=MeRk= UK REALITY (Europe)

[sunash]

The teams were not balanced as the Brits on the previous map Vadso lost badly.

Copied from viirus' complaint on the MeRk forums:
It was I who kicked you, but not after we discussed it over TS. The admins online during Vadso and Iron Eagle were abullet, K9 and TJ. On Vadso the Brit team were getting raped and the OD-S clan were on the Russian side. As the Brits were getting raped, loads of people were leaving and at which point I think you managed to get a space. You joined on the Brit side way before the round finished, around 20-30 mins but remained afk till the end of the round. Of few of us MeRk agreed on TS that we would try and balance the side by switching over. We would also try and balance the clans on each team. After Vadso ended I lost connection and said on TS to keep an eye on you, as you had remained AFK for so long and were waiting to team switch. (I did not come across ant !r for a switch for yourself during vadso). I got back in game on the Israeli side on Iron Eagle and switched over to help the MEC team, and in doing so made the teams uneven in favour of the MEC team allowing you to team switch. Now I don't know if you had requested a team switch while I was not in game, but we were trying to keep the teams balanced in order to have a fair game. I would completely understand if you were part of OD-S and therefore trying to play with clan mates, but seeing as how stacked the teams were we'd hope you would stick it out and help the MEC team.

Now I realise everyone wants to play with friends but seeing as how stacked the teams were, wouldn't it be helpful for you and the team, to stay on the loosing side?

Issue sorted.

[Medal|2010]

GG's tonight.

And thanks to everyone who stayed on while we were getting hold of someone that could restart the server. Got to hate them squad bugs.

[viirusiiseli]

GG's tonight.

And thanks to everyone who stayed on while we were getting hold of someone that could restart the server. Got to hate them squad bugs.

We had a fun teamkilling party, who'd wanna miss that?

[rPoXoTauJIo]

The merk admins that wouldnt switch him were in the jet squad on MEC, and I suspect that they didn't want to switch him because they didn't want me and viirusiiseli against them. I see no other reason, cause the teams were balanced and when he joined in with another account they switched him immediately. They probably feared this would happen

Another point of view

[Kingy]

Far too many locked squads on your server at the moment, makes it hard to pub there on your own. Maybe your aiming for a clan based server population but it really isn't fun when the only remaining squads are poorly led 'recon' or 'spec ops' squads and the rest are locked.

I would ask that you don't switch me (or anyone) at the start of a round without asking, If your trying to even the teams so clan members can play together this shouldn't be to the detriment of other players, being in a clan shouldn't give you a privaleged position above other players.

My final point would be unbalanced teams, because MeRK seems to attract more clan players than regular pubbers it's going to be inherently difficult to balance teams anyway, but I feel there could be more done about this than there currently is. Today we won two easy rounds in a row more than 350+ tickets - 0 each time, hardly a challenging series of games.
Don't take this the wrong way I'm not trashing your server, it's great overall, admins are fair, the map rotations are generally good and it has a nice solid playerbase, but there are some rough edges that need smoothening out.

[rPoXoTauJIo]

Have you ever asked locked inf squads to open? From my experience, almost all doing that after request.

btw, its a good way to make impossible situation when someone just entering squad, taking a kit, and leaving.

[Keso]

Thank you for your feedback Kingy

Far too many locked squads on your server at the moment, makes it hard to pub there on your own. Maybe your aiming for a clan based server population but it really isn't fun when the only remaining squads are poorly led 'recon' or 'spec ops' squads and the rest are locked.

This is a issue that is hard to get away from. We are trying to get our members to keep the squads unlocked to allow public players to join. But if the squads full there isnt much to do about it and since there are alot of clan-players on the server and they "come in group" they easily fill up a squad.
If you see me with a free spot in the squad, dont hesitate to join and I'll do my best to give you a fun round.
Or as rPoXoTauJIo said, if there is a spot in a locked squad, type up in chat if you can join.

I would ask that you don't switch me (or anyone) at the start of a round without asking, If your trying to even the teams so clan members can play together this shouldn't be to the detriment of other players, being in a clan shouldn't give you a privaleged position above other players.

Maybe to your dissapointment, clans are a little privileged on the server.
Many clans are added to our smartbalance so they get on the same side.
Maybe you got switched in an attempt to balance the teams?

My final point would be unbalanced teams, because MeRK seems to attract more clan players than regular pubbers it's going to be inherently difficult to balance teams anyway, but I feel there could be more done about this than there currently is. Today we won two easy rounds in a row more than 350+ tickets - 0 each time, hardly a challenging series of games.
Don't take this the wrong way I'm not trashing your server, it's great overall, admins are fair, the map rotations are generally good and it has a nice solid playerbase, but there are some rough edges that need smoothening out.

Trust me, we are really trying to get the teams balanced, and its not a easy job. We switch ourselves and also ask other clans if they can switch to even out the sides.
Its hard to try to even it out in the middle of a round so we make the changes at the start of a round.
However I think, and I hope others with me, that we overall have a good teambalance.

Once again, thank you for the feedback.

/Keso

[Tarranauha200]

Good games yesteraday.

[Hunterman0101]

-Nice Server
-Good Host
-Responsable Admins
-Map Voting System
-Teamplay

[Curry]

Overplayed Muttrah is overplayed.

Curry.

[Steeps]

I seem to lose connection a lot as an American, don't have any idea why. Just so random.

[Pronck]

Overplayed Muttrah is overplayed.

Curry.

But it is better than Asad Khal. Well their choice for Muttrah was made on basis of the amount of players , I think they were better off with a map like Dragon Fly though. But at this moment you only have overplayed maps and maps that are not even played once a year.

[=MeRk= BluFFeR]

Thankyou for your feedback guys.

@Curry, Muttrah is played after the skirms to get the server to its max and get everyone on there into the swing of things, its a map thats know to everyone so it ease's people into the days gaming nicely. Generally it is only played once a day I admit it sometimes creeps in later at night now and then but thats after maybe 10 hours playing.

TBH it is impossible to please everyone at the start when a server is seeding and sometimes a decision has to be made for the benefit of the server on the first skirms and the first map map played until the voting starts.

We do try,honest we do to make it fulfilling,enjoyable and varied as we can throughout the day with what maps are chosen to be voted for the people who play on our servers, where else plays yamalia? MeRk does

Thankyou again for the feedback fellas hope you understand where im coming from maybe next time if the server is full on the skirms we'll go straight into voting,let you guys choose from the start and if it pans out good maybe we'll keep it that way.

Regards

BluFFeR

[Mineral]

That yamalia round last week was freaking epic

[sunash]

Far too many locked squads on your server at the moment, makes it hard to pub there on your own. Maybe your aiming for a clan based server population but it really isn't fun when the only remaining squads are poorly led 'recon' or 'spec ops' squads and the rest are locked.

I would ask that you don't switch me (or anyone) at the start of a round without asking, If your trying to even the teams so clan members can play together this shouldn't be to the detriment of other players, being in a clan shouldn't give you a privaleged position above other players.

My final point would be unbalanced teams, because MeRK seems to attract more clan players than regular pubbers it's going to be inherently difficult to balance teams anyway, but I feel there could be more done about this than there currently is. Today we won two easy rounds in a row more than 350+ tickets - 0 each time, hardly a challenging series of games.
Don't take this the wrong way I'm not trashing your server, it's great overall, admins are fair, the map rotations are generally good and it has a nice solid playerbase, but there are some rough edges that need smoothening out.

Hey Kingy, glad to see you're still about. I realise the frustration; on the locked squads bit, you're welcome to ask for an invite and as long as there is space, you'd be welcome to join. I'm sure you know the reason for not leaving it open, as certain pubbers just join and request a kit. Personally, when it comes to balancing numbers on the server I normally switch those who are unassigned, with zero points and who haven't spawned in yet. It gets a bit tricky with the auto-balance.

Hope to see you on there! Till then.

[UncleSmek]

That yamalia round last week was freaking epic

Thanks for the feedback guys!

[Blondey]

Great server! Always have great games on it

[=MeRk= BluFFeR]

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[Orford]

Awesome, love this map.

[Inspektura43]

Hate when they kick ppl without warning..