Clearly I should pick times to play that are not on weekdays nor between 8pm-7am EST

Try finding out who's friendly and not. I usually stay at enemy side and fight whoever initiates the fight. And yes early mornings est are usually casual games. Nobody plays objective during those times. I honestly prefer it. Sometimes when there are more players games will happen but smaller games we just mess around.

 

Aha yes xD

 

just rail the ****s @Xelasi xd feelings are for liberals xdxdxd

 

I agree. Just kill them and let them *****.

 

Flag poison if you're there for too long?

 

What an idea deadrhinos

 

Couldn't agree more @Xelasi, I received pretty much exactly the same treatment from players who then decided to start "playing the objective" as soon as I stole the flag. If you want to friendly that's absolutely fine, but that means you don't go hostile as soon as it suits you or can get mad at someone else for playing the game. If you are on the opposite team, you should expect then to attack, whether you are friendly or not, they may well be playing the objective.

Also kudos to @tvisthebomb for the original post, I completely agree with that too.

 

@thesecundus

 

agree - here's some analysis lul ...at those odd hours esp during weekdays there's hardly half a server on. tbh the more ppl online the more active, challenging, and competitive the environment is which attracts even more players (ppl/tryharders who r actually trying to play the game for the credits and/or for the fun of it) - so when the player count goes down, so does the highly active, competitive environment and those who are there for it.

With just a few others online, kinda leaves derping and chilling around as seemingly the only option or at least the most comfortable and natural one...ngl I usually join in and it's chill, but by all means it's just as fun to slay all the friendlies and steal/cap the flag x'D

So tbh just do whatever u want to do, sometimes others will follow - it's always nice to be able to have a competitive, small game late at night/early morning as rare as they are.

 

I think we should all work together to kill everyone over and over and play objectively until the boring people either join us or leave

agression is once again the answer

 

NEW on the Brawl Shop, the "Friendly" Tag. When equipped, it prevents you from doing any type of damage or using any items. Immune to damage and cannot type in the chat. Problem solved

 

Those times of the day sound right in line with when the server has 20 or less people on. With that few people it's no surprise that they don't play seriously. Half the other team is probably your friends if you're a regular and you're a lot less inclined to attack than in your usual 20v20 scenario (or if you're me, the empty server is a rude reminder that no amount of nostalgia is gonna bring 2014/5 ctf back and I start aimlessly running around the map until I eventually leave and do something else)

I probably sound like a broken record complaining about the player count but at the end of the day a lot of the problems with the gamemode can be connected to it. You don't have a problem with "friendly enemies" if the people who ever do that are only 10-20% of the player base as opposed to something like 50-60%. You don't have a problem with not being able to find a serious game when there's at least 3 games going on simultaneously, with randies who don't truce with the other team.

Of course getting players is easier said than done and there's probably a lot that goes into it that I don't account for. But that said, stuff like this was never an issue when team caliber players were maybe 20-30% of the total player base as opposed to 70-80%

 

Yeah go for it, if they get mad maybe they'll actually start playing objectively. #killthefriendlies

 

Lmao a year ago everyone was complaining about how there were too many toxic people in the community and now it's that there aren't enough toxic people in the community.

Holy **** make up your ****ing mind people we don't have much time until Trump starts bombing everyone

 

What

 

I apparently am needed

 

The "friendly" enemy trend is boring me as well. I have one player who consistently pms me with general rudeness whenever I'm online now because I killed him when he was playing friendly, lol.

These "friendly" players take away from the fast paced feel of CTF. They upset players on their own team because they do not help out, and they upset enemy players when they do, by healing an ally for example, when the implication of being friendly is not participating.

I think friendliness is more of an issue than a benefit for the community. Friendly players can gain the same effect by sitting in a discord chat and talking, or playing on a non PvP server. I struggle to find enjoyment where this is what the community is, and I use the term loosely, devolving into. I think we genuinely need a solution. Ban it, introduce countermeasures, anything. The flag poison idea seemed great.