Vote: Small NS or CO? - Page 2

**Ferris Bueller** · 03-28-2007, 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aeroripper

I like the idea of giving people an option to spawn bots in NS games, then all the humans hop on marines (essentially the same thing is done in combat, just for NS). Although I think the essential part to getting this to work is a time limit, say, 20 minutes max.

As a reference, i'd direct you to the KustomKarnage servers, which is where Masked Carrot, who codes the bots, does all of his testing. On NS maps there is a standard time limit, as well as on co maps. This keeps the games from dragging on forever. You'd also be surprised to see how much the bots actually win on NS maps. Its an excellent place for honing your comm skills as you have to be extremely quick with drops and structure placement.

**Wyzcrak** · 03-29-2007, 01:32 AM

I'd like less dialog on "what I want/prefer" and more critical thought applied to the question "what most quickly gets us to 6+vs6+ NS. That's the end goal, after all, I'll say.

Donat · 03-29-2007, 01:33 AM

Quickly? Combat, Quality for some people? NS

Combat will always be quicker for the sheer fact that people search CO_Faceoff as a map to play, while small NS games people will join and leave at a whim depending on the situation. As i said, i stand by Combat for small games.

Kerostasis · 03-29-2007, 04:07 AM

I disagree. I find that an NS game with 3-4 people actually draws NEW people in pretty quickly, while the CO games tend to stagnate. Further, the type of people we are looking to attract are the ones who will stay after you switch to an NS map...and if they only joined cause they were scanning for CO_Faceoff, chances are they wont stay for the NS round anyway. You can easily lose 1/2 your population in 30 seconds after switching from CO to NS.

Donat · 03-29-2007, 12:19 PM

It only draws new people some times, depending on map and how badly marines / aliens are being owned. Imo, people are more likely to stay from switching from CO_Faceoff to NS_Tanith, rather then from a badly owned NS game to another one where people mainly join the same teams. Also, all talk is on in CO, and you get to know people better and people might be interested in staying if the like the people their around to have teamwork and an enjoyable enviorment...

As for NS filling faster then CO i think that depends on the time of day, sure the waiters for the server on NS will join only when it is filling and on NS but CO is still a baisis with which to start, imo.... Unless some one can find or make really good NS bots.

micr0c0sm · 03-29-2007, 01:22 PM

voted small co...either would work fine but i would prefer small vanilla co_ .

psycho_assassin · 04-06-2007, 12:04 PM

I preffer to play a small NS game and I know for sure that more people will join up soon. So in my opinion just take combat off the map cycle

View Poll Results: Which would you prefer playing, given a small number of players (<=6) on the server?
A small classic NS game.	8	21.05%
Combat.	21	55.26%
I'd be OK with either.	7	18.42%
I won't join the server if there aren't a fair number of people already on.	2	5.26%
Voters: 38. You may not vote on this poll

03-29-2007, 01:32 AM	#17 (permalink)
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03-29-2007, 01:33 AM	#18 (permalink)
Donat Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 263	Re: Vote: Small NS or CO? Quickly? Combat, Quality for some people? NS Combat will always be quicker for the sheer fact that people search CO_Faceoff as a map to play, while small NS games people will join and leave at a whim depending on the situation. As i said, i stand by Combat for small games. __________________

03-29-2007, 12:19 PM	#20 (permalink)
Donat Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 263	Re: Vote: Small NS or CO? It only draws new people some times, depending on map and how badly marines / aliens are being owned. Imo, people are more likely to stay from switching from CO_Faceoff to NS_Tanith, rather then from a badly owned NS game to another one where people mainly join the same teams. Also, all talk is on in CO, and you get to know people better and people might be interested in staying if the like the people their around to have teamwork and an enjoyable enviorment... As for NS filling faster then CO i think that depends on the time of day, sure the waiters for the server on NS will join only when it is filling and on NS but CO is still a baisis with which to start, imo.... Unless some one can find or make really good NS bots. __________________

03-29-2007, 01:22 PM	#21 (permalink)
micr0c0sm Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 660	Re: Vote: Small NS or CO? voted small co...either would work fine but i would prefer small vanilla co_ .

04-06-2007, 12:04 PM	#22 (permalink)
psycho_assassin Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 6	Re: Vote: Small NS or CO? I preffer to play a small NS game and I know for sure that more people will join up soon. So in my opinion just take combat off the map cycle

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