i'm back, now a couple things need changing..

Mango

Love my aliens been out of the game for close to 6 months and the game still rocks and roll. A few things however is a bit annoying...

When i go marines (which is hardly ever) I notice the annoying voice..."base under attack" every second of the game...it is the most annoying sound and she just keeps repeating the warning over and over and over... someone told me I can disable that but can't find it no where..

ICONS before players names is getting abusive...I am talking about the ICONS that you gain from reaching certain skills not the ones that admin randomly puts on players.. The reason ICONS can be abusive is I notice these guys with ICONS with skills always join together..no matter what..in the end it becomes Skilled ICON players vs random pugs. It kills the server and becomes a stacking problem.

FIX the high ping issue of players that become choppy and hard to kill since they have a high ping. The downside is no one with a high ping will be able to join a server cause they will just get vote kicked due to the fact they chop out every time. High ping users should be able to play any server without having to be choppy and not be hard to kill..that is a issue that needs fixing.

I notice the default setting when searching for servers is empty servers are not displayed at all. By doing this are we killing any chances of new servers from even getting recognized? This is the default setting i know you can manually change it, but is it hurting new servers?


- other than that game seems balance..and I just hope more players will play during off-peak times. Thanks for making aliens fun to play.

Nordic

I will be the first to tell you that badges, icons as you said, are not gained in anyway from skill. One badge is gained from commanding a certain amount of hours. Most of the ones you see, I'm assuming purple badges, were paid for.

Stacking has always been a problem. If you know of a good solution to fix it please tell. The best solution I know of is using the force even teams vote which now works well because of the new skill system.

I highly recommend finding a server with a community you like. Who you play with does make the game far better. If you browse the forums there is a recent thread asking what the good servers are. I would link it but I am on my phone. The idea is find a community with quality games by your definition and stick with it.

Mango

thanks for clarifying the COMM icon I was told you have to do 100 hours of being a COMM to earn it. So, I assumed the other icons was meant for other types of skills.

I have to admit it is a bit annoying to see the ICON guys join the same team for a new player they can get discourage to play. That was my first reaction since I notice they won every game while the other team with no icons lost every time.

Nordic

It is actually between 10-20 hours of comming. 10 if you won every game, 20 if you lost every game.

If you are seeing that kind of behavior, I still recommend finding a better server with a community you like.

SamusDroid

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/135924/what-is-your-go-to-server-for-ns2-goodness#latest
This might help you in finding good servers

Decoy

Nordic wrote: »

It is actually between 10-20 hours of comming. 10 if you won every game, 20 if you lost every game.

It's actually 5 hours of winning games, 10 hours of losing games. So it's not too hard to earn if you're in the chair a decent amount. Go to hive.naturalselection2.com to sync them

Here's a list of badges that will show you what each one means. Commander is the only badge that is 'earned' through something you do in game. Everything else is done through helping out in other ways or donating money

Mango wrote: »

When i go marines (which is hardly ever) I notice the annoying voice..."base under attack" every second of the game...it is the most annoying sound and she just keeps repeating the warning over and over and over... someone told me I can disable that but can't find it no where..

That's weird, sounds like a bug. I've never heard of that before.

Mango wrote: »

FIX the high ping issue of players that become choppy and hard to kill since they have a high ping. The downside is no one with a high ping will be able to join a server cause they will just get vote kicked due to the fact they chop out every time. High ping users should be able to play any server without having to be choppy and not be hard to kill..that is a issue that needs fixing.

That's an issue that every online game faces. It's not something easily fixed. In games that have a smaller player base, it's more noticeable. Let's say there's an Australian player on at 4AM their time. If there's no servers populated in Australia, which is likely, they're forced to play on a server with high ping to play the game.

Mango wrote: »

I notice the default setting when searching for servers is empty servers are not displayed at all. By doing this are we killing any chances of new servers from even getting recognized? This is the default setting i know you can manually change it, but is it hurting new servers?

I don't think this is killing new servers. If there is nobody playing on the server, who cares? As soon as one person joins, it will show up on your server browser. If the server is good, it will speak for itself by having a playerbase that wants to populate it