Hello Devs and community,
In this thread, i want to express my deep concern for the development of playstyle at the moment, with colorado v2 up. I respect that the devs are argumenting, that they cant keep v1 live with the spikes and stuff. V2 sure has its perks, but simply by looking at the numbers of players over the day on colorado, is somehow disturbing. Peak players on the day are like 30, when at best, 40. Thats when the big clans join in, fight each other, and when its all over, we have 10-15 players for hours. Thats when all the players and big clans join zonewar or that weird a** clearsmall map. V2 just lacks a certain dynamic of gamers in groups, who can just move from small to clear and to campos, without running for minutes through bushies, just to find clearview like a ghosttown again, while 5 of the same people camp on campos roofs or bridges.
When we had V1 ago, there was the typical clans like Vortex, or Vegeetas clan, or popo, roaming around all clear, small and campos, even bambiclans intervened and killed snipes and had the chance to log. Now , all thats left, is one massive movement (including popo from time to time) to one town, where luckily some guys are camping, that rarely come back or just ghost in.
I talked to many many people, not only from popo, from many other clans too. Conclusion: People want V1 back. And the fact, that when v1 is online, the count of players on colorado, which still brings people the ISS or WARZ feeling, is way higher on v1.
I truly understand that people in less groups or without snipes prefer V2 due to the massive amount of trees, and im not talking for ANYONE here. I just really believe that this emulator, which is by far the best i´ve played for my experience, will have serious issues of finding enough players in the future.
I really wish that we can have a poll about which map will be prefered, though i fear that most of the soloplayers and those without mentioned GI will vote for v2. I say: technical small issue over the sacrifice of your top-player community. I´ve seen to many changing to other emulators right now, this has to stop.
You guys are welcome to post other opinions, i sure wont feel offended.
Cheers, Jutta