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I was the 9th member to join NSD........and the first tester. And the thing I like the most about testing now.......I can "text" yell at Little Powell and RebBuglar ......Norb? I just call him on the phone! :laugh:

What do you do as a tester? How does that work?

william1993 wrote:

What do you do as a tester? How does that work?

William - This will tell you just about everything you want to know about testing and JC will tell you the rest.


http://www.norbsoftdev.net/index.php?op ... Itemid=124

Soldier,

I also am puzzled. This game is SO cool. Boatloads of people should be playing this all the time.

Jack B)

Hi.

I can only speak for myself on this issue. I have been a MP player since 1991, and have played a boat load of MP games, even have had my own clans, and it pretty much boiled down to getting along with one another, and making the people that you play with feel comfortable, and not make them feel ashamed for making mistakes....and....SOWgb is niche software, not everyone is a ACW junkie like some of you are.

Times Zones play a very large part, responsibilities of daily living. What I have found interesting is that instead of hanging out in the game lobby, it has now become fashion that you are requested to have Teamspeak, and join the GCM to even get a game started.

It would better suit SOW to one day have the ability to allow everyone to run their own game server (like all the great FPS games), and have a main game server list all the servers up, and running. Start your game, select MP, select whatever, and start the game. All new people wishing to join in would join in on the map, and if they do use voice, have SOWgb have Built in Voice support.

Personally, SOWgb is a Excellent MP game (the few I have played), one of the best on the market. I would like to see SOW grow to the point that people would be complaining on how difficult it is to choose which game to join because there are so many great SOW games being played.

Note1: There is something I forgot to mention before saving, and that is no one hangs out in the main SOWgb game lobby. I think that the Mp community is working in reverse. New purchasers of the game login to the main MP lobby, and they sit there for awhile waiting, and no one shows up because they have no idea about Teamspeak so they move on thinking that the Mp community is dead. Also what if a new person says "hey, I don't want to use Teamspeak"...answer would most likely be "your out of luck, sorry".

Note1a:MP is really the high selling point for SOWgb, and I do suspect that not everyone who downloads the demo reads the forum posts to figure out that Teamspeak is highly recommended for MP play when in fact it should not be the main focus of the MP part of this game anyway.

Note2: Please let people play by their own style of play. What I mean is if a player joined, and wanted to command a Brigade, please don't make them feel like they would be letting you down because they wished to play the style of play they are most comfortable with.

Like I said this is only my personal opinion.

Anyway...

william1993 wrote:

What do you do as a tester? How does that work?

William - This will tell you just about everything you want to know about testing and JC will tell you the rest.


http://www.norbsoftdev.net/index.php?op ... Itemid=124

Yes......well......my sanity went out the door in a hand basket LONG before Norb brought me on as a tester.

And you can take That to THE BANK! :cheer:

Mike,

Good point about the time zones. I am on the Left Coast, which makes it hard for me to get stuck in @ 1900 hours (7:00 PM) EST. If I can EVER get my life squared away enough, I am going to set up and Host later in the day games at least once or twice a week. Most likely, they will not be GCM games.

Also, I have played enough GCM games to know there is no hard and fast rule about teamspeak. I use it to get going, but rarely during a game. I use couriers in game alot. It is nice to have, but not super necessary.

Jack B)

Jack ONeill wrote:

I am on the Left Coast

Me too. I'm in the California Central Valley, about 20 miles north of Fresno. Where are you if you don't mind me asking?

B

"Note1: There is something I forgot to mention before saving, and that is no one hangs out in the main SOWgb game lobby. I think that the Mp community is working in reverse. New purchasers of the game login to the main MP lobby, and they sit there for awhile waiting, and no one shows up because they have no idea about Teamspeak so they move on thinking that the Mp community is dead. Also what if a new person says "hey, I don't want to use Teamspeak"...answer would most likely be "your out of luck, sorry".

Note1a:MP is really the high selling point for SOWgb, and I do suspect that not everyone who downloads the demo reads the forum posts to figure out that Teamspeak is highly recommended for MP play when in fact it should not be the main focus of the MP part of this game anyway."


Mike, there are only about 16 to 18 people left who play MP at all. And Willard played with us for almost a year before he got on ts. Lately, we're lucky to have 8 people for the 7-8 p.m. games. I'm not sure why, but many have quit playing altogether. Last weekend there wasn't a single mp game played. At least not a GCM game. The problems SOW has with getting a growing MP community have very little to do with Teamspeak.

KG_Soldier Wrote:

The problems SOW has with getting a growing MP community have very little to do with Teamspeak.

Hi KG.

The point I was trying to make was that Teamspeak took the place of the game lobby for the gathering point. It would have been better to have everyone gather in the main game lobby, create your game rooms, and off you go, and use Teamspeak. The whole point is to keep the game lobby alive so when new people who login (those who just downloaded the game demo, or purchased the game) can see that there is a thriving MP community for SOWgb.

I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do, I'm just a little concerned about the MP community, and SOWgb.

That's all I was trying to say...

Sorry, Mike. The SOW game lobby was never really much of a gathering point.

It's strange. I think quite a few left because the game was very unreliable for a long while. But a few months ago we had 18-20 people on every evening. And now that Norb has really improved reliability (we hardly ever crash anymore), we're lucky to get 8 players together for a game.