Question to all former and current Nirvana players

(Ashog) #1

We have been arguing (positively hopefully) in chan with Chris about the reasons for the lately drop of player numbers on Nirvana server on sundays. I think the only way to judge the possible reasons is to ask players themselves.

So if you are reading this and if you have ever played on Nirvana server and

a) you don’t play on Nirvana anymore (quit completely, either Nirvana or ETQW as a whole)
or
b) you play Nirvana much more seldom (by far not every sunday)
or
c) you play very short stretches of map campaigns on Nirvana and then disconnect

please take care to honestly and objectively let us know what exactly and why it came to this. This will help us to make the server better and hopefully populate it again to full.

any reasons would do - bad maps or bad campaigns or too much downloads or broken downloads or quit etqw or have less time or moved to another game or whatever else. Just be objective.

thanks

(Dthy) #2

I’ve stopped playing nirvana because the last few weeks i’ve been spiking from upto 300 ping every 5 seconds. Weird that it only happens on that server :confused:

(murka) #3

For me it’s mostly personal reasons like lots of work on weekends and i don’t get back in time. I have lots of free time on weekdays, but that’s just me.
I do have to nudge in that the general map quality is falling a bit but i don’t want to get very specific.

(Susefreak) #4

Can’t be bothered to load up the game tbh. When I do, it’s merely for tweaking etc.

(.Chris.) #5

Too much downloads.

(taw_m0nsta) #6

Seldom, work and stuff, TAW TI stuff

(Donnovan) #7

Coward people that dont have the courage to say what they want but also dont know how to just shut up their mouths.

(Runeforce) #8

I don’t like etqwpro, and especially despise the long vehicle respawns. I am also not a big fan of the increased accuracy (I prefer that you have to aim accurate prolonged while you jump arround, instead of just aiming for the head while crouching and pressing the button = instant kill.)

And I get my custom map fix with my clan.

Was that too subjective? :slight_smile:

(light_sh4v0r) #9

I quit mainly because my ETQW installation is rubbish and performs rather badly, even moreso on custom maps. That and many maps are played while the playercount is wrong. I don’t like playing big maps 3v3, or small maps 8v8. The balance seems off most of the time.
That, and I think I’ve become a little tired of ETQW in general (finally). Apart from LoL I don’t play games much at all anymore. I prefer trolling forums :smiley:

(Verticae) #10

Not enough time.

(Violator) #11

I still play some weeks but not every week like I used to. Seems to be some hostility towards the amount of stuff people have to download now we have a large number of maps, maybe that is it. I also really play for the lols but then I always did :).

(Apples) #12

  1. I dont have that much time on weekends : missus and beer and walking the dog and stuff, I’m behind a pc the whole week so I like to walk and do something in real life (yeah it exists, the outside ya’know :blink: ) instead of playing

  2. As shavor mentionned, playing andes 3V3 IS NOT fun, while I like the map, when the balance is off its just boring

  3. Lack of balance and many frustrations the few weeks before I quit (I’ll try to come from time to time but as said, I’m not often behind my pc on weekends), totally one sided campaigns with unbalanced teams and roll over ARE NOT fun in my book.

To resume, lack of time and I lost the fun I had while playing nirvana, hope it’ll come back, but cant be sure.

Peace

(Kl3ppy) #13

I dont play ETQW anymore!

(.N.E.R.D.) #14

I’d say it’s not your Fault, Playercount has dropped in general cause other games came out like Brink etc.
And tbh, 4 years of etqw is more than enough :slight_smile:

(r3fleX) #15

Personally its kinda like a spur of the moment if i feel like playing custom maps… but when i do feel the need to play i find myself downloading hefty updates from the server for like 1+hours (<3 my connection) and just think “meh cba to wait” and play a diff game.

Some full map installer or system of letting us know updates that need long downloads in advance would be good. :slight_smile: (im pretty sure there was 1 or some talk of a full map package… could do with a link?)

The main reason i do play is that it is on ETQW Pro mod more than the custom maps themselves :o but they are interesting maps to play i don’t have any criticism of them. I do enjoy alot of the smaller infantry maps as it suites my style of play.

(taw_m0nsta) #16

Would like to see another map like the principle of Baserace: Defending + Attacking on both sides = Battle For Earth. Ideal for big teams and long matches. If 1 team or squad fails in attacking it can be still very successful in defending, or the other way around. There is just 1 thing I don’t like so much any more about baserace which is the arena itself. Would love to see this map in a totally different area with both different bases. Maybe the option to get the deploy spots quicker.

(Donnovan) #17

I really see no problem in Nirvana other than recent big downloads.
I will be there for today event, hope to have some fun time.

Ah! For me, ping is really bad, going from 260 to 350 ms.

(Apples) #18

Oh, and cant play while my housemate is on the wifi, his ghey pc get my ping to jump from 70 to 2000 each second… May I kill him?

(Rex) #19

You don’t need to kill him, just tell him that he must stop it while you are giving your best in QW!

(Tanzverbot) #20

just not a big fan of 3v3 with 8 tanks.