Crossfire in PC Gamer August 2004

[Zortan]

Just thought I'd let you guys know.. I saw a snippit about crossfire in the August PC Gamer!

Yey! More players should be coming soon?

[Ryo]

Nice ! Now we'll get maaaaaany bug reports, and new ideas suggestions

[Zortan]

Heh.. it was funny.. getting a coffee at B&N and thought "Heck, might as well see if I remember how to read".. instead I was looking at pictures.. Pages and pages of great graphics, 3-D games, and whatnot.. all the sudden.. "Hey! What's that! I know that game!"..

Crossfire! Yey!

[mrbrklyn]

Heh.. it was funny.. getting a coffee at B&N and thought "Heck, might as well see if I remember how to read".. instead I was looking at pictures.. Pages and pages of great graphics, 3-D games, and whatnot.. all the sudden.. "Hey! What's that! I know that game!"..

Crossfire! Yey!

That's been a blessing and a curse (pun intended).

The DM's will be working overtime

[bort]

The curse (and blessing) with CF is that it has 10s of servers. and no real ranking in the client. More multiplayer play means more people should try one server.

[Casper]

are you suggesting that when displaying a list of servers to connect to the client should sort it by nrof clients signed into the server? So, for example to play on crossfire.metalforge.net you alwys hit 1 ? (apart from the rare server crashes)

[bort]

Yes. There should be a ranking system by the number of connections and frequencity of visits to particular servers. The more players on one server, the more chance the'll spot a bug. And I'd love to see metalforge not lag, but more players means more connections, which means optimizing code is now needed too.