Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade

Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade

Statisztikák megnézése:
kill EC off ASAP / keep it up until Sep. 10th
let's cut straight to the chase:

i want to get the most out of the remaining weeks. if you're not interested in that, kindly leave the thread and move on, this will just be wasted time for you. if you are in the same boat as me tho, please continue reading. i will discuss what we can/must do on an individual basis in order to be able to keep playing.
there will be no talk about "people do this, people do that". i will be adressing you, the reader/player, personally.


first, the "facts":

EC's population is dwindling to the point where it's become increasingly hard to start the daily map rotation, even with shoutouts on various discord servers. i guess after the end times announcement, the EC fatigue we fought off for thousands of hours finally caught up with a bunch of us.
the remaining active playerbase seems to be made up of a handful of die hard mod/vanilla veterans easily reachable thru discord, and a bigger handful of unreachable PVE enthusiasts.
obviously, if you're interested in playing EC for a while longer, get on discord. it's cool if you're shy, we don't care about hearing your voice, we use it as a tool to get one single message out to as many people as possible every day: "games have started",
and invaluable unfaltering people like

Baron of Doom
sakuranotsumari
Runt - Kilz'em
ELWP - Drusian

(and the "legions" of people i forget to mention) have been doing it for years.
i will only post 1 link in order to avoid unnecessarily splitting the playerbase:


https://discord.gg/T4yK9sf


population "peaks" still happen roughly around the same time, late european afternoon/night (~ 07:00pm UTC / 19:00 UTC). if you come online around that time, pls keep in mind you still might need some patience.



~~~ here ends the superficial general part of this post. read further if you want me to elaborate, and better help start matches ~~~



population peaks happen around 07:00pm UTC / 19:00 UTC.
what to do with this information?
not helpful: log in around 07:30pm, see only 3 in queue, log out again, let queue die. ("what can the game do for me")
helpful: log in around 6:30pm, start queueing directly against lsm/csm, show up in the numbers on world map, attract more people. ("what can i do for the game")

gone are the times where we could sit on our lazy asses and wait for the "matches started" ping. we now need to actively work towards enabling that ping in the first place (if we haven't already). obviously, i'm not asking you to spend 30 minutes waiting in order to make it possible for others to enjoy the game with you - i'm merely pointing out the min-max strategy if you actually and simply want to play.

besides attracting players by showing there's already a few available, communication is really the only other tool we have at our disposal. yet again, i urge every player to get on discord.

the remaining major guilds like DEDs, ELWP, XIII, MYST have taken to supplying every side of a match with players, and will usually announce this on the discords.



eldar have claimed mondays for themselves, which means there's guaranteed to be space fairies to shoot if you queue up against them. they tend to queue in "battle now" these days, so once they get a game (vs lsm or csm), it usually kills the third faction off for the night. roll with it and be ready to faction hop between lsm/csm, complaining about it will not help.
wednesdays have slightly higher population due to being regular guild play dates. you'll see the ELWP boys usually, XIII are bringing 5 or more players as well. they try and split manpower evenly between opposing factions.

the rest of weekdays pretty much depend on the willingness of the die hards, and those still reading this post. :)

it's usually safe to assume there's more "hidden" players in lsm "battle now" queue than on the chaos side, but this is not reliable. be flexible. your inner loyalist RP gnome might not like you taking up arms for the heretics, but the one that just wants to play the big shooty stab stab with COLORS! in SPACE! will be very grateful.


feel free to comment away, send friend requests to people in this thread, connect, communicate, coordinate. this thread does not care about who killed EC and how, let alone why. it doesn't care about what's OP, which update took your will to live, or how many mortgages you spent on kickstarter.

kindly ignore "ded gaem Lol wHo eVeN pLaYs AnYmOrE haha u so dumbz get a l1f3" posts - this thread is not the place to discuss that either.
Legutóbb szerkesztette: the_green_one; júl. 6., 3:34