=MeRk= UK REALITY (Europe)

[StevePl4y5]

Best server in my opinion. Great admin presence, and mature administration. Just a shame it's been so hard to seed lately.

[K4on]

had some good games on merk today.
phuppling inf power on saaremaa and hind'ing on sbeneh. good squad coms aswell, was fun.

[=MeRk= BluFFeR]

Thank you for the kind words fellas, some excellent close rounds yesterday enjoyed every minute of it.
Also thank you to the guys sorting there own squads and assets out, makes admining so much easier, very much appreciated

[=MeRk= BluFFeR]

Superb games todays fellas,excellent coms, it was a pleasure

[Spook]

Since you guys relaunched you have a balancing issue. Teams are unbalanced almost everytime I join. Whenever I am playing our team is either steamrolling the enemy or we are getting steamrolled, and that will happen for the whole day. You must be holding record of the most fullcap ending rounds in the whole community

Today same again. joined, and got owned 3 times in a row without anything being done by the admins, even though everyone was complaining. Had to leave the server midround on the third round because its just not fun.

You probably say I exaggerate, but ill start doing screenshots from stacked teams and endscores to prove you that you guys have a balance issue. its not completely your fault, I dont even know how this is always happening at your place. Its just like all clan tags stack up on their own without even noticing. But admins really have to do something against it. At least make use of the new !scramble command. Strangely admins react to every report asap and take actions which is really nice, but when it comes to teambalance it seems everyone looks away.

[=MeRk= BluFFeR]

Thankyou for your feedback Spook it is very much appreciated.

One of the main issues is that we have got alot of clans on the smart balance list, QRF included.
This means that every clan that joins loads in on the same side. During the game I can see how people/clans joining the server is overlookedby our admins.
I agree this is a issue, I have posted up on our forums to all our admins to take a step back ingame and have a look at the sides. Also take action during rounds/end of rounds i.e asking clans to switch.

MeRk guys do actively switch sides alot of rounds to the losing side,Ofc they cannot be on the ball all the time but from now on it will be worked upon alot more and less overlooked,along side our normal admin dutys.

Regards Spook,

Any issues at all mate dont hesitate to send me a PM, It will be acted upon.

bluff

[DavviZ]

Thank you very much for your feedback spook and by doing so helping us improve our server. We all want to play balanced fun matches and we will do our best to have a servers where everyone can enjoy such a game. We appreciate that you try and notify our admins about the issues ingame and hopefully we will correct the issue. =MeRk= Members have been alerted about this and hopefully balancing issues will be sorted in a greater extent in the future.

[=MeRk= BluFFeR]

Superb games this weekend people, impressed with the teamwork, communication and everyone who has played on MeRk.
A big shout out to all the clans and public players that switched sides too to even the sides out, your help is very much appreciated and makes the rounds so much better.
May the good games continue <3

Regards and thank you

From all of MeRk

[Pronck]

Just had a round on the MeRk server, despite the server crash it was good round especially when you calculate the fact that it was a late night round for Europeans.

Another thing is that I cannot find the training server, where is it?

[The Iron Dreamer]

Another thing is that I cannot find the training server, where is it?

Server is not updated.

[Pronck]

Is there any interest into updating the training server?

[=MeRk= BluFFeR]

Is there any interest into updating the training server?

Ill get onto it sometime today Pronk, Give me a couple of hours and ill have it up and running mate

[=MeRk= BluFFeR]

The MeRk Training server has been updated and is back online, Also New maps have been added

Enjoy^^

/bluff

[Pronck]

Thank you! Now I can do some practising ASAP.

[saXoni]

Great games tonight!

[fubarEVOx]

Indeed, had a really good time this evening! Thanks for some great games

[Spook]

Btw guys what about the stability problems? Ever since your server was up. Pre 1.0 aswell, before you did the small PR break. The server had most crashes and weird lag spikes on a regular basis since I remember playing on it. And these strange crashes at the beginning of the round where you are forced to wait 5min until you get into menu or have to restart the game (only happened on MERK yet for me).

Then you made your little break and relaunched with a compeletely new version of PR. You would think a freshly set up server would not cause the old problems, but here we are with the same issues with the same frequency.

I heard you guys often say we dont crash more often than other servers and people think that way because you are one of the most seeded servers. Imo your server does have probably ~20% higher chance of crashing than others. And especially those weird rubber band lags that last throughout a whole round rarely happen anywhere else but tend to happen on yours very often.

This post isnt supposed to bash you in anyway since I know you do everything you can to keep it stable. Its just really weird and I have no idea whats wrong with your setup. I have no explanation for the stability problems especially since you had to make a fresh install anyways. The only reasonable problem could be your physical server setup itself which can cause those lags but the crashing problems are normally connected to PR being a ***** and it seems it is fighting you more than others .

saX's video pretty much fits in here perfectly :

[saXoni]

I'd like to add that I did mean what I said; personally I feel like the frequency of crashes has gone down a lot the past 4-6 months.

[Spook]

It did go down yes. Actually I tried to avoid MERK pre 1.0 because of said lag spikes. These are not that often anymore as before and also crashes kind of got less than in previous versions. But that goes for most servers. I think most unstable version was 0.97-0.98. Like crashes all day long. Compared to other servers Merk still belongs to the more unstable ones I think (not considering HOG and CIA here, since i dont play there...but heard that CIA had to deal with ALOT of crashing aswell in the past) And I am just curious what the issue could be.

[=MeRk= BluFFeR]

I see where your comming from Spook.
But in heinsight it would be nice if other servers SHARE their findings about server stability when they find them, instead of keeping secrets then accidentally letting it slip when questioned.

Community and all "HINT HINT"!

But on a lighter note, Do you now find that side stacking has improved? It is now our first concern regarding the server and being worked upon every match. Ofc some games cannot be controled so thoroughly due to clans joining the server but your should have seen a vast improvment.


BTW I know I shouldnt but I laughted my tits off at Sax'a vid lol