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T3TV
I think an excellent way to increase the player base for T3 is to include a built in T3TV module for T3. Many other games have viewers that allow players to watch matches and games. HLTV (Half Life TV) as an example. T2TV is full most of the time which shows it's viability. It should be included in T3.
T3 Viewer
Now let's go one step further. One of the best ways I can think of to attract people to the Tribes 3 franchise and one of the best team games on the market is to allow people who have not purchased the game to view the T3TV module. 100mb + downloads are not uncommon on todays internet. Make it so that people can go to www.tribes3.com (or other mirrors) and download a T3TV viewer. This viewer contains just enough of the Tribes 3 program to view matches (or pubs) without owning the game. NO OTHER GAME ON THE MARKET TODAY DOES THIS!
People will be able to download the viewer. Install it on their PC. Run it. The viewer does a DNS search for all servers running T3TV modules. The viewer connects to a match. The match/audio streams and the person is now viewing a T3 match (without owning the game). With good shoutcasting and good teams, anybody will see be able to see T3 in action. They'll see what a great game it is, their interest will peak and they will have an increased chance of purchasing the game.
Bandwidth of course would be an issue. Allowing the entire internet community to connect to a match can take up a lot of bandwidth. So of course their will have to be space available limitations. I've seen HLTV hold 800+ players at CPL. T2TV also get's it bandwidth from connects that are not attached to the match server. So dedicated T3TV servers will probably be needed.
If the Dev Team can swing this, I think it would be a great idea for promoting T3.
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I think an excellent way to increase the player base for T3 is to include a built in T3TV module for T3. Many other games have viewers that allow players to watch matches and games. HLTV (Half Life TV) as an example. T2TV is full most of the time which shows it's viability. It should be included in T3.
T3 Viewer
Now let's go one step further. One of the best ways I can think of to attract people to the Tribes 3 franchise and one of the best team games on the market is to allow people who have not purchased the game to view the T3TV module. 100mb + downloads are not uncommon on todays internet. Make it so that people can go to www.tribes3.com (or other mirrors) and download a T3TV viewer. This viewer contains just enough of the Tribes 3 program to view matches (or pubs) without owning the game. NO OTHER GAME ON THE MARKET TODAY DOES THIS!
People will be able to download the viewer. Install it on their PC. Run it. The viewer does a DNS search for all servers running T3TV modules. The viewer connects to a match. The match/audio streams and the person is now viewing a T3 match (without owning the game). With good shoutcasting and good teams, anybody will see be able to see T3 in action. They'll see what a great game it is, their interest will peak and they will have an increased chance of purchasing the game.
Bandwidth of course would be an issue. Allowing the entire internet community to connect to a match can take up a lot of bandwidth. So of course their will have to be space available limitations. I've seen HLTV hold 800+ players at CPL. T2TV also get's it bandwidth from connects that are not attached to the match server. So dedicated T3TV servers will probably be needed.
If the Dev Team can swing this, I think it would be a great idea for promoting T3.
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