An Open Letter to all Serious-Pants Players

[Acemantura]

I am very glad to hear this is giving everyone what they expected.

[40mmrain]

so are we going to have this server with all our serious pants rules, and the other CIA will return to kokan and vietnam or something?

[Acemantura]

Yeah, that's the idea.

Only no Vietnam on the K&N server, DBMod breaks it.

[SGT.Ice]

Sometimes even the ruleset is changed because of said event (like Tekno/Oskar ones). Sign ups are appropriate for the COs to give the plan to SLs beforehand. And for that to happen, they need to pw the server to make sure people know what they're signing up/joining in for.

If you knew how much work it takes to organize everything at the beginning of each event, then you would realize that having a lot of misinformed people would be a total mess up.

Everything is simple until you're an admin.

You're kind of over complicating our point. What we meant wasn't some complex event, what we meant was a simple event. Something that dosen't have to be strictly organized. Something like have a specific map set for a day maybe, vietnam maps, etc. Not every event has to be complex.

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Finally you got my point No need to become ironic because 90% of the cases it's exactly like that.

Statistics, so easy to pull out of your *** anyone can do it.

[CommunistComma]

So is this thread the reason North Americans are avoiding PRTA:NA like it's flying some manner of online lima signal flag?
The European players seem to enjoy the server enough to stay up till 4 AM playing there. Most of these so called poor admins have long since logged off.

PRTA doesn't yet have a way of doing things, at least not in North America. If Canadians, and even Americans, were to join the PRTA team they'd have a very large influence over how the North American server is run.
I'd assume on CIA if you joined the admin team you'd be told how things are run, as CIA is fully established and is merely trying to expand, instead of deploy like PRTA is.

prteamwork.com

[Acemantura]

CIA doesn't have the man power to expand as PRTA or Hardcore does, we are literally giving a server to those who miss TG's atmosphere, all we ask for are some donations.

THIS IS A PR COMMUNITY SERVER

[CommunistComma]

All caps huge font doesn't make your words any more resounding.
Still bothers me though, have a full(ish) server at 8-10 in -5 GMT time, but no Americans join it. It's like they're boycotting it....

[SGT.Ice]

This is CIA's thread. Whether people like or dislike PRTA, can be discussed elsewhere.

[Mineral]

Commie, stay out of here. Seriously.

[CommunistComma]

He WAS bashing PRTA in the OP.
I wasn't the one who brought it up.

[Brainlaag]

He WAS bashing PRTA in the OP.
I wasn't the one who brought it up.

Partially, yet just stay of this thread goddammit.

[Arnoldio]

Ill go nuts if i hear PRTA once more. Thats that, this is a new project. No merging, no under this, under that. Separate new thing in the style of TG with fixed problems in hopes of delivering good gameplay with solid admins and good playerbase.

I have high hopes.

[Stealth Clobber]

Played on the serious pants server last night with a friend on Kashan, joined in around 33 players. I must say it was the most fun we've had in a long while on PR. We actually got to do some CAS for once (which we've been meaning to do for a good month now, but the servers have been either full or the map votes always go to maps that don't have it). Thank you for that!

[Arc_Shielder]

Just how big is the NA playerbase right now?

How many servers are usually full per night, for e.g.? And on weekends?

I'm just trying to assess if NA playerbase decreased severely lately. At least, that's the feeling I have despite not being up during their prime time.

[Arnoldio]

Yesterday i went on to help seed, but most we got is 43... Because we ran maps that are never ran and scum stays away from that, but the guys we had were on average far better than the normal pubbies.

Its the psychological factor here. You join that server for a purpose, to play with likeminded people. Everybody else does that and voila, you get good players. Slowly it will rise i believe, will take some time though. THe etmosphere yesterday was brilliant, good admining, good fun, had a laugh or two, nice teamwork (on AAS, Skrimish were meh)... Give it a month or two to gain some loyal fans and it will shine.

[SyntheticCoyote]

The NA pop is hard to judge as a LOT of it is younger players. Might be enough people to seed 2 servers might not, also depends on the day, time and what else is going on, not going to get a lot of college/uni (for you EU folks) kids, and the younger ones are either in camps or not on the PC. PR takes dedication and it has a large learning curve, and a lot of the NA players that want to play are not going to have the patience or IQ to learn it. COD has ruined the FPS genre. Takes NO skill, where PR takes teamwork and skill and planning etc etc.

[maniac1031]

Yesterday i went on to help seed, but most we got is 43... Because we ran maps that are never ran and scum stays away from that, but the guys we had were on average far better than the normal pubbies.

There would have been 44 if you hadn't told me pressing alt f4 would fix my problem

[Rhino]

There would have been 44 if you hadn't told me pressing alt f4 would fix my problem

I don't know what's worse, falling for the oldest trick in the book or admitting publicly you have

[saXoni]

I don't know what's worse, falling for the oldest trick in the book or admitting publicly you have

The latter, definitely!

[Arnoldio]

There would have been 44 if you hadn't told me pressing alt f4 would fix my problem

I thought you crashed or something but then Akiba said "well... he is the kind of person that could really fall for it..." Lulz, so much luz and even funnier now that you admit.

For the whole story it was like that...
Akiba wanted the 50.cal landie, but maniac went into the 50 of the tank and i said if you sit on the 50 and press alt+f4 yu can take it off and then bring it to us... Then he went.