Few questions to the community and to SD!

(potty200) #1

While we are at an all time high with the amount of players with keys, we are at what seems like and all time low with activity. I understand that we have just had Christmas and the new years, but many people are not at work / school right now. A lot of you know I have given a tonne of my effort and time into getting things on here moving and I want to do something else right now. I want to ask a few questions to get a discussion going on what we can do and also ask Splash Damage a few things to see if they can help me in my quest for boosting activity.

First off to the Community:

  • While we have run draft games / cups in the past. Would you guys be up for something along these lines but with a larger player base? E.g. 8 Teams of 5on5?

  • How many hours can you commit to playing in advanced?

  • What are the best times / days for you to commit to playing a whole one day cup?

  • How would you go about picking teams for drafts? Either Captains pick or random numbers? (Other idea’s are welcomed)

So Splash Damage:

  • Would you be able to offer between yourself and nexon, keys for the winners to give away?

  • As part of an incentive, could you make a promotional video AFTER the cup for the public. The video would include big plays from the cup. On this point, I also feel it is about time the general public got another video of game play. Since PAX there has been nothing. - (Multi kills, game winning defuses/plants/escorts, some sick reviving actions)

  • Similar to what anti/smooth, have so kindly done last time with stats and so forth with the last cup. But if possible more in depth ones. So you can see what happened in each round of each map e.g. Everyones K/D, XP, Time taken to set a time?

Thank you for your time :slight_smile:

(attack) #2

1.i would be up ,but i need a team?
2.i could many but i dont want to play public.(for the known reasons)
3.sunday is best day for me.
4.i would like randomized .the thing
i think the draftladder for players which i startet wasnt a bad idea we need smth like this.

(Rex) #3

[QUOTE=potty200;486247]

  • How would you go about picking teams for drafts? Either Captains pick or random numbers? (Other idea’s are welcomed)[/QUOTE]

I’ve also run draft/gathers/mixes in the past and I can highly recommend the “school voting system”, because it worked very well and ensured balanced teams. And balanced teams means fun for everyone.

“School voting system”, how it works:

There will be a few captains (should be the most experienced ones or those who know the community very well) selected and these captains choose the players.

(shaftz0r) #4

no.no.no.no.

until there is a drastic change in the map pool, and some sort of performance update, i think you’ll find every question to the community being a pretty large absolutely not. you werent joking about all time highs and lows. they just gave out 3 keys to everyone, and people still arent playing at all

(rookie1) #5

The first though that crossed my mind also ^^.
I still have 2 spare keys and I will wait to give them that the Cbeta worth it …doesn’t now

(k0k0nat) #6

The video would include big plays from the cup.

Like picking fragger and killing 5 guys with his diarrhea-MG? :smiley:

Back to serious business:

I wont play anything “serious” like cups or longer sessions till the game is halfway playable. Its great that u (and the whole evac team) put so much effort in this, but currently this does not make any sense. The game was much more playable some month ago. Wouldnt even play more than 2 matches in a row.

(Ruben0s) #7

Just don’t put so much effort in this game at it’s current stage, unless you enjoy it.

I mean Brink had some awesome community driven sites as well and those people where disappointed like **** when Brink died within two weeks.

I mean I just don’t see extraction beeing a success a this moment. When the game starts to feel polished and enjoyable I would host community events like these.

(BomBaKlaK) #8

[QUOTE=Ruben0s;486264]Just don’t put so much effort in this game at it’s current stage, unless you enjoy it.

I mean Brink had some awesome community driven sites as well and those people where disappointed like **** when Brink died within two weeks.

I mean I just don’t see extraction beeing a success a this moment. When the game starts to feel polished and enjoyable I would host community events like these.[/QUOTE]

Nothing more to say.

(prophett) #9

[QUOTE=Ruben0s;486264]
I mean Brink had some awesome community driven sites[/QUOTE]

Mattcom’s brink.tv was one of the best community sites I’ve ever seen.

(Humate) #10

Nice to see you being proactive potty.

(Protekt1) #11

Community sites have been replaced by reddit and twitch tv it seems like lol

At least supplemented or pushed aside by in terms of importance. You can help build a community through twitch cause of the chat features and interactivity of the streamer. And lots of people like reddit for discussions cause of the vote system (I’m not a huge fan but it is reader friendly enough that I don’t hate it).

Getting twitch integration could be something SD can do to help the scene grow cause that just makes it easier. And being aimed at a competitive scene, would think it is of a high priority once the base game is finished.

(Hundopercent) #12

If keys are at an all time high and activity is at an all time low I don’t believe issuing out more keys is a good remedy.

  1. Only EU can field teams. Most NA players have given up on what so far seems to be another SD failure.
  2. I can commit the time if you can get better maps and players.
  3. Saturday maybe Sunday after Football season ends (few more weeks.)
  4. If it’s a pug maybe captains that are knowledgeable of the playerbase (even teams.)
(INF3RN0) #13

- While we have run draft games / cups in the past. Would you guys be up for something along these lines but with a larger player base? E.g. 8 Teams of 5on5?

As many teams as possible would be nice. I think it would great to have a normal weekly draft. Also I would be really happy to see a draft cup at the end of each month. I would imagine it working with fixed teams you would assign at the start of the month and then have the cup at the end; then reform new teams for the next cup. This would obviously not be for perma teams like Ducks or FrenchKidsINC, but rather for the larger floater community. Legit tournaments can wait for more perma teams imo, and more people would sign up for a draft team cup anyway.

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  • How many hours can you commit to playing in advanced?[/B]

I can put in around 1-2 play sessions of about 1-2 hours per week if something is scheduled and happens on time. It would have to not conflict with my irl schedule though.

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  • What are the best times / days for you to commit to playing a whole one day cup?[/B]

Wednesday, Thursday, and Weekends (less reliable)

- How would you go about picking teams for drafts? Either Captains pick or random numbers? (Other idea’s are welcomed)

I’d establish the skill rating system like Paul started before. Then I’d pick captains from the top of the list and assign them players down the rating board. If someone is new to the drafts, try your best to assess their skill rating. I’d leave most of the responsibility to you guys behind the scenes. Best case scenario for me is to show up on draft day, immediately be assigned to a team, and then get on the way asap. Once you got this setup it could be used for assigning teams for the draft cup also.

Thanks Potty

(stealth6) #14

I wish I got some keys…

Main reason I don’t play XT is because my friends can’t and I prefer playing with them. I’ve enjoyed playing drafts in the past, but splitting my time between my own teamspeak and the evaczone teamspeak is tiring.

(Finko) #15

1.My team always up for cups/turneys
2. 2-3 hours is ok for me.
3. 19-20 cet, me and most of my mates have +2-3 hours to cet.We can play almost everyday.
4. Capitans must pick players, this system works good, but as Rex say’s it must be expirienced players or guys who know community very well.

(RasteRayzeR) #16

CUPS
I’ve always enjoyed them, now with two mines and a lot of new players, this will ROCK !

How many hours can you commit to playing in advanced : I guess I can get 5 solid hours of game per week for this.

What are the best times / days for you to commit to playing a whole one day cup : waiting to see my new schedule for this semester, but preferably week-ends and one fixed day during the week

How would you go about picking teams for drafts? Either Captains pick or random numbers : for drafts a minimum of randomness should be guaranteed, otherwise it’s always the frenchies together vs the others :> Team captains are a bit meh, unless they really have a good knowledge of everyone’s skills.

VIDEO
Not sure about the video thing : the game is not yet defined as the maps are not working as they should. Therefore SD is not yet in the production stage and it is risky to show more content before a solution is found. I however agree that there should be more videos available for the crowd, but again, it goes against development time.

(ailmanki) #17

- While we have run draft games / cups in the past. Would you guys be up for something along these lines but with a larger player base? E.g. 8 Teams of 5on5?
yes

- How many hours can you commit to playing in advanced?
16h

- What are the best times / days for you to commit to playing a whole one day cup?
saturday, probably better to split it over 2 weekends

- How would you go about picking teams for drafts? Either Captains pick or random numbers? (Other idea’s are welcomed)
Team captains is good. Overall it needs some kind of preliminary - Or even better if SD could provide the captains with a list of how good players are. So they can choose from that list.

  • be sure to make a lower bracket this time.
  • be sure to shoutcast at least one match of each team.
  • define cheating as not allowed in the rules, and that a player spotted cheating will be excluded for 1 or 2 years - or forever from all drafts

@SD give each winner a beta key, or headset from PAX - for each lower and upper bracket.

(potty200) #18

Impossible when trying to run and play in the event!

(Ashog) #19

Unplayable featureless game lately, rude people in TS, noth else to say.

Ho wait, there is: I actually enjoyed Brink much more than Xt right now. It was looking good both performance-wise and gameplay-wise right until a patch before the no-nade/agnostic obj patch, after that things started to fall apart.

Also, I am here to test the game, not compete or train for the release to pwn noobs like most “pro” players do here (history repeating). I have tested the game, gave my feedback, even when I didn’t enjoy the playing anymore. After that I realized that SD neither needs nor takes into account my (and my friends’) feedback. Moreover it openly stated many times that the comp feedback is useless and premature at this point (at least till open beta). So I don’t see why me or anyone should continue with these cups, drafts etc. The maximum what would be useful at this time is to fill the pub obj, sw & xcution servers from time t time to feed some data to the SD’s beloved and indeed sophisticated (but stupifying & misleading) Echo.

(BomBaKlaK) #20

Missing nades …

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