Why do you still play DX?
Posted: 27 Jul 2008, 04:42
I find myself asking this question since about one month ago...
The answer is:
1. I genuinely like some people who play Deus Ex.
2. I get off on designing DXSG secret bases. It's like half-life but cooler. The suspense of the empty powered-down secret base...
3. I like sitting in Area51 or Vandenberg, the gfx are funny, but it is amazingly real to me, I feel part of the story, about FEMA, NSF, humane decisions etc...wearing leather trousers and wasting paramilitaries...
Why do I ask this question?
I am not going to improve as a mapper or fighter, without putting serious hours and training into it...and I don't have the time to study unreal. Even mapping now, means I get rusty as a fighter and I need to fight for about 3 weeks each time after a mapping session, to be the best and kill everyone again. To be the best on Altfire I can do it easy, but I need to play it every day, I can't do that anymore...
Also the community is so small now, I don't see much point in spending so much time mapping, while when I go on a server, sometimes I have to wait several games now, before anyone joins and even then I rarely get a good game, either admin, or training someone, or maptesting or just tired etc.
Also I see a big drop in the level of play, last year being admin was easy. This year it has been shitty. Last year there was trouble on servers about once or twice a week, now it is like daily, or even every few hours...
Also it is just an endless losing battle, to try to get FGS to a standard it used to be. People are not being cool as admins, they are being stupid and uncool. I often think I have to take admin away from everyone until people stop being thick.
I barely have time to check forums and play a few games a week now.
And I wonder if I have time even for clan wars.
Also this clan has become very large.
I play DX because of the quality of people, but there is also a lot of blame and bad feeling in the community at the moment.
I can't see it improving or battles like 2005/2006/2007 happening again.
Has anyone actually played on [FGS] AG server yet?
The answer is:
1. I genuinely like some people who play Deus Ex.
2. I get off on designing DXSG secret bases. It's like half-life but cooler. The suspense of the empty powered-down secret base...
3. I like sitting in Area51 or Vandenberg, the gfx are funny, but it is amazingly real to me, I feel part of the story, about FEMA, NSF, humane decisions etc...wearing leather trousers and wasting paramilitaries...
Why do I ask this question?
I am not going to improve as a mapper or fighter, without putting serious hours and training into it...and I don't have the time to study unreal. Even mapping now, means I get rusty as a fighter and I need to fight for about 3 weeks each time after a mapping session, to be the best and kill everyone again. To be the best on Altfire I can do it easy, but I need to play it every day, I can't do that anymore...
Also the community is so small now, I don't see much point in spending so much time mapping, while when I go on a server, sometimes I have to wait several games now, before anyone joins and even then I rarely get a good game, either admin, or training someone, or maptesting or just tired etc.
Also I see a big drop in the level of play, last year being admin was easy. This year it has been shitty. Last year there was trouble on servers about once or twice a week, now it is like daily, or even every few hours...
Also it is just an endless losing battle, to try to get FGS to a standard it used to be. People are not being cool as admins, they are being stupid and uncool. I often think I have to take admin away from everyone until people stop being thick.
I barely have time to check forums and play a few games a week now.
And I wonder if I have time even for clan wars.
Also this clan has become very large.
I play DX because of the quality of people, but there is also a lot of blame and bad feeling in the community at the moment.
I can't see it improving or battles like 2005/2006/2007 happening again.
Has anyone actually played on [FGS] AG server yet?