idc if no one reads this
so this was from a private channel chat on the former tribes talk discord
i just wanted to comment on the importance of pubbing in a dead game
if you don't ffa like community service the game dies quicker
and people saw this happen in quake and tribes mods already and its gonna happen in LT t1 too
when you have a small group basically shutting down the game or robbing it of growth by killing pubs for pu spam you end up shooting urself in the foot
sure ur gonna get good games once in a while but weird stuff like relying on a bot instead of human judgement (lol) will scare off the already small player pool - like returning great players that want to stack a team for a night and then quit for a year or watever get stuck on a bot with a ranking they probably dont want to be associated with - or the games will get a core group of players that all bonds and is friends but it's at the expense of everyone else
in shifter first the noobies stopped coming and the snipers stopped sniping, and pubs died while competition stuck around but on a much smaller scale, then competition slowly dwindled to this low numbers 1v1 ctf stage and we'd do reunions and stuff but no one pubbed so people wouldn't stick around to get nuked by the people that weren't rusty
this is why when i made the discord i banned pu's and said do them on another discord or so late at night in the channel that wasn't talked in like #general was or during the day so that the pub kept going - and it was like that for the two years i had the discord
and we'd use that !shazbot command as much as possible to advertise the pub instead of whatever is going on with the pus
but i also had all the returning ppl from the midair hype and they wanted to pub
the game is old too ya know
but doing a pub night once or more per week where pus are banned and everyone has to pub would probably bring out more old faces than you know
also altimor's aimlag fix wtf that shit is basic
i can't get behind balanced mode and bot pus and i feel my tribes is laggy and im bad and enjoy pubbing as a casual so this post wasn't about me but about shit multiple people have pm'd me or mentioned to me for whatever reason also you all banned mun 2:37 me and alienated most of the arena crowd by condescending them so theres my 2 cents