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You got to ask yourself “Why have people stopped playing?”
There are still 600 that can join the channel. So why don’t they play?

You could probably come up with several answers.
But based on the discussions in the channel and the pm’s I have been getting, people have stopped playing because the channel is turning into pickup 1. That is, even though people might be able to comm, they still don’t talk much or understand English well. And their gamesense is quite bad.

I intend to fix this by reinventing the pickup2 concept. It will get lots of new features but also a new, smaller playerbase. It will hurt some people and benefit others. And then there’s still the question of activity. Won’t the pickup channel be less active with fewer players? At the moment there are 600 invited and yet there is inactivity. When it started it had perhaps 300 invited and much higher activity. What matters is quality, not quantity. We just need to invite the right players. And in the future, the admins will make sure that happens.

The changes will take effect in approx. 2 weeks.

cant wait to see the changes
but we had some really good games last night
even the gibbus was in :DDD

Will be some awesome changes fyi :D

hopefully i will be able to see those changes. don’t kick autsch out of pu2, he needs to improve and this is the only pickupsystem that actually gave him some thoughts about gameplay. :)

You got to ask yourself “Why have people stopped playing?”
There are still 600 that can join the channel. So why don’t they play?

You could probably come up with several answers.
But based on the discussions in the channel and the pm’s I have been getting, people have stopped playing because the channel is turning into pickup 1. That is, even though people might be able to comm, they still don’t talk much or understand English well. And their gamesense is quite bad.

I intend to fix this by reinventing the pickup2 concept. It will get lots of new features but also a new, smaller playerbase. It will hurt some people and benefit others. And then there’s still the question of activity. Won’t the pickup channel be less active with fewer players? At the moment there are 600 invited and yet there is inactivity. When it started it had perhaps 300 invited and much higher activity. What matters is quality, not quantity. We just need to invite the right players. And in the future, the admins will make sure that happens.

The changes will take effect in approx. 2 weeks.

Reinvent the invite pickup instead!

You got to ask yourself “Why have people stopped playing?”
There are still 600 that can join the channel. So why don’t they play?

You could probably come up with several answers.
But based on the discussions in the channel and the pm’s I have been getting, people have stopped playing because the channel is turning into pickup 1. That is, even though people might be able to comm, they still don’t talk much or understand English well. And their gamesense is quite bad.

I intend to fix this by reinventing the pickup2 concept. It will get lots of new features but also a new, smaller playerbase. It will hurt some people and benefit others. And then there’s still the question of activity. Won’t the pickup channel be less active with fewer players? At the moment there are 600 invited and yet there is inactivity. When it started it had perhaps 300 invited and much higher activity. What matters is quality, not quantity. We just need to invite the right players. And in the future, the admins will make sure that happens.

The changes will take effect in approx. 2 weeks.

We going to get any info on how it all works then, if the sytem’s being overhauled, or have you not yet decided?

Yeah me too, cba installing ventrilo and using it. besides having to use ptt instead of voice activation makes me rage.

Is mumble going to be used anytime soon? The only reason I haven’t played lately is that ventrilo is not working very well for me and mumble is.

We are definitely not going to use the old Mumble 1.1.x because the admin capabilities are jokes. I would like to use Mumble 1.2, however my spies are telling me that most people still have 1.1.8 installed (the FB Mumble is also still using this version). So I don’t think we will change to Mumble before people actually get the latest version installed.

Edit: It appears FB do have a 1.2 Mumble, but the amount of users is small.