So, CTF has been... quiet the past few days.
So, how about this, post a timeframe that you can play ctf, then we could organize a date or something that a lot of us will play. Hopefully, this will help revive ctf for the time being.
Even for the short time that everyone can play, it will at least (hopefully) attract more and more people to come on.
What I have seen is, that when 1 person or less is on the server, noone joins because they basicly say
"Oh, the server is empty" *scroll down the list to a populated server* "Oh lets join that one"
I've also noticed, that when there is more than 4 to 5 people, more people tend to join.
So, if we schedule a time frame for which most of us can play, at least we can still play, for one, and two, attract more people.
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I can play anytime on the weekends and after 5:30 PM Eastern Time during the week.
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Post your time frame below, and comment on this idea.
I can only play on Weekends basically all day...
In my opinion I am one of the most active players on this server and because of this I've noticed the pattern that seems to be the reason for the depressing inactivity lately.
Firstly, you must be aware that this server is only really active at 3 or 4 times in the day, be it weekday or weekend. That said, the number of people active on weekends tends to be significantly higher.
The times are: 3am-6am(usually), 7am-10am(usually), 3pm-6pm(sometimes) and 9pm-12am(occasionally). The "peak" of this server is usually on the weekend in between the 3am-6am and 7am-10am time frames. This is loosely recorded in SGT (GMT+8:00), feel free to convert it to whichever timezone you live in. [
Click this link or Google it :b]
Secondly, there are three types of people. The first joins the server regardless of whether there is anyone online. Let's call him the "trigger" player. The second joins when there is at least one player online. The third joins when there are 3 or more players online. It must be said that the only reason players have access to this information is because of the superb chat system we have on the forum that allows us to see the map being played on and the number of players online. As of today, this function seems to have been removed (bug or not I don't know) and I hope it remains this way as I believe a key factor in the inactivity of late is this function.
Thirdly, as you may have noticed from what I wrote above, people only start to join when there is a "trigger" player online. This "trigger" player is basically the person who doesn't mind being the only one online for hours and stays in anticipation of other players. In my time I've only seen a handful of regular "trigger" players.
The main reason for the mass inactivity of all time frames is because recently the activity of these "trigger" players has gone down. Because of this, the number of people playing on the server has declined and we are starting to lose players.
Normally in my boring half-assed long, long, longggg posts I conclude with a solution but alas I do not have one for this. The only thing I can say is I hope to see more "trigger" players in our community.
Here's to the rekindling of the flame that was once Jacob_'s CTF. Cheers
-T97
What I'm saying is, that if we can 'schedule' a time period that we can all play at once, or close to, daily or weekly, whichever one, it may help. That way in this case, there is no 'trigger' person. We all just join in the wishing of that everything goes to plan.
And also, I've noticed that, although it can be useful if you cannot get on the server, the server relay chat sorta makes people not get on to see who is on. Per say, way back when, you would have to get on the server to see who's on or what map it is. I'm not saying anything is wrong with the server relay chat, but now people just check the website's relay chat to see who's on and what map it is. And they can chat through it too.
If you get what I'm saying, I remember that people joined a lot more when the relay chat wasn't there. Nothing bad against it.
And also, T97, do you agree with this idea to help try to get players back playing?
I see myself as a trigger person, but I was watching some anime and became very sick. I should start joining again in these following days.
(04-01-2014, 10:16 PM)waffleninja6000 Wrote: [ -> ]I see myself as a trigger person, but I was watching some anime and became very sick. I should start joining again in these following days.
See kids, anime makes you sick.
Jokes aside, I like the idea and I can pretty much join at any time during the weekend. I live at GMT +2, but what I usually tend to do is come on when you 'mericans and canucks come on, since there's not a great number of people from europe on. So basically I'm up for any time you decide on.
I really really really miss playing ctf with a full server
