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Post by WarningU2 on Jun 25, 2006 10:16:45 GMT -5
Hanging out in the lobby periodically I find it very difficult to know which players or even games are ladder or not.
In comparisons to CIV3 someone was normally advertising a game the majority of the time, and players were well known ladder vets.
With C4P there are so many new players and the names of games hang around until complete that there are too many to sort through.
I think we would increase the presense of the ladder and ease of getting a game if everyone informally agreed to some standards.
1) Include C4P in their name in the lobby as a suffix
If not the game lobby at least in C4F lobby.
i.e. [Clan]PlayerName_C4P
2) Include C4P in ladder games
i.e. C4P_game description
Then it would be relatively easy to sort the games and find all the C4P games. It would also increase our presense because other players would ask ... what the heck is C4P ?
I realize that is happening to a degree with ladder as the name prefix but I don't think that is used regularly.
Anyway ... just an idea that would be easy to implement.
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Post by Gogf on Jun 25, 2006 10:28:41 GMT -5
Well, we already put "ladder" in the title of ladder games. I'm willing to bet that certain ladder members would be confused if we started putting "C4P" into the titles . As for putting "_C4P" at the end of our usernames, I wouldn't necessarily object to that, although I don't really like the idea. Some of us like to have our name free of clan tags, and adding "_C4P" would change that. Sure, we use C4F, but having "Gogf" as my normal username seems a lot more friendly than "Gogf_C4P." If I have a question about whether someone is or is not a ladder player, I just search for them on the ladder website.
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Post by ironclad on Jun 25, 2006 11:34:43 GMT -5
gogf made us start a game in 1 hour .. do NOT follow his advice lool
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Post by GERMANIA on Jun 25, 2006 12:03:47 GMT -5
well we shouldn't forget that there a few ladders, our frenchies have one there is a german one, and i bet there are also some more, and the idea is only that all new players relies that all are in our ladder, so that it would be smart to join it too
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Post by ironclad on Jun 25, 2006 12:17:34 GMT -5
there is a german ladder... never seen one maybe cause im not up during that time... link? :/
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Post by Gogf on Jun 25, 2006 23:16:11 GMT -5
gogf made us start a game in 1 hour .. do NOT follow his advice lool On that note, I'd like to apologize for that. If I don't think the teams are balanced I'll generally try to get them to be balanced. I think I may have been a bit overzealous with my complaints that one time, though .
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Post by Canucksoldier on Jun 26, 2006 0:48:27 GMT -5
In the history of the MP ladder community we first started using "GS" at the end of our name to let people know we were in GS Arcade. When GS Arcade became so predominate we started using C3P, since at that time some unsuccessful competing ladders run primarily by ex-C3Pers that had a chip on there shoulder, this became a symbol of pride by the largely happy ladder community.
So there is a long history of putting tags on the end of our names in the lobby, and I see C4F as just an extention of Arcade that we used before. No one in past history thought that tags decreased your visability one bit, and in fact visability is the primary reason I put [C4PAdmin] as a precending tag in C4F. So I sstrongly encourage players to put C4P as a end tag, it can only increase the ladders visability in a lobby that is sometimes chaotic.
As to the game names, I do wish that everyone would put "ladder" as the first word, it would make it much easier to sort the games alphabetically, C4P would be higher alphabetically so if that is easier I can run with that too, I often see "civfr" games in the lobby so we would not be doing anything already done.
Just my 2 cents though.
CS
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Post by lporiginalg on Jun 26, 2006 2:59:32 GMT -5
I always put ladder as the first word in games i host and support people doing the same but I just think tags are stupid and don't want one, just a personal preference but there ya go.
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Post by Bantams on Jun 26, 2006 8:54:36 GMT -5
ok what about
A LADDER CTON (host put his name after title) for title of game surely that wouldnt be difficult to find in the lobby surely the A will put it higher in this list
or A LADDER TEAMER TOMMYNT for another example ;D
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