Doing so without warning, and then reverting without warning, yeah. Your conversations have been polite, but neglectful. I hope I have brought politeness, as well.
See above. No terms, no understanding, no messaging. Just silent judgement and lack of communication. And the last gestures have still neglected us and our requests to leave servers alone.
Well, when you finally told us that it was up to us to do work for free... We just didn't choose to volunteer to work for you. I don't think that's drama. I've done nothing but wish better for the folks I care about. I've done the work, and now I'm working in a new angle. I've only known your highway, and I was trying to fix some pot holes. Now, I discovered a new highway.
This is what I'm talking about. I have already shared graphs and numbers, and you keep saying there's no evidence. Our stats pages are even open to the public for everyone.
This is just a temporary measure. Events stop working if you do them all the time. I am not interested in hosting events all the time. I already have too much on my plate.
So there is a cohort of players that have inexplicably stopped playing on skial servers starting at some point 2 months ago and since they are now playing somewhere else that equivocates to "wanting skial to die." We have been told over and over again that there are enough people playing on a 40 player server and that we are not needed. Or at least that is the vibe I got. You said that we can suck it up and play or get lost. I don't understand how we can simultaneously be told to leave if we don't like the change, but also told that we are hurting your precious server if we do. Honestly, I want skial to thrive, I don't like seeing the community servers lose players to casual. But you can't complain when people you told to get lost, have moved on somewhere else. Regarding the "paying" people to seed, a lot of players had already donated to OPS when Jeffel made that offer. I've spent a significant amount of money personally donating to skial, I don't see why donating to a server that is not skial is somehow wrong or somehow means that I want skial to fail. In another post you said something about people in the thread who only get on an hour and leave. I have put in 1200 hours on skial in two years (far more than one hour a night). Since March, probably less than 50. My inactivity and presumably others is due solely to your actions and your attitude towards the community.
or it is just very bad sarcasm cause its impossible to understand which part youre denying
I still want to know how 8 extra players keeps the server alive when it empties out late in the evening, it dies for the day. It does not seem like a few extra players change that, most people do not like playing in an empty server or even a half full one. (that is why people hate seeding)
Where exactly did I say this?
Yes this is coming from most people who said the server isn't declining. Doesn't mean I am talking about you or 1 out of 20 people.
8 am pst is 3 PM GMT, not AM. I have no idea why you are talking about EU servers, that graph is from a US server.
Because it just does? We tested it empirically. The server empties out later in the day and has higher player counts all day. There is no arguing that it doesn't help. The numbers were lower when it was at 32 slots, the numbers went up when we changed it to 40 slots. Then it went back down when we changed it to 32 slots again.
The problem with this, as I explained before, is that only people who have something to complain about will bother participating.
You keep mentioning these graphs and how empty the servers appeared to be, yet this wasn't even an issue. Anyone who played daily on the server had literally zero problems with playing with a full amount of players, coping with just as many queues back then as there are now.
Oh okay so it's the player's fault for finding ways to deal with tf2's troublesome optimisation, using a widely renowned and accessible custom config that was never an issue prior to the server changes.
Very convenient excuse to deflect any and all valid criticism coming your way. "People who complain only complain for sake of complaining, so i shall disregard it all." Should every individual loudmouth be taken at face value? Absolutely not, but when there is a cumulative and undeniable resentment for how things are, then maybe there is actually something going wrong??
Literally just a long line of excuses and denial.
It's wrong to even pretend that you gave it a fair chance. Due to your complete lack of support it could barely get off the ground.
You didn't have to. Changing the server without warning is enough to say that either we can deal with playing on a 40 player payload server, or find an alternative. Actions speak for themselves, everyone knows this.
Not sure I understand what you are saying so I will point out both sides of what you could be saying. If you mean people who only get on an hour or two are not the ones complaining, then those people are not really your regulars keeping the server alive. If you are saying the complainers are the ones only getting on for an hour, then my point is that the changes and communication of the changes had demotivated regulars from playing in recent months, which would explain that.
we are talking about the EU server, obviously your priority on the EU server should be europeans, duh, americans are like faux players, they might join - or not because they have their own server
the only reason i responded was because of the shitty sarcasm above which makes it seem like the eu server is filling up at 8 am pst which it most definitely is not
i was not referring to what i wrote just then, it was also about the previous times IN THIS thread where you have addressed only some out of all of my points or taken them out of context
Also what flange kinda said, shitty optimisation , low fps (worsened by 40 players) makes people search for a solution thus installing mastercomfig or any other cfg. I will also not take any excuses about 30 lerp being "just as good" because I actually have played on the server quite a lot before and since the switch and it is awful, before writing anything about lerp again I suggest you go play spy in payload 40 players and see for yourself how good 30 lerp is.
When did this happen? Do you happen to have a sourceban link. This is ridiculous if this is true
You never reverted EU though, you expected us to fill another server instead of reverting the original one because you perfectly knew that the second server wouldn't fill
So because some retards the rest has to pay? I invite you to play any melee based archetype with 30 lerp and then play with casual settings and you'll notice the difference, but for that you'll have to play on your servers ;)
In US maybe, in EU that didn't happen, we reached 34 at most and in Christmas and not many times
I don't have know how to get such a link (unless you can advise how) but the guy was called Paolitux.
