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I Think We Should Consider Hosting a TF2 Server

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TehHank:
Yeah sure, its a pretty casual game and very fun in bursts with friends. I still remeber when we did that rNd TF2 match which was hella fun.

HideoKojima:

--- Quote from: ○ Marie ○ on October 24, 2014, 03:22:50 AM ---The reason I say TF2 would be a better option, is because compared to gmod it has a much bigger player base, and more options already implemented in the game (hats, trading, custom maps etc) so that will already make people want to join servers, no matter if they're empty or not. The other thing is the random game mode button. I know personally if I'm bored that I go to that. Sends me to some random server to play on, I play for a couple of hours. Then I get off, since I'm not interested in joining other people's communities.

Also to note on both the competitive nature of the game and round time. TF2 is reeeeally not that competitive. I mean sure you can play it competitively,  but I mean hell back in the day people probably used to play Monkey Ball Adventure competitively. It's a game, people are competive, but it's also and extremely casual game, that some people go to just to enjoy for a couple minutes, hours, then leave. The rounds also only last as long as the person hosting it makes it. If you're in a 24/7 dustbowl capture the point server, then yeah the rounds more or less last forever.

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"and more options already implemented in the game (hats, trading, custom maps etc) so that will already make people want to join servers"
But that's on every server, so why would this even matter? Also every server has it's own purpose, to idle or to trade, or  to actually play.

And it's more competitive than Garry's Mod, I mean sure, people won't be making strategy's and shit, but they probably won't be focused on casually talking as well.



--- Quote from: ○ Marie ○ on October 24, 2014, 09:52:32 AM ---I also wanted to bring this up since this was a good point that Yoshi made to me while I was talking to him.   The point of our community is to have fun. Yes getting members is great, but in the beginning do you really think thats what was on everyone's minds? No, it was about just having a good time and hanging out with friends. If the server doesn't work out, oh well, but at least we are changing things up a bit. We are a sever dedicated to playing cool games, so we should go out of our way to find games other than gmod, this may be a reused idea but since the last time we had one I'm sure things have changed.


Like the fact that the game is free, which means anyone can play.

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"If the server doesn't work out, oh well, but at least we are changing things up a bit."
It would just waste's coolz time to do it. I don't know how long it would take exactly, but it would just suck if he put hours of work into it and no one ever went on it. I just see Dark RP 2.0.


One last thing I want to bring up, I'm part of another community(steamgifts) which has about 100-500 active forum users(and that's just forum users), they tried making a TF2 server awhile back, and even that failed, no one was ever on it really, think the most I saw on was like 4 people. I guess you could argue that the forum members aren't as close as rNd members are, which is true, but still, I'm pretty sure besides maybe the first day or so of the server being up, it would never have people on it. It'd be easier for us all to just hop on a random dead server to play.

○ Μαρία ○:

--- Quote from: HideoKojima on October 24, 2014, 12:32:38 PM ---"and more options already implemented in the game (hats, trading, custom maps etc) so that will already make people want to join servers"
But that's on every server, so why would this even matter? Also every server has it's own purpose, to idle or to trade, or  to actually play.

And it's more competitive than Garry's Mod, I mean sure, people won't be making strategy's and shit, but they probably won't be focused on casually talking as well.

"If the server doesn't work out, oh well, but at least we are changing things up a bit."
It would just waste's coolz time to do it. I don't know how long it would take exactly, but it would just suck if he put hours of work into it and no one ever went on it. I just see Dark RP 2.0.


One last thing I want to bring up, I'm part of another community(steamgifts) which has about 100-500 active forum users(and that's just forum users), they tried making a TF2 server awhile back, and even that failed, no one was ever on it really, think the most I saw on was like 4 people. I guess you could argue that the forum members aren't as close as rNd members are, which is true, but still, I'm pretty sure besides maybe the first day or so of the server being up, it would never have people on it. It'd be easier for us all to just hop on a random dead server to play.

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Why would it being competitive be a bad thing lol? It's a game that has two teams, of course it's going to be competitive? You could say the same when playing Sniper Wars, Dodge Ball, any other game mode that has two teams. Does that mean people are going to rip each others throats out playing: no. You can play competitively while the game is casual, it's actually not that hard. It's like playing a normal game of League of Legends, yah it's competitive, you want to win, but at the end of the game it doesn't really matter that much to you since it's just a normal game, you're just playing to have fun.

I really doubt a vanilla TF2 server is something incredibly difficult to put up, now I've never hosted one myself so I can't talk from experience, but the fact that it's a free game and again, "relatively casual" I doubt that it's difficult. I also as stated in the original post, said that if he would rather not host the server himself, for one reason or another, but people were interested, I could host it on his behalf to take weight off of him.

And to address your last comment, I would not have suggested a TF2 server without having a decent amount of people who would be interested in being active and play in one (Usually people with around +500 hours give or take) so I am not just saying "hey let's just put up this server" without having an actual player base that'd be interested, I am not here to waste peoples time. If that's how you feel about "dead TF2 servers" then you can say the same for literally anything; our Fretta server currently has no one on it at the moment, we'd better shut it down and go to some other random dead server right? It's not about that, sure you're using resources to run a server but it's about people going into a server run by their community, and playing some games. Don't you think Coolz would have shut down the gmod server completely by now if he thought it was just a waste of time and resources? People aren't always on it 24/7, but when people are on it they're having a good time.

I'm not asking for a TF2 server to go up right away, I'm saying this is a good idea to think about, because it's something a lot of people could take part in and is something that is host-able, unlike League.

HideoKojima:

--- Quote from: ○ Marie ○ on October 24, 2014, 01:25:31 PM ---Why would it being competitive be a bad thing lol? It's a game that has two teams, of course it's going to be competitive? You could say the same when playing Sniper Wars, Dodge Ball, any other game mode that has two teams. Does that mean people are going to rip each others throats out playing: no. You can play competitively while the game is casual, it's actually not that hard. It's like playing a normal game of League of Legends, yah it's competitive, you want to win, but at the end of the game it doesn't really matter that much to you since it's just a normal game, you're just playing to have fun.

I really doubt a vanilla TF2 server is something incredibly difficult to put up, now I've never hosted one myself so I can't talk from experience, but the fact that it's a free game and again, "relatively casual" I doubt that it's difficult. I also as stated in the original post, said that if he would rather not host the server himself, for one reason or another, but people were interested, I could host it on his behalf to take weight off of him.

And to address your last comment, I would not have suggested a TF2 server without having a decent amount of people who would be interested in being active and play in one (Usually people with around +500 hours give or take) so I am not just saying "hey let's just put up this server" without having an actual player base that'd be interested, I am not here to waste peoples time. If that's how you feel about "dead TF2 servers" then you can say the same for literally anything; our Fretta server currently has no one on it at the moment, we'd better shut it down and go to some other random dead server right? It's not about that, sure you're using resources to run a server but it's about people going into a server run by their community, and playing some games. Don't you think Coolz would have shut down the gmod server completely by now if he thought it was just a waste of time and resources? People aren't always on it 24/7, but when people are on it they're having a good time.

I'm not asking for a TF2 server to go up right away, I'm saying this is a good idea to think about, because it's something a lot of people could take part in and is something that is host-able, unlike League.

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I'd argue the most competitive a game is, the less fun it can be at times. You'll still be having fun, but not as much fun as goofy fun as Garry's Mod is.  I wouldn't say Dodgeball is the same at all, especially because the rounds end so quickly and it just gets so chaotic. Sniper Wars is a better example, but then again most people don't even like sniper wars, so I'd feel like that would be proving my point. lol

If it's simple, it probably would be fine for coolz to do, but I still feel like it would just be Dark RP 2.0.

So far with the poll it seems not too many are interested, but maybe that will change, can always try to invite old members to it I guess.
As for Fretta, I can of already addressed that in an already post. It takes far less people to enjoy a game of Fretta/most Garry's mod games than it does a game like TF2 players. Anyone can convince 3 of their friends to go play Fretta, but for TF2, you have to get 7 others just to have a 4 v 4 going. And we have troubles quite often getting a game of 8 for L4D.


Not trying to be a party pooper or anything, I'd just hate to see your guys put hours of time into something, and then it all goes to waste.

Cable:
Changed my vote

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