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jonesy-the-cat is Offline
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Default 03-02-2002, 11:29 AM

I pretty much agree with everything everyone said above.

Example of stupid programming:

The in-game browser makes me wait for 628 servers to refresh, apparently sorting the entire list on the ever-changing ping with each new insertion.

Finally I click on a server with 17/18 players. "Server Full." Start all over again.

So I click on another server. "Different Version." Start all over again...

Why can't I observe and wait on a queue for a position to open? And why refresh all 628 servers when I only ever look at maybe 40 of them? And why re-sort the list 628 times?

I am not going to join a server with a ping of 800, so don't even bother to show it to me. And I can't join many of the servers, because they are running a different version, so don't even bother to show them to me!!!

It would be better just to see a small list of my favorite servers to choose from.

How does All Seeing Eye do it? How do other games (like Aliens versus Predator 2) do it? Are they privy to some magic programming algorithms that EA and 2015 are barred from?

I hope they fix this stuff, or this game will have a short life, smaller sales, and less players to play with than it could have had.

I can understand cranking it out to get it released, that's business as usual. But just fix it up now. That will ensure its continued popularity for years.
  
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