DragonSlayer

The servers are set up to auto balance, however, if it is too far into the game then it wont auto balance. The reasoning behind it is because if a team is winning, we don't want people auto balanced at the end just because people rage quit on the losing side. How far into the games were you before the auto balance didn't work? Were there like 100 tickets left, I think that's the threshold.

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Caliber with golden tags.... hmmm. Oh yeah, level 100, I now declare Caliber #1 on my knifing list.

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*BF3 dragonslayer>XI<ADM Thanks everyone. I am looking forward to working with the already good BF3 Admin team. Congrats Dammit on your promotion.

I have wondered the same thing myself: I have 256 hrs of play: 100 RU & 94 US (just going by the award medals) 62 mysterious hours Is there some place else to get the hours on each team, besides the awards? Could it be that the time you spend before you spawn (we all go afk), time loading & downtime between rounds add up to the mysterious missing hours? Meaning time in the game for total hours but not playing on a team because you haven't spawned yet? Just a thought.

Knowledge, welcome aboard, about time. I now call open season on Knowlege and place a bullseye on his back for BF3 ! ! ! ! ! ! I am sharpening my knife this weekend, just for you Knowlege. Glad to have you aboard

I really like the "moshpit" style to the server. I would like to see more tickets for TDM, maybe 150, that would still allow it to go fast and keep people interested. 300 tickets for Conquest seems to be excellent. Rush, not really sure about that one, too many attacker tickets and then the attackers would have the advantage. I noticed several times yesterday that the rush M_com points exploded with less than 10 attacker tickets remaining. If you have a good team, the tickets are great...a crappy team and you just prolong the agony.

Congratulations guys, you both deserve it.

I can't even count that high

Hans, I imagine that they are taking your opinion into account too. The admins are still waiting to see what more opinions are before they do anything. Don't think that no action yet is something personal. I like your idea infantry only & especially no hardcore. Are the servers to which you are referring infantry only? Are they running both game modes at the same time? Just asking to make sure we are comparing "apples to apples and not apples to oranges" Here is a suggested process for the BF3 admins: 1. Go infantry only (I think everyone agrees on this part, including some BF3 admins who hate armor in that game mode). 2. Flip the server to SQDM only for a few weeks and see how it populates. 3. Then flip it to TDM for a few weeks and see how it populates. 4. Get some tangible data, post the results in this forum to support the server change, then implement it. 5. Situation solved.

The original reason for this post was to determine whether to switch it from SQDM to TDM, so I will start off with the following question. Why was it even mentioned about being changed to hardcore? Do not change it to hardcore, if I want killed 5 times in a row by a teammate I will join our 32 slot server. I really like the server mixing it up between the two modes. I extremely enjoy the idea of infantry only . I get bored playing one mode over and over again when it comes to TDM/SQDM. I do understand that having one mode could possibly make more people enter, however, it has been my experience on that server that once it fills up, it does stay full. Like SOB said, it just needs to get started. If it was not being populated because of the game modes changing, which is your assumption, then people would do a mass exodus when it switches between modes. This hasn't happened any of the timess that I have been in the server. I think we should leave it alone for a while longer, like any server it has it's peak times and down times.

MGX was a great team to scrim against. The players were courteous, fun & good players. I am looking forward to more scrims against them in the future. Great games everyone

Ever since the last update I have not been experiencing lag problems as I was prior; I still get the occassional spike as with any other server I on which I have played. If you're still getting massive lag you might want to adjust your settings (video & sound), and verify your computer has been cleaned, defragged and stuff like that, hopefully that will help you with the lag issues. I love the 64 person server and I believe the head admins have done an excellent job with getting it up and running as smoothly as they already have done. I wouldn't change a thing, the server is heavily populated throughout the day, or at least when I am on there. Do we want to decrease traffic and reduce the amount of players on the server by switching to 32? I don't think that is a good thing to do. I believe if we could get a second server, a 32 slot and make it mixed that everyone, or at least the majority, would be satisfied. I don't know if that's an option, but its my opinion. As far as regular vs. hardcore, exactly how many of the regular players actually play hardcore? When I am normally playing, between 5pm to 9pm EST I know of only 3 or 4 people who play regularly and play hardcore on a different server. This leads me to ask is the debate between regular and hardcore really an issue? Nothing against those who play hardcore, but by switching to hardcore on our server if it reduces the traffic would the switch be worth it?

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Sonovabich Murlock ain't all that info from BFBC2 not BF3?, pictures certainly are, White pass and Afrika harbor are BFBC2 maps I noticed the same thing Sonovabich, but the same philosophy still applies to this style of game. The same tactics and info that were handy on BFBC2 will still work on BF3. The weapons might be a different and the overall scheme of things, slightly different. But it is always good to have a well diversified squad that can cover each other, revive when needed and repair equipment on the fly. There are several of us who form regular squads and when we do we diversify to support each other and the overall team. Where you at anyhow, Sonova, I still need your dog tags for my collection

Crankster There should be a rule 9.5, if you jump in a vehicle make sure it is full before storming out of your spawn leaving a lot of people stranded. That is probably more annoying than someone not knowing how to drive in the first place. I try to stay away from the choppers unless it is totally vacant, not many people I know that can fly the things. There should also be a rule 11, do not let Dragonslayer be your gunner in a chopper, at the first sign of trouble he will bail out on ya. I had to bring you into this Dragon, just to pick on ya. The game so far has been really fun, just wish that Tehran Highway or whatever it is named did not lag so horribly. Other than that, the game is worth it. I am enjoying it and looking forward to see more of you in the future. Gee, thanks Crankster for bringing me into this post. Your darn skippy I am gonna bail out on you. It goes back to you should know that the pilot can fly the chopper. Since, I wasn't sure how good of a pilot you were and we were getting hit and then immediately went sharply down to the water, I bailed. Thus creating Rule#12 Save your own ass and take the ribbing from the heli pilot at a later time. I have went with you since and went down with the heli during our attack runs. I now know you are a good pilot and will stay in until we go down in a blaze of glory.

PigDog So where do you go in the game to add the tags in front of your name? On Battlelog go to the top of the page and click profile. After you do that you want to click on the edit profile link under your avatar on the right hand side of the page. The second bold section down is called Soldier settings, and there is a box there to enter the XI which will create your tags. Looking forward to seeing you soon sporting your tags.

Ok, if this isn't correct in your language Comfort don't blame me, blame Bing! Hartelijk gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag Happy Birthday Comfort, wishing you a great day.

Well, as far as the best game ever.....I am not too sure on that one myself. I have skimmed over everything everyone has posted and I have to agree with a bunch of stuff that has been posted. Excellent graphics, huge maps, plenty to keep one occupied. I like the tanks personally and I have been known to crash my share of the planes and helicopters, so don't feel too bad Rock...I will let you be the captain of the crashes if it makes you feel better Like Sonovabich said, if you want to run and gun, not really the game for that specifically. Although, when you get into tight spots that aspect of the game comes into play. I like the tight quarter maps, cause I like runnin' and gunnin', although I am also happy to drop a medpack and run through fire to revive a member of my team or squad. I really enjoy the game and the aspects of it, but the thing I enjoy most is getting the chance to play a game with some of the clan members that I haven't played a game with in a while.....and oh yeah, most importantly.....shooting Rugger! I am coming for your Dog Tags, Sonovabich, so keep eyes in the back of your head mate. Looking forward to seeing all you soon.

Ok, so apparently like every other post the topic twists and gets off course. I am not asking for someone to take a server down or to change the unranked server. I am suggesting that the current ranked HC CTF/DEM/DOM server is made into a HC Moshpit with better map rotation. I agree with Sun Tzu, ultimately the choice will be made by the admins. Unfortunately, most of the admins in general don't play Black Ops. If you play in other servers you soon realize what works and what doesn't. I have found that most of the time mosh pit servers are constantly streaming with people. Plus, as Sun Tzu would probably agree we always had fun on MW2 with the mosh pit setup Well, keep posting support for having our current DEM/DOM server changed to a mosh pit style. Again, thank you all for your support, Dragon Slayer >XI<

Ok, this post is here for all of us that play on our Black Ops CTF/DEM/DOM server. I would like to suggest that we have the server type changed to a true Hardcore Mosh pit. That means CTF, Demolition, Domination, FFA, HQ, TDM, Sabotage, S&D and any of the other game types that I may have forgotten to mention. This means all of the maps both new and old with a decent map rotation. If you regularly play on our Black Ops server and you would like to have it changed to a true Hardcore Mosh pit please post your support. By posting your support it may help to persuade the powers that be to change the server game type for us. Thank you all for your support, Dragon Slayer >XI<