If a man gets lucky and he founds the woman of his dreams, he will probably hope his woman to stay just as she is. Woman might grow more mature, but she won’t stand more beautiful with cosmetic surgery and Botox in long term. The best man can do is to let the woman be herself and grow older with her.
Enemy Territory's player base has been quite the same for years. Same faces searching for scrims and playing same mixes from time to time at nights. In no way we need to lure new players into our ET's hook or make our beloved game easier for noobies to adopt. We already have the perfect partner, only we now need to accept her the way she is.
Enemy Territory has evolved into what it really should be. Necessary changes into the game mechanics has been done a long time ago. Necessary to make the game enjoyable and to take every possible inch out of the skill curve ET has to offer. Finally we understood to honor the game and take the unnecessary spammer aka. sixth player out of the main gameplay. 5on5 was tried years ago with known consequences but I think we just were not ready for it. Fortunately massive gameplay tests and different configs between the leagues are history and we have found agreement about the gameplay. Consensus is for the best of us all.
We have enough of good maps to make the games going. I will not name any, because the flame about delivery is not the point of this column. Nevertheless we have half a dozen complex maps which require versatile skill and good team play, maps in which we already had hundreds, even thousands of exciting moments over the years. Why do we always need to play old, already once abandoned maps in cups just to realize that no one is willing to practice those and that the maps will be abandoned once more after the season ends? At nights one quickly founds himself playing the usual supply-gr-radar-adler map pool where sometimes incidentally appears some other map.
Several other games are using the same best of three system like in Enemy Territory, and in those games the map pool seldom is bigger than five maps. If a game is tied after five maps then it is a toss of a coin to choose the winner. As if in football they would play 5 overtimes instead of penalty shots. And take a look of Quake 3 and Quakelive, people wanted to play old but good maps so intensively they actually took the oldies into the new game. Why should we be different and try to play maps we don’t like? Sometimes cup map pools reminds me of a public server map pools where admins have introduced a crippled and twisted battery remake just because 'they wanted some variation'. WE DO NOT WANT.
A man is fallible. Sometimes in greedy makes one tries so much to save something one is not able to and at the same time cannot accept the fact that everything is temporal. Enemy Territory had its days and years and is now in mature, omniscient age. No use trying to deny the fact that ET will die as a game someday, but wouldn't we all want to grow old and quit playing with that perfect beloved partner knowing that at least we can take all the possible joy of it instead of trying to salvage what we really are not capable of.
Enemy Territory's player base has been quite the same for years. Same faces searching for scrims and playing same mixes from time to time at nights. In no way we need to lure new players into our ET's hook or make our beloved game easier for noobies to adopt. We already have the perfect partner, only we now need to accept her the way she is.
Enemy Territory has evolved into what it really should be. Necessary changes into the game mechanics has been done a long time ago. Necessary to make the game enjoyable and to take every possible inch out of the skill curve ET has to offer. Finally we understood to honor the game and take the unnecessary spammer aka. sixth player out of the main gameplay. 5on5 was tried years ago with known consequences but I think we just were not ready for it. Fortunately massive gameplay tests and different configs between the leagues are history and we have found agreement about the gameplay. Consensus is for the best of us all.
We have enough of good maps to make the games going. I will not name any, because the flame about delivery is not the point of this column. Nevertheless we have half a dozen complex maps which require versatile skill and good team play, maps in which we already had hundreds, even thousands of exciting moments over the years. Why do we always need to play old, already once abandoned maps in cups just to realize that no one is willing to practice those and that the maps will be abandoned once more after the season ends? At nights one quickly founds himself playing the usual supply-gr-radar-adler map pool where sometimes incidentally appears some other map.
Several other games are using the same best of three system like in Enemy Territory, and in those games the map pool seldom is bigger than five maps. If a game is tied after five maps then it is a toss of a coin to choose the winner. As if in football they would play 5 overtimes instead of penalty shots. And take a look of Quake 3 and Quakelive, people wanted to play old but good maps so intensively they actually took the oldies into the new game. Why should we be different and try to play maps we don’t like? Sometimes cup map pools reminds me of a public server map pools where admins have introduced a crippled and twisted battery remake just because 'they wanted some variation'. WE DO NOT WANT.
A man is fallible. Sometimes in greedy makes one tries so much to save something one is not able to and at the same time cannot accept the fact that everything is temporal. Enemy Territory had its days and years and is now in mature, omniscient age. No use trying to deny the fact that ET will die as a game someday, but wouldn't we all want to grow old and quit playing with that perfect beloved partner knowing that at least we can take all the possible joy of it instead of trying to salvage what we really are not capable of.
guess i have to teach you an extra ironic lesson h3h3h3
it has almost been a year when i sent the demos to him `L_´
his english is so bad i have no idea at which point writing a column could possibly have sounded like a good idea
How so? I deleted stuffs today?
u should give urself some warning points now... or ban yourself so crossfire would be a better place for some time =)
Rings a bell?
on the other hand, you, as admin, should be example for others :-)
and if you can get the sense of my post, its not my fault... but i didnt call you stupid there
i have read this through three times now and i cant see what the aim of it is at all. Its just a collection of random points shoved together into what can barely be called a column.
probably one of the worst articles i have ever read.
its written in very specific way, making it hard to understand for people who are used to get the anwsers on the plate :-)
id say both Killerboi and Krosan also missed the point of this text, eventho i wouldnt call the first one stupid...
this paragraph is a perfect example of how badly written this is. firstly, he starts talking about the system of the game. then the bold is completely irrelevant, as it isnt taken anywhere (eg showing how ET's system is better than other games) then the italics are on a totally different topic; how mappools should not be changed.
it may be written bad, but overall its great read
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HUZZAH
Perhaps you should've paid more attention during english classes instead of gaming so much!
Stop blaming him for your lack of understanding.
I'm not here to "own" anybody.
wtf i cant add ppl?? no button?? damn this theme:S
add me?:(
In football there wasnt single change since how long? Players do change clubs but thats all...
McDonalds menu is the same in every place on earth, except some "national" sandwitches...
Imo changes lead to confusion and nothing more... ET is good enough to let it be... Almost all major bugs are fixed, there is stable mappool... Now we just need to play :-)
Have a nice day
Only it need to use camera footage for the best fair play but people don't want those changes cause then they can't predict important games for money and stuff...
So everything needs a change from time to time...!
Rahula's comment is 100% right and to disprove him you name two things which are CONSTANTLY CHANGING.
MCDONALDS? How can you POSSIBLY use that as an example of something that stays the same? It is the perfect example of a brand that has changed to keep things 'fresh':
I never stated McD never changed, cause its not true... However the core of it is still the same... They sell burgers...
You know what you should expect of McD, no matter where its located... They got their standards, and they stick to them...
As long as something is working well [as McD restaurants, or ET overall] you dont change it... Its one of the first and basic management rules...
Many ET players say: lets get new maps, old ones are boring ... Bur seriously, are they? I play supply for 5 years 4-5 times a day... As long as the map itself is good, it just cant be boring... Any sd, grush,radar game is unique, no matter how many times you played it...
The ET's map problem is rather lack of 2 more good maps... But they would be fillers anyway... So lets rotate frost, karsiah, adler bremen every season to "not get bored" ... Its minor change, dont affecting the game itself... As the maps i mentioned are well know to the community at this point...
I go further, and speak about gameplay etc etc, but im afraid your brain wouldnt endure it ...
Have a good night...
you infer that he's referring to the map-pool? Who here has said that supply + swgr need to be changed/removed?
My comment wasn't about this column, nor the wider picture - it was just a reply to what you said, and what you said was utter bollocks.
& fyi McDonlads 'standards' have changed drastically, or so their PR department would have you believe.
Ppl reply in context to the column... column was mostly about maps... Got it or should it make some pictures?
No just no... It seriously not my fault 90% of crossfire users are too dumb to get point of my serious comments...Every time when i use some simple logic my posts becme to complex for you ppl and i got called retard... On the other hand, brilliant men were often called morons
I'm inclined to think that it is your fault that 90% of users don't get the point of your 'serious comments'. Your grasp is English is really quite bad. To be quite honest I've got no idea what the fuck you're trying to say - it's all jibberish. Everytime when you use simple logic, your posts become too complex? What?! Where is the simple logic you apply?
Changes are needed to keep things fresh -> McDonalds menu is same everywhere -> McDonalds is a perfect example of a company that has changed to remain fresh -> You play supply 5 times a day and it can't be boring -> You're told you speak bollocks -> should I make some pictures?
That's your logic? That's the 'brilliant man' (which you sneak an implication that you may well be) you think you are? Why o why do only 10% of people understand you?
Mind sharing your IQ with us?
There are bars, restaurants. If this places dont refresh drink lists, menus then people will get boring of the place. They still like the place how it looks, feels and they will have all great memorys of the place "the time I found my first love in this bar". But they will quit it at some point because its old. Refreshing it will make new people come and make the old people be impressed even more after so meany years.
Everything comes to the end, but when it does there will be something new. In Enemey Territory this something new havent came. Enemy Territory still has a lot of time and meany matches to be played and seen.
there is no such thing as perfect, it can still be improved alot in my eyes, altough ofcourse people see differently on what is an improvment or not. the thing that should be, is to add the right changes that pleases as many as possible of the targeted group.
and I do think I am right, when I say that the targeted group mildly craves alot of other changes also. To name the most obvious: bugfixes.
- Krosan is annoying
stopped reading.
honestly