I live in Alaska and I never have trouble finding matches. In fact, I'm rapidly approaching 1000 games played. I never have to wait more than 2 minutes for a game anymore.
It is like people playing different games... Majority of us having problems getting a match, but there are 3 or 4 who "always get it in 20 seconds"...
Go figure.
Just as a test I've tried to get a game now... 45 minutes with no match in DM..
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Is that Henri waiting?
No Offence intended.
I can't remember when I last used Steam to launch ED, can you also launch Arena via a launcher without using Steam?
It's the frst time I've ever posted a Steam stat like this I believe... but don't let that slow you down now you're seemingly on arantroll...
I will anyway... I thought the screen was quite funny... The thought of a single player in the whole world, all alone in a lobby
ps: Maybe lighten up a bit?
Hit a nerve me thinks.:O
I've spent 3 hours in the lobby today, good connection and everything. nothing pops up. friend of mine keeps getting battles all the time. we've been playing about the same time, both using same game mode (Team Deathmatch) he is now prestige 4, rank 47, and because lack of matches, I am Prestige 0 rank 41... how the heck am I supposed to level up when I'm not getting any matches at all? This SERIOUSLY needs to be fixed. ASAP!
Well it clearly has not the interest behind it it needs. Ontop why would one owning Elite being able to spacecombat already want to have a paid "demo version". Because the game truly isn't more than this.
I find it quite a weird excuse of FD that this is made to lure people into Elite. If they really wanted to lure people into Elite they should talk with steam about a free elite weekend so that anyone and his grandma tries the game.
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I am to understand that some Steam owners of Arena are unable to connect on demand to the server. It is has been suggested to try using a direct client launcher. I get the frustration about not being able to connect, of not being able to connect and play with your friends, I truly do. There are some very good low bandwidth third party apps for voice and txt chats, Team speak comes immediately to mind. My own ISP is very quick within the continental U.S., however, I too am not always able to connect to a match, and I have yet to see anyone of my friends in game even though we live across the street from each other. So I used Speedtest.net to see what my various rates outside the US are. My ISP rates are less then average to continental Europe with a small increase to England (avg ping 130-150ish), same to South America. For rates to Australia, it is well over 200ms latency. So until I can convince Mrs Turkey to release funds for a hyper connected, fiber, networked, direct brain machine neural implant to Cambridge, I deal with it. The connection time outs, being unable to find a match, lag, etc., etc., etc. I accept it for what it is, the nature of the beast of a global internet and thankful that I am not living in 1984 B.I. (before internet).
I am also to understand that some of you feel that the release of Arena could of been managed better or marketed better or is underperforming in its brief Steam debut or somesuch... I recently read a biography on Elon Musk and he was facing some similar criticism about a large project he was managing and he gave a very Alexander the Great response. If you believe you can do better by all means go out and do it. Well maybe not in those exact words... you see if you present suggestions for change and improvement with a more professional approach, with tangible metrics to support your agruments then I maybe inclined to agree with you and consider your points valid.
Finally, as to why one owning a full product would want to have additional access to more accounts at a cheaper rate? Well, for starters I can have more accounts with which to club, so sorry, compete with. Several solo players would prefer a session in CQC/Arena rather than risk open play I imagine, for a small bit of PvP action. I also can have a bit of amimenity from my main game accounts with which to club, sorry, sorry again, with which to compete with.
Mrs Turkey desires me to state that I am not employed by Fontier Development, nor related to any employee of Frontier, that our distant relatives are in Lincolnshire and that I am merrily, merely, expressing my humble opinions and is no longer a salty sea going turkey of his youth and needs to come take out the trash. I do look forward to more future discussions.
Cheers
I am also to understand that some of you feel that the release of Arena could of been managed better or marketed better or is underperforming in its brief Steam debut or somesuch... I recently read a biography on Elon Musk and he was facing some similar criticism about a large project he was managing and he gave a very Alexander the Great response. If you believe you can do better by all means go out and do it. Well maybe not in those exact words... you see if you present suggestions for change and improvement with a more professional approach, with tangible metrics to support your agruments then I maybe inclined to agree with you and consider your points valid.
Finally, as to why one owning a full product would want to have additional access to more accounts at a cheaper rate? Well, for starters I can have more accounts with which to club, so sorry, compete with. Several solo players would prefer a session in CQC/Arena rather than risk open play I imagine, for a small bit of PvP action. I also can have a bit of amimenity from my main game accounts with which to club, sorry, sorry again, with which to compete with.
Mrs Turkey desires me to state that I am not employed by Fontier Development, nor related to any employee of Frontier, that our distant relatives are in Lincolnshire and that I am merrily, merely, expressing my humble opinions and is no longer a salty sea going turkey of his youth and needs to come take out the trash. I do look forward to more future discussions.
Cheers
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Figures are based on actual in game observations made from various data points prior to the Ides, the 15th of March....
You ever notice the what the announcements in the lobby are saying?....
*slides several full pint glasses down the bar, one stops in front of you*....
*goes back to reading the paper*
You ever notice the what the announcements in the lobby are saying?....
*slides several full pint glasses down the bar, one stops in front of you*....
*goes back to reading the paper*
That would lift the number of players from the current 5000 or so to possibly millions, and how could FD afford to pay that server bill??
I have a better idea. FD puts out a demo using offline mode...
Well i am sure steam could cluster these offers locally to coutnires so that nto millions would try ot at once. or yes an offline demo. Thy just need to limit this to like 10 systems or such. Good old times when devs were confident enough of their demos to convince people buying their game by testing instead of hyping and selling on hopes directly.
Oh those glorious days!
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Now we get you to pay to alpha and beta test software it gives us longer to spend in our luxury mansions that we can now afford... Free demo's, what were we thinking!
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You have problems with P2P networking on wich the game is based on, you need to configure your modem and firewall settings
to be able to play Elite, I had similar issues several times after diffirent patches, I would not see other players or couldnt chat,enter same instance,wing up.
Its shameful for Frontier to have CQC on p2p networking, there should be game servers only if nothing to prevent cheating.
Incorrect. There is nothing wrong with my network configuration or firewall configurations, but thank you for that suggestion that could have been. Game plays fine on p2p network and I can not recall seeing a cheat in over 6 weeks of playing. I can recall seeing some minor de-syncing and minor lag issues though, but that is to be expected.
SO what "shameless" alternative format would you like to see Arena in, if not p2p with a host server?
In the 90s there were many more stinkers than today.
In fact many demos were the best bit of the game whiles the rest of the game would never live up to it.