i literally only made this account just to tell you how poignant your posts in this topic have been and how true everything you're saying is. there are people in this topic who verbally attack you for your righteous analysis of the reality of the situation. it is because they are the ones who have completely emptied out this game in record time. they will laugh and deny there is any issue until it becomes an issue for them (i.e. nobody plays on their servers anymore [see: CIA]).obpmgmua wrote:@soccer
I say this from both the perspective of a Squad Leader and Squad Member.
It's hard to lead a squad when all the 8 man squads are filled with the same few people who stick together. Not talking about clans though. I've seen brennan's squad on CIA filled with the exact same people round in and round out. I.E. Good players are spoken for and stick together with their friends. I'm the only SL I know who actively takes in pubbies and mic-less players. And some of them have surprised me. But that's not the point.
PR has lost it's luster. It's no longer the game I enjoyed for 8 years. People have changed, People have moved on. My fondest gaming memories are from PR, especially .5 Basrah and .98 Fallujah. I don't want to move on. Modern games suck.
this is a photograph of the project reality server browser as of this moment (9/1/2014, 1:34:34 baghdad time):
http://i.imgur.com/dL8PMLw.png
to all of the people that belong to the stains on human dignity known as HOG, FCV, CIA, PRWARS etc. how does this photograph make you feel knowing you are the incontrovertible culprit behind this destruction? you argue amongst each other constantly (FCV banning all CIA-tagged members during meaningless child-like feud) yet you are all exactly alike. you are elitist, you are rude, you treat everyone who isnt in your clan like shit, you have the worst attitudes i have ever seen out of full grown adults yet, to me, the most reprehensible thing that you ALL DO is completely annihilate any desire of a new player to continue playing project reality.
if a new player joins any reasonably populated english server (which as of the last six months consists solely of free candy van) this is the typical scenario that will inevitably unfold:
the player will have grasped a basic understanding of the game by reading the manual included with the software, but as with any person new to anything (especially something as incomprehensible, masochistic and Kafkaesque as Project Reality) they will ask basic questions to accrue a greater understanding of the nature of the game.
most new players are earnest to contribute to the team and experience the game as it was meant to be experienced. it would utterly defy human logic to download a 10 gigabyte mod for a 10 year old game just to fuck around for a few minutes then uninstall it. some people ruin the entire game, but these are mostly the admins on the clan servers and the clan members themselves and not new players.
i have witnessed soul-shattering cynicism while on these servers. people will join just having downloaded all of project reality and they finally start it and get in a server and wow- they are really excited to be a part of what's going on. they'll be talkative, decent to interact with and will ask questions in order to avoid slowing down the team in any way. they will listen to the squadleader and do shit jobs most people are too jaded to perform (logi runs back and forth) all the while with a skip in their step and a bright eyed optimism only those unfamiliar with modern PR servers can have.
i have seen people permanently banned for asking what the PTT key was (CIA), for asking how to drop an ammo crate (PRWARS), for dying in an "important" vehicle even if they werent the one actually operating it (FCV), for saying the phrase "what the hell" after being kicked for the aforementioned (HOG). the list goes on.
not once in my entire project reality career have i seen an admin on a server actually assist a new player as opposed to permanently banning them to make sure they dont come back. even for the most innocuous and simple-to-answer inquiries they have had their entire experience of enjoyment rendered extinct. if you dont think these people say "fuck this, this game sucks" and uninstall it immediately after such a vicious eradication, or perhaps several in a row, you are utterly mistaken.
you are absolutely killing the game as nobody new wants to play past their first round and the people who have been playing for years are slowing leaving due to the fact that they are forced to play on these abysmal servers.
most likely some shit talking will follow this post along with maybe a deletion or ban from these forums, but i really dont care. what obpmgmua, matty1053 and orford say is the absolute truth, but unfortunately nobody will listen or care, especially not the devs who actively enable the preceding child-like behavior (they believe it is vital to the survival of this game) that i have detailed here and elsewhere. you will probably go in your separate teamspeaks and laugh and criticize the people who actually know what the fuck is happening to this game, but your laughter will turn to tears shortly when even the last of the last players will evaporate from this autistic wasteland and your empty servers will merely serve as another reminder to you of your foolish actions until they too disappear one day. maybe if it wasnt such a boy's club circle jerk and you actually embraced people who want to play this now-abortion of a mod it would be different, but sadly at this point if there was a change in behavior very few people would be left to notice it. good job.
