A Newbie's Observations

[Urmel]

Dont let those old dusty germans scare yeo..

WTF?

Norwegians live with the seven midgets behind the seven mountains, believe in trolls and pixies and consider everything that's living beyond the baltic sea "german", never mind the tChr

[Nil]

[...] guess the admins will take some extra looks at the server if they read your post.

Having played a little on a Warsow newbie server I know how annoying it is to go to a beginner server to get into a game only to be squashed by some bog heads all the time. On DCC's server it's even more annoying cos the server keeps telling that it's a newbie server so people abusing it know what they do. This is one thing I really don't get.

I don't have the time / interest to constantly watch the DCC's newbie server though. So if there are experienced players with much spare time, you are very welcome to have an eye on Maiden's Delight. Kick voting is enabled on all DCC's servers. That is you can open the console and enter "vcall kick # 1" for example to call a vote to kick the player with the id 1. You get the player's ids with "status". Then you only have to tell the others to accept the vote by pressing f1.

[SavageX]

I have Alien Arena installed and from time to time I enjoy a nice botmatch in colorful and flashy arenas. It's really a different beast, and I enjoy playing it.

In the past there was tension between our two communities - in part because one of their community members (which I have mistaken for an AA team member) used to do "it sucks, play AA instead" reviews at download sites and in part because I moronically overreacted and accused the AA community to be spoil sports. Ouch, *that* was a damn stupid thing.

I think it's a lesson everybody has to learn: You can't possibly assume you'll please everyone and you have to accept criticism even if you feel it's over the top without getting mad at someone. And: If you feel like rating someone else's work it may help to give reasons beyond "it's just so much better". Some games fit like a glove, some others don't. That doesn't necessarily mean the non-fitting game is "inferior".

[esteel]

But back to that 'good players on beginner server' Problem.. people will keep an eye on it and i guess for now we'll have to teach players how to vote kick. when we get a ingame menu for voting later this will be easier.

[Irritant]

I don't really get offended when somebody prefers Nexuiz over Alien Arena, I mean people have their favorite games, it's only natural to have preferences.

The only thing that bothers me is when people say things that are either untrue or uninformed, such as "empty servers", or "no map packs". There are *always* people on AA servers, it's not quite the level of popularity of Nexuiz, but the average over a 24 hour period is usually right around 15 or so, and much higher during peak hours. Regarding the maps, perhaps you didn't have the latest patch(pre 6.04 release available on the forum) in which there are a a series of brand new maps that will be included in the next full release of the game in a few weeks.

Interestingly enough, the AA community member that SavageX speaks of, realized his mistakes, and re-reviewed Nexuiz on his freeware site very favorably. I really have enjoyed the fact that the communities get along so much better now. I personally play Nex quite often, and Warsow, and find that all three offer different things in regards to gameplay that make it interesting.

[SavageX]

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Interestingly enough, the AA community member that SavageX speaks of, realized his mistakes, and re-reviewed Nexuiz on his freeware site very favorably. I really have enjoyed the fact that the communities get along so much better now. I personally play Nex quite often, and Warsow, and find that all three offer different things in regards to gameplay that make it interesting.

Amen.

I just brought up that old topic to illustrate why we dislike comparisons with other free(ware) games, even in case they happen to favor Nexuiz. On this machine there is Alien Arena, Digital Paintball 2, Warsow and of course Nexuiz installed and every single game has its merits.

[tChr]

Dont let those old dusty germans scare yeo..

WTF?

Of the two people that had spooken, one is old and one is not, one is german and one is not, to whom do you think I was reffering?