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[abu]

????????????!!?!?!!?? beeen wondering when sof2 will die

[ShuTTy]

I hope no..

[Dena]

It`s very hard to say when this DEMO will die, since each individual considers dying differently. If you played demo because of clan activity and matches, this demo is as good as dead. Atleast for me, this demo died the day we needed to start making teams in order to play more wars. If you enjoy playing public, then this demo is still alive. Yet, I have noticed that the #1 infiltration server (dad`s) is being more often empty than full these days. In the past, no matter what time i would come to the server, there were always someone to play with.

I think the reason for public activitys decreasing, is the new maps and mods. There are very few players in demo left and when you divide those players to 2-5 different servers, you get only half full servers to play in, thus resulting to the death of public gaming.

CONCLUSION

To revive clanwar activity, there should be some kind of limit how many players clan can reserve. For example, only 10 guys allowed/clan. This would force us to make 3-4 new clans, thus increasing war activity.

To revive public activity, there should be less servers and only 1 map. This is demo, things working in full games with players of 150 000 are not working in game with 50 players.

[skyloline]

I hardly doubt that there are around 50 players who are playing demo active lol.
Overally, I agree with Dena about 85%, but once again I doubt, that clans like NUKE and The Egg, will agree with rule like about 10 guys allowed in clan/team, but the thought is very cool in my opinion.
Yea, one thing is bothering me also, I see some unknown servers being more active than dad`s etc...
And I don't get it, why so many people play dm, I just don't get it... well, I would play also dm, if there would be no pickups, but all the dm servers are with pickups, sucks.

Still, It's a demo game, and it has been active for how, 6? years.. thats already unbelievable for a demo game. Oh and also, demo is more active than 1.00 version of SoF. That's pretty cool in my opinion.

Anyways, I'll say that, 2 years ..

[Museki]

if you say only 10/clan then its harder to get 5 together also, so not sure if it will increase activity.

[katana.]

really simple, it will never die, because not alot of people can afford a decent pc
so when they see this game they will download, like it, get addicted and boem
new faces on the block ; just like me 6 years ago

but if i had to choose, i'd say 5 years from now

[Dena]

I think this game was released in 2003 (correct me if im wrong). This is most likely one of the most successfull demos of all time. We can all congratulate ourselves for keeping it alive and running for this long. Think the guys at ravensoft didn`t quite realize the kind of success sof 3 had been, if they had kept the same gameplay they did with demo. Now they tried to to compete with games like CoD and CSS, instead of concentrating to the good points sof had.

About limiting the players/clan. Would it really matter if clans like EGG and NUKE wouldn`t agree? I think i have played once or twice against these clans during last 5 years. When i spoke about the limits, i was meaning "proper" clans who actually play this game.

Getting rid of those excess clan members, will most likely decrease single clans activity a little bit, but general clan activity in this game would increase for sure.

An example of our own clan.

|She| has approximately 10 CoD players. Those 10 players are enough to give us 1-6 wars/day. Fridays and Saturdays are bit less active but usually each time we want war between 16-22, we get it.

Easiest way to increase the life expectation of this game, would be
(M)IRC usage. Been going on and on about that program for like 3 years, therefore i don`t even bother this time. We have offered the tools to activate this game for ages, but since it seems people are not interested about it, i can`t be arsed to put my time for it anymore. You keep on digging with your hands, while shovel is next to you

[Dena]

It is easy to stop demo from dieing btw.
1. Make more servers
2. Play gold maps
3. Make servers with ctf on ( gold maps )
4. Make inf servers with gold maps
5. Make elim servers with gold maps
6. Make tdm servers with gold maps
7. Stop making mixwars
8. Make new clans, instead of mixing all the time and asking to join other clans/teams.
The possibility is always, that you will lose and you don't got a strong team, but you could always ask some other players to join your clan/team.
9. Make cups with Prizes ( get sponsor )
10. Tell about this game in every game forum

I`m strongly against points 1-6. Imo dividing the 50 players we got into different servers, maps and mods will kill the public gaming. 50 guys, 30 being online divided by 4 "big" servers means roughly 8 players/server. 8 players/server = i can`t be arsed to participate to this kind of servers, thus i go play another game till more people appear. Ofcourse these numbers were drawn out of nowhere, but i hope you get the point.

9. Cup making takes a lot of work and this community has shown how much it respects cup organizers. If you start organizing a cup, you can prepare yourself for flame, nagging and shitloads of work. Besides, is it worth organizing a cup for 3-4 "active" clans? haze, c4, sK, 3v. I think only haze is active from those 4 at this moment.

The points i didn`t mention, i generally agree with

[Ceto*]

invite ppl from other gameforums... im am very sure they have no problem to download a 56mb game and install it in 20 seconds, and woah they get addicted to it...

[SHADE]

we need to bring this game in the spotlight. A button on the site of soffiles.com, so they can promote playing the demo and they can tell about this forum.

[R3NZ0]

in the past there was allmost more as 1 server to play in for example;

-=]ColdPlay[=- server and huhs and egg server (lol) but allways full!

[maniman]

we need to bring this game in the spotlight. A button on the site of soffiles.com, so they can promote playing the demo and they can tell about this forum.

whoa i agree!

[Butcher]

I don't see the option "NEVER"

[insane]

we need 2 find something to make it more active otherwise it's doomed 2 die

[P4P3R]

Neverrrrrrrrrrrr

[wzr]

delete.

[wzr]

It is easy to stop demo from dieing btw.
1. Make more servers
2. Play gold maps
3. Make servers with ctf on ( gold maps )
4. Make inf servers with gold maps
5. Make elim servers with gold maps
6. Make tdm servers with gold maps
7. Stop making mixwars
8. Make new clans, instead of mixing all the time and asking to join other clans/teams.
The possibility is always, that you will lose and you don't got a strong team, but you could always ask some other players to join your clan/team.
9. Make cups with Prizes ( get sponsor )
10. Tell about this game in every game forum

I`m strongly against points 1-6. Imo dividing the 50 players we got into different servers, maps and mods will kill the public gaming. 50 guys, 30 being online divided by 4 "big" servers means roughly 8 players/server. 8 players/server = i can`t be arsed to participate to this kind of servers, thus i go play another game till more people appear. Ofcourse these numbers were drawn out of nowhere, but i hope you get the point.

9. Cup making takes a lot of work and this community has shown how much it respects cup organizers. If you start organizing a cup, you can prepare yourself for flame, nagging and shitloads of work. Besides, is it worth organizing a cup for 3-4 "active" clans? haze, c4, sK, 3v. I think only haze is active from those 4 at this moment.

The points i didn`t mention, i generally agree with

I meant with 1-6 it, since most ppl want goldmaps etc. If we get more maps game gets tbh activier. Only 1 map is booring for newcomers and makes it really usueless. That is what i meant. If gold would be activie i would play it instead of demo, since gold maps > 1 map
You can still play mp_shop, but also other maps would be gerat + 2 maps for wars. Start playing CO etc, makes game a bit different and new.
I think if we could actually make this through it could maybe get it a bit activier, but who knows. last times it was total failure.

i totally agree with dio, why dont wanna try something more which will make gaming more exciting? isnt it boring to play 1 *** map all the time? when nothing counts except your aim? the tacs are all the same, crap monotony
another thing : CO rules, the only gamestyle which prevents all "noob" campers, it forces you to move, to play a really fast and exciting game, no doubt that the gold version adopted it as the best rules available on inflirtation, its just faster & more exciting, + uve got the already limited time for playing a match, whereas some ARC wars can last for ages...

[VARIMR]

when sof2 demo dies all known excistance will come to an end