Suggestion: Teamwork Tuesday (Or any other day of the week)

b.pronk(nl) wrote:- ALL Clans must bring their "a-game" (iirc) to the table. Any clans that do play in service of their team will be banned for the night (Might be too harsh  ) Too harsh and not in the spirit of the day/evening, normal rules and normal !w, !k, !tb, !b would be in play.

Well let's not teamstack and rape all the pubbies, I know that it's fun but not for this night. And of course it is "our duty" to show how it's done. So no Clan-member only squads from our side when there are no other proper squads.  It has been proven time and time again that 'team-stacking' is a mental idea not a physical reality.  Clan-member only squads happen because  we are a gaming community who enjoy playing games together, plus we know what clan members are like, we know each other's playstyles and we enjoy each other's company.  An idea might be to ask people to have a couple of non clan members at least.


Pro's


Well the server will benefit from it since it will scare away the people whom are only playing for their own K/Ds and 1337 missions from which the team and game doesn't benefit. No it won't, these people will still exist and will still want to play on our server.  Kicking them off the server won't make them change their attitude, it will piss them off and make them rage/flame us, either on these forums or on the PR forums and/or mean they won't play on our server again, both of which are not good outcomes.

We can maybe play more types of game modes since the teams will actually be able to play them properly. There are 2 types of game mode, AAS and INS.  Vehicle warfare turns into a destruction derby and Command and Control is horrible (seriously if you have played it it's almost worst than ins)

We will be able to attract more teamwork focused players again since as of lately I found them more on other servers than on our server. This might happen, but at the end of the day requiring teamwork and maturity is already a server rule and we still get dickheads players who are not teamwork orientated.

Better gameplay.

Players can develop better than on a server where people are just screwing around. I wouldn't say people screw around on any server apart from 2 times, seeding and dying.

Cons


Well we will lose people, but in my opinion those are the players that you rather don't want to have on your server or anywhere near you. We really cannot be losing people at the moment, PRTA and HOG are getting bigger and bigger, if either of them opens another server and can successfully admin/seed it then we would have BIG problems, we need to be focusing on getting a better report with more clans and more players.

Some clans will join other servers instead because they are used to fighting for their own in the middle of nowhere (=TSF= in my opinion is a good example in how they play, this is a personal opinion). As above, helping other servers seed/gain population is a good reason not to do this.  At the end of the day we are paying £60 a month for a server, it used to be full from 10/11am until 3am, these days we are lucky if it seeds before 13:00 and if it lasts past 23:30/00:00, we need to be getting more players involved in the game and more players involved in our server.

It takes some effort, some people have to turn up a notch (iirc) and some aren't used to do that. Personally, PR isn't a game I come on and not play at my best, I've got DayZ, War Thunder,  Dota2, BF3, single player games for that.

It takes some time before it will get very successful because some folks have to get used to another kind of environment. The environment will not change, admin styles will not change (ie we won't be extra zealous with the rules, and kicking people is making more enemies).

Some members and other players whom don't like the serious and "hardcore" PR stuff might want to avoid this evening. PR is a tactical game, as above, PR is a game which many (if not all) people play in a serious manner, going over the top with the seriousness will probably result in a negative outcome

In Short


Everyone takes charge and shows their "a-game". Rules will be stricter for this day/evening and everything will be teamwork and tactical orientated. This takes some effort and some people might want to avoid this evening/day. As said earlier, rules and rule enforcement will NOT be changed.

What do you guys think about this? Post this below. If offended anyone it didn't mean to do that. I just want to help and put some more effort into the quality of the gameplay.

Despite my comments above this has a good idea behind it, however, a poor implementation.  If you want to improve the quality of the players on the server then the way to go about that is to improve the popularity of the server and to get to know the pubbers.  A better implementation would be to suggest that clan members try to make squads that include pubbers, rather than having 2 x 6man NwA squads, go for 3 or 4 squads with 3-4 NwA players and 2-3 pubbers.  Also it might be an idea for clan members to try playing roles they don't usually play.  Personally I have been playing a lot of assets recently so a goal for me would be to play more infantry roles or even go as commander.  Another way to encourage better gameplay would be to give incentives for playing as commander (don't know what/how but a commander makes a big difference to a team's success usually).

A final note from me is to ask all clan members to have a more relaxed approach to the public.  The PR community is pretty small these days (let's be honest there are 4-5 servers that are full on a regular basis) and if we are increasingly offensive to players and ban them all then we will soon end up paying a load of money for a server we don't fill, and that would be a shame.