Killing the game

One of the majir reasons to my lack of activity in-game and in the ideas section, is my feel of guilt for killing what was left of the experienced players. Now before we start, lets remember there is no doubt the moment the old base dies was gona come.

So a day in around february, @ChicknSlayr asks me why I am in the big team (dev at the time). I told him I need some rest. That I had been soloing against the galactic empire (aka mingoteam) he didnt know about. But soon he learned. In the early days of our long lasting friendship, i was able to teach chickn stuff. It was about killing tower campers, basic bullet mechanics etc, mastering Outpotting, countering ww style strafers and such logical stuff, but he quickly became so skilled i could teach him no more.

Together we created a few smallish teams (one of them XL8R). They was quite unsuccesfull, all of different reasons. One thing few realises is that they died more because of us than the big team. Key figures in our teams was inactive at really important moments etc, which always caused the teams to collapse (XL8R was different, it was the warz players so /shrug). Now at this point, i thought we was sucessfull. there was competition. Exactly what we wanted. But this also began to create dilemmas for me. As i was the dictator really, I had to tell friends sorry but **** you not inving - that drove me crazy.

As you can probably understand, I could not think of how we could ever kill putty. Even tho I and chick was capable of up to 2vs6ing putty at times, what could we do if the rest of the team just feeded them with gear? Nothing.

At some point I got another few tonns of **** in game, + some bs promotions + other stuff came. I was away till putty broke up. I came back for some time, but I quickly became less active again. I had realized what had happened. We had killed putty, we had killed the experienced base.

So at this point putty is dead. Every good player apart from breeze is in NET. A team i created but gave to chick cos he had a house for hq.

Now remember my love for the game, how much i have cared - how much work i have done. Killing the game feels like killing a child for me. It hurts. This is why I have became less active. I feel so sad.

But the real topic I want to discuss here, is the blinded rethoric of a majority of the staff team and myself, as I probably was the most militant advocate of team member limits. Just saying "outnumbering is bad, team caps should be added", is not a valid way of arguing. You can not go from a to c, whithiut knowing wether a leads to b and b leads to c.

Team caps might reduce outnumbering for sure, but that is not the end goal. A server with a 0 playerbase has 0 outnumbering. A Server with 30 players and 2 major teams will have outnukbering. As I see it, it have been some powerfull nice people with a lot of protection seeking minions against one or two poferfull people with the leftovers. But when you have team caps, the game will become more unfair when you think about it. One team of the most skilled players vs those who could actually get by in the old system. Those bad but experienced players would just run around the map then killing of the rest if the base - if they played (they dont). Ofc I had to suffer in the old system, but that does not entitle me to say that the "outnumbering is bsd" argument makes the opposite sides argument wrong by definition. Thats not how it works.

I apologize for my illogical arguments in the past, and to contributing to the killing of the game greatly. I wish to undo my impact to the best of my ability.

Probably the best 1h wild west have had since the cap the cartel event, was a random all bandit truce event hosted by me. Everyone fought sheriffs together and had fun. Everyone enjoyed it. As i recall, even the sheriffs did, tho they wasnt too succesfull (got like 10 heads :V) . Now this is what ww should be. Not some ultra hard shooter game where a few very skilled players rek everyone elses butts together.

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Thanks pyro.

But dont you see what I am saying? During that one h when we came together and had fun we had over 40 players max. That isnt repetetive anymore. At least not any more than war or party is. Thats what I am trying to say we need instead of what I have been arguing earlier. Trying to get rid of the big teams was the wrong way to go. It made it repetetive. This is what i did nit realize earlier.

This is where i think i am partly responcible.

 

We was always worried about what would happen with chicken. And we discussed it a lot. But the thing was we, or at least i thought it was impossible..