the STATE OF INFILTRATION!

[NTKB]

Its pleasing to announce I have not seen this much developement going on in a loooong time. Ive been playing INF since the first months of 2001 and its amazing! I dont think ive ever seen this much dev going on ever! Maps are being cranked out, mutators flowing and new members arriving daily. We have added 4 new members to Ghost Dogs alone! It brings warmth to my heart to see so many new faces appreciating this fine mod.

Anyone who doubts the future of INF must truely be a pessimist. I look forward with eager anticipation to all the new conversions and other goodies on the way! Keep up the good job eveyone who is deving! :tup:

 

[geogob]

That's what I was observing too... the INF community is well alive and kicking. It seems that everyone works to give their little input. Major developpement projects as much as smaller, but nonetheless important, projects are underway. Old clans are forming back, new clans get formed.

Since the release of 2.9, I also think we had the highest density of release from official INF developpers. Eventhoug those release are minor releases or intended as exemples for developpers, they help to bring this community up to it's current state of activity. I think that Beppo did (and is still doing) a great job in supporting the developpement community.

I think INF is doing pretty well, even if it isn't the largest mod community out there...

 

[Vega-don]

yes were a small community but it is an active community .

beppo is realy active and thats cool. many people are contributing to the game wich is amazing .. mutators, maps , conversions , even weapons!
theire is even a clanmate working on a weapon attachement

clanvega has 4 new members , mostly are newbies who came with 2.9 , and a 5th and a 6th is on the way (he's waiting for his copy of unreal tournament) , sure all arent serial killers like me , but its cool to play with many people

i am in the process of giving my ut+inf 2.9 cd to 2 person , one friend and my cousin, to play to

inf 2.9 is good enough to keep me busy for the video games untill inf 2k3 I dont care of the old engine.

 

[{GD}Ghost]

I, also, am really glad to see that things have picked up. The current activities have breathed new life into this community and is effecting everyone in a very positive way.

I never thought I'd be able to have this much fun with INF again, but since the release of 2.9 and the subsequent developemental project and such, {GD} has pulled back together as well as many other long dormat Clans and players. I'm having a blast again and looking forward to see who puts out what next.

Thanks to all involved.

P.S.: Now if we can get these damned post rank avatars working again, that'd be great.

 

[DarkBls]

I would like to see even more people online. And in Specialist server too.

P.S.: Now if we can get these damned post rank avatars working again, that'd be great.

Well, Since I don't have thme anymore on my HD + I'm not an admin, not even a mod anymore + we don't have our own forum to customized it = You'll not have a rank system tommorow !

 

[Keganator]

Unless we move all the Official Forums to PlanetInfiltration.com (come on, Smoerble! )

 

[jaymian]

I laugh when I see more posts in Dev Forum. I guess it's pretty cool.

 

[spm1138]

You'll not have a rank system tommorow !

Why doesn't everyone who wants a rank choose a rank and put the appropriate image in their own avatar?

Personally I quite like my chicken foetus and smartarse quote.

 

[[C22]-Acolyte]

There's a lot of developing going on I agree, but the servers remain empty

 

[das_ben]

There rarely are less than 20 people online in the evening [European time], yesterday there were 51.

 

[[C22]-Acolyte]

Well yeah but in the Glory Days of Inf there were people playing almost every hour of the day, not just in the evenings

"Rarely less than 20" was also when we were playing 2.86 and even then people were complaining that the server were empty

 

[[C22]-SpOOky]

I wish i could agree that things are looking up .. yes there is alot of action from a small part of the community But i dont see much growth

Infact it seems the communtiy is already shrinking again

30th Jan 2002 - 4474 ranked players
10th Oct 2003 - 576 ranked players
INF 2.9 released
10th Dec 2003 - 927 ranked players
27th Dec 2003 - 1290 ranked players
3rd Feb 2004 - 854 ranked players

Some of thease players will be the same players useing differant nicks

Im sure some of you will say its still early .. But the UT engine is now so old there is not so many people looking for mods that run on it

We are along way from Inf glory days
I dont play any 1st person shooters But infiltration and i dont see anything that apeals to me except Inf But i feel our small commmunity will only get smaller since i dont see were any surge of new blood is gonna come from
And Infiltration as great as it is .. still is not very newb friendly
so i think some of those people who do start playing Inf wont stay for long due to Long waits on servers that often leads to people leaveing servers ..No way of monitoring your stats also dont help IMO and only a few servers can hold a decent amount of players without lagging

I feel Infiltration has taken things too far .. great game great idea, But too extream for Most peoples tastes

PS: I Hope im wrong .. id love nothing more than to see our communtiy reach the hights it did in its glory days
I would like to see inf on a newer engine .. What are the plans for the Inf team ?
Have you been pimping Inf to game companies ?

 

[keihaswarrior]

Well yeah but in the Glory Days of Inf there were people playing almost every hour of the day, not just in the evenings

"Rarely less than 20" was also when we were playing 2.86 and even then people were complaining that the server were empty

Well I don't know what you mean by the "Glory Days" because I wasn't around before 2.86, but Infiltration has not been this popular since December 2002.

Edit: Spooky, check your stats, the latest count for INF is 1,317 players.

 

[Vega-don]

the community is active but its true that theire is not to much people playing

 

[DarkBls]

...I feel Infiltration has taken things too far .. great game great idea, But too extream for Most peoples tastes...

I don't think INF is done to please the mass. There are a lot of doom like out there to satisfy them all. But for realism fan , The ONLY ONE I see is INF. So according to me, push the realism deeper !

 

[MP_Lord_Kee]

What DarkBls said. I don't think I'd enjoy inf as much if there where 100s of servers with 1000s of players. I sort of like this somewhat small community, you get to know the people better, less stupid acting people etc. As it is now, you always know atleast someone on the servers and usually someone even recognizes me
Just my 0.2€

//Kee

 

[[C22]-SpOOky]

I love realism as much as you all
But it is still a game .. and like all games you need fun .. and a sence of personal achivement

Waiting 20 mins to play aint fun .. laggy servers aint fun .. and if u want good stats best thing to do is camp your ass off and dont suport your team

All im saying is .. i think too much concideration was given to certain things while other issues seem not to have been conciderd

Sure its good to have wave spawning..But it aint fun to play on a server and almost Every match people leave ( i asume coz they are dead and bored of waiting)
So quite often you start with a full balanced teams and often finnish with the looseing team having lost 50% of its players
This is not the games fault so much but more that people who are looseing/dieing get bored .

Maybe if we do ever get a statboard mod it will encorage people to stay untill the end and continue playing so they can see their stats .

 

[DarkBls]

I see inf like an Infentry simulator wanabee. There are a lot of fyling simulator out htere. Some are even very close to the reality. (You can barely learn how to become a pilot). So why not for a battle filed ?

 

[{GD}Ghost]

Unfortunately, you cannot judge quality of a game by the number of people that play it. This is especially true of a game that has not been mass marketed, but that is besides the point.

I could care less if all the servers are full 24/7 or not. All I care about is that I can enjoy playing Infiltration with those I've become aquainted with. As long as the {GD} server is full of our friends having a good time together, (which it is quite often) I'm happy.

 

[DarkBls]

Yes.
Always prefer QUALITY over QUANTITY.