02-20-2012, 03:02 PM
I have registered here for one reason only - to express my gratitude for the Overkill server (coincidence that my nick is also OVERKILL) and my dismay that someone would be discouraged by the actions of others to continue maintaining it.
I don't know what this whole argument is about, what is Xonotic and what isn't Xonotic is not an issue to me. I installed Xonotic two or three months ago and tried out a few servers. I noticed that each server had its own settings - one had vehicles, another had ropes, another had right-click jumping. We are all relatively free people, and I freely chose to play Overkill because I found it most enjoyable. Had the Overkill server not been in the server list, I would have uninstalled Xonotic that same day. I'm not saying the other game modes are not enjoyable, what I am saying is that they are not enjoyable for me. Some like NFS, others like Nascar. Some like jumping around clubbing people with their right-click shotgun, I prefer bouncing around like a speedballing Gummi Bear shotgunning and grenading fine players like Dear Lord, Lunitix and Orgasmic.
Oh, and vehicle ctf, loved that too.
I'm involved with another game, it's an old classic, and at one point we had a lack of players. What did we do? We improved our website, recorded more gameplay videos, advertised it more, modded it more. That is what you should be doing. Advertise your game. Listen to your noobs. Improve the game. Clarify your website. Update those boring videos you have in the media section with something fast, fun and high quality - 1-3 minutes, not more.
But for christ's sake, don't bring down and disparage active community members and their mods just because their bunch of settings are more played than your bunch of settings are.
I don't know what this whole argument is about, what is Xonotic and what isn't Xonotic is not an issue to me. I installed Xonotic two or three months ago and tried out a few servers. I noticed that each server had its own settings - one had vehicles, another had ropes, another had right-click jumping. We are all relatively free people, and I freely chose to play Overkill because I found it most enjoyable. Had the Overkill server not been in the server list, I would have uninstalled Xonotic that same day. I'm not saying the other game modes are not enjoyable, what I am saying is that they are not enjoyable for me. Some like NFS, others like Nascar. Some like jumping around clubbing people with their right-click shotgun, I prefer bouncing around like a speedballing Gummi Bear shotgunning and grenading fine players like Dear Lord, Lunitix and Orgasmic.
Oh, and vehicle ctf, loved that too.
divVerent Wrote:There is not enough players for both.That might be a fact, I don't know; from my experience, there were almost always enough people (>6) to play an enjoyable game in my time zone. But shutting down the only server that I intensely enjoy playing to force me to play the others which I find slow and boring in comparison? What is this? Since when do you think you can tell people what to enjoy? No, this is not the way to fix your problem.
I'm involved with another game, it's an old classic, and at one point we had a lack of players. What did we do? We improved our website, recorded more gameplay videos, advertised it more, modded it more. That is what you should be doing. Advertise your game. Listen to your noobs. Improve the game. Clarify your website. Update those boring videos you have in the media section with something fast, fun and high quality - 1-3 minutes, not more.
But for christ's sake, don't bring down and disparage active community members and their mods just because their bunch of settings are more played than your bunch of settings are.