need to populate more servers?

[Decayed]

Hello

It seems that everyones favourite server is "huntress"
which is a good server, however my ping rate from country is too high to join the site
the only 3 servers that I can join with decent ping are as follows:

MWLL Official #2
(TLL) Matchbox #2
>Xl< Mechwars XL!

only sometimes these servers have players and often I join them and wait around by myself for someone else to join in for a 1on1 (normally others follow after a while to bump up numbers?
I also play at all different times of the day sometimes 12hrs (half of which is waiting for others - yes I do really LOVE this MOD to play it that much)

Perhaps there should be some forum threads that indicate which servers are played on what players, then what times they generally do play?
this should form a database of sort for people to view?

[CHHš Aethon]

I would be DELIGHTED to help you seed these servers.  I will be on Outreach most mornings from 0600-1200 EST.

[thEClaw]

There is only one way to populate more servers: Advertise the game, get more players. About 19 hours ago I launched my game and only saw 9 people play MWLL in total. It was afternoon here and I had never seen so few people play the mod, usually there are enough to fill up one or two servers around that time. Frightening, very frightening.

If we don't get a decent amount of players, the developers should stop wasting their time with this project.

[Decayed]

Im going to a lan this coming wkend 25th nov and im getting all the guys in to play a few rounds so hopefully that will bring more people to play online

[Decayed]

I would be DELIGHTED to help you seed these servers.  I will be on Outreach most mornings from 0600-1200 EST.

EST? not sure what time that will be here?

my time zone is GMT + 2
whats yours?

[(TLL) Heretic]

There is only one way to populate more servers: Advertise the game, get more players. About 19 hours ago I launched my game and only saw 9 people play MWLL in total. It was afternoon here and I had never seen so few people play the mod, usually there are enough to fill up one or two servers around that time. Frightening, very frightening.

If we don't get a decent amount of players, the developers should stop wasting their time with this project.

Ye Gawds, have some faith man!

We get lots of people interested in the Beta around patch releases, then after a few weeks it wains, this is a natural cycle (most people will only go for a bath when the water is full and hot, the Beta tag means most folks just dip their toes in to see if it's ready yet!).

Also combine this natural attrition with what MWLL is currently competing with for player time (ie. Skyrim, BF3, A New CoD, start of Christmas season and thus less spare time etc.) and it's hardly surprising that at non-peak times there's a slump.  Now add on top of that the fact that MWLL bleeds tears from most PCs, and even older gaming PCs and you could argue that MWLL has another 2-3 more years to go before most peoples hardware can handle it and we have real room for optimism.

Was on myself 9hours ago, there were 2 locked servers with about 8-10 folks each, XI was full and Huntress was running a 12 player SA game, so maybe 50 folks in total for a time when it's very late for Euro players and a little too early for the majority of US players.  Hardly something we should worry about IMO.

The Devs do this for the love of mecha, so let's not demoralise the volunteers with doomsaying posts, or describing their excellent (and 100% appreciated) efforts as something they "should stop wasting their time with...", that's rude, ungrateful and insidious if you ask me Claw.

[Decayed]

i agree with you at some points was also thinking about the new games that have launched

yes we dont need any doomsday posts
I love this game and the devs for making it all possible
MWLL reminds me somewhat of an old game in 99-2000 called "gnome" which i also enjoyed at the time

with regards to the game running on more machines in 2-3 years time by then maybe MWLL will be a crysis 2 mod (or dare I say Crysis 3 - lol)

[thEClaw]

The Devs do this for the love of mecha, so let's not demoralise the volunteers with doomsaying posts, or describing their excellent (and 100% appreciated) efforts as something they "should stop wasting their time with...", that's rude, ungrateful and insidious if you ask me Claw.

I have been around for a while and I see players vanish, new ones pop up and the amount of total active players stagnate. If I sound demoralizing, ungrateful or negatively opinionated in any other way, you are merely witnessing fear. That is a sign of me being not only grateful but emotionally connected to MWLL.

I like to bring up dark thoughts because I hate how nothing ever changes. Sorry for that.

[MethosFurey]

i agree with you at some points was also thinking about the new games that have launched

yes we dont need any doomsday posts
I love this game and the devs for making it all possible
MWLL reminds me somewhat of an old game in 99-2000 called "gnome" which i also enjoyed at the time

with regards to the game running on more machines in 2-3 years time by then maybe MWLL will be a crysis 2 mod (or dare I say Crysis 3 - lol)

The game seems to have a healthy population to sustain play for a while. Best way to get more people is for everybody to play more themselves, and to advertise the game to any other gaming communities they take part in.

I don't think that Piranha would allow them to port to CryeEngine3.

[thEClaw]

I don't think that Piranha would allow them to port to CryeEngine3.

First: Piranha probably does not decide who uses CryEngine 3.

Second: MWLL should become an MWO-mod. They would finally have a solid technological foundation and could do whatever they want to. But that's something Piranha probably won't allow .

[CGB [CoffiNail]]

... They will not port to CE3 for the fact it would take a year+ they estimate for it to get converted, this is primarily just converthing everything, maps, assets, textures, etc over to CE3, this would mean nothing new will have come out for a year.  No thanks, been waiting 11 months for new assets, 24 months may just outright hurt the mod.

[=CJW=YalK]

How long have you been around Claw? 1yr? 2yrs? Since '07 shadowing the project/forums waiting....watching....

Through the terrible decade of no Mechwarrior games?

Mechwarrior and this Mod will be fine....maybe not thriving....but it'll always be there....if Fasa, Catalyst and Microsoft can't kill it, we certainly can't....

I'm not playing due too work, Xmas, football, travel....but I don't consider myself as abandoning playing....

....and I'm still waiting for my motherfucking StormCrow....<3

[Wraythe]

Hello

It seems that everyones favourite server is "huntress"
which is a good server, however my ping rate from country is too high to join the site
the only 3 servers that I can join with decent ping are as follows:

MWLL Official #2
(TLL) Matchbox #2
>Xl< Mechwars XL!

only sometimes these servers have players and often I join them and wait around by myself for someone else to join in for a 1on1 (normally others follow after a while to bump up numbers?
I also play at all different times of the day sometimes 12hrs (half of which is waiting for others - yes I do really LOVE this MOD to play it that much)

Perhaps there should be some forum threads that indicate which servers are played on what players, then what times they generally do play?
this should form a database of sort for people to view?

If you play during US evening hours (5pm-12am EST) you are going to be hard pressed to populate those servers. I think Huntress is in the US and the majority of people online at that time are US players.  Ping limiters do suck for the people who get kicked but they protect the rest of the players on the server. Your ping doesn't just hurt you, it hurts everyone on the server. I do hope you can populate those servers. It would be really nice to see more than 30 people playing the mod.

[CGB [CoffiNail]]

Oh and OP the reasoning behind huntress being one of the most populated, the SJ shell out some good bucks for that server hosting, they also admin it actively.

[MethosFurey]

I don't think that Piranha would allow them to port to CryeEngine3.

First: Piranha probably does not decide who uses CryEngine 3.

Second: MWLL should become an MWO-mod. They would finally have a solid technological foundation and could do whatever they want to. But that's something Piranha probably won't allow .

Piranha has rights to MechWarrior computer games. Thus, they could shutdown any future MechWarrior MOD game developments.