The current activity of good players

[Blackheart]

Hello,

this is a topic concerning exactly what the title says. I checked the leaderboards and the activity of the top 50 (or rather top 52) players on faf:

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As you can see, of the top 25 players only 7 play on a regular basis nowadays - this is not even enough to fill a 4v4 game given the lucky event that all are online at the same time. This effectively is the reason why top level teamgames are dead nowadays. Now how to address this issue? How can players get motivated to play again? And why did they leave or turn vastly less active in the first place? The extreme lack of high level play in 1v1 as in teamgames is making balancing difficult, makes even more good players leave.. Its a vicious circle - Low activity -> Players leave because no games -> Even lower activity -> More leave -> ..

For me personally the main reason for my low activity is my disagreement with balance directions taken - but this cant be everyones issue. So the purpose of this thread is to search for counter measures to the death of high level play on FAF and to find the reasons why this death is taking place at all.

edit: This list is even missing some vanished faf-players, like Brainwashed, Brainfart, eXivo, CocaColin, ..

[rootbeer23]

So the purpose of this thread is to search for counter measures to the death of high level play on FAF

put gigantic sunshades in earth orbit and lower the average temperature on the northern hemisphere by 30 degrees.

[lextoc]

everybody's active for aeolus

[ZLO_RD]

high level play?
i am trying to win games in ranked with single air factory

also events can keep people interested, and updates... That is why i suggest everyone listen to ZeP

[nine2]

have you cross-referenced the drop of player activity with the rise of LAMES activity?

nah just kiddn lame

[Mad`Mozart]

Meh, weekly tourneys were good back then, shouldnt have cancelled those at all...
I still find it ultra retarded from Zock to cancel the whole tourney event that a had a good system to support it and didnt require his immediate attention every time

[Vee]

There are only two possible things that help:

1. Try to get top 50 players to play more
2. Try to get average joes to become good

#1 will work better short term, but it isn't a long term solution. I signed up for the trainer team to help a little with #2. The main trouble is to identify players with the motivation and ability to become good. I successfully helped a couple of players to become better, but more often than not it didn't work We could also organize a "train a noob" tourney, where a top 50 player trains a under 1000 player, who then fight in a tourney (possibly with voice chat allowed during game). Or a 2v2 tourney of pro+joe teams.

Anyway to help with #1 I promise to play another 2v2+ against BH & Petric this evening And I'll try to get some VoR vs World games going.

[FunkOff]

I probably wont come back until gw is working again... that was fun

[Lu_Xun_17]

I hate people who put numbers to list their posts, but i hate myself so it's ok.

1) The problem is not about "top players" but the entier activity of the community is imo equally decreasing. But of course as you're a top player, you feel it on your level.

2) If we try to find some reasons, as you said a lot of people have a lot of different reasons, but all in all main reason is summers have always been quiet times for videogames.

3) Maybe not concerning top players, but i'm sure an award system like there were on Vanilla is a source of motivation for an important number of players. Also from what Zep said, it's not really hard to make this happen as long as we have the database and the pictures.

4) Lake of TDs = lake of tournaments. This is paradoxal as we had a lot of very sucessfull tournies in early 2014, especially thanks to some generous donators. Also tournaments are not followed on youtube anymore, people used to like to watch those. From that point the competition decrease, so the number of active good players decreases.

5) The retirement of Zep and Gyle, and the not coming 2vs2 ranking and nearly finished epic replay vault.

6) PA

7) The balance current balance of the game. (I'm mainly part of summer reason and this reason)

8) So there is no miraculous solution, only some solutions that require work : Award system, 2vs2 ranked, Replay Vault.
Then we have to cheer our TDs, our moderators, our coders, our devlopers, even if we do not always agree with their choices.
We also have to hug each others, and i'm not kidding that much : When you rage while losing, when you don't say gg, you hurt the community that you like.

So more love & more tools, gg no re

[Lu_Xun_17]

Sorry for the double post but your picture reminds me the mantis crisis post!