed for the last two games, and thus played unready. People keep complaining about lag, and they should especially considering players in Canada using cable (myself) get specced for lag whereas Mega Newbie from bloody Brazil on dialup doesn't.

On top of this, it's the summer. World Cup is starting in two weeks, girls are wearing less clothing, and there’s just more to do now. So to answer the question of the thread... sure I'm feeling exactly the same.

:up:

[Izor]

Roster limit is in the best interest of this game. I have brought up this point in the past, but unfortunately no one listens to me. Especially when the people in charge of this game are part of 3 league squads or are friends with people who are. There is a downside to roster limits though. People wouldnt be able to play in all 3 leagues and may lose interest since they then have to pick a league to play in. A 15 person roster limit I think is probably a bit extreme but 20 works just fine. Squads like sk8 and diso should honestly be 2 or 3 squads a piece. GL getting staff to do something about this though, since the squads that those players tend to be in are the squads like sk8 and diso

[Hero*]

there arent any powerhouse squads anymore

remember how one squad/player would do so well, win all games, and hardly ever choke? whatever happend to that glory? i guess thats what we looked up to. it can't be fixed herc, people go and retire/leave, and a new generation takes over.

No powerhouse squads? Dice/Syndicate isnt a powerhouse squad? -_-
You're saying remember how one squad/player would do so well? Look again at dice/sydicate...and look at megaman89. He has MVPd i think every LB game, mvped 3 of his 3 LD games, and MVPD a few of his LJ games...now I'll tell you he could be classified as a modern day blood or some fuk, but then again ppl hate him for unknown reasons.

[Royst]

I don't really think Diso is a squad that could be split into two squads. We have 42 people on roster, about 18 players who don't play much TWL, let alone TWD. This leaves us about 24 players who actively play in a split of 3 leagues, which at every given week we need 18 players to play.

[Izor]

Oh yeah, you have 42 players, im gonna take some pity on you now because obviously you're going to have a hard time showing up 18 people on any given sunday to play a game. Oh wait, what about the people who play multiple leagues? Forgot about those. At most you probably only use 15 people each week, that number being cut down on if your squad was forced to have less people on your roster, and you had to use more people as 3 leaguers. Yes this would weaken your squad, but it would also strengthen league overall. I dont know about you but when I see squads like Sk8 play squads like Warpath and any 5 of Sk8's 10 people in spec could be doing a better job than the 5 people warpath have in, I feel that something is being taken away from the league

[Melon]

Setting a roster limit of around 20 would be a great idea. It would make everyone more active, and people would try a lot harder, forcing more competition. I would surely play this game more if something like this took place.

[golden duck]

Oh yeah, you have 42 players, im gonna take some pity on you now because obviously you're going to have a hard time showing up 18 people on any given sunday to play a game. Oh wait, what about the people who play multiple leagues? Forgot about those. At most you probably only use 15 people each week, that number being cut down on if your squad was forced to have less people on your roster, and you had to use more people as 3 leaguers. Yes this would weaken your squad, but it would also strengthen league overall. I dont know about you but when I see squads like Sk8 play squads like Warpath and any 5 of Sk8's 10 people in spec could be doing a better job than the 5 people warpath have in, I feel that something is being taken away from the league

Ok, I see your point. Lets say this does happen, and different vets switch teams and go to a weaker squad like warpath (no offence). Well, where does that leave room for the younger players who are playing twl for the first time? It leaves them on the bench and will make them ultimately lose interest in the game. The younger population will decrease due to lack of play, and all your left with is older worn out vets with 1-2 years left. So sooner or later you need to get younger players involved

Oh, lets say we all of a sudden get a 500-1000 player jump and tons of new people enter this game. Well then what do we you do about league play? Leave them out and let them play pub forever? If we totally ignore new people trying to make themelves and newsquads better then were left with the same people who dont care anymore. You gotta let people grow and get better with time, even if it means a bad twl season or two.

[pascone]

it's really not that hard to get good/noticed in this game. after twl, 2000 squads are created by people that will recruit people just to play games. people can join that squad and play with someone that's been around and play games against other squads and get noticed that way and recruited to a squad for twl if they are good.