I_Que_147

In light of other topics on the forums regarding players not getting along a few community events would surely help mend some of the problems.

So basically, I was thinking of a community clanwar, everyone who wants to plays opts in, and then randomly gets paired up with a partner(s) to participate in an (official?) clan war? This would no doubt help players interact with each other, and hopefully form some kind of cohesion.

I won't write a massive essay, thats the idea, hopefully people will like it.

Hi, my previous topic was fairly damning about new players, and I didn't really suggest any useful ways to improve the experience of new players despite my rant on the poor user experience. Hopefully this topic will begin to address that as I have a fairly good perspective.

One of the most tedious things about bfme is finding others to play with, currently really the only option you have is loading up bfme and checking the lobby periodically (you could also use http://online.the3rdage.net/). However using the browser to check means that you won't show up as online so others won't know you're looking to play.

Integrating bfme features into the current t3a:online client would go a long way to solving these problems. I have limited knowledge of other third party services such as gameranger, but I believe they work in a similar fashion as to what I am suggesting. If it was possible to communicate via the client, be shown as "online" and launch the game from the client, it would make the process much easier for new players. Also this would help avoid the refresh (bug?) in the bfme lobby, I doubt that new players know they need to refresh the lobby manually so that new games are shown.

Thought I'd add that I mentioned about this to ICT but a forum topic never hurt^^

Before I begin, yes this is a rant, take it as such. Now for some pleasantries and random bullshit.

The community for bfme is by no means large, and by large, the "veteran" old players show a complete lack of respect for "noobs" new players, I am part of the latter. I by no means have any reason for this community to grow, I play with a few friends, who consequently invited me to the game but as a sign of respect, I've made this topic.

Now I understand us noobs are shit, we can't play the game, we make it boring, you have to save us from losing blah blah blah. We are also what will I hope for your sakes - rejuvenate the game. The community at the minute is tiny, if it were to grow, most players would be noobs, and currently we are treated with a complete lack of respect - on many levels might I add.

Why on earth would anyone stay around and play bfme, when at best they can find a game, and get told they are shit, without any real input into how they can improve, or at worst, be booted from games for being a noob.

It's fairly clear that the limiting factor to the growth of bfme, is the players themselves. I'd like to add at this point, I have seen your mentoring programmes and such, which is a cool idea but players want to log on, see if anyones about and play, if when they do so, they are met with animosity, they will shortly leave and won't be coming back. The attitude of the current players has to change for the community to expand.

Take my input as you will. Feel free to reply "aww poor noob u got owned" and I'll promptly reply "how's your mothers arsehole?"