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[Fate 6]

About a month ago I started playing with the guys from DWAR. It was awesome. As of a week or so ago it has been a ghost town on the Teamspeak server, where it used to have 8 or more guys on. You could always have a 4-man. Now I barely see 4, if any. I am currently the only person on, in fact. If PGI keeps up their quality production style, we'll get to say this game never made it out of beta.

EDIT: I guess I was playing with them for about 2-3 months, and it was the last 3 weeks that people have slowly stopped playing. Time goes weirdly when you spend so much time in computer labs doing engineering work >_>

Edited by Fate 6, 22 April 2013 - 02:52 PM.

[Tennex]

they prolly just got bored. which may be why PGI is pushing CW so hard. it'll give us something to do besides grind mechs.

also bugs are bad.

Edited by Tennex, 22 April 2013 - 02:52 PM.

[Team Leader]

Agree. My teams TS is a ghost town as well. Many units are currently like this. The only way to get any team action is on the Comstar servers or on weekend afternoons. Even the Constar servers are getting less and less populated.

[Ihasa]

Team Leader, on 22 April 2013 - 02:52 PM, said:

Agree. My teams TS is a ghost town as well. Many units are currently like this. The only way to get any team action is on the Comstar servers or on weekend afternoons. Even the Constar servers are getting less and less populated.

Was just noticing that too. Took a couple weeks off, logged in to see the changes and if I can handle this meta game or not (I can't, it's boring) and there were less than 30 people on total. This at 3pm pacific.

[Syllogy]

Currently 152 users logged into NGNG's Teamspeak 3 server, and 111 logged into Comstar North America's Teamspeak 3 server.

Edited by Syllogy, 22 April 2013 - 03:07 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

Hmmm.


Never have that problem on Comstar NA or NGNG. Maybe you need to find a better class of server to hang out on?

[Inkarnus]

if ppl want to play boring poptartds they should play with there own and i hope at some time
they get so sick of it that they just quit and never ever turn there backs on mwo
atleast that what i hope for so atleast that normal builds can be played

Edited by Inkarnus, 22 April 2013 - 03:09 PM.

[Vassago Rain]

Syllogy, on 22 April 2013 - 03:05 PM, said:

Currently 152 users logged into NGNG's Teamspeak 3 server, and 111 logged into Comstar North America's Teamspeak 3 server.

This is a much better way to measure activity. I don't like what I'm seeing.

[hammerreborn]

Get better friends.

[Flying Blind]

numbers do seem to be down from early open beta/late closed beta. I can't say how many the difference is but it definitely seems to be less now. my group uses a dedicated Vent server but I still go and check out the Comstar TS sometimes. The Templars are still pretty active tho, which is one of the things I love about them.

[Syllogy]

No Guts No Galaxy Teamspeak 3 Server:

• voip01.n1585.hypernia.net:9992
  
• Password: mechwarrior

Comstar North America Teamspeak 3 Server:

• na1.mech-connect.net
  
• Password: WordofBlake

Vassago Rain, on 22 April 2013 - 03:09 PM, said:

This is a much better way to measure activity. I don't like what I'm seeing.

The statement was that Teamspeak is a Ghost Town. My response was "nah-uh!", that's all I was sayin'.

[WaddeHaddeDudeda]

It would actually help if we'd get the ability to drop against specific teams.

This game has nothing to offer than two hands full of mechs and barely more of a hand full of maps.
Every 4 weeks a new mech or map is getting added. In the meanwhile people got nothing to do.
Even farming becomes obsolete since people who are here since CB have bazillions of cbills.
Where do you expect people are going to? Other games probably, actual finished, bug free games with real content and the tools to fulfill their wishes.

People need something to do in this game. Some goals to accomplish.
They don't need CW at all (at least not right now - much more in the long run) but currently they need the options to pick opfor teams in order to play competitive games and escape the land of pugging-boredom for a couple hours at least!

Edited by WaddeHaddeDudeda, 22 April 2013 - 03:15 PM.

[Merky Merc]

There's a lack of things to do for players. I can see why people are getting bored with the game.

While this is anecdotal at best, I personally have no mech that I'm looking forward to, my mediums are useless, and when I play it's normally to mess around on my Cataphract for a handful of games and then I'm off to do something else. I don't need things to grind and unlock but the game gets dull after a bit considering that I'm not likely to see the mechs I want to use for a year or 3 and there is no CW.

Edited by Merky Merc, 22 April 2013 - 03:18 PM.

[Lindonius]

Whatever happened to Comstar EU? That used to be packed back in the day but now it's completely dead.

[Vassago Rain]

Flying Blind, on 22 April 2013 - 03:10 PM, said:

numbers do seem to be down from early open beta/late closed beta. I can't say how many the difference is but it definitely seems to be less now. my group uses a dedicated Vent server but I still go and check out the Comstar TS sometimes. The Templars are still pretty active tho, which is one of the things I love about them.

We've taken a huge hit, as well.

[TruePoindexter]

hammerreborn, on 22 April 2013 - 03:09 PM, said:

Get better friends.

This - most of my friends have come back to the game.

[Vassago Rain]

WaddeHaddeDudeda, on 22 April 2013 - 03:11 PM, said:

It would actually help if we'd get the ability to drop against specific teams.

This game has nothing to offer than two hands full of mechs and barely more of a hand full of maps.
Every 4 weeks a new mech or map is getting added. In the meanwhile people got nothing to do.
Even farming becomes obsolete since people who are here since CB have bazillions of cbills.
Where do you expect people are going to? Other games probably, actual finished, bug free games with real content and the tools to fulfill their wishes.

People need something to do in this game. Some goals to accomplish.
They don't need CW at all (at least not right now - much more in the long run) but currently they need the options to pick opfor teams in order to play competitive games and escape the land of pugging-boredom for a couple hours at least!

A lot of Kong are on break, or have retreated to star conflict. The biggest reasons were the fractals, and then the missile kneejerk removal, that won't be fixed 'until may.'

[Rebas Kradd]

FOX's Teamspeak server has people on all the time. What you might be seeing is a state of the game whence more people have been sucked into the larger clubs/units and fewer drifters are around.

And I'm sure the bugs, monotony, and current swing of the pendulum towards assaults and ballistics have something to do with it, too. But I doubt it's the whole explanation.

[Tonosama]

There has been various reasons that I stop playing.

1. Drop in performance (FPS drop from 23 down to 8)
2. Teleports of mechs (server side issues that was hitting everyone on my TS team)
3. Crash to desktop
4. Various HUD bugs
5. LRM, SRM, Streaks nerf to useless so that there is only Alpha poptarts

I have been waiting for a patch to fix those issues before I rejoin. I actually love playing MWO but with those issues it makes it unplayable for me.

[Bishop Steiner]

Vassago Rain, on 22 April 2013 - 03:18 PM, said:

A lot of Kong are on break, or have retreated to star conflict. The biggest reasons were the fractals, and then the missile kneejerk removal, that won't be fixed 'until may.'

my heart breaks......?

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 22 April 2013 - 03:31 PM.