Looking for other players from Moscow or Russia

[Gandalf Parker]

Even a game as great as this one doesnt survive for this long on its own. It does take game variations, new maps, and mods to keep it lively. As far as I can tell thats the same for both the Solo or the MP players.

And by the way, most of the bots actually identify themselves as bots. And watching the activity screen tends to show the searching/lurkers fairly clearly. Even with the full-time registered campers on here the in-and-out search for answer lurkers tend to outnumber us 2-to1

[lch]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

Even a game as great as this one doesnt survive for this long on its own. It does take game variations, new maps, and mods to keep it lively. As far as I can tell thats the same for both the Solo or the MP players.

Sure, but you can already see a lot of flux in the MP gaming crowd - over a timespan of one year and up, of course. Dom3 aside, most games I play have a range of about two weeks to two months before I find something new instead.

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

And by the way, most of the bots actually identify themselves as bots.

Those from the five or ten biggest search engines and their known IP ranges, maybe. There are lots and lots of spiders out there, from search engines you might have never heard about before like Baidu or projects like Archive.org. And I'd expect that the spambots and worms probing for security holes even outnumber the search engine bots by a good factor at any given time.

I expect that we got a couple of lurkers here that look up game information especially from those other gaming forums that play their own MP games without ever registering to the Shrapnel forums. I started like that, too.