30-04-2012, 12:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 30-04-2012, 12:15 AM by clickeverywhere.)
Since you are trying to make a daily event, I think you should change the format a bit. Compared to a weekly event, daily events come and go much too quickly and I'm sure not all of us check the forums so frequently.
It might be a better idea to just have everybody who is interested join a TeamSpeak channel like the Event Lobby while they are playing or want to play Nord Invasion, and when you deem that enough players are on, hijack a server or ask for a server to use (whichever would be the appropriate method of obtaining a server). This way, more people are encouraged to stay on TeamSpeak to watch for other players who are willing to play as a team -- it'd be something like a matchmaking system. You could even message players in other channels to join. If we could get the kind of showing we got for the Weekly events on TeamSpeak, it'd be a simple matter of gathering everybody into a group. This could be more of a spontaneous "event" than an official kind of event.
In the beginning, this approach would be slow, of course. You would have only a few players on TeamSpeak. But as more people get used to it, I think it can become a frequently successful occurrence. As for how to decide a leader, you could have the players nominate somebody among themselves to follow during any given event.
Maybe channels can be added to the TeamSpeak similar to the groupings provided by Jalau so that it's more like a matchmaking system. You'd be able to find players with the same goals in whichever channel you join. Of course, this won't work at the moment since I rarely see players on TS.
It might be a better idea to just have everybody who is interested join a TeamSpeak channel like the Event Lobby while they are playing or want to play Nord Invasion, and when you deem that enough players are on, hijack a server or ask for a server to use (whichever would be the appropriate method of obtaining a server). This way, more people are encouraged to stay on TeamSpeak to watch for other players who are willing to play as a team -- it'd be something like a matchmaking system. You could even message players in other channels to join. If we could get the kind of showing we got for the Weekly events on TeamSpeak, it'd be a simple matter of gathering everybody into a group. This could be more of a spontaneous "event" than an official kind of event.
In the beginning, this approach would be slow, of course. You would have only a few players on TeamSpeak. But as more people get used to it, I think it can become a frequently successful occurrence. As for how to decide a leader, you could have the players nominate somebody among themselves to follow during any given event.
Maybe channels can be added to the TeamSpeak similar to the groupings provided by Jalau so that it's more like a matchmaking system. You'd be able to find players with the same goals in whichever channel you join. Of course, this won't work at the moment since I rarely see players on TS.
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