Degrading Game Quality

[pwnage{TyD}]

Even TyD and other servers reporting to TyD ladder have not been able to bring back the competitive atmosphere that was once highly successful on the so popular Hi-Skill servers.

The AC Ladder (or also known as the TyD ladder) existed long before the Hi-skill. It have existed for 3 years (with breaks), as it was originally written in the area of .93.
All my servers including the other servers that contributes keeps a very high standard from a well maintained blacklist, nicknameblacklist, maprotation, in game admins, and backend administration tools.

The competitive atmoshphere have always been here. For those of you who were here before the demise of the third ladder (then runned by Clown) in the end of June / July 2009 remember the games we had. And yet still have! With a much more growing playerlevels than before!

.. there seems to be no good servers left where advanced players can meet to have some nice quality games

orly?





I remember once posted on the hi-skill boards when RandumKiwi changed his opionion about his server contributions. I read a phrase that "No one plays the TyD ladder"

I would play on the TyD ladders honestly, if I could get a decent ping on them... I think pwnage has done great with the ladder, but no one is ever on them :( ....

Is that so? :O


http://ladder.tearyoudown.com/clanwar/totals.cgi
http://ladder.tearyoudown.com/1.0/clanwar/totals.cgi

http://ladder.tearyoudown.com/totals.cgi <-- scroll down to view total amount of players since August last year.

Perhaps it is just some individuals that doesn't see it. Maybe there are something specific things missing that you would like to point out Pandel?

True, he has done some amazing things. However, when you compare TyD servers with HS servers, you would see that HS servers were much more popular and competitive than TyD ones. And this in no way should be regarded as an insult to pwnage. After all, you cannot control what people would go for. It is a matter of preference, nothing more.

Like you say yourself, it's a matter of what people would go for. I feel that people picked my servers (and other contributing servers for that case) because the service we provided were the best, in many people's eyes. To be honest I love to fell into a good maprotation where I can get stuck for hours having fun competing with others. Without having to worry about tossers that wants to ruin gameplay or any cheaters for that matter. We have always had a very comprehended blacklist, which have managed to keep the majority of cheats away.

So you have to excuse me for not wanting to play at servers where it was a 5 map rotation for 10 months before it was something else than ctf mines, power, shine, and sunset 24/7. Thats' like having a car, and you're only driving it backwards.
And were many cheaters could connect whenever they wanted, because they knew if they were dynamic it was a very slim chance that they would get banned anyway.