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What the hell?

#1 Post by jimgov » Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:36 am

OK. I haven't been on this site in years. For a while, I was pretty active here. With the coronavirus in swing, I decided to jump on here and play a gunboat or two. I am really shocked at the total lack of people here. Like...what happened? Is it always this dead? Kind of sad. I used to love this site.
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#2 Post by brainbomb » Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:00 am

ill play gunboat

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#3 Post by jimgov » Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:07 am

I used to jump on this site and gunboat games would fill up in minutes. Several at a time. Last night I tried a few times. No one even tried to join.
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#4 Post by brainbomb » Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:12 am

yea I had that issue fri. im free tomorrow.

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#5 Post by BobMcBob » Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:35 am

Yeah, the live game community kind of died on this website over time. I think the new NMR/CD mechanics probably had a lot to do with it.

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#6 Post by brainbomb » Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:45 am

which youd think wouldve improved it

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#7 Post by Claesar » Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:36 am

I expect to be playing a lot of live games soon as I'm forced to 'work from home'.
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#8 Post by Tommy Choo » Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:30 am

Came back too after some time, and what I found is overwhelmingly most games are private :( also, when did WebDip get bots? Are they any good?

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#9 Post by Chaqa » Mon Mar 16, 2020 1:11 pm

BobMcBob wrote:
Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:35 am
Yeah, the live game community kind of died on this website over time. I think the new NMR/CD mechanics probably had a lot to do with it.
Eh. As a long time live game player and organizer, there's a few things...
1. A lot of the core members of the live game community left or are less active (Strauss, MichiganMan, The Czech, etc.) than they used to be
2. Live games took a LOT of hits before the RR/CD changes, the community was already on life support
3. The "Advertise your live games here thread" is dead now

We generally organize them on Discord now, FWIW.
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#10 Post by jimgov » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:39 am

So I've got to look on Discord to play here?

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#11 Post by Claesar » Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:52 am

jimgov wrote:
Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:39 am
So I've got to look on Discord to play here?
No, but it makes it easier. Discord allows for notifications so it's more convenient to get 7 players together.

Refreshing the front page to look for live games still works though.

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