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It feels like I’m adressing the elephant in the room, but it’s quite sad that we have no working public pickup channel at all at this moment. There’s pickup2 and the language-specific pickups, but with mpuktf2.pickup long gone, pixeltf2.pickup’s servers and bot offline, and octotf2.pickup becomign the new TF2MM, there’s no way to play an open pickup game at all! It should go without mention how detrimental this is for the community; because the pixelpickup should facilitate for the players that know the basics of competitive, but don’t have enough contacts yet to organise or participate in mixes.

Trust me, the demand is there. When pixeltf2.pickup was temporarily working a few days ago, and people started noticing that pickups were running again, we had pickups going in the afternoon and evenings. But then servers started crashing midgame, and at this moment the bot doesn’t even work.

Yes, this is one of those “someone has to do something, but it won’t be me!” calls. But the job of running a pickup shouldn’t be a one-man thing. Can’t we create something stable and reliable if we combine forces? A random idea for instance: the crashing-server problem could be fixed by using a dynamic server list to which people can add their own clanservers. Gone is the problem of the crashing multiplay servers.

Then the bot problem. Chris, your ambition is in the right place, but do we really need a freshly coded pickup bot? We already got the code for the pickup1 and pixelpickup bot ready for use. We just need to keep one of those running? Maybe it’s time to revive the pickup1 bot and get some servers running for it? How hard can it be?

Maybe I’m overlooking the complexity of things, but I’d like to get this discussion going and eventually reach some positive results. So, what do we need to get a pickup running, and more importantly, keep it going?

Part of the point I was trying to make was exactly going against your point. The demand IS there. People start trickling off though, if they don’t have the certainty of a consistent pickup. Do we really have to send people to tf2lobby now?

Quoted from AnimaL

think ur missing the fact that there are other chans for finns spaniards etc that prolly take big amount of players away

I don’t understand why someone would like to play all Finns games or actually all Finns anything. That’d be awful. All Finns life is bad enough.

Quoted from Tommy Testosterone

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I don’t understand why someone would like to play all Finns games or actually all Finns anything. That’d be awful. All Finns life is bad enough.

Maybe you should try it more and maybe you’ll add to game with no trolls.

Quoted from WARHURYEAH

#mpuktf2.pickup

REVIVE IT!

This makes most sense

I’m agreeing 100% with skeej.

Quoted from WARHURYEAH

#mpuktf2.pickup

REVIVE IT!

Yes. Plus MoW (Medic of the Week) and !friend / !foe for them & cp_well in the map roster.

Quoted from octochris

I am currently working on a pickup bot for the french pickup channel, #tf2connexion.pickup. Once this bot is done, it will be available in english. Just throwing it out there.

Will be it open source so we can edit and use it?, also ETA?