Ok people.
I’m gonna come right out and say I have no idea whats going on with the timeslot trouble, BUT I might have a possible solution.
For now, the official starting time remains Saturday 23:00 GMT. But… for the next 2-3 weeks, I’m going to log onto the server both Saturdays AND Sundays at 23:00 GMT, and stay as long as I can … maybe for about three hours. Stats will be kept as to when people arrive, and of course, when the most players are on the server, especially registered players (if you’re not registered, email me now at 
, letting me know what your username is). At the end of this ‘trial period’, the stats will be colated, and Weekly AGR Sessions time slot will be decided based on when the busiest couple of hours was.
“Gee OMC, am I expected to show up and play for 3 hours on both Saturday *and* Sundays?”
Look, just show up when you can, whenever it’s convenient, stay as long as you can, and let the server stats do the rest. You logging in and playing will be your ‘vote’. Don’t get me wrong, I love hangin’ around on the server chatting and socialising with people, but that’s not what the Weekly AGR Sessions are about. They are about BIG games with minimal (preferably no) ‘waiting around for people to arrive’. If there’s some special reason your schedule is different for the next two weeks, please contact me (if you already haven’t) explaining your circumstances, and I’ll factor your situation in.
So there it is. It’s in your hands, people. YOU will decide if the ‘official’ time remains Saturdays 23:00GMT, or if it gets changed to a new time, or date. In any case I will do my best to keep up my promise of ‘GUARANTEED AGR ACTION’, every week, at the:
What: Weekly AGR Session
Where: tastyspleen.net:26666
When: Saturday AND Sunday 23:00 GMT. Convert this to your timezone here.
Who: Players young and old, Gurus and newbs
Why: Because you want BIG, ORGANISED TF games. .!
MAP SCHEDULE = Hopefully we’ll get enough players for a BIG map, eg dune1 or sewer1p, lets see if/when we get enough players (at least 10)
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Newbies: please log on to the server BEFORE the Session begins to confirm your registration, and to make sure there are no technical issues. If it says “you are NOT registered”, email me.
AGR VENTRILLO SERVER
[NOTE: Ventrillo has now been phased out. Here’s a link on how to use AGR Voice2Demo]
Get rid of the pk3 and lego faces and people will come. Just try it for a month or two. There’s an elephant in the room and you’re compeletely ignoring it.
Yea, I intend to do a detailed post/vid about the DoomFace mod which was part of AGRv4. I am curious as to how much difference it would make if there were no need for the .pk3. Would a whole bunch of new players appear? Or would it make no difference? Quakeworld servers are pretty much devoid of ‘potential new players’; most new players discover AGR via the website or word of mouth. Having said that we *did* have a new (returning) old skool player on the server last Sunday, who randomly popped on so you have a point. Otoh, he followed instructions and connected fine, so the pk3 download wasn’t an issue..
Btw, the ‘lego faces’ are part of what was a complete rewrite of the skin system, whose main purpose was actually to solve skin bugs, minimise cheating, and add the ability for players to see how damaged other players are. ‘Getting rid’ of the need for a ‘pk3’ would require a major rewrite, which I just don’t have time to do at the moment, and am honestly nervous about causing more bugs, and messing with a part of the code which after all, works perfectly. In any case, most new players are using FTE (auto pk3 downloads), and those who aren’t have installed the patch and the pk3 is not an issue.
Do you think that potential new players aren’t reading the instructions, or that they cant be bothered following them?
RE: timeslot trouble.
How about only running the Saturday Sessions only every 1st or 2nd Saturday of the month with every other weekend as a Sunday session. Every Saturday session could have a theme to it (like a mini Rocktober). So the day only changes for one weekend a month.
just me thinking out loud
I *do* like the idea of a ‘theme’.. Whatever works I guess. Let’s see what happens in the next few weeks, ie seeing how many people actually show up on (both) Saturday and Sundays, and … *when*.