Rapture

Thank you. I cant believe I didnt see that. I look at the number for how many players all the time. lol

As always, please dont see this as complaining or expectancy. I am fairly new and just like to give my outside ideas in case something just happens to hit a designer just right at the moment, or maybe even gives them an idea for something else..... I see some numbers that continue to go up during game play but I dont fully understand them. Is there a way to know how long a game has been going? Also, when I first launch the game and you see the list of servers you can join in the player vs player area (Cant remember the correct terminology), it would be nice if we could see something that tells us how long the current game had been going there. If I see a game has been going for an hour and it is a map that tends to have shorter games, I could hang out and wait for an opening to get in if it is full. If it is a map that tends to have long games and it just started, I could leave, go do something else and come back and try in an hour. If possible, what would really help is if the server list would give a count of how many buildings have been destroyed on each side. It wouldnt even have to say for what side. 0-3 would mean that one side has no buildings destroyed and the other has 3 buildings destroyed. Then we would know the game is closer to getting over and we could keep an eye on the player count to open a place for us to join. Currently I see a server is 64 players and is full. I have no idea how long it has been going on. It could have just started and could be 30 minutes to 3 hours or more before a spot opens for me to join. A little more info would help those who cant get to the game until it is already filled.

Ahh, I see. I somehow was blind enough to not see the server that said [CT] Snipers. Sadly nobody is in there and the other server is full right now. Kind of hard to play a sniper against nobody. lol Which leads me to another idea I had. Whether there is 40 players in a server or 64, the games can still be very good. I noticed however that when times are slow, there are 6 to 20 players going. At high action times, there are 64 to 70 in the servers listed. Allowing 64 per server makes it so one server fills up and leaves too few to get any decent game going in another server. Again, maybe this was already considered and its just a thought, but what if the servers were changed to only allow 40 max? A game of 20 vs 20 is a good game still. Maybe better than 34 vs 34 because on some maps that seems to cause too much of a bottleneck. Yet that would allow a second server to have 14 vs 14 to 20 vs 20 and everyone always gets in the action. It seems to me that if during high times, if someone cant get on, they would not want to waste their time and move on to another game entirely. I dont personally have other games I play and am a very patient person so I wait. But the current format seems to me would hurt this game from growing instead of helping it grow. At least that is how it seems to my limited knowledge of these things.

Yeah, I dont understand half of what you said to be honest. lol I use to play this game 25 or 30 years ago when we had to use discs. But I never tried different stuff or servers if there were any. If there is a wish list thread for ideas for the game, can someone post a link? If not, I had another idea of something I would like to see. Currently you can buy a repair tool. In that same place I would like to add something like SBH GOGGLES. Make them expensive. 1,000 or even 2,000 but when you switch to them, they will let you see SBH for 10 seconds then they all become invisible again. For that ten seconds, you can play as normal. Use weapons and drive tanks and such but you can just see them for ten seconds. Then maybe make it a one to three minute pause of time before they can be used again. I think that most who are buying tanks and such will never bother with these. It will be the snipers who could use them to make sure they are not sneaking up on their backs now and then. While playing a sniper, your attention is focused so much on other snipers when the server is full. I just think that would even those odds out a little. It will also make it so even the SBH will need to be constantly moving and hide behind things more so they dont get shot. Just a thought I had.

Right now it seems there are just the right amount of people who play that sometimes a server is maxed out and another server has only a few players. Who wants to play in a server with 5 or 6 others or sometimes fewer? Often when I get a chance to play and have to wait for an opening in the server, I wish there was a secondary server where it had no vehicles, no winning or losing and only snipers. Just a map that allows us to use snipers only and have to move around looking for the other snipers. Just to pass some time when the main server is full. Maybe there arent enough people who would join that. I dont know. Just something I thought would be fun.