Has anyone else noticed a lack of players?

R3L!K · Post by **R3L!K** » 10-10-2004 14:17

Seems everytime I load DB there's at most 3 servers (mostly 3v3 or 4v4), inevitably VO.

Anyone think this is going to change?

Sixty · Post by **Sixty** » 10-10-2004 14:23

DBL missing..

Average pickup quality is very low and dropping..

Pubs are VO..

For me I see no reason to play Deathball at the moment.

priior · Post by **priior** » 10-10-2004 14:40

we need some real pressure on the dbl guy... just posting comments on the site is not cutting it..

maybe david can start pushing him?

Rino · Post by **Rino** » 10-10-2004 15:16

already this has been said, but it seems that the dbl guys had got evacuated , owned by hurricanes , in florida $\o/$

Axl · Post by **Axl** » 10-10-2004 16:55

are there enough clans for another dbl tho? I tried to get a little competition running to mark the return of TEZC to DB, and we got 5 clans sign up for it

not really enough for a competition. DB as a clan game dead? looking like it.

Messy · Post by **Messy** » 10-10-2004 17:17

I have no idea why the majority has stopped playing DB.

I, personally, have been having connection problems for months, causing me to only ever so often play 1 or 2 pub games.
That's every 3 weeks or so, I'll play a couple of games, before the constant 5-second lag-outs (of the 'people running into the walls'-type) and constant ping fluctuations get to me (60 to 130, all the time).

I'd love getting back into DB and possibly playing in a clan..but that's not really possible atm.

Armagon · Post by **Armagon** » 10-10-2004 18:40

Well with Counter-strike Source recently released, it's quite possible that a number of people are off playing that now.

Axl · Post by **Axl** » 10-10-2004 19:03

CS: Source is superb..

Wibble · Post by **Wibble** » 10-10-2004 23:44

There havent been many new people moving from pub play to IRC for a while now, and I agree with Sixty. No decent competition gives no real reason to play.

Mongeh · Post by **Mongeh** » 11-10-2004 08:25

I think you'd find more clans would at least play more often with a DBL, and sorry Axl bout the cup, i don't tend to check the DBL threads so i didn't see it till too late

Koning_Floris · Post by **Koning_Floris** » 11-10-2004 09:25

I still think that the lack of good public games keeps the rookies away. There are no good regular games on pubs anymore. And VO really gives Deathball not the credit what it should get.

Thing is, I read lots of things about the pickups being better games than the pubs, but thats rather logical since there is noone on pubs. If all the 1337 and veteran were on pubs, those would rock once more.

I think, to get more dedicated ppl, you need more regular players. Regular players only play pubs. To get regular players you need n00bs to like public games.....

Axl · Post by **Axl** » 11-10-2004 09:52

in effect, pickups are killing public play, which in turn is killing the growth of DB

Post by **The_One** » 11-10-2004 09:54

I've been saying that for a while, pickups have nearly killed DB. I hope it can recover.

JarO · Post by **JarO** » 11-10-2004 16:06

i miss the 6vs6 public server (123/4 cube only server)

vo only public servers are killing db

Imaginos · Post by **Imaginos** » 11-10-2004 17:52

The BuD public server allows 12 men in any large map.

If there's >=10 men in it, you are able to vote up DB-BigLowCube and the playercount will expand to 16 with no specs.

I have been using variable maxplayers counts on it and what little feedback I have received has been positive about it. I had a running thread about the server that I may recover from the now dead/damaged db-community.com forum and put into the server forum here.

Hell. Here it is. http://forums.gameservers.net/showthrea ... adid=17143