Player queue

But the lobby wouldn't be mandatory and you could skip it anytime. It's just there to alert you when enough players have joined if you don't want to build dildos by yourself in the meantime.

 

The thing is, you've got like 80 servers, but the distribution of players among them isn't the cutest one you can imagine. There's usually, as you said, 15 servers with players at all, maybe 5-8 with a decent game going on, and those are usually full. Like full full. Also most of the servers are not on your continent (well there are exceptions in EU sometimes, but it's KAG, not the World Cup and we should think about the world entire).
Following is based on a test from just now, 12:40 in Poland (utc +1 for you, ignorant rednecks), a Saturday.
When you first look, it seems that there's many games going on. But, two of them are Beo's Zombies and Aphelion's, which you probably don't want to play on because you want to play regular KAG. One of them is AUS, another one is US, one is RTDM which you could join but you'd rather CTF. Another few (around 5) are just 3-5 players on, and you're lazy and you want to actually start playing insead of booting the game up for those long expensive minutes. There's a shiprekt, a sv_test on. What you're left with is BD CTF... Which is full. And you are stuck refreshing.

tl;dr: I'm trying to point out that "populated servers" doesn't mean servers you want to join in a vast majority of times. The queue may or may not be a solution, but I'd rather see a smarter idle kick system (for example kick after a smaller amount of time if the server is full, disable spectator if the server is full (with an exception for admins ofc)).

 

Haha youre having this problem ? I can barely find any servers, i only find 6-10 at a time, not more

 

Oh so its not a problem from my side ? Its a shame tho, more people need to learn about this game

 

True, but then isnt there an actuall way to bring more people to the game ?

 

There's lots of ways to get people to bring people into games. However, the problem lies somewhere else, you have to get them to stick to your game. As BL said, there were times where the population was large - ie when KAG got first released on Steam, or when there were sales.

 

Yea actually thats what i meant, i just expressed it terribly. I meant we need ways to show people how awesome KAG truly is and help the community grow

 

Good idea, i was thinking of starting a channel anyway and thats one more reason to, i just wonder if it will get support or anything

 

I was confused by what "queue" meant; I hadn't played much games with a queue system before hand. Also, with simple join the idea of a queue is silly unless you want to efficiently play with friends.

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I like how this is going terribly off-topic, I love it!

Anyways, adding on to what you said, I feel as if there is no real way to; as most gamers really only play KAG for a few weeks or months. That is, unfortunately, how most gamers are (like some of my friends who hate a game after a month or two). So the only real way to have players want to stick with this game is to give them more options, may it be mods or play-styles.

This is where guides and/or tutorials would really help, along with heavy developer involvement (but for Pete's sake; the developers are very involved in the community as is). Because guides and tutorials would open up for a lot of different play-styles and in general gives longevity to player's playtime in KAG. Of course, for these guides and/or tutorials to even be seen they need to be sponsored by either THD or Steam, and with Steam guides that's already happening.

I guess the one thing left to do is integrate the Youtube tutorials like the ones made by Franek into the official websites for KAG, or in guides.