24/7 Dalian Plant!

[CaptainKirk]

Thats right, the Total Battlefield 2 Community Server is now running 24/7 Dalian Plant! Gear up and get in game!

[Shask]

/grumble.

Some people prefer instant, fair action as opposed to wasting hours of their lives in transit, only to die from an overpowered rival armoured vehicle versus you, on foot.

[CaptainKirk]

What would you suggest then? Karkland and Wake already have lots of servers and I don't like either of them. We do listen to the community, though. Post comments, not complaints!

[Gunfire]

Gulf :yay:

[David "Zuke" Z.]

^^ We has a winnar!!1!one1!

[Gunfire]

i pwn joo noobs in gulf :evil:

[Sloi sauce]

No no no.

Give Dalian a fair chance: at the moment, no one's joining the server because

1- they don't even know it exists
2- nobody's idling in it to kickstart a round
3- we don't have regulars going in to get things started (see 2)

It has nothing to do with the map. Dalian is fine.

/grumble.

Some people prefer instant, fair action as opposed to wasting hours of their lives in transit, only to die from an overpowered rival armoured vehicle versus you, on foot.

Don't bring that crap in here. Go play your Karkand elsewhere... and I'm saying this as respectfully as I can. We're not going to become another stupid Karkalalabad server: if that's what people want to play, we might as well not even have a community server since there are already a gazillion running these two maps.

Well administered air map servers, on the other hand, are getting rarer by the month. I predict we'll be left with nothing but groundpounding by the time BF Heroes comes out.

[Shask]

Well administered air map servers, on the other hand, are getting rarer by the month.

I predict we'll be left with nothing but groundpounding by the time BF Heroes comes out.

Show me evidence.



But anyway, I guess this is a case of a select few disliking something, and making all the decisions for everyone else. I didn't pay anything, so, whatever.

http://cache.www.gametracker.com/server_info/72.9.96.243:16567/b_560x95.png

Your server, do what you want with it.

[Sloi sauce]

The evidence is all around you, fella. If you haven't noticed, the quality and quantity of air map servers has been steadily decreasing every month. I can count the number of good dalian, daqing and kubra dam servers on both of my hands. It won't last very long, either... they get progressively emptier at all times of the day as we move forward.

Sure, there are servers with several air maps on rotation, but they usually have a ratio of 1 air to 2 or 3 ground maps. Hardly pleasant for jet and heli afficionados. Of course, groundpounders don't have to worry: as far as Karkand, Jalalabad, Sharqi and other maps are concerned, there are plenty of servers to choose from. I just don't understand why everybody limits their BF experience to ground maps when the game is supposed to be war on all fronts.

Strange, when you think about it, because CS/COD4/UT have much better ground action.

[Shask]

The evidence is all around you, fella. If you haven't noticed, the quality and quantity of air map servers has been steadily decreasing every month. I can count the number of good dalian, daqing and kubra dam servers on both of my hands. It won't last very long, either... they get progressively emptier at all times of the day as we move forward.

Hadn't really noticed, but meh, I seem to be banned from 90% of the popular ones

[#1 LoGoS.^CyN.TV*]

I'll be idling 24/7 when I get back to school.

[DOGGiE52]

Hadn't really noticed, but meh, I seem to be banned from 90% of the popular ones

That's nothing... I am pretty sure I am banned from all of them.

[Sloi sauce]

Are you kidding? :laugh:

On my original key, I'm banned from 90% of the 24/7 Dalians. Some because the admins wrongly assumed I was cheating, a few as a result of redlining and others because of admin abuse. Example? "zomgwtf, ur one of cynic's friends, I is banning u, kthxbai!"

Hilarious.

[Shask]

Come on guys, how can you waste the server like this, running Dalian?

Just look when it was popular yesterday. It gets to around 15 players of regulars, then nobody external seems to join. Can you blame them, really?

I'm a slightly above average pilot.I got in the J10, and absolutely dominated. USMC had no chance. Because of the J10, they had no F35s, they had no attack helicopters, they had no transport helis, jeeps were regularly eradicated on transporting missions, APCs are obliterated and tanks take heavy damage too. USMC has NO CHANCE if there is an even only slightly competent pilot such as myself plays as China. God forbid the server ever gets popular and really good pilots are on China.

USMC had much better ranked players than us. I can even distinctly remember doggie saying "man, just give them a chance" multiple times. Is this what we really want? One-sided, biased crap? Put on a good map. Please. Whilst this server runs this nonsense there's no point even idling.

For now, there's my input. Ignore it, flame me, take sensible action, it's your call.

[iTrek]

I suggest a 24/7 oman.Dalian is for the flyboys,thats why it'll never burst that 20 player bubble.With 10 players on each side everyone gets a vehicle which is why it never goes above 20,once its up above 20 your not guaranteed a vehicle.

[Shask]

Guess ste's got it right.. instead of degrading Dalian, suggest an alternative. Never really played Oman much but it's better than Dalian. What we definitely need to do is keep a 24/7. Anything else is simply laughed at by the vast majority of players out there.

[7man]

Sorry to inturupt this argument, but I have a suggestion. This is only a thought I was thinking if no air maps go well try Dragon. Although it is sorta like Dalian I feel that USMC has a better chance to cap stuff. I play on my clans 24/7 Dragon and USMC usally dosent get dominated as long as the ground people cap a flag.

[CaptainKirk]

Suggestions noted... We will most likely stick with an air map, but it will probably be changed soon... stay tuned.

[DOGGiE52]

I can even distinctly remember doggie saying "man, just give them a chance" multiple times.

Naah, I don't think I have ever played when there was people on.
Dalian and Oman really are awesome maps. The latter would probably suit us best since there are more than just air to the map itself. And the dogfighting is also awesome, F35B is much more equal than on Dalian.

I will be idling/playing there now, anyone up to join meh?

[Skaggy]

I can even distinctly remember doggie saying "man, just give them a chance" multiple times.

'Twas me.
I just didn't want the server to empty, as rape can have that effect.:)

I'm off to idle on the server.

[DOGGiE52]

Cya there, skag. Let me know on XFire if you're up for something.

And yeah, thanks to a few hours of idling the server is now up at 12-14 players.
But both I and a few others noticed weird lag issues. As soon as a player connected, the server would hang for a few seconds and then resume. Anyone willing to take a look into it?

[Sloi sauce]

The problem with Oman is that us airfolks are basically told to f*ck off, what with the single heli and all.

If we're going change the map, I'd much prefer Daqing, Kubra and Dragon.

[CaptainKirk]

About the lag, we turned of BattleRecorder and restarted the server. If it persists, we can look at some other things.

[Axelfoley=NL=]

I like Dalian, oman is ok too.

Kubra and Daqing not fun when the mobile AA is being used :P. Also kubra and Dragon have a cappable base, and is too big for the amount of players.

[Sloi sauce]

I like Dalian, oman is ok too.

Kubra and Daqing not fun when the mobile AA is being used :P. Also kubra and Dragon have a cappable base, and is too big for the amount of players.

Mobile isn't a problem when I'm in the air. ;)

Size of the map shouldn't be much of a concern. Karkand is huge (relative to the fighting choices players have on the map) and it's ridiculously popular. I still think we're making a mistake by switching maps.

That's not going to solve our problem.

[Axelfoley=NL=]

Mobile isn't a problem when I'm in the air. ;)

Size of the map shouldn't be much of a concern. Karkand is huge (relative to the fighting choices players have on the map) and it's ridiculously popular. I still think we're making a mistake by switching maps.

That's not going to solve our problem.

Yes karkand is huge. (the 64 player map) But a map as big as that is boring, if there are few people on the server. Except for when it's used for 1v1 or 2v2fights in jet or chopper.

Anyway neither I think that the map should be changed. I like the J10 vs F35 concept. It is much more fun than flying against a mig29/su34. :D

[DOGGiE52]

The J10 vs F35 can actually be OK on Dalian, but mostly it's better on Wake. Otherwise F35 vs J10 is horrible, if you ask me.

MiG vs F35 is much more balanced, and the MiG is a wonderful jet as well!

[LaikaSB]

My vote is for Dragon, its just a good map no matter what your preferred method of combat is.

[Axelfoley=NL=]

The J10 vs F35 can actually be OK on Dalian, but mostly it's better on Wake. Otherwise F35 vs J10 is horrible, if you ask me.

MiG vs F35 is much more balanced, and the MiG is a wonderful jet as well!

Depends on it. If there are good pilots at both teams, then oman would be better. The fact is that this rarely happens.

[DOGGiE52]

My vote is for Dragon, its just a good map no matter what your preferred method of combat is.

I think not. TV-guiding is a pain, due to the sun and the clouds (which separates the boys from the men, but anyways...) and the jet-fighting is ruined by the J10. The armor combat and the flagcapping are the only two things I see that are positive with this map, tbh.

[LaikaSB]

(which separates the boys from the men, but anyways...)

Hah, exactly why I prefer it.

[7man]

I think not. TV-guiding is a pain, due to the sun and the clouds (which separates the boys from the men, but anyways...) and the jet-fighting is ruined by the J10. The armor combat and the flagcapping are the only two things I see that are positive with this map, tbh.

That is exaclty what I hate about dragon you can't hit anything if the pilot is pointing you to the sky and your blind and don't see were the TV goes, other then that the map is alright to me.

[Axelfoley=NL=]

is the server down?

[Sloi sauce]

is the server down?

It might as well be.

[Sike]

dont get me wrong, i LOVE dalian, but playing 24/7 makes maps boring after a while, what about if it was 24/7 Dalian, Fushe, Oman - 3 GREAT MAPS

[DOGGiE52]

GREAT - yes, but POPULAR - no.

[#1 LoGoS.^CyN.TV*]

Everybody that plays Dalian is playing on 24/7 Dalian R|A

If you want to get people to play here, I don't know what you have to do. :laugh:

[Nightf1yer]

Ill play, but im from UK with crappy ping
Ill still play though lol.......... here i come.

roll up your sleeves haha ;)