This game is garbage with the current server. There are so many players that conflict with each other, the server is down every single day, there's hackers running rampant, there's like 2 games at all times, 1 of them is always chop or pball. There are players who's connections are not good enough to ping themselves back and fourth from germany. There are so many political issues that we can't even appoint an active admin. We have 1 developer. all of war2's staff are people that are widely disliked. And all of war2's new blood is suckered into playing chop or pball. There's only 5 players to play against in competitive war2. The whole community is paranoid of hacks, calling people running the anti-hack hackers. The community is so misinformed about everything. Masta{hR} has to buy a fucking hotspot if he wants to play warcraft 2. And there's only one person contributing to tournaments. We have burnt stepping down from the community and just giving up because everything is run so shit. We don't even have any legimate advertisement. We have no improvements in technology.
Guys, this is the game we all love. Doesn't anyone think we can do better as a whole?
The server had like 500 players, with no connectivity issues, no hosting issues, and you never had to chase down an admin for anything. Under lance's server and administration, this game was 100x better.
We all know what this game needs to thrive. It's not rocket science. Why hasn't it happened yet? Because we trust the wrong fucking people. Not only do they do a shit job, they expect you to suck their dick for it. No one cares that ldir paid a few bucks to keep war2 going. Many people have offered to pay and will still do so.
To remind ourselves what this game needs, and how we are going to achieve that, lets make a priority list.
#1. Antihack launcher. This is essential, and it's easily made and implemented. Waiting months and months for such a simple piece of software is absolutely insane.
#2. Port forwarding software. Many players can't figure out how to open their ports, and it makes them quit before they get started. Simply giving them a tutorial is lazy and it's proven ineffective.
#3. Real advertisement. Like I've stated and everyone knows, there are plenty of people willing and able to throw money at this game. Let them do so in the form of advertisement.
#4. Developers. There are a handful of developers for war2 besides ldir, who want to create what this game needs to thrive.
#5. A quality server. A pitiful second hand server in Germany is absolutely ridiculous. Confliction excists because packets go the long way around the world to reach the server and go back. That's why you create multiple servers based on location. The solution is simple. Buy a server in the middle of the west and the east. Like GB. But when we had a server stationed in U.S. no one had confliction problems, so stick with the tried and true.
#6 Active Admins. Appoint new active admins. Peroid. Blid is the only administrator who has been consistent. Give other people a chance to be just as good as him.
#7 A way for new players to learn and become regulars. TK had the right idea with the training videos. Many players are capable of shaping and molding new blood into active players. So empower the community to do so. The only reason they don't is because they think war2 is a cespool and they want to play and gtfo. And sadly, they're correct.
How do we achieve all of this? Easy. Give lance the power to do all of this. Donate to lance and let him set up multiple teams for each purpose. War2 custom would of been an absolute blessing for war2 and we should of definitely went with that. Instead war2 is dead because we didn't. Fund lance's war2 custom project, and ALL of these issues will be addressed properly, and in a timely fashion.
Furthermore, I would suggest that we all pay lance to do this. Give him an incentive. We should be donating so much that he has some left to play around with.
and once war2 is back with an active player base, we can look into the future. Possibily a clone of war2 made by a brand of developers.
We can make this happen.
