BF2 Infantry FTW!

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:07 pm

Hey guys, just wanna say.

For a while now going on the server and being killed constantly by APC's and Tanks has become a major annoyance.

After last nights 'informative', thats if you include the amount of teamkills and kicking Confused

, demostration from 1927 and crew about match tactics, we had the server on infantry with Karky and i'll be completely honest- that's the most fun ive had on the server in a long time. Im looking forward to having more oppurtunities to have 'proper' training/intra clan matches in the future.

BTW good job to 1927 and 3min3m for keeping the last nights demo some what stable, a few more of 'em and folk'll get into the swing of it.
Oh yeah, thanks to Colonel for being the nade dummy LOL!

Joined: May 15, 2007 Posts: 403 Location: Capital of Wales

I think as suggested by others a weekly night of Inf Only would only benefit us as a bf2 clan/team and individual player.

Mrix, I don't know how happy you would be with this as at the moment I would say the bf2 server is well populated at night and know you wouldn't want to upset any balance. I do know however that a majority of us bf2 regulars do want some INF Only action and would obviously prefer it to be on our server. Its been mentioned on TS just about every night this week.

If it was to go ahead what would happen?

16 man maps? (to see how busy we get)
The night advertised on the server through a message?
An advert on the forums?
City maps or all maps available on clanbase (for eg, Kubra, Oman inf only)

Nice one for bringing it up Wicker as mentioned I know most of us are interested in this.

Community Founder Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 2627

Well I do get a bit twitchy when changes are made to the server this is true, the last time we made changes on our 64 player server it was damaged behond repair and lost so many public Sad

The server has become very popluar again and having public on the server is the most important thing as without them members alone is not enough and the server will die.
Um basically saying lets all be very cautious if we want to keep our server alive Wink

Lets see what happenes today if we keep the INF only profile up and see what the public think? We have to remember though many players need vehicles to gain their varius medals badges ribbons etc.
Cheers
|2es-mrix

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:22 pm

I am totally with Wicker on this one, I believe that at least one night a week we should be having an infantry only situation.
I have seen how popular these servers are and once a reputation hits people re-visit all the time,and although i also do not want to destroy what we have worked so hard to re-build we should offer the chance for players to play as infantry only.
We had an awsome time last night encouraging teamwork and we had a situation where a set of public players realised what we were doin , working as a team and they squad up. If they are doin it thats only a gd sign of a teamplaying server.
Unfortunatly on to many occasion is our server being owned by armor and really doesnt make a game.
Lets at least put it out there, we will soon find out if our players enjoy it, but def do what 1927 says putting a scrolling msg up. Very Happy

Joined: Jul 02, 2005 Posts: 1453

I for one, hate vehicle whores and LOVE infantry only, especially on maps like Karkand, i would even be tempted to reinstall BF2 if our server was infantry only.

Community Founder Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 2627

Unless you get a fair few members on and make a focus on a certain night of the week INF is pointless.
We had 3 members on INF a few nights ago and the server numbers never went above 3 players Sad

If certain nights were arranged and posted on the forums then it could be worth having a couple of nights a week?
but you do need enough members on.
cheers
|2es-mrix

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:28 am

Hey the big cheese has thrown the gauntlet down to us Twisted Evil

Sounds like if we want some infantry action, we need to put our heads together and come up with something.

Im up for making something of it, anybody else?

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:54 am

I am up for it as long as other people turn up.

I was on when it was infantry only with just 3 of us on and it was a nightmare. People loaded the map and then left, so it will need a few of us on to get it going.

One night a week of it is good for me.

Give me chance to hone my sniping on the big yellow guy.

Joined: May 15, 2007 Posts: 403 Location: Capital of Wales

Perhaps we should ask the Regular Public who join us most nights if they would support some INF Only before we flick the switch?

It's no fun being on an Air map when it's 5v5 and Ive had a lot of that lately and like most my gaming time is precious to me. Wouldn't be so bad if you could reach dry land on Dalian when it's like that. I only load the game up for fun in the first place, no other reason.

The BIA boys would miss their chopper, they tend to leave when a city map appears and ol Romek might miss his armour but other than those I can't see to many having a problem. You never know they might appriciate a change aswell.

Its a shame you can't mix it up without having to get an admin to change the profile for eg.

Dalian, Kark INF, Mashtuur INF, Wake, Kark (+ armour), Sharqui INF, Dragon, etc etc so that pilots get air maps, ground pounders get theirs and armour whores get theirs too. Thats maybe your best bet at pleasing eveybody, but we already know thats an impossible task.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:29 pm

but what i think mrix tried to put across is if u get as 7 or 8 of on the server like the night of training the server will fill up like it did and some of the regular players did come on

altho starting training at 9ish is a bad idea mabye 7ish with 30 to 45 mins of training then open the server as before it should fill up as long as the game has already started it will

Joined: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 528 Location: Nottingham

i mentioned the inf only nights idea to some of the regular public players and they said that they would definitly be up for it....but its definitly the members that are going to have to put the effort in if this is going to work

advertising the I/O nights would be a good idea aswell...put a message on the load screen ( if thats possible) and an in game message

Nymph

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:57 pm

It all sounds good to me.

However, yesterday was an absolute nightmare trying to get the server started. We seem to have been on for ages before people joined.

Then at one point we had 20 peeps on and the map changed to either fushe or dragon and it died really quickly.

People just seemed to disappear and then the problem started again with trying to start the server.

Who knows what the correct formula is but its seems to be hard to keep everybody happy at the mo.

Joined: May 15, 2007 Posts: 403 Location: Capital of Wales

MadToolz wrote:

but what i think mrix tried to put across is if u get as 7 or 8 of on the server like the night of training the server will fill up like it did and some of the regular players did come on

altho starting training at 9ish is a bad idea mabye 7ish with 30 to 45 mins of training then open the server as before it should fill up as long as the game has already started it will

Training (if repeated) would start earlier but last Thursday was the worst night of the week for me to do it on (daughters b'day) but seemed the best for the rest thats why I suggested it at that time, 8.30 gave me time to spend time with her and my other Daughter. Thankfully they understood what I was trying to do but couldn't understand why everyone was running round stabbing each other and myself.

I went for some INF only last night but had to leave due to family after less than 5 mins leaving Wicker to take em all on, on his own. I had left our server as I wasn't having fun.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:29 pm

yeah i understand family first bud

on the knifin front and t/king i personally would just kick ppl of the training server but that's me

get the tit tacs done quick then kill each other on the field afterwards

pissin around wastes time in my opinion

but hey am a newbie so think what you like but i show up to learn how you all play and throw in idea's

when it started i was going to leave that's why i never spoke untill i was getting annoyed

just my opinion

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:14 pm

Why is the server so dead though??

I remember when you had to kick people or use reserved slot on the 64 player it was that busy, whats changed?

I hear ya on the lets just run around T killin and knifing everyone (Chaos) used to get a bit silly especially when you trying to start a match or training.

IMO infantry only servers are popular, I go on a few and they usually always have 40 + players on.

Happen renaming the server so it comes up when people search servers might help. I have it down as my favorite server but it nerver shows me the server name it shows it as blank??