Shaundakahl
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Battlefield 3 PC Community Meetup
- Thread starter Anton Sugar
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According to Gametracker, I'm up to #19 on the server, based on kill counts I assume.
Fusion Pizza
Member
RotBot said:
I believe it, you were first if not in the top 5 in most of the games I played.
Shaundakahl said:
I've found a couple of good west coast servers that are busy pretty late into the night. Medick's Madhouse and LANDiego Battl3plan. Both run Conquest most of the time. The LANDiego server has friendly fire enabled and kill cam disabled, Medick's server runs normal rules.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
LordCanti said:
The clan was in their username....
They just seemed a couple of notches above the typical "people talking on mumble".
Not that I don't want clans on it, not that I have vote on the matter, but after several rounds losing, how are you suposed to face the next round when you know you don't stand a chance are you only there to raise other people stats and ego?
Well, I know next time I just should leave.
Menelaus said:
There was several gaffers on the other team too and you people were sure to keep having fun on that side, even Xia was quite happy spawnraping with the tank in Seinen, so was your point?
Every advantage of going mumble was on the other side of gaffers too,right?
Also in my particular case: I don't have a mic right now.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
114th, fuck yeah.RotBot said:
Relaxed Muscle said:
If their clan tag was in their Origin names, I take back the bit about clan tag not meaning much. Still though, if you don't mind clans being in the server...what do you want admins to do?
Clan's aren't even the real problem. I've played many hours on the server at this point, and I haven't seen a single clan. I've seen plenty of lopsided games though, because the server does not balance by skill. This is because DICE hasn't implemented this functionality. Having an admin do it manually could go really wrong, really fast if the balance is tipped too far to one side. An admin has no way of knowing how well the players they are switching are playing as a team either. If we switch the top couple scorers, and they're just campers that never take flags, would they really help your team? The admins have no real way of knowing how a person got their score. On the end scoreboard of a match, both teams are usually pretty balanced out in terms of total score in my experience. There are inevitably five to ten people at the top in the 2-5k score range, and a bunch of people below that. How you'd balance that out without a script (and the computer doing the math), I don't know. Maybe it's more of a spread when a dedicated clan is in there, but splitting them would just cause them to leave most likely. Then there is the issue of the server having less people on it because they've left, which isn't ideal either.
This game is still being patched to address bugs. Things like more advanced admin controls are probably low priority at DICE right now. If the RCON community (namely the guys making plugins for Procon) get some well tested scripts out, we'll jump on them. Until then, we can't guarantee that an admin is going to be sitting around, trying to manually balance the teams at all times of the day and night. Honestly, except in the rare event of a really determined and high leveled clan, it's almost impossible for a lone admin to "balance" anything, by skill anyway.
I don't know what server you're going to find with a better balance. If you do find one, and it's due to something other than chance, we're all ears for the solution their admins are using.
Rambling due to how early it is.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
LordCanti said:
I don't mind clans on the server, but if for balancing reasons they need to split in 2 teams (3 members on one team the other 3 on the other), what's so bad about it? If they don't want that then IMO is their problem, because then their notion of fun is wretched.
I don't know what tools do you have, and I supose right now is a pain in the ass all those things, but I wasn't strictly speaking about the present and more about the future when all the tools are in admin hands.
I didn't mean you guys aren't doing a good job, I supose it was a bit frustrating, for me the matter is closed.
Relaxed Muscle said:
The great players here on GAF combined with that group/clan was unbeatable.
I'm not complaining nor requesting some kind of administrative balance. If I'm getting crushed game after game, then I leave, check out another server and come back to GAF later. No big deal.
Zeppelin said:
I'm not concerned about owning the whole map, thats the point of of the stationary AA and stingers. The issue is that the mobile AA can stay way out of tank fire range at the edge of their spawn and still cover the entire map on caspian and kharg. Firestorm is large enough and open enough to alleviate this problem. Still I think the mobile AA needs to have a counter other then just tanks. All other vehicles have more than one counter to it except the mobile AA, and no engineers don't counter it, AA rapes infantry.
Anton Sugar
Member
RotBot said:
Not currently, at least from what I can see. I'll doublecheck though.
RotBot said:
There isn't a way, unfortunately. Someone should create a balancing script that works mid-round soon enough.
If all goes according to plan, we should have join messages working by tonight. This means we'll have rules posted finally, which means that admins can get serious about enforcing them.
Mazdarati said:
I can't deny the fact that, for whatever reason, server unbalance seems to happen more on the GAF server than other servers. Probably just coincidence (since I play on GAF more than other servers), but sometimes after a match or two, you just know you're in for a 5 game sweep (or getting swept). I'd love for teams to be shuffled up but it is what it is.
Anton Sugar
Member
commish said:
I think shuffling the teams would be a little annoying, as friends want to play with friends. Switching/shuffling squads, however, would be good. Friends would still be in the same squad but the teams could be balanced based on squad scores.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Yeah, it would be annoying to be in a squad with mates and then suddenly two of them are on the opposite team.
Anton Sugar said:
I'm hoping someone makes a plugin for procon that does exactly that. I'm at the developers mercy though.
Going through Procon, it's like an ugly Ferarri next to BF3CC's pretty Ford Pinto. So much more functionality (logging! Yes!) but it's ugly as sin. It has a plug-in system that anyone can write for, so it should have some sooner or later.
Menelaus said:
People would live longer if they'd use their brains. I parked a tank in front of one of the side tunnels in Damavand Peak, and got like 30 kills. People just kept running down the tunnel...with a tank at the end of it. There was another perfectly good tunnel they could have used. Did they though? Nope. They kept trying the tunnel...with a tank at the end of it.
On a different note: Join messages are now implemented, as are timed messages giving out rule and mumble info. They're set to go off every four minutes or so. If you guys are sick of it by the end of the day, we'll increase that time.
Admin's: Assuming that the join messages and timed messages are still working later when the server is populated, enforce the rules as they are written. The time has come.
Edit: Rules are here for now. This is a very rough version. Better one incoming http://bf3gaf.blogspot.com/p/server-rules.html
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
I like giving squad orders a lot. Free points!
However, I don't use Mumble much, so Splinter still hates me.
However, I don't use Mumble much, so Splinter still hates me.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Hey, you were just lucky I didn't kick you for racism!Spl1nter said:Nah, I hate you because you called me a yank.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
I was joking I know you're just a bit bitter because us Brits dominate the game.
I know you're just a bit bitter because us Brits dominate the game.
Cuban Legend
Member
i know right. and I've been all up in the CC last night moving people around and warning and all that jazz.LordCanti said:Just checked Clanforge. Our up time...is over 24 hours at this point. No crashes in an entire day....
I say give multiplay another week to see how things go.
DICE sure are plowing through those server updates though.
Foliorum Viridum said:I was joking
Canada, we don't need guns to get our freedom from you guys.
Spl1nter said:
You forget to mention we also created the LAV.
CELBRATE 1 DAY WITHOUT CRASHES WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
la flama blanca
Banned
Are reserved slots in effect yet?
scogoth said:
Noooooo, don't kick randoms, especially when you don't really know who is a random and who is from GAF (but doesn't have the GAF tag, like I didn't for a while). Plus, it's just mean
If you want in, just go old school with it - refresh server list, join when a spot opens. It's never taken me more than 5 minutes to join the GAF server, even when it's full. People leave all the time.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
commish said:Noooooo, don't kick randoms, especially when you don't really know who is a random and who is from GAF (but doesn't have the GAF tag, like I didn't for a while). Plus, it's just mean
If you want in, just go old school with it - refresh server list, join when a spot opens. It's never taken me more than 5 minutes to join the GAF server, even when it's full. People leave all the time.
I just use the auto join plugin for chrome. It's never really a problem on the GAF server though since it's rarely ever full.
commish said:Noooooo, don't kick randoms, especially when you don't really know who is a random and who is from GAF (but doesn't have the GAF tag, like I didn't for a while). Plus, it's just mean
If you want in, just go old school with it - refresh server list, join when a spot opens. It's never taken me more than 5 minutes to join the GAF server, even when it's full. People leave all the time.
Too bad, put a GAF tag in. The people who are donating money to keep the server running deserve to play on it.
Pennybags said:
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narcosis219
Member
Does anyone else know how it feels to hit a jet with a tank shell and then watch it crash and burn? I finally did it after many years of trying since BF2.
It was glorious.
It was glorious.