The daily Gameplay

Everyone of us knows, how the daily gameplay looks like.
But what i saw today.. unbelievable ..

ns-stargate-sg-1-b2g was the map.
about 3pm gmt +1
the first hm... 10-15 minutes Playingtime was like allways.

The teams was balanced too with 15 vs. 15

Anyways, as 1 of my team (marines) left , and an other player connected to the server. But what happend? That player didnt wanted to join the Marines.
He/she waited until one of the Alien"slots" was free, what didnt happend.
So we was supposed to continue playing 14 vs 15 and 1 rr camper.

Anyways, good and nice, but as my team started to loose, slow but for sure
we was in not even 3 minutes! overruned buy the Aliens, and my team F4'd or Left the game.

But the worst thing, what i think was, is that 3 top 10 player! didnt wanted to join the game as Marine only not to get Killed by the stronger goten Alienside.

So , what happend in the last minutes?
Well very easy.
The top 10 player stood Readyroom, the Aliens overruned our base, and my team lost and die'd for nothing.....
So most of them left the server/game.



I am and i still was with the opinion that my team could have a chance to win this map, only if those Statwhoring Top10 players would have joined!

What means to be a top 10 playeR?
Very easy, it means simply but fast sayd, that they aim better and kill other quite faster.

But that they didnt joined only not to get Deaths, and waited to join the Alienside for pwnin Not-that good aimin Marines with Blinkin Fades ...

C'mon! This isnt fun at all!
This is only shitty Rank-Stats-whoring°!
THAT IS/WAS NO FUN Oo ...

Can hardly play any good game when there is no admin around.

Icon stacking, lame quitting of top 10 players when they die as fade/onos... etc...

I hope I'll be able to play some good games at late night time, when there are more "experienced" ns players on the breeder who can guide new ones along and know how to team-play.

Originally Posted by Apfel

I hope I'll be able to play some good games at late night time, when there are more "experienced" ns players on the breeder who can guide new ones along and know how to team-play.

ya... i hope too


anyways, some hours later the same picture.


i dont understand why alienside is so "popular" on some maps!

The attachment shows a screen where it took more than 5minutes until everyone joined because everyone camped at rr to go alienside...

Hm...It seems like the server have become much worse since I last played on it. Well that was some time ago, 2006-01-28. I mean sure we had statswhore then too and sure iconstacking happend but not as much as it seems to be happening now, with all the posts about it and people complaining.
Is this server turning worse than before about statwhores?

Do we need to do something about it? Is there a way to deal with this? Anyone got any bright ideas? I know unsichtbar will shout, "ban them all!" But I was thinking maybe something else...
Something to prevent statwhoring.

What about a script that only allowes a certain amount of icons in one team? atleast top 10 icons.

Exampel:
(if you are in top 10) You wouldn't be able to join the aliens if there was a top 10 icon in that team so you have to join the marines. If you join the marines then we have 1 top 10 icon in both teams and the next top 10 icon player joining can choose wichever team because the amount is even. If that person chooses to join the marines as well the next person have to join aliens because now it's 1- 2 top 10 icons to the marines.
See what i mean?

Maybe it's an impossible script or something I wouldn't know. It was just an idea.

Remove the stats, problem solved. What's the point of having them at all?

Personally, I tend not to join either side if the game is pretty much over. I don't really see the point of joining a game where I have nothing to do with the outcome. And before someone points it out, that has nothing to do with stats. People over at the FX server can probably verify that I tend to go spec if the game is in its later stages when I join the server.

Stats is fun.....that's the only way to see what years of NS have given you :P

Well, it really depends on what you mean with "the game is pretty much over" a game can turn fast however bad it looks for one of the teams.

Yes, but only if everyone wants that, and helps, and not F4's when the status is bad ...

Stats are the only (direct) way to show others what years of NS has given you. I don't need stats to tell me that, I was kinda there myself. As for showing others, I don't give a damn one way or another what people think.

An average game of NS is "pretty much over" after 10-15 minutes unless there is a stalemate (rather rare). At that point, everything that will be a factor has already happened. That's why I dislike joining mid-game; if I win, it's not because of my participation. If I lose, it's not because of my mistakes. I generally don't quit a game once I've joined unless there's rampant spawncamping going on or if people are being idiots (not phasing when we are doing a hive rush, not leaving base etc.), but I tend to avoid joining games if I'm not there early.
The predictability of the outcome is one of the major problems with NS really. Has been for quite a while. The increased focus on individual skill in later versions didn't help.

Originally Posted by Seven

I don't give a damn one way or another what people think.

True , the only thing that counts is to have Fun at playing the game, and not to get as higher rank as possible.

But there are egnoth ppl who say: i dont have fun when i die allways/never hit/everyone leave ...

so... : /

Indeed. So remove the stats and people will be less prone to leave for that reason. Obviously people will still leave because getting killed over and over again without a chance of winning is not much fun, but at least the problem is a bit smaller.

By the way, it's times like that when F4/recycling base should be allowed. I don't normally, but I don't mind if others do. It's like when the party is over and you're stuck cleaning up. I'd rather just get another round going.