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I've got Norton, McAfee, Malware, Spyware, Firewall, Wareware, and Warewalls!But my dad doesn't think it is good enough!
Quote from: The M on December 07, 2010, 04:16:12 PMI've got Norton, McAfee, Malware, Spyware, Firewall, Wareware, and Warewalls!But my dad doesn't think it is good enough!Your dad is a computer programmer and he's got you running all that? What does he program, Dora the Explorer video games?
I think the biggest thing is there's a lack of interest in playing redemption online. It starts out with limited time to play, which is understandable, but then when you're ready to play, no-one is online to play against. So that carries over to ROOT. So, in my opinion, it's not nessarily a ROOT problem, it's a problem with people not really wanting to play online.
I'm betting that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. A few months ago, there were tons of people on pretty much all the time. These days, there's hardly ever anyone on. I bet it started with a few people getting more busy for finals, but then it just snowballed with people saying "oh, it's harder to find games so I'll just leave" starting a domino effect.
Quote from: Minister Polarius on December 08, 2010, 12:29:33 PMI'm betting that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. A few months ago, there were tons of people on pretty much all the time. These days, there's hardly ever anyone on. I bet it started with a few people getting more busy for finals, but then it just snowballed with people saying "oh, it's harder to find games so I'll just leave" starting a domino effect.That's probably true. Hopefully with redemption live or whatever it's called that will increase interest in playing online because right now, it's about the lowest I've seen it in my time on the boards.
I think the 16-person limit on Hamachi is a significant draw-back to people feeling like there are people online. If everyone could join a single group, then there would almost always be multiple people online looking for a game. But with the current limit of 16 people in a group, the only way to see everyone is to join a ton of groups. But groups have to be consistently updated, or they become useless because they are full of people who don't play anymore, or full of old accounts that people have switched to new ones.I've looked in the past for a replacement for Hamachi to fix this problem, but so far I haven't been able to find anything that is as simple to set up and use, and free, and has unlimited group size.