Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
Registered Member #80 Joined: [ 14:01 ] [ 14 Mar 2004 ] Posts: 654
Seeing the recent lack of players in the server, even i have been put off going on because it just the same old... The popularity of the server is important for this to be a continuing sucessful community, even if IS04 may be out soon, we don't want is82, and is82.com to die? do we? We need experienced players/mappers/contributers to come up with original ideas.
On the maps side of things, its not that map aren't being made it's because there "In the process". This is no bad thing quality maps are what we need. BUT the originality of maps as presented by many of Ace's maps is what needs to fill the gaps between waiting for quality maps. I know Ace is a busy person and may not have time but there are plenty of experienced mappers out there, what we need are quick/original maps to act as a short term boost to popularity.
On the server side of things, lack of players on ISR is not always because of a lack of people playing Interstate. It is because the original gameplay mode of interstate are still popular and the other major server is always nearly full. I know we are a racing community but we are also a custom map community, so why not change the server gameplay for a set period each week, boosting the interest in devloment of Conquest custom maps.
Just a few ideas and suggestions but think about the life span of is82.com, what do you want to happen?
Registered Member #367 Joined: [ 09:40 ] [ 06 Jun 2004 ]
the servers been failing since they put a password on it dunno why they did it, if it's cheaper u guys know why, plus the one sided thing is getting kina boring
Registered Member #263 Joined: [ 03:07 ] [ 06 May 2004 ]
I agree that we need original maps and not the same old thing in every map. I can start doing some maps again in my spare time (not much nowadays) and I can help come up with ideas. I also agree that we should have like a special battle map day or a CTH day or something where it isn't the same thing everyday. I have been disapointed by the lack of people in the server too. Every time I want to play i look at the server and it's empty which discourages me from playing. Just some things to take into consideration... Also we should have an "original map ideas" thread so people can give their ideas and mappers can "call" which idea they want to put in a map. I think that would help with the mixing things up in the maps.
Registered Member #16 Joined: [ 00:09 ] [ 23 Feb 2004 ]
too many maps to download kills mod, and thats why there arent many is82 players right now, cuz they dunno where to maps and dont want have to download over a million maps+ just too many nubs and like uhh crazy people-no offense or nething
Registered Member #55 Joined: [ 23:13 ] [ 03 Mar 2004 ]
Well I have to agree with firstshadow partly, yes all the maps do give alot of confusion and will confuse newbies to the mod. But the older players know all about this. DC and other mods have a decent ammount of downloadable maps, but the quaility of the maps is not the best. There some maps which I love and could play all day but others I just will leave the server until new maps come up. and serpents opinion is also truly right, all the people who are like 1 timers with a mod, they play it every now and then for fun and are not on often, so they dont belong to the forums. Therefor they dont know passwords and joino ther servers.
Registered Member #96 Joined: [ 17:41 ] [ 19 Mar 2004 ]
making a whole download file for all of the maps will help newbies, instead of them waiting an hour to get interstate, then the patch, then another hour for downloading them, then 20 or so minutes installing. since there are sections in the downloads section, creating a file download on top of each one for each section will help. like if some1 wants to go on server, just download the the file on top, and BING, they are in in about 10 minutes. plus, once they have them, they will be able to download the rest later.
Instead of trying to have a set map cycle, how would you guys feel about me putting all the maps in the cycle, and its up to people to map vote for the ones they want ?
I do feel that the password has had a bad side effect, I do not know why, but I think it maybe due to people having filter for passworded servers and such.
Im against map packs, but if people really think it would be a benifit then im willing to give it ago.
A big part of why I have not been playing interstate myself is that im working on a lot of otherstuff and after playing for over a year, the challenge has faded.
Im not one for map packs, but if you think it will help then I will give it ago. I dont think putting every map in one file will be wise, nor will picking the best as it will confuse. So how about I split them into 3 of 'racing map pack', 'challenge map pack', 'battle map pack' ?
all maps in server is a great idea, bring back tsunami and streetsrace is all i want. May it would be good to add a couple of ctf maps to the server map list too keep people playing who are tired of racing.