#1: Working Anticheat - It's getting beyond ridiculous at the moment, and we can't really tell if the recent bans are because of verified cheating or not

#2: Revamp Subscription System - Remove the intermediate Premium accounts, make all maps, freeze tag, and domination available for Free To Play, and assign everything else under Pro Account (private servers, clan management, other game modes, enhanced stats, etc)

#3: Email confirmation for new accounts - The avalanche of fake accounts is also getting out of hand

#4: More regular updates - Instead of releasing new content in large heaps every six months, the community would appreciate smaller yet more regular updates. I'm sure this will make post-update-patches easier to handle too

#5: Nothing else... I'd be happy with just those changes for now. Although I would like id software to try and use the in-game advertising system to its full potential, those ad-banners don't really detract from the games aesthetic and would work really well. Ad more in-game banners if necessary for fucks sake!

Edit: I saw a good idea floating around, online co-op support for fighting against bots. This is the ideal way for a couple of newcomers to test out QL in all it's glory without getting sodomized after 3 minutes.

#3: actually, I think, that if there will ever be good working anitcheat, then people should be able play with no registration at all, it just makes it more streamlined for new people trying out the game. And do you really care, whether you play against username1 or username2, or that they may be someone's fakes, etc?

The fact that I detest fake faggotry aside, it's also standard practice to make sure the user has introduced the correct email incase he / she later forgets the password.

most of these things are a complete joke that only make the game more annoying for legitimate users. seriously, rofl. "anticheat" is such a horrendous idea that will be a complete failure, just like punkbuster.

and e-mail verification? are you even serious? that is the most obnoxious thing in the history of websites, all while being completely worthless from a perspective of "security." you want to expand airport patdowns and body scans, too?

compulsive troll, cheater & fake-nicker detected :o

if you say so.

http://www.quakelive.com/#!profile/summary/wotan

theres wotans fake nick.


but ya i agree an anticheat is not really that effective. and who cares about bots if they not on fake accounts and will be tier placed.

and banning right now is fruitless cause alts can just proxy on new warping accounts. What we need is verified credit cards and cell phone numbers to tie account numbers to.

its that simple. get rid of fake accounts and you get rid of most of the fakes period.

Also the anit cheat system in beta was fine. people were getting banned left and right. I don't believe honest people were getting banned...and i don't believe pb was causing any honest player connection problems either..... red flag on stats again too I say...


oh and add public unranked servers and add an autobalance to pubs as well.

>> anticheat is not really that effective

Why not?

well its better then nothing... and does help.
its also like that adt sign or beware of dog. Even if you don't have one.....it deters random people.

But these hackers program new bots all the time like losers and the thing is even if you ban these guys they just make new accounts anyways.

I truly believe like 80% of the players in the pubs now are scumbag botting alts. I really believe this now. .. its disgusting.

and lemme just tell you.....avoiding them is not a reason to subscribe for me. Cause then i'll just be playing against more people who are just as good and much better without bots. and there wouldn't be much diff....

"I truly believe like 80% of the players in the pubs now are scumbag botting alts. I really believe this now. .. its disgusting."

rofl that's so hilarious. I have been playing this game for 6 weeks (7 days game time) and I've seen one cheater for sure, and have suspected two others. The problem is you can't fathom that most people are so much better than you while having so much less time played. You have over a month of game time and can't even get to t4, that's unacceptable to consider yourself a good player. You aren't, so just realize that and shut your mouth. You are the village idiot of the community. Realize that most people are much better than you and that you don't have the talent to recognize what is possible, and therefore all of your accusations are moot. No one gives a shit about alt accounts, id allows it for a reason. Most alt accounts are people who don't want to be identified for two reasons:

1) they aren't on their "a" game and don't want to be accountable if they are beaten

2) experimenting with new equipment/setups etc.

Basically, #1 covers all reasons. They don't want to be identified because their situation is not perfect at the time, whether they be tired or whatever their reason is. It's just plain none of your business, and it does not mean that they are cheating. Your lack of ability to fathom how good players can get is causing all of your paranoia.

A lot of FPS players (especially quake) have been playing for 10+ years. FPS skill transfers from game to game because it's always just pointing and clicking. With Quake ppl tend to call players with bad movement but good rails cheaters (which is me) but the truth is that the rail gun transfers generic FPS aim more than any other gun in quake. So old FPS players who are new to quake are almost certainly going to be railing well with shitty movement.

Coolout, just try and mind your own business and have fun. Either that or quit, because I think you turn new players away from the game more than any other one person. I know that's the opposite of what you want, so please, take my advice.

btw this is vdp hakk03, I'm at work and saw your post and just had to comment. I will register later before you call me some alt hacker or whatever the fuck you say. You need to make a new account, leave cooloutac behind, and have some fucking fun. Or quit. No one likes coolout :(

"rofl that's so hilarious. I have been playing this game for 6 weeks (7 days game time) and I've seen one cheater for sure, and have suspected two others. The problem is you can't fathom that most people are so much better than you while having so much less time played. You have over a month of game time and can't even get to t4, that's unacceptable to consider yourself a good player. You aren't, so just realize that and shut your mouth. You are the village idiot of the community. Realize that most people are much better than you and that you don't have the talent to recognize what is possible, and therefore all of your accusations are moot. No one gives a shit about alt accounts, id allows it for a reason. Most alt accounts are people who don't want to be identified for two reasons:

1) they aren't on their "a" game and don't want to be accountable if they are beaten

2) experimenting with new equipment/setups etc."



w/e dude any account made within the past couple months is suspect to me...and so:

1) you think its ok for them to fake their skill then. I see....fkn unreal.....you little nerd. Your basically saying its ok to cheat. This one MAIN reason why alts should not be allowed. everyone has streaks and slumps...its what makes us humans.... you have fake stats if u play on another account when ur in a slump......WOW....welcome to fkn quake live.

2) do this is an UNRANKED SERVER.......is that so har? or go to a fkn practice arena. JESUS CHRIST.....this can't be a real reply. You can't seriously be trying to argue these points...are you really? WOW......


"
A lot of FPS players (especially quake) have been playing for 10+ years. FPS skill transfers from game to game because it's always just pointing and clicking. With Quake ppl tend to call players with bad movement but good rails cheaters (which is me) but the truth is that the rail gun transfers generic FPS aim more than any other gun in quake. So old FPS players who are new to quake are almost certainly going to be railing well with shitty movement. "

check my fkn profile if u think i'm a whiny sore loser. I'm an avg player with a positive k/d and win/loss. but thats with working hard for it. WE ALL HAVE BEEN PLAYING QUAKE AND FPS GAMES FOR OVER 10 YEARS.... you know how I know this? cause no newb in his right mind would ever play this fkn game unlress he was retarded and sadistic! and i'm sorry i disagree playing another fps game like tf2...will just make you SUCK MORE at quake... wtf are you talking about. diff sensitivities...diff weapons.....i can't tell if u gullible or just another cheater.

You basically condone and defend cheating with your replies. And imo people like you are why this game is dead!

This is supposedly a competitive game...and ID expects people to drop money on it when they can't take a game seriously? fail.

all aboard the tardis

Why is anticheat such a horrendous idea?

its not at all. but its not enough.

qltv

Good idea.

Actually, i'd like to recap my wishlist from last year:

1) Ladders, tourneys, cups and leagues, available and accessible on-site.
2) Advertising.
3) Integrated IRC client.
4) Integrated voice comm.
5) Better engine optimization.
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6) Ability to change nickname (separate account name from in-game name).
7) GTV.
8) More gametypes (i'd love some TF-like shit a'la Weapons Factory).
9) MVD.
10) More interaction with the community.

1) Nope.
2) Nope.
3) Nope. (Yes, there is QLPrism, i know, but that has nothing to do with anything)
4) Nope.
5) Nope.
-- extra round
6) Nope.
7) Nope.
8) No... wait! Actually, yes! Oh thank god they did SOMETHING rig- *checks the server list, sees they're all premium and dead*... oh.
9) Nope.
10) Hurr.

Alright then, new list:

1) Ladders, tourneys, cups and leagues, available and accessible on-site.
2) Make all gametypes non-premium. End their suffering.
3) A few new non-premium maps.
4) An actual anti-cheat.
5) Don't die please.

5) Don't die please.

:D

HAHAHA YOU FUCKING IDIOT

honestly youre a nice guy dude but cmon... dont waste your time. everyone knows what are the biggest problems of ql. the developer knows it as well they just wont come out to front and tell you: "hey you know what? we take a huge pile of shit on this game but keep subbing bro."
what are you hoping for? the absolutely best outcome can happen is like they take your list and thank you than months later inventing 2 new premium only gametypes...

but here you go:
1, anti-cheat
2, ladders / tourney system
3, complete revamp of site interface, that is actually lives up to modern industry standard

...suuurpriiise. same as it was 1-2-3 years ago, but hey this year may be different! nevermind ql is in a worst state than it ever was before, you just need to hit the bottom low to rise up from the ashes like a pheonix.
i dont even want 5 things, this is only 3. to be honest even if one of these 3 things comes into reality id be fucking extatic. id be celebrating so hard id be drunk for a whole week...

Please fix the bug where the opponent's name comes up in the center of the screen, even though I never saw them - I can't think of a better way to word this - but it's very distracting and confusing.

Is that a bug? I always thought it was just me not noticing them because they appeared really briefly or only a few pixels were visible.

The anti cheat is still here.
And, no , they will never ban the paying subscribers

proof about your 2nd point?

heck, proof of 1st? :D

We've unfortunately had to ban dozens of subscribers for cheating in the past couple of months. A subscription will not protect you from getting banned if you're cheating.

On a scale of 1 to 100, how accurate is your cheat detection system? I other words, what is the margin of error? In other other words, what are the chances that someone will get wrongfully accused of cheating?

Seeing as id carefully evades any concrete talk about anti-cheat, I suspect that it's something like id admins manually spec reported players with shownormals enabled and make their best guess.

Your suspicion isn't good enough for me. Also, there have been many reported cases of Syncerror joining a server and kicking someone after just a few seconds.

This is also suspicion which won't be good enough for you, but what is seen as joining could be actually not joining, but simply becoming visible.

MIND = BLOWN

But surely, if they had such capabilities, it would have been announced, to put off as many potential cheaters as possible?

you into politician career lately?

Well they have a great system in place. You pay 12 months at a time. They get their money anyway.

By banning paying subscribers they get the best possible result - they get their money and have the opportunity to create a better gaming environment for all the other costumers.

You could pay beyond twice the cost of a premium account for a triple A POS COD/BF title that no one will play a year hence...you know...when the new generic iteration comes out...and you moronically shovel another 60 bucks out of your pocket for it . There are things bugging people about QL, but to pretend you aren't getting value is ridiculous. It's the most competent FPS to date, tightest gameplay, available free OR more if you want. If you WANTED the more that they offered, what are you angry about? 2 prem subs guaruntees you 2 years of access with money to spare in comparison to AAA titles with poor mechanics that publishers intentionally kill yearly just to sell the EXACT same game in time for next christmas.

QL is not a rip-off, it just isn't what we all know it can be.

1. Implement "defrag" mod, with community's maps and ladder system.
2. New options of payment for premium/pro (like paypal, or smth).
3. Fix the site code... there is so much bugs and it's so annoying.
4. Add real anti-cheat! It's really needed!
5. Work on the interaction with the community and add new, better tutorials for new players!

EDIT: And a last, small thing I want to be added and forgot to mention is some beep sound when the message is coming on that quake live chat thing. Would be good if it won't work while in-game.

1) anticheat anticheat and anticheat (only one anticheat will do though)
2) y no listen feedback

E:
2) co-operate with community more (qlranks for example) not only listen to them but actually do something :)
3) make player unready automatically in duelserver when you're alone
4) make that floodkick go away when mapchanges and people are speccing
5) spawn servers for domination, so far it's been a good gametype ruined

Here's your chance.

but but but :(

All i want is a good new maps provided by community. They should make some test servers where we'll be able to choose them for further adding to the game, 1-2 maps every month maybe.

1. Remove dm6 from free to play, remove more from free to play. The idea that so many people have played for over a month of gametime and still don't seem to think that this game deserves their support is ludicrous.
2. Release a devpack for mapping. Allow pro users only to host servers with a custom map rotation ( of uploaded maps ). the framework is almost entirely extant currently. This would be sure to bring back more of the purists.
3. Return QL to a true program client. Keep the web frontend separate. Although this is entirely unlikely, it would remove so many problems from development and play.
4. Fix the unlagged netcode. Although I'm not going to be one of the serial whiners, I'd like to see some improvements in this area.
5. Add more features for clan management, the current clan system is poorly supported. It seems almost an afterthought.

I could go on forever I guess.

If you wanna kill QL, remove dm6 from free to play, by all means.

That was somewhat in jest, but I think you get the point right? Every account given by id software has suggested that the F2P model alone is not working to sustain QL. Players are given too much for free.
I'm a paying user, and I think it's a real shame that the prem maps are so seldom played in pub play. It's only duel and PUG CTF/TDM where you get a chance at playing them on AUS servers.
Instead of players feeling like they're missing out by not being able to play with the paying members, it's the other way around.
In order to have a decent FFA game, you have to go pub and play the same 4 maps over and over again.

Such a stupid suggestion. For every person who whines or dislikes dm6, you could find an even number of those who like it.

FFS! I guess no one here understands exaggeration! I'm actually a fan of the map haha.
You understand the point I was attempting to get across and why I might have picked dm6 as the scapegoat right?

1. Listen to the community

/thread

1. Anticheat
2. Working matchmaking System
3. individual Ladder for all Gametypes + Clan Ladder for Gametypes
4. Stop splitting up the community by making maps premium
5. Give some incentive for people to create and play in clans instead of public
For example: If you play x houres TDM/CTF as Team a month you get one month free pro account
6. Implement maps the community makes without 2 years delay

damn guess i can't count up to 5 ffs...

No, you can count up to 6, duh :)

they dont keep you for that, you dont have to count the red on c2 on mid thats not why you're there:]

1. make domination free to play
2. ladder system for all gametypes (something similar to qlrank)
3. anti-cheat

GIVE US LAN OR GIVE US DEATH

LAN is the first article of my faith. LAN is the last article of my faith.

defrag
anticheat
ladders
free maps

1. decide they coud somehow do something with that game
2. put devs on it
3. actually pay said devs
4. don't put them back on other projects.
5. give them a year.

it's also about who they hire. Syncerror is not a programmer and the rest seem to do nothing.

Nowadays QL doesn't need devs really. The things it lacks aren't still in the game because of the company's policies.
Lets say they relax those a bit. QL would have defrag, ra3, cpm, osp, ladders and matchmaking (qlranks), hundreds of new maps, featured streams (liveql), lan servers, added functionality from great greasemonkey scripts, global chat (integrated irc or proprietary), etc. etc. Right now developers can't do any of those.

1. content.
2. At least 10 maps.
3. particularly osp
4. specifically ospdm1
5. and proper ra3 would be nice

1. Lan servers
2. to not split the community with premium modes and maps that nobody plays, because they r premium

anticheat they probably already have and the cheaters have decreased a lot lately

1. delete all maps more than 2 years old
2. release 30 new maps
3. reduce rail dmg to 60
4. DK servers
5. ID hosted tdm tournaments. (3-4 a year)

troll attempt detected

Explain 1 and 3?

Old maps and rail is boring.

man speaks truth.

How about 70

warsow's rail (aka electrobolt) deals 70dmg :D

100-90-80-70-60-50-40-30-20-10.... were are almost there!

it's 75dmg actually, my mistake.

If you delete maps that are more than 2 years old then all that remains are a few maps made by syncerror :0

tell them to make a new game, this one is not worth for any fixes and take a gun with you

Yes - actually scrap my 5 wishes below and replace with:

1) Take all the community suggestions and make Quake 5 - if necessary Community Reps can come and look over the devs shoulders and tell them what to do.

Doom4?

Well - I've always preferred the Doom franchise, but Doom 3 was a dissapointment, I started multiplayer gaming on Doom2 and that was fast and furious. Quake 3 was great but didn't have the "evil" atmosphere of Doom, so I was hoping Doom 3 would be like fast and furious Multiplayer like Quake 3/Live but with the Doom atmosphere. Instead it was a graphics heavy plodding 60 fps single player oriented game. If Doom4 comes up with what I hoped for Doom 3 then hell yeah! That would be great, but I think as far as Multiplayer deathmatch focus is concerned that will only ever be done on the Quake franchise - if at all...

after quake3 best (tdm) game was et: quakewars. Love to play it, i think still best tdm game for ages, to bad ppl kept their hands away.

doesnt metter what "title" of a game, they are still making best fps games. Just new fresh one, where they will be willing to listen to the community ...

1. Subscription model:
Free to play should be limited to 1 best map per game mode e.g: CA: Campgrounds, Duel: Blood Run, etc. With different maps for these in Insta or PQL mode. All other maps, server spawn/config, enhanced stats etc should be Pro accounts only and the Premium account should be scrapped. Subscription payments should be payable via Paypal.

2. Community map functionality:
Functionality for Pro Members to upload a map. These would have to be tested against certain minimla technical and other criteria by QL Devs and then placed on a test map server available to all Pro Members. The map can then be scored via the players' game account on the web page with options to supply detailed feedback in text form on specific areas such as item placement, textures, lighting etc. The map author can then make updates based on feedback, uploading a new replacement version when they're ready. The score being reset to 0 with each update. If after 3 months the map does not score above an agreed feedback score it will be removed by the QL Devs. If it scores above a certain agreed feedback score, then QL devs will take the map in hand to clean it up and ready it for transition to standard server map rotation.

3. Built in Voice Comms:
So players can enable or disable as they choose. Also enable a "/block PlayerX" for voice comms to prevent verbal abuse by some idiots (we know who you are).

4. Ladders

5. Lan Server Capability.

1. That's too much, though I agree some current f2p maps should be premium just to earn some cash (ztn for example, which is justifiable now that they reworked the spawns) and overall sell more content and features.
Paypal will never be available. It's been discussed to death.

2. Not possible due to their policies. Also that would take an insane amount of work, and most wanted maps are all in packs anyway.

3. Not a big improvement these days and that needs a lot of work.

4. qlranks. Most probably will not be integrated into the game's client since there are running costs, which are already payed by the community via donations.

5. will never happen.

Well they're my 5 wishes however unrealistic and I think they'd improve things alot.

For (1) I think the free to play should be as tasters only, so the best example of each game mode should suffice and will let more people try out the current premium game modes whenever they like.

(2) sounds complicated but it isn't really. Also I think their "policies" are a load of rubbish. I gather that they're scared of being sued for infringing intelecutal property rights, yet Sh*mania and other games have map making as part of their game without the legal concerns ID have... Only difference I can see is the in-game advertising, maybe that's what it is...

Don't see what would be so difficult to imlement (3) since it is done in so many games these days, and it would go along way to improving pub team games.

Don't see why (5) would never happen...

(1) is more of a personal preference thing, but the rest simply will never happen because they take an insane amount of work for very small things (2, 3 and 4) and the company expressly refuses to do some of them (2 and 5).

There aren't many games with integrated voice comm. Feel free to name 10 popular pc games that have it, as you say it's done in so many games these days. I could name 10 popular that don't have it.

LAN servers won't happen because they said so and it facilitates access to the game's client and servers, which has several problems. Current pc games don't feature it for a reason and I actually think it's justified.

And it isn't a huge problem anyway. Hosting an unofficial lan or online server is not that complicated and joining one is easier than using quakelive.com. It's no hidden info either.

Well sorry - I'm not much of a gamer really - I have only ever played ID games: Doom1, Doom2, Doom3, Quake, Quake2, Quake3, CPMA, Quake Live, but when I heard that games like WoW have in-built audio comms, I assumed it was now common in other games - my mistake. Still don't think it would be difficult to implement with the now common (verified lol) VOIP services... But I'm sure you're right it will never be implemented - I still wish for it however... ID have a good track record of implementing the least expected features so who knows...

could also be fixed by showing ts3 IPs somewhere (hopefully embed irc client with rooms for each region)

I don't see why they couldn't go down the Youtube route with the copyright issues with maps, etc. Put them on, if anyone complains take them off or ask if they want to be credited etc.

Yeah, at an already dying game, it's a great idea removing the most popular map, created by the community, that you could freely play in Q3, because people will surely pay for it with no impact on the game.

http://qlranks.com/duel/

rip

wrote that before the latest update but they ended up doing something quite similar. If the devs get the very needed cash flow then it worked.

qlranks tracks very few duels so it isn't a great source of information (alexa isn't either and google is not updated).
Also on the official forums people's been posting (with pictures) that there are more ca, tdm and ctf matches than before the update, using different maps and more premium servers too, so it's a win-win for every player. No info on duel though.

Can you link me a duel in the last week (i.e. not one from the last 48hrs) that qlranks has missed?

I'm curious about the statement that qlranks tracks 'very few duels'.

no idea about last week (havent really played duel in months), but in total qlranks has missed like half my duels lol

to me the biggest failure is the QL website interface which lake IRC, stream channel,cool graph stats, ladder, etc...

sry i have no account on esreality.

I have to agree the website is horrendous. Cluttered, stuffy, not a clean ui. Poor functionality - the list of which is very long.

1. new game with graphic update
2. website update such as ladder, stream channels etc
3. annoying common bug fixes such as auto server kick and toxicity map problems
4, more advertising for the game
5. mod support so we can get stuff such as defrag
6. anticheat
7. matchmaking system, in the earlier days they had this but got removed because of low user base which i can understand but when they release a new quake servers will be all queued up

Limiting the small audience that premium mode have is ridiculous.

1) All gametypes for everyone, only make certain maps premium.

This means a flourishing public scene which eventually potentially leads to more viewers and people who are generally interested in the game.
e: There are thousands of players wanking DOM/FT/RR on free to play week. One reason being is that those gametypes are otherwise restriced, but I'm sure that if it were available to everyone, at least half of those numbers would show up.

2) QLranks like ladder

self-explanatory

3) Streams and IRC or the likes on the main page.

I don't care if it's hard to regulate the masses, but at least it's a medium for the community to gather somewhere without installing prehistoric hard to set up clients with 100 idlers and 3 people discussing random games.

Guess what id, you can't have community without communication, and I'm pretty sure people that just want to give the game a try won't go and install IRC just to check out how the game looks.
I'm sure there are plenty of trustworthy people that could be placed as "admins" on said lobbies/chat rooms.

Maybe even a private message system, a way to contact people and such?

Streams should be promoted and if possible be added in a noticeable position on the main page.
More viewers, more people interested in watching a stream and last but not least, more people that are aware of the quake scene.


4) More payment methods.

A lot of people aren't keen on buying a for a whole year upfront. half a year, monthly sub, anything?

5) Promotion

Marketing and PR department seems to be non-existent.


That's all for now.

1) Who would buy a premium or pro account then. It's not charity, and it's clear the advertising business model didn't work.

2) better if they make an agreement with qlranks. No need to work when its already done.

3) They feature one stream a year: quakecon. No idea why that isn't the case for DH:S, DH:W and other lans or online grand finals (LoL even features individual streams).
I get they want to control everything that's on their site but that's just too much.

I asked for an embed irc client here and no one agreed lol.

4) won't happen. Transactional fees and 0 chance of paypal payments.

5) Id software doesn't understand marketing. They miss opportunities every single day.

1) what difference does it make? they don't earn subscribers from people that are eager to play other gametypes. I don't know a single person who bought premium so he can play DOM.

They could get subs by enhancing pro sub.

2) Should have been more clear on that - I'd like to see more collaboration between id and some independant devs, for example the QLranks guy to join forces.

3) They don't want other streams because boo hoo bad language and they might get sued.

IRC, same thing. Someone might post something offensive and sponge even said they don't want IRC because it would put the game in a bad light - in other words, being ashamed of it's own community.

I'd rather have a bad light than no light at all, the game is dying for fuck sake, it's time to bring out the big guns.

4) half a year arrangement could be done in my opinion.

5) I know right.

1) idea is getting standard players bored of playing dm6 all day, wanting them to buy an account to access mods and maps only because they are different and there are lots of them. Others get it to play specific maps (aerowalk) and if you check the official forums there are retards buying accounts to play freezetag and domination.

For both reasons I'd go the opposite way and make some standard maps premium, particularly ztn. I know it sounds weird but Todd (or was it someone else?) said QL is a financial failure. Could be replaced by making one good premium map standard so it doesn't seem that bad, but not one that gets customers (for example...that ra3 map called three story)

3) didn't know sponge said that. Fuck him.

4) yeah

1) Who would buy a premium or pro account then. It's not charity, and it's clear the advertising business model didn't work.

There are other ways to attract attention to subscription.

I see it like this (just IMO, i have no 100% solid info to correlate this to, obviously, just other f2p games with purchasable benefits to look at):

Make gametypes free. All the prem modes are dead, BUT, there were huge spikes in activity during free premium days. People flocked to check out the new shit, i mean a year or so ago you had more freezetag servers than ca servers for a while. I honestly feel free gametypes would attract more people than keeping them locked away.

Maps. I'm sort of on the fence on this one, personally i feel that they should rotate maps in and out of the premium zone while adding new ones on a regular basis, and making the old ones completely free after some set amount of time (a year since adding, maybe?). As is, most casuals couldn't give less of a fuck on which map they play, forking cash over for a few maps nobody ever plays on anyway is just not a very attractive feature.

Make stats premium only.

Make all awards premium only.

Make all match history premium only.

Limited friend list (or even no friend list at all), unlimited for subscribers + a filterable mail box.

Inability to send pm's and chat outside of a game without subscription.

Ability to change your in-game name at will.

Premium crosshairs, premium enemycolors (easy visibility ones, leave basic brightskins in place), premium post-process tweaks (like true b&w bloom setting etc).

Multi-config storage on-site, ability to swap them at will.

Premium macros (basically no vstr for non-subscribers).

I mean, you see my brainwave here, right? Basically move all the NON-ESSENTIAL stuff to prem. Move the core stuff to f2p. It works for other games, i mean in HoN and LoL you can play all heroes... eventually. Or just outright buy them if you want. In TF2 you can play all maps and modes, but can buy trinkets and other bs which can be helpful and make you feel good about yourself.

sounds like you have a standard account and want more content.
Who would buy an account if you don't get content for it. I wouldn't (not like I payed for mine but you know).

TF2 doesn't count since it was released as a payed game and then f2p with microtransactions when the game was already more than financed.
HoN and LoL don't work like that; they are just like every other game of that business model. 85% of heroes aren't available at all times, whereas in QL there are probably more standard maps than premiums.

They gave you the illusion of being free, but everyone who likes the game ends up spending money on it and a lot more than just $24/$48.
That's another problem of this game: not enough things to purchase. In LoL the most expensive skin costs $25 (yep) and about 33 champs cost $7.50 each. You can also buy rune pages, ip and xp boosts, nickname change, etc. I wouldn't feel cheated if they charge for ztn separately.

Like a month ago I did the math (it's posted here somewhere) and premium/pro users are less than 1% (think it was like 0.2% or something but can't remember), including accounts that ran out. That's sad.

sounds like you have a standard account and want more content.
Who would buy an account if you don't get content for it. I wouldn't (not like I payed for mine but you know).

Actually, yes and no at the same time. Most i ever do in QL is play CA on dm6, quarantine, hidden fortress and trinity. As is, there is zero incentive for me to buy prem/pro - i don't do pickups, i don't play other gametypes, even if one of the other prem modes/maps interested me, nobody plays them. So that's that. I would feel cheated if they charged for even what little good maps there are in the standard pool, UNLESS they'd rotate the maps in a way i described in my post.

As for LoL/HoN/TF2, i only drew the parallel to illustrate that you don't need that much to make people fork over cash, you just have to do it in a smart way. I don't think there can be any argument over the fact that the current prem content just don't cut it. So either move on over to paid mmo style model which would basically gut this game, or make non-essential but still very useful stuff into prem to give more incentive to subscribe. I think it's already too late for anything to work, but well, just wanted to share my opinion.

Lower the price of the subscription. If you plan to play QL hardcore and for a long time, it is to expensive...

Premium should be half the price it is now and same for pro...

I wouldn't be concerned about ppl who plan to play QL hardcore and for a long time. It's very cheap compared to most free time activities anyway and if they are not willing to pay now then most of them won't pay no matter the price.

I wouldn't call paying 24/48$ per year for 13 year old game lacking some serious features cheap.

What do you consider cheap for ql? And what amount would you pay if you had a possibility to buy 1 year subscription for price of you choice right now?

this is a tough question. I wouldn't mind paying 2$ per month or even 4$ no problem if it wasn't the yearly subscription only, so I guess the real problem isn't the price itself, but the lack of various payment options (subscription length, features paid for separately etc.). I'm actually buying prem/pro after summer vacation when I move to a place with possibility of more reliable internet connection, so altough I still consider it expensive in a way it's still the price I'm willing to pay:]

ql != q3

no way!

Lower the price? Are you joking? The price is considerably less than what a new game costs in stores, which you would lose interest in after a week.
It's less than cost of a weekend bender, less than dinner and a movie, about a quarter of what a pair of running shoes cost, ffs.
I lose more money than pro costs on the average weekend... get with the program!

After two years you've buyed a game (premium). And with PRO you buy a game every year. Quake games you play a long time ...

Problem for me is, that I don't have the time that I had for Q4. So if you don't play that much, it is quite expensive.. If you play many hours a week, i understand that the price it oke...

Slightly off topic but i used to believe ql dev team wasn't lazy, just understaffed. Then i asked myself why they havn't made ladders yet and i thought this was because their infrastructure were unable to handle such resources e.g. when sk gaming made a third party ql ladder but got shutdown because it lagged the stats page. Then qlranks popped up and the ql stats page still loaded instantly so obviously they have improved their infrastructure. Yet ID devs havn't built a ladder system when 2 quake players can create a fully functional ql ladder system while being fairly active in the game. What makes it worse is szr (one of the qlranks developer) asked the id team for help but they didn't respond and even try to block qlranks ip address which was collecting the stats information so the qlranks team has to use proxies to get these information.

so obviously they have improved their infrastructure

I'm not sure what you mean with this. As far as I know, the main difference between SK approach and QL ranks approach is that, while the former tried to download all the information at once, the latter would dilute queries over time, reducing the load to id's server substantially.

Hmm i guess your right. I was speaking from my ass in that part. But it still doesn't explain why they can't do it in a resource efficient way like qlranks has. Maybe they don't want to make ladders until it's the the top of the line ladder system with many integrated features, who knows. But at the current state of ql its better to have something then nothing.

When you look at what the amateur QL enthusiasts have done in their spare time e.g. all the greasemonkey scrips to improve the web pages, QL Ranks of course, Demo Player, QL Demo Tools, better Huds, QL Prism etc - it really makes me wonder what the hell the QL Team (if there is one) at ID Software are doing really... Just sitting around getting high and telling their friends that they "work in IT" or they're "a software designer"... Bet they don't say: "but I don't do any work and I don't design shit..."

I might apply for a management position there and sack the lot of them, then recruit a team with some professinal pride or maybe just from the community and make a fantastic gaming experience :D

Gonna check their website now for vacancies, wonder if there's an advert along the lines of "Driven and determined Performance Manager needed to whip an underperforming team into shape - must be prepared to shed dead weight and have extensive experience in the use of a high voltage cattle prod"

Update: Ok just checked and there wasn't anything along the lines I was looking for but they are looking for a Level Designer with experience of Multiplayer FPS Games: http://jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions/view/252

What makes me laugh is the following requirement for the job: Excellent team player with very strong work ethic and ability to take and act on feedback."

WISHES:

1. Better Netcode
2. WebMoney & Yandex.Den'gi for paying
3. More servers in Russia
4. Ladders
5. More friendly physics for the new players

are you done with wsw?

forgot about servers. People are offering id software to host them for free but they don't reply, particularly Asian countries. That's awesome.
BTW that's different than brazilians demanding a server but not willing to put a penny to pay expenses or get a hosting like everyone else on the planet does. Those monkeys.

never!

and now?

hm...

PLAY MORE WARSOW!

As a standard user, the game is very very very stale. The North American playerbase is already small enough, splitting it in two because of standard/premium is just extremely frustrating. All anyone wants to play is ZTN because that's all they can play.

Make all maps standard, and alter the prem/pro system into one. You can spawn servers, get additional stats and whatever sounds you want, but for the love of god stop splitting up this community. I can't even watch aerowalk or toxicity games because I can't get into the server.

I have to use QLPrism to block adds and add a proper ranking (QLRanks) into the game to make it even stand able. If I actually had to sit through a 30 second commercial for every time I connected to a match I wouldn't even login anymore. There is no fun in a free Quake experience to me, because it's just watching commercials, losing your spot in queue because of the commercial, and then playing aliasers/cheaters/assholes on ztn all day because no one wants to play anything else because the other decent maps are premium only.

I doubt any changes will be made so I'm not even sure why I'm writing this.

In eu duel is the only gamemode where current premium system works on pub servers. Above 1200 elo it's not hard to find a premium duel at all.
In other modes there are only pickups being played and entry skill level is way higher than prem duel which makes them more inaccessible (+ occasional pub CA with mixture of players from other gamemodes).

Btw what makes you thinks that releasing premium maps would make ppl turn away from ztn if they don't play t7 and dm13?

make ztn premium :). release some of the other premium maps (such as toxicity) into free to play.

let the russians rage.

SHOW THE ADS TO THE DEFEATED PLAYERS.
died in CA - boom, watch the ad. got killed in tdm - watch the short ad of shootmania. lost in duel - boom, the ad is here. and make it somewhat annoying, like with super-enthusiastic people, smiling all over in happiness.

Now that's ironic - the guy who basically made premium scoreboards happen (more or less) is a standard user. Think there's a lesson for id to draw from that fact. :|

Take most of the decent suggestions above, do NOT implement in ql. instead just use it all to make a new game. call it quake 5 or whatever. qls been around too much and gathered too much dust. resuscitating it is not going to gain us or id anything.

learn from the mistakes in ql, repackage the gameplay with a new, pretty engine, get everything right (or atleast the important bits) from the beginning, and for gods sakes add some content that would keep new players interested in the game long enough to get them addicted enough to learn.

/me wakes up...."what.....god that dream was weird, an actual successful deathmatch game....like that would happen..ffs wonko."

that works too :D

(although my worry with a Q5 is it's going to be a "get it released asap, fuck any pro-gaming features", kind of like how Q4 was)

not for me. Quake5 will be released in 2015 if they do it.

Is any major suggestion difficult or time consuming to do? Nope.

As with everything remade by anyone ever, it will no doubt have *some* retarded flaw that they decided to add for the sake of it that will fuck it up beyond all serious playability, for q3/ql players at least.

but we (hardcore quake fans) shouldnt be the demographic they aim at. quake live had its share of flaws in the beginning, but most of us still tried it out and eventually moved from q3 to ql (altho not completely but thats irrelevant).

i do understand your point tho. which is why i stressed that it should at the very least be really really good off the box.

Turn Duel into the FPS equivalent of online poker. Free users can play but Prem/Pro can play against each other for $$$.

hax -> no

A decent anti-cheat and more importantly community moderation would make it so no one would ever play a money game against a suspect player. It works for online poker and id would rake in the cash. The model is already there and is very successful.

The main problem would be centered around legality.

your idea is stupid. therefore you clearly dont have a clue about poker, so i think it would be best to stop educating others.

Mean dad?

u mad bro?

your stupidity is just atrocious

It's not your fault, you were just a child.

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1. Add tons of community maps
2. add Defrag
3. let the community develop the game
4. lans servers
5. give up and let the community own the game

At the 2011 Quakecon keynote QnA, Carmack said something to the effect of the high skill curve of Quake 3 being a major drawback of the game, rather than it's major success.
Quake continues to attract only the most battled and jaded of online gamers, people who found everything else far too easy, or downright unappealing. However, it drives just about everyone else away.
From a marketing perspective Carmack is entirely correct, but unfortunately we've all seen far too many examples of what kind of stupid products are born when capitalism and democracy alone dictate their direction. ( COD, and a fungal bloom of other team based 'modern warfare' games. )
As much as id are gods in the industry, I don't think that creating the most furiously difficult and elitist online fps was ever their intention, the style and level of play you see in Quake now is a product of a set of convenient physics glitches that were so exploited by clever players that they became de rigeur, coupled with an incredible competitive player base that constantly pushed itself to new heights...
I'm sure id consider the high standard of Quake's competitive play a remarkable success, but it was an accidental one.
The point I'm getting at is, I don't think we'll ever see a game like Quake 3/Live ever again ( excluding indie games that ape and clone it. )
I sincerely doubt that QUAKE5 will be what the people here are asking for. I'd LOVE to be proven wrong, I really would...
But I sincerely doubt any mainstream studio would consider a game with this kind of aim in mind a worthy financial gamble.

Quake players arent designers and most dont understand the difference between a skill ceiling and a skill curve.

Quake has a high skill ceiling which is good but the curve is too steep by a mile. Quake design also skips the first part in the "A minute to learn, a lifetime to master" expression...


Quake could be changed to be easy to learn and decrease the skill curve and still continue have a high skill ceiling. They are not mutually exclusive.

An example of a high skill ceiling, low skill curve game is magic the gathering where even the better player rarely has over 75% chance to win a duel over an intermediate tournament player depending on context.

The esr crowd would whine a lot about the needed changes but that is often just a sign of success.

I disagree with this.

move with ASDW, move the mousepointer at your enemy, click to kill

what's hard to learn about that for someone (especially if he had ANY experience with those numerous single player FPS)?

this isn't harder than any moba or starcraft, where you click at enemies and have to make buildings before you can even attack the enemy

as long as you don't have to play against unfairly picked opponents, all's right in learning quake, ideally with friends of course

ql devs know perfectly well what do we want since beta. quake 5 is not gonna happen or it will be as 'good' as Rage. there you go. (shit mood today... what are you saying? weed? by all means.)

- kill premium. existing prem-members become pro (half period)
- make any system to fix alt-account abuse (repeted email.confirmation or whatevr)
- let people play for free...
- ..until they get t4, and..
- then reduze free playtime to 1h per day, but..
most importantly:
- paying should become cheaper over time, like -5€ every next year until 10.-

- maps, maps, maps. mapeditor, maptesting grounds
- stuff

- maps, maps, maps. mapeditor, maptesting grounds

:D

IMPLEMENT PAYPAL


ill befriend anyone who wants to
and ill spawn server in our region
ill do this in my spare times


do it do it do it

but but implementing paypal is too hard! We will just add some new cvars and call it a day :D

-> Make the game popular in Asia
-> Profit

Also, maybe simplifying the subscription would be a good idea. I have no clue about economy but what if only two options were available ? free / paying (with pro features).

Also, LAN support. There was a small LAN the other day near by where I live. I wanted to play QL there and make a small tournament but there was no internet (people do everything but concentrate on playing when there is internet apparently)...

Whatever.


ASIA !

How does edawn feel as LAN replacement? Has anyone tried it?

lan support and not splitting the community are the only 2 things I personally want

edit: btw u can do lan, there is a thread in ESR that explains how and many ppl have done it. I don't know what is the position of id in this though.

ya change the format
instead of subscibing for maps and gametypes(obviously this one splits the community

they can lets say if they subscribe to premium
-they'll have +40 to life and +20 to armor
-maybe +5 to direct and splash damage to rockets
-with plasma +5 to direct and splash damage
-LG minus 5ms firing rate +30 ammo
-RG +10 damage and a little louder hum(point this to
subscribers as benefit of hearing this weapon louder)
-etc,etc

and for pro subscribers double of the previous or whatever
-+80 to life and +40 to armor
-RL +10 to direct and splash damage of rockets +10 ammo
-LG minus 10ms firing rate +80 ammo
-RG +20 making it 100, hums louder
-etc,etc
all of this of course on non serious modes
Duel and TDM excluded

~~~~~
realistic modern FPS games here in Asia has this format.
they can buy benefits individually, guns, ammo and stuff
and in those games they have 1 or 2 serious gametypes where benefits of all items you buy dont apply ingame

WoW, that would be weird... I'm not sure that would be a good idea, the whole idea of Quake is that in game, everyone has the same stack and power.

Anyway... if you live in Asia, how is the quake scene there ? Do you have some community website like ESR where asian quakers gather ?

they can mimic what most asian FPS games do like
have an ingame money that they acquire when they complete a game and an extra to kills and more when you place 1st, 2nd or 3rd
and an ingame money they can only have by buying subscriptions for buying more powerful items
applies on CA, FT, DOM and others
but still have tiered and untiered servers

but same stack and power on serious gametypes
like Duel and TDM


in SouthEastAsia, quake is almost dead here
Newbies just experience high pings and getting pawned by veteran players from australia or korea who most of course ping low to their server
even if some of the vets are nice to newbies, getting them in the game gets hindered by language barrier.

afaik there is no quake in asia besides Janus who is a sick south korean player.

i think pay2win would just turn away the existing player base while hardly bringing in any new ones.

this kind of format or system is still tiered
if you pay2win you most likely tier up faster and eventually
you draw away yourself from entering lower tiers making new ones still safe

mostly players who are into the game are the ones who will buy this benefits, and at the time they buy it they are mostly mid tier for entering servers and mid tier in their own skill

The day they do that is the day I stop playing Quake Live.

1. Let any player be able to access any game, and instead of restricting modes and content for free accounts, restrict time or number of games, or something like that. There is simply no critical mass to sustain non-duel games on premium servers.

2. Make useful match creation system similar to pickups, so that you can initiate for example "CA 4v4 on campgrounds" match, then if there are people online who like it, can join it, and when it fills up, server automatically spawns.

3. Adequate system for managing, recording and playing demos. I want seek bar like in any media player, I want to watch frags from enemy's POV, I want basic search and filtering to find, let's say rapha's demos on lost world where he lost, etc.

4. Multi-pov automatic server demos on LANs

5. Just god damn it do some advertisement/marketing for the game, how you expect it to succeed if you don't even tell anyone about it? There is not even mention of QuakeLive on idsoftware official website!

Game should either be free to play or not. With the current situation most of the premium content is wasted. Pickups and duel are the only places premium content gets any activity.

My suggestions is minimal free content, one or two maps per gametype, and only ffa, clan arena or freeze tag available. Otherwise QL should be f2p and based on micro-transactions and ads.

The one suggestion that is the most powerful, and would be the most effective (if done correctly) would be something brought up in game when I was chatting away to some ua players:

"Make open game to everyone make"

Let the community mold the game into what they want it to be. The community has come up with fantastic competitive mods and modes such as OSP, CPMA, defrag, RA3 for quake 3 and could easily do the same for QL.

Imagine what we could do to the game if they just handed over the reigns to us, and let arqon and ix head up a team that was funded by the subscription player base :)

We could have:

ALL the cpma features brought over (including the netcode and proper promode physics)
ALL the new maps made could be implemented so much quicker (bst2_b3 PLZ!!!)
A community vote into how we would like the subscription model to be changed so we would actually have a decent playerbase in all game modes.
Proper ladders with real PRIZEMONEY for all divs that is again funded by the subscriptions.

And so, so, so much more.

All it would take is for id to do one thing. That one thing that will never happen :(

I know there would be a lot of complexities and problems for the community to overcome if we were ever given this opportunity; however the devs in this community are awesome and passionate at what they do and I believe they would make it happen with the support of the community :)

We can dream!

Ladders, cups, leagues - small cups every night where you can join as a clan or as a merc (team games) Awards are added to your profile if you win etc. Official leagues created by ID appointed community admins and unofficial leagues that any pro member can create. League/ladder/cup has its own page(s) for news and results etc.

Better clan pages with links to recent matches, the leagues/cups they have participated in and comments/mini forums etc

Better community features, blog posts, videos & streaming pages, tutorials, chat rooms, pickup integrated into ql site

No premium only gametypes for obvious reasons

Let pro users name their servers whatever they want (as long as it is not offensive!

England flag!

How to make this all happen? Simply form a group of QL users who have extensive knowledge on how to make all this website shit work (see QLR) and sub the work out to them! Free!

It kinda makes me depressed to read this 2010 thread where Sync answers every post with positive feedback. They really wanted to add all requested features and it's a shame that QL dev team fell apart. Anyway, here are my top 5 wishes.


1. Defrag
Race, freestyle and practice.
For race, add a ladder for each map for both QL and PQL (similar to www.q3df.org) and make demos of the best times automatically available for download if possible.

2. Make Freezetag free
I'm sure there was no one who bought subscription in order to play freezetag. And from what I remember from OSP, freezetag was usually played by new and low skilled players so it's a nice mode for newcomers and should be free to play. And with all these new modes introduced recently, it's right time to release old one for free.

3. Make some older premium maps free
There's plenty of premium maps that nobody plays. Stick a few of them into standard servers and bring some fresh air into the game.

4. Ladder
This has been discussed to death. With accurate elo system like QLRanks, find a game feature could also be reintroduced.

5. Improved demo viewing
Serverside demos available for download, onsite demo launcher, multipov, rewind and forward functions, wallhack toggle enabled on playback etc

These are in no particular order.

1. Change the subscription model
Remove pro, only have premium and free. Make all maps free, freezetag free, but keep the other modes and things like server starting premium-only.

2. Payment options
Two years later and the only way of paying is still by purchasing a full year of premium, which for some people may scare them away from buying it. Have a 'monthly' option - more people would be willing to pay for this to first try it out before paying for a full year. Also, make PayPal a method of purchase.

3. Anti-cheat
This is pretty self explanatory. Cheating is bad, it makes the game less fun.

4. Community maps
Allow someone who starts a server to have community-made maps be played. Having this in combination with PQL and the newly expanded server customization would be warmly welcomed by everyone.

5. If possible...
Make Quake Live available to download on Steam. This has been discussed before and I'm not even sure if it's actually possible to do, but I think it would bring in a ton more players.

I agree about the steam option, especially if it's spammed everywhere as "FREE", however it might need some extra pre-availability hype, and QL has pretty much exhausted all the hype it's ever going to have.

I think it going on steam would be awesome and would attract quite a substantial amount of new players. However not and I repeat not for the love of bog in it's current state.

Fix it, polish it into a great game that it clearly has potential to become then go to steam.

QL - Rebirth!

Release Quake5.

Don't include any competitive features, just make it fun for casual gamers, and make it pretty with a new engine.

Make sure the engine gives people the option to at least get 125 fps on machines that were build a few years back.

Give the community a mod SDK in time, and let the community sort out competition features. This has always worked with quake.

this

1. paypal
2. monthly subscription possible
3. micro-transaction implementation so users who don't want to buy premium can buy individual maps, game modes and advanced scoreboards etc for cheap.
4. tournament streams embedded into the front page
5. id software to work with qlranks to provide a superior service as far duel ranking goes - make it more visible for people who don't check the qlranks site. make elo visible on the duelling scoreboard and show what elo the player stands to lose / gain. we shouldn't have to go to a separate site to see rankings.
6. get QL advertised on steam on the summer sale - give premium for free over the duration of the sales or a discount for monthly premium.
7. where possible copy all the good stuff that Riot do with LoL (everything above for example).
8. more maps, community or otherwise.
9. more tdm.

not directed at id software:
10. the community should stop using low graphics configs on streams, it can only serve to detract from outside interest by making the game look more dated. the game looks better than any other game of its age, we should really take advantage of this.

edit: sorry it's more than 5, but I didn't post in the previous 2 years so I'm just making up for lost opportunity! :)

edit2: for the people suggesting defrag, I don't think it can make any sense for id software to put defrag into QL. For them to do it properly would incur huge amounts of work for little gain, defrag although glorious and awesome is very niche. Just stick to playing defrag in q3, it will never be matched.

10 is a good suggestion to some degree.

If the game gets promoted via stream and a random person, not aware of QL's full potential stumbles upon picmip 15, vertex and even more horrifying settings, he or she might misjudge what QL really is.

Surely once you get to know the game you disable many of those glossy motion blur and bloom effects, but as far as I know, there are several issues in regards to higher quality streams.

The majority of viewers are, obviously, quakers.
Quakers (I'm going to assume that most of them) do not wish to see an intense match with very high settings. Would be great to see people stomach it up and just enjoy the game in full detail, even if it's not similar to their own in-game settings; this move could potentially attract newcomers, instead of driving them away.

Then comes the streaming problem. Higher quality video also demands a higher/better connection for both the streamer and the viewers.

Just imagine a duel with full detail, no simple items, picmip 0 and possibly some bloom added with 240p streaming quality.

Or 360p.

Or even 720p.

It just gets messy, smudgy and you can't tell if someone is shooting plasma or getting blown away with LG. Ok, I'm paraphrasing now but you get the point.

So in short, I'd like to see more high quality streams, maybe some provided by id themselves, that way they can bypass the issues of mature and inappropriate content displayed on other streaming sites and with that, bring embedded streams directly on quakelive.com main page.

Just imagine a duel with full detail, no simple items, picmip 0 and possibly some bloom added with 240p streaming quality.

Or 360p.

Or even 720p.

Yes, this is why. It only works well in 720p or higher, which is impossible for a lot of people to watch due to connection requirements. I'd also argue that some maps look better with high picmip values, but thats just personal taste.

Just look at Malaka his fragvideo, he used picmip but it looked even better than normal quake in my opinion, way more slick, it had high graphics but high picmip.

That's because of video editing and such, you cannot achieve same graphics for in-game stream.

Yes, colors get blended and on LQ it looks like rubbish. Even if you're streaming 720p (1280*720) and the viewer puts it on fullscreen on his 1920*1200 screen, it will destroy a large part of the visuals because of the large difference.

If you wish, pm me on IRC (quakenet InFerNo_) and I'll start a stream for you, 720p full detail on and you can see for yourself :)

ty both.

Watch any VOD of nsx's stream (HoQ #2, is it?) It's 60 fps picmip 0 with bloom and shit. And it's BEAUTIFUL. Immersive. Just perfect.

It's also 3,5 Mbps. More than YouTube 720p (but of course YT is 30 fps).

Conclusion: any user that can watch 720p on YouTube without buffering, can watch a 30 fps beautiful stream.

Of course compressing such stream with good quality in a single pass needs a beefy computer. Which is why some people disable encoder features to make it faster and in effect produce shitty streams. That doesn't mean picmip 0 stream has to look bad.

The only remaining problem are people who can't watch 720p or even proper 480p at all. But have you noticed that Russian streams stopped offering 512 Kbps option lately? If they're dropping support for such shitty links, that means 2+ Mbps is available virtually everywhere now.

Yes, or streamers stopped giving a shit about -2Mbps. What you said about it being possible but needing a beefy PC is also true and I don't have that so with a little trickery you can make a stream look good enough. And less colors to stream, the more CPU-time for extra frames. The game needs to be rendered as well as you are spectating it. Extra visuals need to be layered in by XSplit, etc.

a giant LOL @ people who wan't want defrag in ql

A giant LOL @ wan't. :DD

a giant lukeeLOL

brain crapped itself

Recruit Memento_Mori to Id software.

- He listens to the community
- He knows how to talk to the public (as seen on the leveluptv stream @ DHS12)
- He proved being able to code some stuff. e.g.: Spawn system visualization


/closed

Replace Sync with Demiurge. PR rating goes off the charts.

Lol @ ppl who want quake 5. Let's not go down this road again (q4). It is absolutely impossible for ID software to make a new quake that we all like and don't whine about. Minutes after release all we will hear is how it is not like <insert mod here> and how the netcode sucks and how the gfx suck and how the maps suck, how the physics arent the same as q3, how badly it is coded etc etc etc

We have quakelive. Imagine if ID software invested the same amount of time and money into quakelive that would have to be invested into Q5. imagine if QL was advertised as much as Rage was?

Do we really need a new quake with next gen graphics? Going down that route worked wonders for the Unreal Tournament community didn't it?

q4 was a great game by the time id was done fixing raven's shit

Maybe but still too late, needs to be decent when 1000000 people try it not 6months later when everyones fucked off.

ye :(

I kinda agree. I believe there is no way that id can satisfy us with a new quake game. Well moded Q3 is a peak of skillbased competitive fps gaming and games like that just aren't made anymore, because of change in demand. That being said I also believe that there is enough interest in community to justify putting some work into ql, polish the game and make profit on it.

While you can never please everyone, it has always been my opinion that there is a roadmap for creating a successful Quake 5 title that could be a huge success (including in the competitive scene).

Q4 and UT3 both attempted to reproduce gameplay from their popular precursors Q3 and UT99 in an attempt to please their existing fanbase, to carry the torch so to speak. My prime concern with that philosophy is that you ultimately cannot both innovate and repeat at the same time. It will feel like an inexact copy, and players will be let down that it doesn't hold up to their prior experiences (regardless of whether that opinion is based on valid reasons or nostalgia).

Even despite the similarities between Quake 1, Quake 2, and Quake 3, the basic health and armor systems and player movement varied between all three titles. The willingness to reexamine these basic systems between titles gave each a very much needed life of their own. Likewise, the strong points of Quake 4 were the places of innovation (projectiles through teleporters, grenades on bouncepads, trying out new and advanced movement systems).

You have to be willing to develop a sequel as something that stands on its own. Re-design the entire game from the ground up, taking lessons from your game design and desires from your community at heart, hoping to build something entirely new that will still be appealing to your original audience.

The path to a successful Quake 5 should be one that creates a new game where every game system is thought out and designed for that game in particular, creating something fresh and new. Not a Q3 reboot in a new engine.

" taking lessons from your game design and desires from your community at heart"

I wouldn't want to be juvenile and petty with this comment, but you get what I'd like to say with that quote:]

quakemania

[+]

This.

To quote Gary Busey in Soldier:

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

QL gameplay is not broken, there is no need to fix it. A few minor tweaks perhaps.

Everything else about QL IS broken. It's practically dead because of zero marketing and because it literally scares newcomers away. FIX DAT SHIT SON.

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QL movement lacks air control by design. CPM though would be fixed it had QL movement & weapon switching.

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no, but it's a good thing. shootmania is designed by racers with 2 guns. perhaps for someone who wants to concentrate on flying around, it is gg, you should try it.

The main recipe to fail that is proven to work 99% of times is when game designers start to confuse "fresh and new" with "better".
Not that you shouldn't try to redesign game completely from the ground up "where every game system is thought out", but the goal of this process of creating whole game anew should be to produce the best competitive game ever, not the most innovative competitive game ever.

Noone on earth asked for the removal of blood and gore, but lots of people have FPS drops with high end graphics card.

#1 Change and clear all legal issues putting a strain on implementing already developed solutions to community queries as well to lan servers, tournaments, custom works etc.
#2 (comes from number 1) Get more involved with community work, ie. don't wait 2 years to implement a map done by frs or anyone else.
#3 (comes from number 1) Invest more money into promotion of quake as an e-sport FPS ie. support more broadcasting time on currently avail shows/bring in some incentive for new casters to appear.
#4 (comes from number 1) release a pro packet with a dedicated server side client for lans.
#5 revamp the subscriptions and gamemodes available to free users. Maybe even the site itself to include more of community based materials such as guides, streams etc (prism is a ridemntary example of what a company should be able to upgrade to a fancy type of client avail to pro or premium accounts)

I'm not a big supporter of GTV as viewership and following changed from 2000's into broadcasts, commercials, and supporting a community/game itself.

As for the rest this would break half the problems QL is facing and that are braking its development. It's just boring legal stuff that matters most!

+1..

- switching between game-modes

just my two bits:

anti-cheat is being requested since the release of pub cheat.

so, why isn't id providing a reliable anti-cheat system?

as stated in some posts, this is a big project and it needs money that id could not afford.
so .... why can't we consider donations?
two successful examples: qlranks and ql italian servers

TL;DR want anticheat? donate.

anticheat was released like 2 months ago

seems not effective, you can find some posts here on esreality.

people are getting banned so it works, and I'd say nowadays there are less whiners about getting banned and about playing against cheaters.

anon installed a hack (guess the well known and public one) and started playing duel.
then, he posted here the vid asking what cheats he enabled.
1) noone could state the correct cheats (wh, autoshoot, smoothaim, ...)
2) anon hasn't been banned from ql
maybe tonight i'll search the post, but the point is only blatant cheaters get banned (ie 80-90% lg), not the smart ones.

anon

and in every single fps game there are known working hacks (maybe not SM lol)

maybe I'm paranoid, or maybe you didn't get how hack is widespread (no trolling).

and in every single fps game there are known working hacks (maybe not SM lol)

Whatever the advantage it brings, should that justify cheating in ql?

Let the community drive the game: free work power + ton of extra benefits. How many years of great user dedicated content just for the love of the game have proven to work? Reward the people with mentions, prizes, tokens (not necessary though, but a good incentive). Let an administration team (current QL team) to draw the guidelines and keep everything together.

publish all srcs ? mmmmm

implement cpma with all its features. done

actually if you read the 2010 link it gives a good laugh


- Will more payment options be available for QuakeLive's premium/pro (for example suggestions like 3-monthly, monthly or other payment methods such as paypal or phone)?
- Certainly more payment options. Alternative payment periods are TBD, but possible.


- Any idea of what else to expect from the content updates?
- Primarily maps, occasionally gametypes (don't want to overdue gametypes though and spread the community too thin).


- Would you consider adding a ladder/league system much like Starcraft II has?
- We absolutely want to.


- Can a standard user expect any kind of content updates, or is that strictly a premium/pro feature now?
- TBD, but we hope to bring some content to premium or be able to roll premium content into the standard pool over time (but that too is TBD -- but we'd like to if financially possible).

- Is there any chance that single-skill focused game modes, like Defrag or Scavenger, might be added?
- I think Defrag or a similar type of 'Speed Run' gametype could be an obvious choice when considering adding a new gametype.

- Are there plans for easier demo access/playback, perhaps straight from the site? If so, are you planning to feature/distribute pro replays from the website?
- Certainly plans for easier playback of local demos. We're in early discussions about how to implement on-site demo storage options.

- Are there any plans for automatic tournaments? (having them for pro tokens, for example, would be great - no legal conflicts, and little incentive for high level players to plunder them)
- Yes, but I can't give any further details at this time.

- What will the frequency of the content updates be (for example, 1 per month)?
- We'd like to make a major content update roughly once a month.

- Can you add Paypal to one of the ways paying for Quakelive Premium/Pro?
- PayPal will be added to QL in the upcoming weeks

....... pointless to continue

btw i refuse to believe syncerror is not an eastern european politician

[+] because this dead game is a joke and i hope it stops being played soon

You're not forced to play, what seems to be the problem?

the problem, is despite the fact that QL has been run into the ground through endless mismanagement and horrible business decisions, it's still the "best" game that is still somewhat played. it's a goddamn tragedy that this is the best we have and will continue to have in the foreseeable future, because it could have been so much better. i honestly think it's better to cut their losses and at least TRY to generate some kind of demand for a new quake game, shutting down the shitty QL servers would be one way of forcing that.

or it would just kill quake entirely and we'd never have to worry about id fucking wasting another half a decade fucking around with the best game franchise ever made.

Just don't play it or is it too hard to quit?

part of me hates the shit out of it and wants to quit, but then i also feel like i'll regret it later if i just completely stopped playing.

Now you're making some sense.

We all have some grudges with QL, I'm pretty sure there's just a handful non-factors that consider the game perfect.

Shutting it down at this point would hardly do any good for the quake franchise. With all the new simplified and dumbed down shooters, QL needs to stay where it is and shove a punch to the face to all lesser shooters out there.

If you have a handful of e-pals that are willing to play with you and access to duels at any time of the day (I know the situation in NA is a bit dire, but don't tell me you can't find a duel because I always managed to find one) and a few LAN events here and there along with weekly online cups, that's all you really need at this point.

Crossing fingers that the next quake in series will take in account suggestions posted in this thread, revamping the old engine/subscription model and just get promoted enough while being supported by huge esport events.

I'm trying to plus this magnificent post and you're on probation, what the fuck.

When I stumble on posts like this one, I go and look at the other posts from the same author, in this case this list.

My expectation would be to find interest or positive posts about other games or things, but I remain quite puzzled when all I see is someone hating. Is there anything you like?

i like myself. and pizza.

to answer your question plainly: no.

i came to quake super late (my one regret) and ever since that, no game has ever lived up to my own expectation. quake has effectively ruined gaming for me because nothing will ever be as good as this franchise.

Fix Q4 and release it as quakelive

FLAME ON

improve graphics of qw. best quake ever done

Fix Q4 and release it as quakelive 2

fyp

its a good idea btw. graphics are just great still to this day. gameplay mechanics ok too... i see why it is trainwrecked back than but theres nothing that couldnt be fixed.

yeah hire p0rt.

quake4 is completely dated, graphics and gameplay wise. Also it doesn't have a better reputation or more players behind it than Q3.

what id software could do is re-release the game over and over again just like they do with all their old games; but not freemium.

a quakeworld re-release will have much more attention than q4. Imagine quakeworld with rage-tech engine! Woooohooooo!
i want it i want it i want the awesome quakeworld lg ^^

Rocket arena mod
RA3 maps

ladders

matchmaking

ability to spawn leagues/cups on site

NEW ctf maps, not 10yo 3w crap

chat channels (like on bnet)

edit: some sort of devkit/api and map/content release platform so the legal issues bout custom content are avoided with id providing the tools and textures you have to use.

Scoreboard tweaks!

nigger pls

1. take quakelive servers down (they're shit anyway.)
2. quake 5 arena

thanks, bye

1. ladders

I keep hearing about sc2 ladders being the best thing since sliced bread, so why not imitate it?
use a good map pool per season, have matches found based on your preference of servers, make cups from ladder leagues.

2. anti-cheat

3. get rid of premium. only have free and pro memberships. cycle non premium functionality (maps, modes) every month.

4. streaming. deeply intergrated streaming functionality. run scheduled ads between games etc.

5. release something like qlprism to access the game

A map making tool on the website :))

add private server (i mean real private server in local not the craps hosted by id)

i think it is the most importnat thing since it would allow many other locations/country to play it.

Does anyone else think quake live vods setting their quake live in-game mode to r_picmip 5 or w/e is hurting the ql scene? every video i see the question seems to always pop up.

yep,i allways asked the streamers and the vod-makers to make the game look pretty and without fixed weapons,but as allways,all what i get is ignorance.

There are valid reasons for this ignorance and this has been discussed quite a bit.

Hmm actualy what is the reason behind puting a stream with cg_drawgun 2 which make the gun stand still rather than 1 which makes it sways and is pretier for viewers because you can feel the movements when watching?

I was talking about making the game look "pretty".

Drawgun is just streamers preference maybe because the weapons don't have firing animations in spec mode.

I think that the less pixels change between two frames, the easier it is to encode/transmit it and the better the stream quality can be.

same as two years ago

rankings / skill matching

increase the Rocket Luncher splash Damage.
you fire 5 rockets to kill a fresh spawned enemy ? a rocket near the enemy while you got quad and he is not dead ? that is just stupid in my opinion.

nah you just can't predict correctly, it seems....

well,i just played Quake 3 so,compared to qw,q2 and q3,the ql splash damage is way too much low,when the enemy is full stacked,slpash damage almost doesnt do anything,i knew that someone will say "your aim sux" or smth like that,but splash damage has allways been a part of the game since qw.

well the idea is to make splash weaker than direct hits I personally would like it a bit higher with a smaller radius but it's fairly balanced now at low pings ( assuming you play around 80ms ) mind you I don't have too much trouble with rockets at 150 ms ( it's still bad though ).

yeh but the hitbox in ql is too much big,making shots easy to get,but sometimes splash damage seem so low ( like making only 5-10 damage to the enemy) making the rocket luncher a kind of weak weapon compared to the other quake where the RL is one of the most powerful weapons,if not the most one.

errh sounds like your speaking opposites, QL has one of the smaller hitboxes in the quake series the splash damage is more suited to a balanced game where it shows who can excel at a certain weapon, but that low damage issue you have is something I rarely experience even with my 150ms because I firmly believe that it's my fault for mis-predicting.

And yes I do agree that rockets are weaker in QL than they are in the other quakes (excluding Q2) but it's nog weaker because it is low on damage it is weaker because of the hitscan anti-lag making lg a much more potent weapon, but the rockets in QL are the second fastest in the series, meaning you can +back like an absolute faggot with it.

but I still think it's just you and I don't recall YMH ( yojji ) complaining too much about this.

1) Being able to host custom content, or at least custom maps on unranked spawned servers.

2) Being able to spawn servers (lan and online) independantly from ID software, and host custom content there if #1 is not possible.

3) More options for spectators like this one for an example : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eym5VlFdIes. You want to make the game more accessible without dumbing it down ? Just give better tools for newcomers to understand what's going on.

4) Allowing more specs in a given server (something like HLTV in Quakelive would be awesome)

5) It's possible to walk upstairs silently, but doing the same going downstairs is not. Correct me if I'm wrong or if this is an important factor of the gameplay for some reason, but I find it really weird. This might be a minor detail but I haven't seen anyone mentionning it, so I did it instead of repeating stuff everybody already said.

A lot of these are awesome ideas -- will people be asking Carmac about this stuff during his Q&A/speech, or will there be other ways to let the QL "team" know what the community wants?

Fire syncerror
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Hire MementoMori, quake will rise again.

1. Ladder system

2. Monthly subs and ability to pay by PayPal

3. Gibs (disabled in Germany and other nanny states)

4. Voice - id linked voice servers for subscription players, TOS cover behaviour with account bans.

5. Highlight system - player or streamer hits a key and chunks of 5-10 seconds of game play are spooled to replay at the end of the match.

local server is the most needed feature actualy it could allow anyone from anywhere (potentialy with a pro membership) to play and enjoy Quakelive.

good points, but u really think email confirm would smbdy prevent from faking?

Autoready after 10 minutes of warmup.

Was there a Q&A during QuakeCon this year?

don´t, just don´t restrict map-pool again when q-con is over

Server in Kazakhstan.

1. working anti-cheat
2. decrease rocket splash damage slightly
3. auto-balancing on public team games: no random shuffle anymore, but shuffle by elo rankings. also when a player leaves during the game, replace him with an adequate bot.
4. make it possible to submit and play community made maps easily (like in sc2)
5. improve sound (feels old and flat)
(6. improve ql chat, so you can set it to something like "ingame mode" where you can't be disturbed)

1. there apparently is one working..
2. that's a question of taste
3. shuffle is not random, but skillrating dependent
5. it's stereo already :/

1. proof? and how does it work? is there an official statement from id that we have a proper anti-cheat program running?
2. everything here is a question of taste, that's because it's "YOUR 5 NEXT THINGS!"
3. I'm not sure about that one.
4. stereo doesn't implicate that sound is good.

1. lots of bans the minute it was "secretly" implemented
2. I think lg and railgun should be removed. It's a question of taste (?).
3. rofl bots
4. (maps) won't happen, ever.
5. q3 was fine and they fucked sound up in QL somehow.
6. learn to use the console

1. read the posts on esr, there is some kind of anticheat working right now
3. shuffle is skillrating dependent and it has been confirmed to work that way by the staff - via start a match you can even switch to random shuffle

that shuffle sounds awsome!!!!!!!


as far as anticheat goes though, if they still let new accounts join t3 and t4 ranked matches...its pretty meaningless to me.

Didn't read all the comments, not sure if anyone mentioned it before. I would just add this one thing:

- Follow spectator: to make streamers' job easier, you could follow any other spectator to see the same thing they see, who they are on, etc.

EDIT: wrong thread, sry

is he still banned for cheating?

edit: lol I can check myself. He is.

After idsoftware getting some kind of "success" with those new mappools forcing people to get premium and many user spawned servers popped up in the last few weeks compared to 3-4 month ago, what about getting one step further by introducing some kind of "teamfortress 2 - hat model"?

for example:
- offer a "gibs and blood-pack" with age verification just for this package for 2€
- introduce a classic qw or q2 weaponskin/textures/soundeffect-package for 5€
- "classic quake tdm mappack" remake to fit playstyle for ql of q1dm3/q2dm1
etc...

those packs you could buy would be linked to your account even your prem/pro account expires or you never subscribed.

If there are people who wanna play ffa all day long on free servers, why not give them an option to buy them some "gibs and blood-pack" or a "classic texture-pack" just for the atmosphere?

If there are people who wanna play more skilled tdm games but only wanna login now and then to play some q2dm1 public match, why not give them this option? They could for example log in to every premium server where q2dm1 is played at the moment...

just some thoughts..

>complain about simpleitems feature to make both choices equal
>suggest a pack to enable cg_gibs for money

disregard this faggot and come here for a suggestion that needs to be implemented in the next update:

http://esreality.com/post/2327016

This thread here is about suggestions to make QL more popular for a mainstream audience. Your thread on the other side is about your simple mind doesn't get it, that you have choices to make, simpleitems 0/1, r_picmip 0/16 etc.. aslong as you have the same choices as everyone it's fair.

Adding another choice = better customization = making more people happy. Win/win and shut the fuck up.

Adding another choice sounds better than pretending it would be unfair if you choose simpleitems 1 and your opponent choose simpleitems 0. You both get the same choices and you both are responsible for your decisions.

If you would be a gladiator in an arena and you can choose between different weapons but you have the same choices like your opponent, it wouldn't be called unfair if you would choose a knife and your opponent would choose a shotgun.. it would be called DUMB AS NEMECEL..

Now enjoy your entry as no.1 on my iglist, can't handle such a simplemind "1" setting of you
too much for zblock:|

I don't give a fuck about your interpretation. The thing is it NEEDS to be fixed, period.

Even with that age verification thing to unlock it, I'm sure it wouldn't be cool with ESRB. Remember the Hot Coffee mod?

But the Hot Coffee mod for GTA San Andreas was a plain mod which was easy to install and NO form of extra age verification was needed and I am pretty sure that WITH a form of age verification and the fact, that it would be a visualisation to "kill your enemies" instead of "making love" to them would be fine with american politics.

You won't need age verification when a hack will give you access to this locked content. I'm also unsure as to HOW you're going to verify anyone's age.

Everyone pays for QL with a credit card currently, so the age verification falls trough. Parents buying their children premium accounts would need to be notified of gibs purchase or something like that.
Although I agree that most quake players are of age and should be able to choose such an option.

this thread is useless!!!

time machine ftw

Pick any 5: http://www.esreality.com/post/2116522/in-dept...for-qlive/