Why do you still play ET

[Patriot]

I remember many moons ago, the guys over at the SD forums were also saying ET was dead (that's already some steps further than 'slowly dieing' :p ). It's just amazing how it still gets updated and - despite everyting, like PB being a pain, ID being a pain ... etc - the community stands strong and reacts as a collective body.
How sites like SL and TB and many other community pages offered the players alternatives to keep on rocking the ET world.

That's just a small reaction to the 'slowly dieing' part (don't want to bash or it's nothing personal eh Mirqli, you know we love you)

Huh...... Im 1 of those guys visiting SD's forum, cant remember someone saying its actually dead there

To keep et beeing popular we need new blood to replace the guys leaving for 1 or another reason.

The lack of a masterlist is actually a good way of denying us that.

the average et player maybe know howto use tb, sl, gt or xfire to find a server or can remember an ip, but new ppl cant.

im not saying et is dead, but im saying that there has to be done somthing about it NOW.

If it continues like this it will die, slowly maybe, but still.

Just call me pessimistic, but right now i can see gametracker is having 812 servers in their list, its not that long since it was 1200.

I actually cant believe people just reacting with a headshake and say np.

ontopic.

I have played this game from release without any breaks, started as etpro player and scrimmed alot also lots of official wars in Clanbase regi.

Last 4 years only played for fun tho, still does it a few times every week.

and like all others its the people you have met and still have contact with that really keeps it interesting for me.

tried other games like bf, brink or cod, but never really got the same feeling.

[Manu]

Mainly because of the friends in ET, from my clan and others. Then because i like the gameplay and so... ET is just Great

[testforecho]

I still play it mostly because of all the time I spent in these years, it feels bad to quit after all this time. But I won't forget all the friends I have met.

Sometimes I wish I had never started playing it, sometimes I regret that almost 99% of the time I played in public servers, when the way the game should be really played (2 teams who play stopwatch for an objective) is the most fun. Tj servers are fun too, it's been years since I last joined one, but I still have nice memories of that, tj servers were the place to have real fun, where players who knew all the secrets were glad to share their knowledge, etc.

Recently I play only jaymod, despite the fact that I think etpro is the best mod I prefer to play relaxed and play jaymod, because it's more random, more dumb, and less demanding so I can play in autopilot and listen to some music and still going positive.
But in some of those situations where you play in 50 slot servers with all that lag, mortars, etc., it feels like lotto and I say to myself 'wtf? what am I doing here wasting my time playing this crappy lottery' I am still there, though. But it feels like the difference between playing tic-tac-toe (a game so retarded that even a kid can draw against a genius) and playing chess.

I think some aspects of the game are somewhat dumbed down now in most servers, servers with 2 many slots, short spawntimes killing one of the tactical aspect of the game, etc. so in a way et is really dying

[Torte]

i remember, 2006 we created -=GER=-,German-ET-Racers.
we had own root and tried to create different servers.
Everytime if we went online with our "testserver".......2 minutes and full of players.
was awesome, only a testserver but everytime full if we tested some settings...
we decided to change nothing....standard maps....few settings for weapons, thats all.
was a favourite server for years...we needed private slots for admins cuz 24/7 full of players.
mirror,coyote, Xant & all these guys played there...young & stupid...

6-7years ago...
im 32 now...
i miss the old times.

[Shownie]

When I read most of the replias now days, I see one common and sad thing. Some years back servers had their own bag of players and clans hosted servers which was active. Now there is one fricking problem which I state is one of the problems people are leaving. Server admins puts crazy amount of BOTS on the servers... no one really enjoys playing with bots.

Damn, I hate bots. I rather play 1on1 instead of 4on4, and 6 of them are bots... no fun... only stupid...

[Shagileo]

When I read most of the replias now days, I see one common and sad thing. Some years back servers had their own bag of players and clans hosted servers which was active. Now there is one fricking problem which I state is one of the problems people are leaving. Server admins puts crazy amount of BOTS on the servers... no one really enjoys playing with bots.

Damn, I hate bots. I rather play 1on1 instead of 4on4, and 6 of them are bots... no fun... only stupid...

So true
The only good purpose for bots is when you want a little bit of fun on your own offline (or when you don't have an internet connection) or when you're all alone on a server, it can be more interesting to have at least one bot component.

Although I do respect the amount of work the developers have put into creating bot movement and behaviour

[Shownie]

Although I do respect the amount of work the developers have put into creating bot movement and behaviour

Agree with you on that point. But I don't even think the omni-bot developers real intention was to fill servers with bots.

[slim43]

i dont think bots do much harm to et its an old game and we are getting old lol with pb problems and 2 many servers on et and less people to populate them then some clans struggle to survive new admins are not as keen to keep servers online if no 1 plays i love et and and dont play any other games so i stay till i drop or et theres still few oldies out there playing we know who we are

[JoNny]

I agree,
i think the thing is that the most 'well-known' clans (FA outtaken - so if a clan got many servers then by ycn or smth) haven't got a root server where e.g. they'll set up an etpro server, a frag server and a ts or smth, then you can easily get a good atmosphere in your clan,
but :
the clans which have got a root server (e.g. qgc) haven't that popularity and much (active) members..

It's sad that many clans with a root server gonna die if there isn't a really good fusion or smth like that..
I think the best way to gonna have a nice and good clan with active members in a nice atmosphery is just to have a ts3 server and a little frag server, where the active players want to join out of theirself.
Many players just play et for rate in this time ( in the intention to get in top10 ) and players just apply -> get accepted and 1week later they leave again , but it was the other way around.. people joined freely and not to be in the best clan, they joined a clan where they felt good in and they had/have a nice atmosphery in there..

I think you should give clans like this a good chance..
fa got so many members already, i don't want to criticise them but i just want to emphasize the little clans a bit

And If the players have fun in-game again with being happy to be in a great clan, then they'll tell other friends&mates of them about the game and want them to join even the same clan..

this probably makes et a bit more popular again

Grtz
JoNny

[Patriot]

and players just apply -> get accepted and 1week later they leave again , but it was the other way around.. people joined freely and not to be in the best clan, they joined a clan where they felt good in and they had/have a nice atmosphery in there..

Ah yeah Im playing with 4 other people still That I have played with without breaks since 2003 on servers, on ts and in some cases also irl now

btw thanks for the QGC note JoNny, well we have patience so we will just wait and see whats happening if anything