In the last 3 days, I lost my will to play DXMP. Please read my post as to why.
FIRSTLY - Absolutely fantastic to see Tidus around
SECONDLY - If Ken wants to go around to people's houses and manually check, that is fine by me.
THIRDLY - Y'all need to hear about Aces High and play it for 30 mins, it's a free trial, online and the
same age as DXMP. After even 5 minutes in a server, you can see immediately that without major changes, DXMP is definitely dead and with no hope of revival.
The major reasons that DX will die very soon. The results of my research
These are just some of the things I noticed playing Aces High.
1. Game is
not balanced, people won't let people balance the game. Cloak and other things need to change.
2. A LOT of
stuff has been removed, particularly the lack of lams has transformed the game into something else entirely and
prevented beginners from having any kills. It's possible in Aces High to score kills without being able to fly combat, drive or shoot at planes.
3. The game is FULL of
nasty kids, people who should know better, trolls, people who thrive on pain and suffering. I've been playing AH for three days and not seen ONE spammer, troll, any nastyness at all. The major reason for this being that the game itself demands a lot of
co-operation to win, attacks need to be timed, planned, supported.
4. You can alias and
evade bans. You can alias and
seriously disturb people. You can alias and
play politics. You can enter a server and
spam for another server.
5. There are way too many servers competing with each other.
No clear direction, it's a contest. Inner conflict.
6. The
fps abuse and other issues mentioned in this thread. Almost no point in playing any kind of actual match/war.
7. The leaders of DXMP are too obsessed with their own
agendas/politics and tailoring the game how THEY want.
8. A stupid sentiment and
nostalgia. Refusing to evolve the game and let the classic DXMP take a back seat.
9. Some issues with Unreal and DXMP being very much a rush job.
10. A ban in AH seems to be permanent, regardless of dynamic IP or not.
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Aces High is the same age as DX, but it has 200-400 players in ONE SERVER for nearly all day. The reasons are very obvious when you play AH, they aren't making any of the above mistakes. And wait for it, They ALL pay $14.95 a month to play this OLD GAME.
The only way to really restart DXMP is to ban about 10-20 people and start all over again, with better players, OR fix the game properly, including security issues like aliasing. You guys could fix the code, but STILL the game would die because of the trollage and aliasing. I'm sorry to say, but there are safer and more pleasant game communities out there and I actually think, you're wasting your time unless you are prepared to wipe the slate clean and start all over again.
You're facing a fight with your own people, players who actively seek to destroy DXMP and players' computers. Also you're facing yourselves, the people who hate the idea of being lammed by a beginner and refuse to play a different game, different tactic. Whether you fix DXMP code or not, beginners won't want to stick around, therefore numbers will just get smaller and smaller.
I want to see aliasing removed, lams back in and some people permanently banned off all servers, THEN you might have SOME chance of attracting and keeping beginners. You need changes far more fundamental than fixing a fps issue.
It's what happens in evolution. The Dinosaurs got wiped out and a better species evolved. You need to wipe the DXMP dinosaurs, trolls, nasty kids, politicians completely off the map and start again with a new community, IF you are going to fix the game that is. Otherwise, just let it die peacefully. After playing AH, I am actually bitter at how many years of crap I have sat and watched in DXMP and not done anything about it myself to remove these people permanently.
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