Just a idea how to change the server.

[Srry72]

I suck at rpg servers. But I'l try it if it happens. Doesn't sound like it would affect the game too much

[acolyte_to_jippity]

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single worst idea i can think of.

sorry, but no.

[Meltdown]

No not going to work, there too many casual players most of the people will be just having weak bad zombies which will be easy targets for rank whores, If people don't want to play zombie for what reason at all there not playing on the right server. I used to play on servers pretty much hardcore we played on vent or ts in groups because zombies had 30000 hp and always returned if they would die which mean it was basic survival all the way and if your teamwork sucks ur done for. These days all people just want to get as much points as they can and there no teamwork left, the zombie was all about it.

Planting another kind of "look at me I'm the highest zombies you noobs" is just not Howe you want the server to be. Those who already are good in this mod don't need this kind of silly stuff.

[Bane of Soldiers]

Those who already are good in this mod don't need this kind of silly stuff.

It's been stated that the idea intends to draw in the new players. Marketing to just the regs is silly if you can net em all

[Rosie]

Aco, could you explain why you think this idea is the worst. I am not talking about huge changes in the classes, I am talking about % points here and there. 50HP here or there. Not completely breaking the Zombie classes.

Meltdown as much as I love hearing about other groups you played with, with all due respect I really do not care how they were. The "casual players" that you refer to, would be the target audience. This was just a rough ruberic of an idea. You could drop the level 1-2 to 25 kills. Then if a newb joins and plays a map or 2 they would see that they are getting better, and therefore be incouraged to try some more. As it stands now, if a newb joins and finds soemone in cade they get raped, repeat next round, repeat a third time and leave. The key to building confidence in someone is giving them the knowledge that they have a chance to be better.

Understand that I have no issues continuing to rape people. i just thought that this would not be ahuge change, and would add diversity to the game. I have been in the server when Zero was tweaking the deformed class knockback by very small incriments, and that gave me part of this idea. I know Global Offensive is in Beta as we speak, and it will pull alot of the random traffic from all CSS servers. I was hoping that we could get some new blood b4 that happened. This community can stay alive with the people we have now, but life happens, and people leave. Without repopulating the servers, it will only be us after awhile though.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

because it's pointless. it will encourage nothing more than more rank-whoring, this time because there is a point.

it won't encourage new players to stay, because they'll be weaker when they begin, thus they'll get killed easier. thus they'll ragequit.

the people who stay to level up will be the same people who would stay and get better at cading normally.

in short it does absolutely nothing for the server, and only inserts an additional layer of mods that could break and destabilize shit.

[Rosie]

Ok I can accept that.

[Meltdown]

It's been stated that the idea intends to draw in the new players. Marketing to just the regs is silly if you can net em all

You don't draw in new players who get discouraged the second the join because the gap between the regulars is huge and they get owned every second en get called noob or get cursed at. Levelling the field would be much better, people need to have good first experience that is what it is all about. If you look at a commercial for the first time that moment decide (whether you realize it or not) if you like the product or not. People don't go wait to see if a server is nice or not it is stupid to think that.

Ranking and all is nice for the hardcore players but it is nothing more for select group of people the majority don't give a **** they come to have some fun and good zombie mods is rare these days so I suggest we don't ruin the one we have right now.

[Steamer]

We have thrown up this zombie / human class and leveling idea years ago and deeply discussed it in marketing / gameplay / time / server consumption / cost effectiveness / advantages and disadvantages and it was ultimately a bad idea at the time. Then we got a WCS server.

Me and Rezel also created a WCS Zmod server... Very fun for short play times, very annoying at the same time. Maintaining such a thing is stupidly time consuming.