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Apr 18, 2008 16:46:24 GMT -5
Post by Music-=Of-God=- (Andrew) on Apr 18, 2008 16:46:24 GMT -5
Back in the day it was impossible to get in. Now it is always empty. What's the dealio?
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Apr 18, 2008 20:12:11 GMT -5
Post by Peace-=Of-God=- on Apr 18, 2008 20:12:11 GMT -5
Basically, the problem is that no one will enter an empty server ... and unfortunately, most of our members are the same way . If every one of our members would commit to spending at least the first 5-10 minutes of their playing sessions on our server (whether it's empty at the time or not) before running off in search of a server with people in it , the server would get more people coming in (because people browsing by would see that someone's in there and would enter). But because few people (if any) seem to be willing to do that, the server doesn't get the chance to get going.
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Apr 18, 2008 20:34:46 GMT -5
Post by Music-=Of-God=- (Andrew) on Apr 18, 2008 20:34:46 GMT -5
I normally sit in there empty and minimize and just serf and check the AAO tracker to see when someone else joins, then start playing. I miss the days of waiting in line to play.
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Apr 18, 2008 21:20:45 GMT -5
Post by Strings-=Of-God=- (Bill)† on Apr 18, 2008 21:20:45 GMT -5
I normally sit in there empty and minimize and just serf and check the AAO tracker to see when someone else joins, then start playing. I miss the days of waiting in line to play. Well, we've all been waiting on you. Let the fun begin! ;D
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Apr 24, 2008 4:46:23 GMT -5
Post by Missionary-=Of-God=- on Apr 24, 2008 4:46:23 GMT -5
there are also 44,594 accounts banned from our servers.... thats a pretty good chunk of business
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Apr 24, 2008 13:39:39 GMT -5
Post by SuDDeLLiNNo on Apr 24, 2008 13:39:39 GMT -5
it is also a foreclass server
so no tracking
and i hate foreclassing
put the server to normal again and im a regular visitor again...
SuDDe
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Apr 24, 2008 15:33:11 GMT -5
Post by Missionary-=Of-God=- on Apr 24, 2008 15:33:11 GMT -5
hey Sudde.... i have been on playing when admins forceclass and the sessions were tracked. i know the points are reduced for the round but i think tracker still follows the session. but, i'm with you now that they reduce the points when there is a forceclass.... i would rather just play a regular load out.
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Goodness
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Apr 24, 2008 23:21:25 GMT -5
Post by Goodness on Apr 24, 2008 23:21:25 GMT -5
Yea did a Little checkup on AAO Tracker 30 members played this week on the server #1 house Of-God there are 20 members on each sheet. sheet 1 : 7 members played this week 2: 5 3: 6 4: 5 5: 1 6: 4 7: 1 sheet 8: 1 members played this week and allot of sessions the last 31 days of members are empty ,so they didn't play for 31 days A few left the clan but are still on the list on tracker . but i see that activity is dropping down ,few new games ,people get bored of the game ,real life,sickness. and it not here alone ,allot of clans just stop . Hope 3.0 will make the change again well join me on line European time ,we fill it with a few dutch guy's ;D Basically, each member should have a "clan job". Let LC and Clan leader run the clan ,but try to help where you can ,Fill the server,recruit,well you know the drill . So wake up guy's and fill the server well i tried Andrew the rest is up to you guy's and girls O and Andrew summertime will be here soon ,so it will slow down more,people go outside ;D Danny (FAtAL_RECOiL)
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Apr 25, 2008 9:23:27 GMT -5
Post by plcbratboy on Apr 25, 2008 9:23:27 GMT -5
I play every day and do try to start it up but I normal need help with my clanmates that are on vent or that see seombody is on!!! Your right that most of the time nobody gets on if there are not -=Of-God=- members in only once this moth i ever seen a hole group of people with[glow=red,2,300][/glow] out any -=Of-God=- members in the server !!
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Apr 25, 2008 18:17:09 GMT -5
Post by officeraamo on Apr 25, 2008 18:17:09 GMT -5
Well.....I'm the new guy but here goes....The few problems I've seen in the short time here is the punishment is often disproportionate to the offense. For example....We all know that OM_ Is taking the lords name in vain, however, to many it is the same as saying wow or shucks. Its an expression used online that people never even think about before typing it. I am also not saying there should be no consequences for such behavior. For instance if a guest in my home were to say something I deemed inappropriate I wouldn't show him the door...I would explain, try to educate, and move on..If he continued he would be shown the door and not allowed to return. Jeff and I had a very nice discussion about this while I was leader at another clan. There seems to be no progressive discipline. There is 1 action for server misbehavior and thats a ban that cant be lifted unless the offender comes to the site and apologizes. With the ban list as large as it is, maybe unban some offenses that are over a year old or maybe the admins that have been entrusted to police the site should be allowed to make decisions in regards to issuing a ban of shorter term than eternity. Someone says OM_ and a warning and an hour ban but still report it and then use the stage 1 stage 2 ETC if they return with that behavior. I don't pretend to have the solutions but maybe some tweeking wouldn't hurt.
As for getting the server started when it's empty I often play as many as 5 or 6 rnds by myself with no one showing up. The problem may be that not many players want to play an 87 honor 1 vs 1 and many of our reg players have similar honors. I've been using my lower honor acct when I enter the empty server and have had some success drawing in players.
Last thought...we've all seen how many player try to enter and are banned...many deservedly so.....but I also believe many have been banned for fairly tame infractions and for whatever reason haven't taken the time to say sorry....well my rant is over...I hope I haven't offended...just what the new guy is seeing.....all that being said, I do not want the gates open for all the bad issues that arise from to little enforcement either. I hope the LC will discuss this soon.
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Apr 25, 2008 20:17:05 GMT -5
Post by Peace-=Of-God=- on Apr 25, 2008 20:17:05 GMT -5
You might want to re-read the policies on that, Officer. The disciplinary progress is most definitely progressive ... hence the "stage 1 / stage 2 / stage 3" setup that we have. Euphemisms and "non-FAS" acronyms only get a warning for the first offense; for the second offense in that session (or for an actual swear word or an "FAS" acronym), it's a 15-minute kick and a slot on the watchlist (stage 1). Only for a second offense (or an extreme offense such as a violation of the AA ToS or an act of extreme disrespect) does an offender get added to the banlist (stage 2). The permanent/irreversible banlist (stage 3) is only those who have cheated, stolen clan tags, have committed another offense after having been unbanned, have multiple accounts on our banlist, or have committed some other majorly extreme violation.
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officeraamo
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Apr 26, 2008 12:11:38 GMT -5
Post by officeraamo on Apr 26, 2008 12:11:38 GMT -5
You might want to re-read the policies on that, Officer. The disciplinary progress is most definitely progressive ... hence the "stage 1 / stage 2 / stage 3" setup that we have. Euphemisms and "non-FAS" acronyms only get a warning for the first offense; for the second offense in that session (or for an actual swear word or an "FAS" acronym), it's a 15-minute kick and a slot on the watchlist (stage 1). Only for a second offense (or an extreme offense such as a violation of the AA ToS or an act of extreme disrespect) does an offender get added to the banlist (stage 2). The permanent/irreversible banlist (stage 3) is only those who have cheated, stolen clan tags, have committed another offense after having been unbanned, have multiple accounts on our banlist, or have committed some other majorly extreme violation. I agree I should know the policies better.....but my lack of knowledge does not change the fact that our server is increasing less active and the ban list is to say the least massive.
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Goodness
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Apr 26, 2008 12:38:53 GMT -5
Post by Goodness on Apr 26, 2008 12:38:53 GMT -5
All servers are empty these day's ,look how many servers on Mout left. But Of-God ,M@D,KoH ,still get people to play on it . I like those rules ,i can play with out worries of those little kids . profanity well talk to your mother or father like that and see what happen . Play style camp or rush ,i don't care everybody plays like he want ;don't want to hear those little kids that die fast in the game and wanna kick you with F5. It's realistic this game so, no re-spawn want that, games enough . This Clan is here for along time and still is that says enough for me . Summer time is coming so activity will drop . Basic the rules are simple but i can understand that some European players don't understand them all. not all English language .Euphemisms and "non-FAS" acronyms ? whats that ,if your a new European country, i did looked it up ,first time ,but those kids do they look it up ? but in the end this is still server 1 in this game ;D. greets Danny
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officeraamo
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Apr 26, 2008 12:54:06 GMT -5
Post by officeraamo on Apr 26, 2008 12:54:06 GMT -5
AA's survivability as a game in general is awhole different discussion altogether. We are talking about our server. I haven't reasearched the actual numbers we are talking about here, I am merly referencing the statistic quoted above....approx. 40,000 acct's. If that number is correct...... I'm not sure how it can be said that the current ban system is working flawlessly.
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Apr 26, 2008 21:02:31 GMT -5
Post by Peace-=Of-God=- on Apr 26, 2008 21:02:31 GMT -5
44,594 bans on our current banlist (AASA plus ours) does sound like an awful lot ... but only 6,191 of those are ours. Do you really want to let the 38,403 cheaters that AASA has banned back on our server? I sure don't! Also, look at it this way ... if you go to login.americasarmy.com/, you'll see that there are 9,180,431 registered AA accounts. That means that only 1 out of every 1,483 accounts are banned by our clan. Now sure, not all of those 9 million accounts are active (I know that my 12 aren't, at the moment : ... but still, I don't think it's right to blame those 6,191 bans as the reason that the other 9,174,240 accounts (or 9,135,837 if you take out the AASA bans) aren't filling our 18-slot server.
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Apr 27, 2008 7:04:06 GMT -5
Post by officeraamo on Apr 27, 2008 7:04:06 GMT -5
Thanks Jeff for clearing that up.....I was under the assumption that that number(40,000+) was OG bans...which would be an obscene amount . Also I'm sure some of the 6191 are players who just opened new acct's to only get banned for the same type of behavior. What you and I had talked about at an earlier time ...I believe was maybe as the new OG bans come in...If the infraction was a one of the milder variety that it would possibly reactivate after a certain amount of time on its own. Obviously, extreme profanity, clan/belief disrespect and other extreme types of behavior wouldn't apply to this change. I believe you said there would be some discussion with the LC on that. Just wondering, was a decision ever reached or was the topic placed on hold?
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Apr 28, 2008 21:09:48 GMT -5
Post by Peace-=Of-God=- on Apr 28, 2008 21:09:48 GMT -5
That discussion is pretty much over, with no major changes in the system. The one main result from it is that I have been exercising a bit more mercy on some of the more minor repeat offenses (check the "Accidental/Disapproved Submissions" board for some examples of that). Other than that, though, the system is working fairly well ... we'll be keeping an eye on it in the future, though, to see how it's going.
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Apr 29, 2008 0:24:52 GMT -5
Post by GodzGlory-=Of-God=- on Apr 29, 2008 0:24:52 GMT -5
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Apr 29, 2008 17:12:23 GMT -5
Post by Music-=Of-God=- (Andrew) on Apr 29, 2008 17:12:23 GMT -5
Very off topic indeed. I have loads with him in it. Also had a really cool cycle as well with other characters.
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Jun 19, 2008 21:08:02 GMT -5
Post by jay77710 on Jun 19, 2008 21:08:02 GMT -5
I got on today with nobody else in server and within 15-20 min, 5 other people had joined.
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