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Competitive Avicus by Zegita March 26, 2016 at 10:03 PM UTC

Let's be honest - the server receives an increase in players whenever a tournament or an official event is announced. This server needs to remember that competitive is what keeps this server living. I mean yeah there is public Avicus but that can get boring from time to time whereas a tournament actually motivates you to do well and achieve something good.

I remember in both tournaments the player count rose from when there was no tournament (about 50 players on) to 150-200 players on when a tournament was on or any type of official event. Now I'm the type of person that gets hyped up when an event is happening purely because it is fun to take part in or even just watch on streams as it is interesting.

So what I believe is that maybe the developers should focus equally on the public side of things on Avicus but also the competitive side of this and fixing problems like for example the scrim servers that disallow teams to scrim on and so they have to go somewhere else to scrim on for a start. Of course remember the problems such as the lag that occurs there and there but I think that has been reduced from what it was before so this does show the developers are making progress but we have to support them along the way.

The best ways of making Avicus' competitive popular is by doing the following (IMO):

Finally, fix anything that goes wrong with competitve e.g scrim servers being down this is a major thing that developers should be onto ASAP because this prevents teams from playing and then having to go somewhere else which is annoying for players and teams.

Also comment down below if you agree or disagree or what your thoughts on competitive Avicus is - thanks for reading :)

Numberz_ March 26, 2016 at 10:03 PM UTC

BerzerkV7 coming this summer.

Robin_DD_J March 26, 2016 at 10:03 PM UTC

cba to read it all but the maps atm is horrible. sorry sli

PosteGamer March 26, 2016 at 10:03 PM UTC

Im agree with all that you said, the competitive is a ver importante side in Avicus, because new teams are created for play in the tournaments, so, Avicus get more people. 

Like you said if you want create a team dont be afraid. Any team at their start were bads Or had their problems., for example, when i joined EC it has 1 Or 2 months old and we always play vs Cacal until we son their and se start play scrims versus Apollo, PPB and BC, in this moment we start be better.

Nice post Zegita.

Zegita March 26, 2016 at 11:03 PM UTC

Im agree with all that you said, the competitive is a ver importante side in Avicus, because new teams are created for play in the tournaments, so, Avicus get more people. 

Like you said if you want create a team dont be afraid. Any team at their start were bads Or had their problems., for example, when i joined EC it has 1 Or 2 months old and we always play vs Cacal until we son their and se start play scrims versus Apollo, PPB and BC, in this moment we start be better.

Nice post Zegita.
Thank you :)

PosteGamer March 26, 2016 at 11:03 PM UTC

Im agree with all that you said, the competitive is a ver importante side in Avicus, because new teams are created for play in the tournaments, so, Avicus get more people. 

Like you said if you want create a team dont be afraid. Any team at their start were bads Or had their problems., for example, when i joined EC it has 1 Or 2 months old and we always play vs Cacal until we son their and se start play scrims versus Apollo, PPB and BC, in this moment we start be better.

Nice post Zegita.
I forgot give my opinión about create more TM Maps, than you said if the Builders/ Map Devs just do maps for the publics rotation when its the time to do a TM the users critizice the maps cuz all the maps on Avicus are for the publics, lastly more users than Bloodoh-PokerFace- Tomqss were doing more TMs maps than the MapDevs.

Spoookeh March 26, 2016 at 11:03 PM UTC

+1 

Tournaments are what keeps servers like OCN and Avicus alive. They get the community hyped up and are just generally fun to play in.

NovaLikesPvP March 26, 2016 at 11:03 PM UTC

Give this man a cookie!
+1

ImNotYourTiger March 27, 2016 at 1:03 AM UTC

Good idea, but remember that not everyone likes competition

Zegita March 27, 2016 at 2:03 AM UTC

Good idea, but remember that not everyone likes competition
You will always have a disparity between topics there will be those who agree and disagree however it is no doubt that competitive Avicus is what helps keep this server living and when there is competition going on an increase in player count is made.

ImNotYourTiger March 27, 2016 at 2:03 AM UTC

You will always have a disparity between topics there will be those who agree and disagree however it is no doubt that competitive Avicus is what helps keep this server living and when there is competition going on an increase in player count is made.
True, but timezones are also a major thing. An example is the Evolved UHC. Lots of people can't make it due to different timezones. If players can't get the time to play for the reason they came here, the server won't be going as planned

Jahaj March 27, 2016 at 2:03 AM UTC

True, but timezones are also a major thing. An example is the Evolved UHC. Lots of people can't make it due to different timezones. If players can't get the time to play for the reason they came here, the server won't be going as planned
For official tournaments everyone participates, even Aussie teams when its the middle of the night. It happened last tourney, and will probably happen again, but they will most likely participate.

Centralking March 27, 2016 at 2:03 AM UTC

Zegita,

I like your thinking here of acknowledging many aspects of Avicus. This is very thought out well and I believe should be put into action immediately. Competitiveness is the whole idea of the game play for most of us here, as well as, organization (many posts regarding this that we're still lacking, but hopefully make an improvement).

Nice job, nothing more to be said, just implemented.

DaFrozenBlaze March 27, 2016 at 3:03 AM UTC

Nice

JDKL March 27, 2016 at 7:03 AM UTC

+1 I'm starting to spend a lot more time building TE maps. It'd be nice to see more maps in the future too.

Clijmart March 27, 2016 at 8:03 AM UTC

Hmm, nice post Zegita!
Thinking about making TM maps soon, even though I've never played one xD
Gotta ask some tips from MapDevs I guess...

piratewithgun March 27, 2016 at 8:03 AM UTC

Nice one zegita :)

Crimson_Aught March 27, 2016 at 8:03 AM UTC

Tournaments are good, but what about players, who don't view forums. They don't know about tourneys, updates, maps, about all this blah blah blah here. They come to AV and see, ppl play dtm only, they come next week - no changes, next month - no charges. And they think wow, it is becoming boring, and they find Other Cool Network to play there and never come back :(
My suggestion: more maps, mix 'em all, open "coming soon" gamemods eventually.

Zegita March 27, 2016 at 11:03 AM UTC

Tournaments are good, but what about players, who don't view forums. They don't know about tourneys, updates, maps, about all this blah blah blah here. They come to AV and see, ppl play dtm only, they come next week - no changes, next month - no charges. And they think wow, it is becoming boring, and they find Other Cool Network to play there and never come back :(
My suggestion: more maps, mix 'em all, open "coming soon" gamemods eventually.
Perhaps that when a tournament is announced like for example the Walls tournament that is happening right now, in the chat they can put something like "Avicus is hosting a tournament check out the forums" they click on that and they see and they get an idea :)

Crimson_Aught March 27, 2016 at 11:03 AM UTC

Perhaps that when a tournament is announced like for example the Walls tournament that is happening right now, in the chat they can put something like "Avicus is hosting a tournament check out the forums" they click on that and they see and they get an idea :)
Yep, AV needs more advertisment and announcements.

Myv March 27, 2016 at 6:03 PM UTC

tourneys are happening enough for us to get an increase in players. This means that the players who join are looking for competitiveness. I myself do like comp matches from time to time but am generally more casual because of my inability to PvP lol. But, I think it's ok in terms of maps right now. Quality has improved.

flyofff March 27, 2016 at 7:03 PM UTC

I really liked that idea. +9999999999999999999999k

Pelpelajax March 27, 2016 at 8:03 PM UTC

Perhaps that when a tournament is announced like for example the Walls tournament that is happening right now, in the chat they can put something like "Avicus is hosting a tournament check out the forums" they click on that and they see and they get an idea :)
That already happened before :c