Would be ideal yes

lets dream together?

yeah

1v1 ladder/rating for premium/pro

NO, simply NO!

BTT:

Standart:

+ Demo Player
+ Player Search
+Advanced Tools for Videomaking

Premium:

-Demo Player
-Player Search

+Advanced Profile (Picture, Sys-Config, Favorite "whatever" aso.)

Pro:

-Advanced Tools for Videomaking

+Possibility to host "Mini-Tourneys" (up to 8 or 16 ppl) dirrectly trough QL and to invite the players for them
+Customization of the QL Page (other colors, elements in different places)

This would be perfect imo.

yeah, thats pretty good, too bad it will never happen. ever. :'(

make \name available for premium\pro once again without changing the account name, which would be shown on the scoreboard anyway while ingame but very small

disable friends on\off-line notifications for premium

disable friends on\off-line notifications for premium

are you fucking crazy? something like that, along with half of the suggestions in the OP, are some of the worst suggestions ever.. as bad as the chat tokens or scoreboard, except worse.

a bunch of the suggestions in the OP are good, but most of them are just unfairly biased and catering to premium. standard players arent allowed to watch demos anymore? pro members get freecamming etc.? no fucking way.

Keyword in the OP is viewer. I'm guessing he's saying standard users would go on watching demos the way they do now. Prem/pro would get a (nice) user interface to select, view, and maybe control playback. Which I think would be a great idea.

having an interface to play them better is fair, but getting more tools for demos is stupid. just like getting more cvars/cmds etc.

though im all for pro members getting access to serverdemos. i dont want standard users to get everything that subscribers get, just things that would be fair.

/name sounds good

- /callvote kick in game

No, either give kick function to everyone or no one, would be just stupid if someone who's premium joined the server and acted like God, kicking everyone that he pleases.

It would be a privilege, not a right, id could remove this particular privilege to any subscriber if you provide an incriminating demo.

I would really like to believe such a function could work in quake live. Sadly, from what I am experiencing in the community, giving ANY privileges/rights to anyone always ends up bad. Really bad. It's not a bad idea per se, kinda like communism. It's the people that would ruin it and abuse it.

I've not seen many premium users teamkilling in tdm tho
And that option would be damn useful there

like they don't have anything better to do
sorting out 500 evidences/day is the perfect job for any wanna be next-gen-carmack programmer

It's not like demo evidence + support@quakelive.com is something new..

it's not like the quantity of work does matter and DOUBLEING it makes any difference

I doubt that 500 evidences/day is a realistic guess, nor that half of the sent demos would concern alleged ragekickers.

we both base our opinion on suppositions, yet unlike me you are lacking any metaphor

He can just call vote among all players, not kick at his own will.
But it anyway would be kinda weird to make this feature available only to subscribers.

Well they can't give it to everyone, would be worse than doing nothing, on the other hand the lack of in game kick is sometimes an issue, allowing it for subscribers sounds like a good compromise, but if you think the cons outweigh the pros, we can do without it, it's just a privilege among others.

I miss spiterbot, I found it more fun to play than most humans, especially on tourney4.

- cons of playing humans
- they get offended if you call gg 5 mins in the match too many times perfectly knowing that you can not make a comeback.
- they get tired of playing with you if you get raped 3 times straight and wont give you practice of 10 maps, after which you might start getting closer to their level.
-also humans tend to get tired and might not play to their 100% after 4-5 maps.

-pros of playing humans
-spiterbot was incapable of laying traps, if it sees armor it will take it, wont hide near it making you fall for it.
-humans go into this crazy +back mode where they dont engage you at all, that is no damage give/take situation, bot always wanted to give damage to you.

yeah spiterbot in ql for premium users will be great especially if the bot can be trained to learn trapping and +back.

Where can I get these bots you speak of , can't play low ping against anyone :(.

this only works with quake 3 arena version 1.32c, nobody has ported this thing to quakelive yet, I will be really happy if they picked up the ai developer of this project.

download link: http://www.fileplanet.com/133833/download/spiterbot_full_v0.52.rar

yeah I wanted them for Q3 , well thank you very much.

The bots were added to CPMA in an improved form.

Awesome

So I was playing the spiter bots any way when I set the skill level to 100
beaten em once already on hub3aeroq3.....
guess it still doesn't help to play bots except of aim practice at least,

Of course not, why would you think that they did?

However, try spiterbot on pt4, it's a bit harder.

I never thought it would help me play against actual people but I thought it might at least be a bit less predictable , either way sorry for not making it clear

play cpma, apheleon or rat bot at skill 100 are pretty good. only problem is that their movement is cpm specific, as in playing vq3 will be very weird :p

yeah I played the 100.aph bot on VQ3 and was like fight some retard who can do perfect circle jumps side ways not the best thing to do when your half asleep :D

LAN support.... good luck!

I don't agree everyone should get the same maps. At least in this state, there's less people aliasing in games!

There's also... less people in games

i've not noticed it :o)

Yeah, hard to notice, what with the overflow of pub ca/ctf/tdm/ft games being played on premium maps.

In other news, the earth is flat, moon landing was faked, juvenile is a cheater, walter is a shaolin monk, jamerio is better than cooller, paper beats scissors, i'm not a pole, port is sane, michael jackson is alive and married to elvis, american pie was better than godfather, it's always sunny in philadelphia, freddy adu was not overhyped, north korea is magical land where unicorns and wee fairies dwell, contra 3 is easy, justin bieber has geniuine talent, polos is not rulez and jc it's not a bomb.

i used to just duel and getting a game was pretty much instant everytime. I never played q3 vq3 only q3 cpm and getting a game on that was long..

Bored of poor ass whiny fuckers who can't afford to BUY something. I bet you are one of those disgusting peopel that download movies and music for free.

I bet all of those assholes who didn't subscribe are pedophiles. I bet none of them have any legit reasons not to do it. I bet they are the ones who are responsible for QL's steady decline, not id for failing to properly sell their product to them.

Does playing cpm for prolonged periods of time always damages ones brain this badly?

What I can't understand is why you aren't willing to pay for the game. It's about what 20euros for premium which gives you everything you need. If another game came out you wanted to play wouldn't you buy it?

I know all the same speech "this is basically q3 why should i pay for this" or "there is never any decent development or new features it's a waste of my cash", "the game has downtime why should i pay to not play" bla bla bla....

Reading your comments it seems you have a problem with spending money on QL which can only mean you don't think QL is worth spending money on. So my question is Why even play it? - I like many other players do enjoy QL and am happy to pay 20euros (woweee i'm a broke ass nigga now) and support the game, community and ID in all the things they have given us.

Good for you, but i'd rather spend my money on things i really care about. Thing is, I was very, very close to buying pro a few months back - then i noticed that pub premium gaming, outside of duel, is dead. And i don't play duel. Don't you think that would be a bit silly? I could blame other 'poor' lads like myself, or i could recognize the fault in id, for not delivering a product many people would deem worth paying for.

Now, see, i represent the biggest, but at the same time, least vocal QL demographic - the casual gamer. Do you honestly think a casual gamer gives a flying fuck about super duper scoreboard, a few more maps to play ffa on or being able to browse mstches from half a year ago? Wake up.

but if you don't care about QL why are you so vocal on it being everything free for everyone. I hate the clanbase website and thus refuse to look at it ever ;o) simple as!

I'm not saying everything should be free, because that would be ridiculous - i'm saying the things you pay for aren't worth it from a casual player's perspective. I like playing QL, but not enough to pay money for it and hope that one day enough people will too, thus making it worth my while. And yeah, 20 euro isn't really all that much, i know, but still.

I'm a casual gamer too, 1-2 games a night max.. but i've been playign quake since 1998 so I guess I owe them more then just buying q2 and q3 :P

I'm in the same boat as everyone else, They aren't giving us enough in ql of what we want, but I still respect them for the game.

well lets face it that u r addicted gamer who cant leave games and what we see around on this website is all what u have.. u just dont have another choise, u wasted too much time with games and wanna have smthng out from it.. not to mention ur age.. sure ur brain fits in to play with 13 y o kids )))))

nice troll attempt

Would you renew your subscription if you had the possibility to play Hektik and Aerowalk 24/7 for free?

if premium maps is the only reason to pay, I wouldn't either way

"nice troll attempt " read as: i have nothing to say but i want to say smthng back, ez meat

nice troll attempt

it's more a tournament problem I think, people in game is pretty much the same
but just try to compare spring and fall open cup seasons on clanbase
there is less then a half of teams\players in fall season dued to premium maps

And when id did a free premium maps devpick, servers were full as never before since the introduction of premium contents

There's tons of great ideas available for Quake Live. There was plenty in late 2008 as well.

Very little implementation.

I find it hard to understand why development has been relatively minor with a game that already had its artwork made and its engine programmed.

It has been 2.5 years since the open beta, a time span in which some entire games have been designed from scratch and released to multiple platforms.

Then there is the sporadic developer feedback that perpetually hints at "good things on the way".

Quakelive has a small development team. A couple are probably pulled from the project to work on rage/doom4 periodically.

Skepticism prevails among a lot of veterans (including subscribers) concerning QL, they believe the game is too old or not newb-friendly enough to have a large(r) community, stuffs like this, maybe some folks at id share the same point of view (which is plainly erroneous imo).

Because the Quake Live Manager, Syncerror, is incompetent. He should be replaced with someone who won't place his friends above the game. That's just stupid and a big reason why ql has failed in the US.

Here are 3 reasons why QL is failing and examples (taken today) of that (on US servers at least)

Lack of players. CTF, a once thriving gametype, especially. Earlier today, no players! NO PLAYERS! and this is after the fact that they changed the skillmatched locks back for CTF/TDM
http://img534.imageshack.us/i/nooneplaying.jpg/

Tierslumming. Prominent in most teamgames. this was a screenshot taken earlier this afternoon, feel free to reference the names for the actual game links. It wasn't even close...
http://img38.imageshack.us/i/qlfails.jpg/

No Community (euro or US). ESR is putting the official QL forum to shame. Example from 5:45 this afternoon. Only 34 members logged on. 34!
http://img27.imageshack.us/i/theendlp.jpg/

Seriously, this game is finished. Put a fork in it.

Oh hai prominer

oh man if there was a spiterbot (or even better!?) for QL... could even start practising some duel and stuff then without raging at idiots, i mean assholes, i mean people

Fuck all that useless shit, i want a free real life pokemon.

What fucks this community the most is that all (good) maps aren't available for all players regardless of their status. That's the biggest shit mistake ever.

I mean look at those days at QL when all gametypes and all maps are available for everyone - THE COMMUNITY IS FUCKING ALIVE - at that time. I'm premium user but I'm fucking sad when I see how TDM/FT/CTF is alive in public servers (pickups is a different sad story).

Also, more activity means more skill matched games for every tier, so downtiering/uptiering is less needed. You have higher chances to play fair games, and therefore less reasons to whine, to /ragequit, or to /quit QL cause it's full of cheaters.

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... bots? Just play Q3 - it has everything you want.

give ladders for premium/pro players. within 5 mins of that being announced, almost everyone who wants to play the game for any significant period of time will pay for premium.

why does everyone keep asking for bots to play in ql.. there's loads on servers... jaz, sombra and heartless (to name a few)

just let this game die

to go where?

to another game, as long we have kids who wanna be pro-players ( read as 4eva ) we will have the entertainment for sure

yea but the point is: what game?
I used to play cod and flight simulations games before, then I met quake, now everything is different..
cod sux now, but I wouldn't go there anymore either way
sc2 is just a bitch imho, stealing players to other games just because is THE game of the moment...
and it's boring if you ask me

I can only think to quake 5, but I don't think it is coming out soon, or ever... for that matters

let this game die ain't so easy, cause rightnow there's nothing for a quaker to change it with
quake it's not about tournament, it's a lifestyle
sort of...
so you can't say there will always be a game to move on as long as there are pro tournaments circuits

what game? mb q5.. if u need smthng then there will be always a human who gonna cell u this product. Its just if its dying its ok and dont need to panic, we will find another funny things to do or games to play 4sure.About lifestyle.. how long u think its ok to play games? if u play long then its smthng like big kid who didnt find another hobbys in life.. image u meet a girl and say her that u playing video games for hours every day.. how will she react? ofc.. she dont gonna think serious about u.. unless she is a hardcore gamer like u )) and yes, there will be always a game u can watch on stream, the other question is do u like it or not..

What in the hell are you talking about?

the story of his life

lol.

you must come from a very small town my friend.. like where time stopped or somethin:D

Don't you think that the best way to get subscribers is to have a huge community rather than a small one?

that's why we have only a bunch of game locations!!!!!!
oh wait

just try to compare spring and fall open cup seasons on clanbase
there is less then a half of teams\players in fall season dued to premium maps

And when id did a free premium maps devpick, servers were full as never before since the introduction of premium contents

Also, http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?8385

ō_O

wot? ye I'm already aware of that, it's not like they'r gonna care about it tho

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who's the tall one outside of the picture

thats the invisible puppetmaster who pulling the strings aka zenimax =D

i agree

Added 2 examples btw:

- No auto-log off for inactivity
- QL chat status (AFK, available for a duel, etc.)

smart idea.

+Offline messages please!

You mean the ability to send a private msg to an offline friend, right?

Yea, sure. And would be nice to have some inbox not only chat. Much easier to organise games.

play sound\feedback\excellent

It's almost 2 years and we even don't have a proper id-made demo player and u want gtv/ladders/lan play.. good luck with that. With this speed we prolly gonna get 2 new crosshairs in the next 'big update'. Is ID development team lazy, unskilled or just doesnt give a f*ck?

They are not lazy, nor unslilled. It's just that the Team for Quake Live is super small. When they've brought out the training maps the team consisted of:

T. Besset
P. Duffy
J. Keehan
D. Koenig
A. Miller
Y. Ostretsov
A. Pyle
J. Raphael
M. Stratton

(Taken from the Rocket-Jump training-map at the bottom of the last regular-jump)

,where as Epic had Around 80 people working fulltime on developing Unreal Tournament 3.

Ofcourse developing Quake Live is "only" porting Quake 3 and it's Addons to the web, but it still takes some time to do this, plus some of the people from the QL-Team work on Rage/Doom 4 so they have again less time to work on QL.

If id Software would invest a lot of money and hire a full team to work on QL we would get the things mentioned above plus a lot more in no time, but id won't invest money in a project that can't generate real profit for them. QL is nothing but a test-enviroment for their future games and won't be seen as a full game by id.

QL has got a lot of potential and if they implemented at least half of the things mentioned in this thread, they could make it very profitable. It's their own fault they dont make any or make a small profit from it.

No it's not their fault. If they would like to make profit out of it, they would have had to sell it as a new fullprize game, but that does not work, because there allready is a Quake 3 available for ~5$ and noone would give a fuck about QL since they can play Q3 with everything QL has. They decidet to make QL free to play and to ad a subscription-system to it to atleast cover the most important expences QL is causing (originally they wanted to run the game only by ingame-adverts but this idea failed horribly since noone wanted to pay for this adverts, especially if they don't work properly).

If id Software would invest a lot of money and hire a full team to work on QL

IMHO something like 10 peeps working fully on QL would be enough to implement all the things listed here fastly, and 10 peeps is just 5% of id employees.

I don't think the lack of money is a real issue.

lol, it's amazing how many people haven't figured out this game has been doa. The quake franchise is finished, then again it was over with Quake 4 anyways.

I dont get why anyone would be so cheap as to not pay 24 bucks if they are playing the game. Except perhaps if they live on wellfare or something, but then quake they should probably not be their priority anyway.

For me, there are already some valid reasons in comments #17, #21 or #36

It's paradoxical but if, let's say, the premium "Q3 maps" and FT were available to everyone, I'd subscribe immediately.

To a certain extent, I can understand why QL itself is "low priority" for id (or Zenimax), but, guys, at least give us a Quake "alive".. I mean more players to play with, a growing community, etc. It's just a matter of will.. The premium servers could be populated 24/7 worldwide instead of being empty. Tons of newbs on Overkill, Overlord, iFT.. Old schoolers on cp1, cp5, Thunderstruck, FT.. I don't see how it could be a bad thing for QL.

hmmm...interesting find by yours truly:

17-18K players have the LAST LAUGH award (more kills than deaths in a single game, lol)

51 of my QL friends have this award, same number or 2-3 less than QL-subscribers

not suprised by that. You'd never find a stat like that in a game like warcraft3 where the average person has a sub 50% win record. If you're one of the few to have more wins than losses than you are usually towards the top of the ladder/leaderboard. That just shows how seriously flawed the skillmatching system is on quake live and why this game will never progress forward. That + the fact that this game is not advertised to anyone is the reason it never got off the ground. Whoever at Bethesda is in charge of overlooking the progress of this game & quality control of it's product and the developers should be fired. Either that or the developers of this game have been lying to bethesda about it's success/# of subscribers. That wouldn't surprise me either as i doubt anyone from Id's parent company is actually overseeing the project at all as it's undeniable that the playerbase has almost halfed since last year.

ok if you think thats what i'm saying, anon



hint: that award is premium members only

Are you implying there are close to 20,000 subscribers. You don't really think that do you. Do the math and tell me if you still believe that. 20,000x50 = PLENTY OF money to advertise, etc. Sounds like someone is just pocketing the money then.

I don't know if I'd blame Bethesda for the apparent lack of communication and progress on quakelive. From what I remember, prior to id being bought those things were only marginally better than what they have been.

well Id's parent company is still certainly pulling the strings based on all acounts and a big reason why ql hasn't been advertised more and why we so little transparency is seen on the ql dev subforum. But either way, you're right, id is rather poor at communication in general. Seems they're too busy playing together on friday nights with their .403/.404 crew than actually talking to the playerbase (non employees).

I don't know the focus forums but from my pov qlive is kinda run by the community again - only difference is a QA instance which is id itself

More essential useless privileges:

- KillCam in CA (unless it gives an advantage)
- Alt +acc displaying only accuracies of the last ten seconds

most of them never gonna hPPEN

nice list of things it would be *great* to have.

But do you honestly believe 95% of the people playing quakelive give a flying f... about any of those things?

they just want to point and click pew pew

A tremendous majority of them would like to have at least one of those things, yes.

The question is how many would pay for it? In terms of percentage, not much, I'm well aware of that, but it's not necessarily bad by itself and that's already the current situation today anyway.

A low percentage of people subscribing is not a problem if the playerbase is huge.

I like the idea but it wont happen :(

Quake Live might be saved by a cooperative "campaign" mode- with coop maps of course, of necessity. This would give people of highly disparate skill levels a much better way to ENJOY a game together. What do you guys think? It's been done already with COOP OR DIE, and in Quake Life.

Also, maybe they could slap that on top of a random level generator, like the one in NetHack, if it stacked multiple levels to form one game area. ;)

(Anonymous, a.k.a. turbofunk)