Shmack vs. Rage

[spooker]

Mindz you're quite incorrect about there being just one RQ server. Whenever shmack is bad, for any reason, we head on over to Pita's Fear.quakeone.com. It has like 3 times the number of runes and in addition to getting runes there is also one monster on each level that is placed in a specific location, and any player can become that monster by running into it. its great

[Mindf!3ldzX]

That is RQ+ , and everytime I have checked out the Server Stats section on the Quakeone.com homepage , it happens to be empty.RQ+,and RQA are dead mod's like CA+, while not as old and dust ridden (the last update for those mods isnt as old as the CA+ last update) , they will soon be obsolete.

I know about picking up Monsters etc, I was playing all the variants of RuneQuake before you was even apart of the picture , but whether or not when Shmack is bad you go to Pita's server doesnt resolve the problem for a community on a whole level.As you said, lots of chatting happens in-game at RQ , and if you dont have a server to connect to for someone to say "Lets go to fear.quakeone.com" , then a large portion of the community will be left in the dark.As Baker said, there is a large number of 'free frags' at Shmack,and its mostly those people who will be like ?WTF? when they try connecting to shmack and it doesnt work.

either way , "RUNEQUAKE" aka Shmack 26000 mod , the more popular of servers and mod's in RQ , only has Shmack. RQ+ is much like CA+ and will eventually not be an option,as gradual advances and updates are made to "RUNEQUAKE". The overall community might accept a change in mod from RQ to RQ+,the over all community might not accept the change,and pursue other mods of quake1,or an entirely different game all together. RuneQuake is in a Humpty Dumpty situation,and Slot-Zero is the one holding his fragile ass on the wall lol. CAx currently has 5 CAx servers all running identical mod versions to my knowledge.

Comparing RQ and CAx , at the current state of both mods and the community of Quakers for both respective mods , RQ would suffer waaaay more than CA would in the sense of losing a server. Over 90% of the CA community all know about rage.quakeone.com , max.quakeone.com , dredd.quakeone.com , quake.infect3d.info , carena.clan-rum.org , and if the need was to arise, Phocus could setup another server easily.He's had several of them ,the most recent was phathookups.org and nailed.org

blah blah,I've wasted 10+ minutes here explaining something that doesnt effect me.

[spooker]

I disagree with you on many important things. CA is more diverse but the player base is comparable to runequake's. Shmack does not hold together the whole community, there have been times when shmack has been down, and everybody instantly goes over to fear. they can easily find it through this website, any of the various server trackers, or asking on any forums. For a while, about 1-2 years ago, fear had almost as much traffic as shmack. Why it faded I don't know, i stopped going because of bad adminning; but i sensed it didn't have anything to do with the mod but just because there wasn't enough of a player base to maintain 2 servers at all times, and shmack had more of a pedigree. nevertheless, there are games on fear every day.

i think you make too strong statements about things of which you don't have direct experience. you know runequake from the perspective of a forum troll, and have probably played less than 5 games in the past year. I don't know how you could have played runequake before i was "in the picture" because i have been "in the picture" for 10 years, even if you never knew me. i only started using forums to try to keep track of TU members. Given my limited experience of CA, i made tentative statements about it and asked for CA people to chime in; you have less knowledge of runequake yet made stronger statements than mine about CA. Having played RQ years ago does not tell you anything about the present state of the community. I also think its funny when you try to tell me about the history of the clan i lead.

[foq]

Shmack has newbies that call people bots, and some players there have more binds to accuse players of cheating them they have keys. Example: "bind p say OMFG BOT; say LOLOL I WILL HAVE YOU BANNED" This constitutes a subtraction of 10 points out of 100, leaving me 90.

The runes. I can't stand being randomly blown up from somebody's kamakazi attacks, or thier bezerker shaft, or teleporting on a death spot. This is -20 too, leaving me 70.

Shmack has hook. -10, leaving me 60.

However, despite all the lameness of said things above, Shmack has a very good, fluid feel with the excellent connection speed provided there. This earns +10.

Shmack, in my book, gets a 70--A borderline "C".



Rage earns +10 for being Clan Arena, a mod I like very much. This gives me 110.

The amount of shit talk that goes on at Rage, like OMFG NOOB, suck my dick, etc is baffeling. Plus Rage has a shitty admin. -15, so 95.

Rage is a very poplar server on a good mod so there is usually always somebody there, so +5, so 100.

DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3 DM3. -30, so 70.

Very good custom maps if ever played, so 80. A borderline B.



FVF, cookies, cool admins, cool weapons, cool monsters, cool players. +4000
So fvf gets 4100 points, a super ultra friggen A^100++++++++. yay for fvf

[Zop]

For what it's worth saying, this long-time RuneQuaker is surprised how much he's stomped on when at a CAx server.

Mostly, the differences in gameplay are too many and too obvious to to mentioned, but one huge difference is the FFA and teamplay style. I'm pretty sure I'm not talkign crazy when I say players have the most fun when teams on CA are evenly matched. (what's your diagnosis, doctor?) RQ doesn't have this type of control, other than the leading player dropping the rune. Even though RQ is a unrelenting barrage of hooking around and playing, the players online make all the difference. Just like with a rune, you have to play with what you're given.

[Shadowswift]

i just like fuckin playing. im tired of noobs, im tired of assholes, im tired of old, crusty maps.

someone fix Quake.

now.

[omicron]

lol shmack = newbies. rage = newbies... all of these servers are trash. nt though.

[QuadRaptor]

Omi's a CTF'er

[Baker]

lol shmack = newbies. rage = newbies... all of these servers are trash. nt though.

Omi, although I love playing against you at Rocket Arena and you really own @ that and it's quite fun playing against such a highly talented RA player, the few times I've seen you play at Shmack you were just another freebie frag running around the map because you don't have grapple skillz

Your buddy Slugnut seems to enjoy playing Rune Quake when he isn't ownzoring you @ Rocket Arena :d :d

[omicron]

Omi, although I love playing against you at Rocket Arena and you really own @ that and it's quite fun playing against such a highly talented RA player, the few times I've seen you play at Shmack you were just another freebie frag running around the map because you don't have grapple skillz

Your buddy Slugnut seems to enjoy playing Rune Quake when he isn't ownzoring you @ Rocket Arena :d :d

me > slug. he knows it in his heart of hearts.