A gripe

[delinquent]

Since I started this apprenticeship and had a number of other changes in my life, I get precious little time to relax into something I enjoy. More often than not I trawl space, muck around in tanks or shoot down some japs in the various other games that I enjoy, but I do still enjoy Armagetron.

As primarily a fortress player, I'm really beginning to see the problems with pickup. It's excellent for organised games where we have all day to ourselves, or want something a bit more in depth than casual fortress, but for the duration of the working week it's prohibitively time consuming. I simply don't have the two hours to wait in IRC, wait for people to get a modicum of organisation and actually play a game.

This is a completely opposite view to when I had an hourly waged job, that was comparatively untaxing and less time consuming. Now that I have a 90 minute commute each way, and other duties to contend with before I even look at my computer, I'd much rather be able to jump in for a half hour run in a casual game.

So, with that in mind, I call for pickup to be restricted to weekends (or a period during which it's majority playerbase is free).

Yes, vote, yadda yadda. I'm (slowly) growing up, don't hate me.

[takburger]

Hey,

Good thing that you're busy. But I do not agree, there are pickups at precise hours every day and you can be able to adapt to that.

[compguygene]

Takburger, as somebody else who has a busy life, I think you are missing the point. He is saying that often he can only commit about 1/2 hour or so to play. That is my story many time too. For pickup, that really doesn't work. A pickup game takes a 1/2 hour to play, but there is time to wait to get into the next pickup, to organize, etc. In reality, it seems to take 45 minutes to an hour commitment.

[delinquent]

I like the concept of pickup, don't get me wrong, but I'm now much more in agreement with limiting it's operational days.

[takburger]

Sorry, I also have a busy life... Maybe I don't have the home duties to raise a children or take care of a wife yet so I got more free time than you.

I think you're gonna have a hard time to find fort servers, as for now there are 2 pickups during the evenings.

[Hoax]

Filthy casual

[delinquent]

Lazy slob

[Renegade]

You missed out on the chance to be a wizard

[delinquent]

I don't get it?

[Phytotron]

The irony of "pickup"—it never really was a pick-up game.