Where is everyone?

EndobioticChaos · Post by **EndobioticChaos** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:26 am

It's odd. I see so many people posting on these forums, but never see any of them online.

I just checked an hour or so ago, and there's currently a total of 12 Chaos servers online, spanning all gametypes. And none of them have any people on them. For my favorite Chaos gametype (melee Duel) there's usually one server online, and there's very rarely anyone on it. It's sad.

Where are you all hiding? Do you all play on non-advertised private servers?

TKATK · Post by **TKATK** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:45 pm

i am a 98% SP player,so thats why you dont see me online

EndobioticChaos · Post by **EndobioticChaos** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:09 pm

Well that sucks. We badly need more people playing Melee online. Bots just simply suck in Melee. When I play a godlike bot, it averages about one hit (not one kill, one hit) every five rounds - and that's if I'm careless.

And playing multiple bots doesn't make it better. You still either totally own the bots or get completely owned yourself because they block 90% of your swings. It's just not like playing another human at all.

jb · Post by jb » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:56 pm

For me its hard to play on line due to time. I just dont have enough time right now.

I am getting about 2 hrs every other night of time. In that 2 hrs I need to work on the next version of chaos (you know fix bugs, add new stuff..). So any time for me would have to be cut out of that. And thats not even allowing me to finnish the 4 games I have stated (SW: Battfront, MOV, HL2, MOH:PA). So thats why I have not had a chance to play. However with holidays right around the corner..should have some free time soon!!

And yes bots need to play melee better. Its really hard to teach them this however. We do have them change stance based on some things..so its a start

EndobioticChaos · Post by **EndobioticChaos** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:11 pm

jb wrote:
And yes bots need to play melee better. Its really hard to teach them this however. We do have them change stance based on some things..so its a start

Heh, yeah. Seems to me you'd have to recode a large portion of the AI to make the bots work well. I wasn't complaining about that. The only thing I really wish was different about the bots is the blocking. I wish they didn't block so often. Even novice bots block about half of your swings, except a few types of swings like the sword thrust on heavy (where you swing as you move backward).

MassChAoS · Post by **MassChAoS** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:45 pm

I should be playing a little more frequently now that I'm done w/ college for this semster.

Post by **Shadowstar** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:40 pm

Its usually tough for us developers to play online since usually when we get into a Chaos mood, we end up making more stuff for Chaos rather than actually playing it, though we do play it alot in testing, but that doesn't count.

General_Sun · Post by **General_Sun** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:13 pm

Well my problem is similar to JB's. Lack of time.

EndobioticChaos · Post by **EndobioticChaos** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:03 am

Well actually I'm just talking about all the scores of people on these forums who's names I don't even recognize.

There used to be a time when you had a hard time getting on a good Duel server because they were all full. Now you have a hard time getting on a good Duel server because there's only one and it's nearly always empty.

GB · Post by GB » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:41 am

give it a few weeks -i reckon most folk have switched to playing the half life or counter strike.

is there no way someone could organise a night of chaos ut gaming, have password etc posted on this site? kinda like how pc gamer and other mags have their own server ands run games like on every thurday at say 7pm?

the only prob with this is that someof us live in U.S and others in uk etc...time zone probs could kill that idea -i dont really fancy playing ut at 3am....

ChaosJester · Post by **ChaosJester** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:09 am

or there could be two servers... one for the US/NA and one for Europe

TKATK · Post by **TKATK** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:24 pm

venalanatomica wrote:at 3am....

for me thats the best time,less usage of the net

i think the server idea would be fine,people would know WHEN to show up and WHERE to show up

Post by **Shadowstar** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:19 pm

Chaos servers were full back when we first released Duel because it was new and everyone was trying it out. I even spent a great deal of time playing it back then as [ArL]Argon. After a while, people drifted away from it and started playing other games. However, Duel and Chaos still get played quite a bit at LAN parties and local events. Duel is so much better without lag.

jb · Post by jb » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:36 pm

venalanatomica wrote:give it a few weeks -i reckon most folk have switched to playing the half life or counter strike.

is there no way someone could organise a night of chaos ut gaming, have password etc posted on this site? kinda like how pc gamer and other mags have their own server ands run games like on every thurday at say 7pm?

the only prob with this is that someof us live in U.S and others in uk etc...time zone probs could kill that idea -i dont really fancy playing ut at 3am....

Thats not a bad idea. We had a thread in the developer's section about more or less the same topic...trying to find a night we can all play. Still sounds like a great idea!

lord_kungai · Post by **lord_kungai** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:59 am

ChaosJester wrote:or there could be two servers... one for the US/NA and one for Europe

*AHEM*

/points to his location