shadowrunner, you have to understand, that in the past, when only aug servers were up, and newbies started to play, they didnt just leave the game cos their ass was owned.
there are 2 types of players in general: players that play the game without using their brain much, and players that like to play games where they HAVE to use brains. dxmp was originally for second type. producers make games for first type of players, as there are more of them as type 2. when 0aug was born, players of type 1 started joining dxmp and this is the condition we see now, a lot of players type 1, dont wanna play augs as they have to use their brains to get some kills. i figured this out why trying to bring some of my mates to the game. teaching them augs first, playing some days, then they found one 0aug server and most of them liked it more. why? they told me, its just to kill, nothing to think about. they wanted to play game where you dont have to think much. and now? not a single one of them plays dx anymore. (i got them all off cod/cod2 btw). if i was them, i would do the same, who cares about the game, that has nothing good, but lag, high ping and bugs? another thing ive noticed is that higher IQ player has, theres more chance he will like augs as of its complexity and challenge (another mate, that is very good at math and physics, still plays dxmp - but he doesnt play 0aug of course).
shadowrunner, there are hundreds of new players per month, trying out dxmp, MANY of them just check it out and after seeing 0aug or some *loving* laggy rpgs server with 1000 ping, they never try dxmp anymore.
now you gonna ask me, why some players (current 0auggers) joined dxmp anyway? most of them - it was their first mp game. personally, i dont know any 0augger, that started with cs, turned to be one of the bests there, played Euro Cups then finished cs and went to dx to play 0aug. but if we talk about augs, then you have to think about following fact: elmerfudd TCNdk - adam (i forgot his other names) -> after he left ghost (dxmp) (augs of course) he started to play mohaa with ghost, then he choosed his own way in cod scene. i met him there when playing with top euro clans and shortly after that he played NC for UK and then become one of the best players in euro and played for best euro clans, also wining money for playing. if you dont believe me, go check
www.clanbase.com (search for nickname Yekoms).
this is one case that is known to me. now how many of other ex- augged players had/have so briliant gaming future after ending dxmp? i think many more for whose i dont know. im sure there are some americans i never knew very well.
and for example, take a look at messiah. he has talent rarely anyone gets on this planet. he could become the best player in any game. dxmp (augs) is some sort of a gaming test. you can see if your over gaming talent is good or bad. if you can handle augs good, can keep the streak when playing against good players, then you can get very very good at any other game.
when 0aug evolved, dxmp turned into n00bfest. and with godz server even more. and most current players that are against me didnt start playing dxmp in year 2001 or 2002, they started in late years when 0aug/godz was the only gametype to play. no wonder they are against me, ive taken them away for what they started to play dxmp in the first place.
most auggers in the past left cos of disrupted players-harmony. its simple. every good non laggy server in 2001, 2002 contained good, average and bad (mostly new players). good were killing all, average were able to kill average and bad and here and there a good player, bad players were able to kill only bad players, and here and there average one. new players saw the glory of good ones, how could they handle 4 players going on one good and he would kill all 4 in just few seconds. new players wanted to have such power, so they trained (i was one of them). but when 0augs evolved, new players got easy job there, as they were able to kill more other players, and what happened on augged server is disrupted players-harmy - lack of one layer of players - bad ones and then even average. and this caused 2 things:
- overall lack of players in augging
- any bad (new) player joining augged server would get owned by good players as he would be almost the only bad one
now if you dont understand what im saying you are a *loving* moron, cos its so simple. 0aug killed augs. thats a fact. and i didnt see any 0augger saying: aug is better to play. so theres no chance 0auggers would promote augs. shadowrunner, i dont know how old are you, but i doubt you are old enough to understand certain things and how human physiology works. if you did, you would know in forward that your proposal is impossible to ever works.
