ATK Milestone: 500 Members Reached!!

I'm not saying that. I'm just saying there has been a lack of activity mainly because there isn't a lot of things happening or to do in order to keep people here. Yes, there is a marketplace, and yes, there is hosting, and other features which you have added, but most of the features added are reduntent and useless.

Most communities that succed have a central event or common interest to keep people engaged and makes them want to consistantly return. We had that at the very beginning with BRS and C2G when we all played CS and played as a clan with other games dashed in moderation to vary it up. When C2G became a fully fledged community, looking back now, I feel that we tried to do too many things at once. We broke into game factions if you will, and tried to still draw members from CS, which a minority of us still played, and even then it was a very small amount.

Then we expanded further with no influx of new members, and people that come here just get a bit disillusioned with the fact we have so much here that is inactive and unused, that they believe the community to be like that. The core that has remained has been those that were in BRS and C2G to begin with.

My honest opinion - I think we need to seriously look at what the community is and get rid of anything we don't need. Servers, forum areas, whatever - if we don't use it, remove it. From there, find a core interest or do something to draw people in. We may want to consider just becoming a small dedicated clan-type community of close-knit friends, but these things would need to be decided at a later date.

Thanks for your comments, and I know where you're coming from. Since early July I have been meaning to clean up the forum catagories (as Phantom suggested then), so I'll make sure that does actually happen ASAP.

One thing I'm not willing to do is start massively reshaping the site, and while I will endeavour to make things more simple and straightforward, I think we really just need to push the games that we are all into at the moment. If I was a new member now visiting the site, I wouldn't know where to start... I mean....what do we play? :p There is definitely still room for ATK to grow, it just has to be in the right direction as you've said.

Tbh to get more active member on a gaming forum you need a game...that everyone plays...atm that could be MW2 if you decide that, then people should make the effort to get it and play it...or maybe when Bad Company 2 comes out then if we have server and populate it and maybe invite regular players to join teamspeak and get them involved

Lets see, Mitch, me, Chaz, Freddie, Mr Big, his frend Aven (?) play MW2 a lot, not necessarily together (its usually either Chaz or Mitch, or me and Chaz, and sometimes the three of us together usually) and that has been the closest this community has been IMO for ages.

And for once, I agree with Oric. I'm sorry Chalex, but ATK is too big for what it is, if we were just a group dedicated to one game (but who are willing to play other games obviously) it would work. But for now, all I see is a lot of empty forums.

The forums will be sorted out Bloo, but I don't think there's any point in removing parts of the site like the gallery/downloads etc. Hopefully they'll be used more if we focus on one game as you say, and I very much think that Bad Company 2 will be the one for that :D.

I'll make sure we have a server as soon after release as possible, although I don't know if INX will be a ranked provider yet.

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Originally Posted by Bloo

Lets see, Mitch, me, Chaz, Freddie, Mr Big, his frend Aven (?) play MW2 a lot, not necessarily together (its usually either Chaz or Mitch, or me and Chaz, and sometimes the three of us together usually) and that has been the closest this community has been IMO for ages.

And for once, I agree with Oric. I'm sorry Chalex, but ATK is too big for what it is, if we were just a group dedicated to one game (but who are willing to play other games obviously) it would work. But for now, all I see is a lot of empty forums.

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/aggree with this.


Since getting MW2 there has been more regular community play than has been seen since the peak of the TF2 team.

Me, chaz, bloo, freddie, vox, mr big, and even DE have been all playing together for several house a week at least, several hours a day at best.

When was the last time we saw more than 2 people on any of our servers? (Excluding My hidden server ofc, thats regularly in use ;))

As we said when we got the servers from inx, we dont need 2 match servers. would have been better getting 1 or 2 big servers that were fun to play and we could try n keep busy.

Tho tbh none of us are going to be puttin a lot of time into TF2 or CSS any time in teh near future.

Modern Warfare 2, regardless of your opinions due to the server system, is undoubtedly by far the most playable and i wouldnt think im going too far to say overall best game thats been around for a while, and its something that the majority of members already have or are intending on purchasing post haste - for example i know chris will be gettin it once he gets a new rig setup, and other people posted theyre gunna in teh future on my poll a few weeks ago.

To be honest, witht he lack of server requirements for MW2, it actually makes doing the community thing a whole lot easier.
Anyone that sounds cool online we can add on friends, chat to, and invite and might eventually get a clan going. I know id be up for it.

I invited a small clan thats just starting out to here that i have 2 of em on steam i had fun with for a few hours the other day, but theyre in the middle of setting up their own site / voice server and its already sorted so wernt interested, but i bet there are many many more.

Ok, you've convinced me, is MW2 > New Monitor?

If so, I'll go out and buy it this week.

I'll get MW2 at some point but really need to sort out either a pc for uni or wait till I break up for summer

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Originally Posted by Chalex4

The forums will be sorted out Bloo, but I don't think there's any point in removing parts of the site like the gallery/downloads etc. Hopefully they'll be used more if we focus on one game as you say, and I very much think that Bad Company 2 will be the one for that :D.

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Perhaps, but all the individual games forums could be replaced by one uber-forum as we don't really have the posting quota to need lots of smaller ones.

Also why isn't MW2 the one for us? You've said you don't have much time for games, and most of us usually fit them around the rest of our lives anyway. So why do you think BC2 is the one for us? Battlefield games usually take ages to finish. At least with MW2 you can get the cheeky round or two in in the twenty minute revision break you've planned or before making food.

heh, maybe because half of the community haven't bought into MW2, due to it being expensive and a scaled down version of cod4?

And with 90% of us previously being proud boycotters - I've sort of given in like the Chinese, can't beat 'em, join em.

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Originally Posted by D_K_Head

heh, maybe because half of the community haven't bought into MW2, due to it being expensive and a scaled down version of cod4?

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No dk, youre wrong.

More of us have bought MW2 on or around release date than any other game since we started.

Almost every active member has it.

AFAIK out of the ACTIVE members, only DK, VH and Target dont, and its on chris's to do list at some point and vh stated above hes thinking about it.

I don't have it.

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Originally Posted by Phantom

I don't have it.

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You aren't exactly an active member. Apart from coh and hon with triggeer I haven't seen u play anything with any of us for months :p

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Originally Posted by Colonel Mitch

You aren't exactly an active member. Apart from coh and hon with triggeer I haven't seen u play anything with any of us for months :p

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/agree - although I haven't exactly been a model of activity either.