Hey everyone, this is just a bigD version of this I thought I would post, the original is here in the Project Reality forums:

 

http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f10-pr-general-discussion/46795-ipetition-ea-dice-player-limit-increase-read-me.html

 

 

 

 

Basically, If we can get enough signatures maybe they might actually make a tiny coding change before the full release of 1.5 patch (not the beta).

Come on everyone, get behind this!

 

 

Battlefield 2 Increase the 64p limit to 114p Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

 

 

Everyone just put your email address in, your in-game and a comment if you desire. It will lead to a donation page but just click back if you don't want to. This is previous partition I might add but best not let it die now, especially when EA/DICE are in a position where they have to listen to feedback to properly create the 1.5 final patch.

Edited April 29, 200915 yr by YAK

lol sif

good freaking luck

 

 

However, did it anyway. It's worth a shot.

Edited April 29, 200915 yr by Snazzy

Online petitions are USELESS

http://www.bigdgaming.net/showthread.php?t=5705&highlight=player+limit

 

 

And i quote..

HA HA, EA listening to someone other then themselves. good one.

If your sitting there saying "pfft I'm not doing that", then the next time I catch you on the pubs, I will scream at you until you quit. Get the stick out of your asses you self obsessed retards. Do something. The one time they bring out a patch in over 2 years means that there is a better possibility of getting it done now than before.

Edited April 29, 200915 yr by YAK

Can't we petition over other things? Will vote though.

 

Player limits were last on my mind. Instaprone, dolphin diving, 'prouching' are all the ones I wanted fixed first. What about SL to SL VOIP built in? Squad invites/allowances like in the demo? Hit registering like in the demo, early releases. I'm sure the devs have heaps of things holding them back.

I signed it twice ages ago

I signed it for ****s and giggles

 

but on the last post of that thread, on about the 19th of feb this year i think, there was a post from one of the developers where he quoted a DICE email to him basically saying server hardware can't support over 64 and its not gonna happen...

 

i get the feeling this is a topic that gets visited every year, with the same outcome

 

EDIT:

 

From Dice -

"The limit has been set because of stability and server hardware loads when its increased. The value is hard coded to prevent this being modified. As you can imagine the more players we have the more unstable the servers become and we have a lot of issues we have to address getting 64 players stable. In the near future we don't have plans to unlock this option but in the future it could be something we look at again."

Posted by the PR dev on 13th of Feb this year

Edited April 29, 200915 yr by Soulrogue

have signed it but come on...... most servers lag out when there are 64 players logged in...............Server hosting costs would double or even triple.

won't happen - I think they have proven with their beta release that they are not going to invest anything but the bare minimum into this BF2.

 

Appreciate your passion... but thems are fighting words

Can't we petition over other things? Will vote though.

 

Player limits were last on my mind. Instaprone, dolphin diving, 'prouching' are all the ones I wanted fixed first. What about SL to SL VOIP built in? Squad invites/allowances like in the demo? Hit registering like in the demo, early releases. I'm sure the devs have heaps of things holding them back.

 

 

Agreed there are more important thing needed than the NOOB limit increased.

Profit wise, a move like this would definitely break a record. BF2 Does support it, in fact, Vanilla was designed to accommodate 128 players but server and client hardware back in 2005 just didn't cut it. Hell, do you have any idea how many people would buy Battlefield 2 with the news that the player limit has almost been doubled? Even if it doesn't work on Vanilla, give the mods some room to experiment with. All they have to do is go into the source code and type three numbers into the line of code.

In the future where we get better Bandwidth and server hardware , then the player increase would be good.......well IF everybody ( like SOP has pointed out ) in the servers are MATURE. By that time i think PR would find a better game engine....

PR in a new game engine would be totally a new thing...

The parameters imposed by BF2, while limiting things in some ways,

are what has given it it's peculiar qualities...

PR in a new game engine would be totally a new thing...

The parameters imposed by BF2, while limiting things in some ways,

are what has given it it's peculiar qualities...

 

Pretty much But as long as it keeps the original goals.

-Realism

-Team work

-Good stuff

 

It would be a game resembling the fundamentals that PR players look for.

I saw a thread about the PR 128 players petition on a vanilla forum, and most of the people on there were totally against it; Mostly saying "ZOMG Karkand infantry only will become spammy!!!"

 

So, apparently most of BF2's player base is against it.

They couldn't even read the original post, which suggested it only be an option for servers that are unranked and for mods like Project Reality. Unfortunately, most of vanilla's playerbase is illiterate so it went on deaf ears.

absolutely not.

 

even if it was increased, maps would have to be edited to account for new players: more vehicles, increased squad numbers, and even then it wouldn't make sense because multiple section/squads make a platoon which sticks together, once again, hardcoded.

 

ryza why do you even WANT more people in a server? what is the point of simply having MORE? from a command point of view, commanding 17 or so squads is a nightmare. Unless, there were deputy commanders, which means INCREDIBLE amounts of orders lost through the chain of command (this problem is already bad enough).

 

and why would players come for MORE people, i doubt it was a huge selling point for Eaglehawk or whatever it was called, that game on PS3 which had a ton of players flying these jet things around.

 

hueg amounts of players should only apply to WoW and EVE imo.

 

just my 2C.

Vitriolic Rant

 

Some light reading for you

I honestly think that there isn't enough player to command..

haven't you ever wished for just ONE more squad to fill the gap in your master plan?

PR in a new game engine would be totally a new thing...

The parameters imposed by BF2, while limiting things in some ways,

are what has given it it's peculiar qualities...

 

yeah true ...but , these qualities and so much more possibilities !!!. What i am getting at is FLEXIBILITY. The right amount of course ....

I honestly think that there isn't enough player to command..

haven't you ever wished for just ONE more squad to fill the gap in your master plan?

 

Not really.. most of the time I am wishing that just ONE more [of the existing 5] squad was doing something useful

Psyrus, perhaps you have a mentality of 'anything goes' but when people repeatedly come in saying "Don't try, it won't work" - THAT is an example of bad manners. Even worse when they don't give a reason, just an inconsiderate answer that doesn't help anyone. If you don't ask for anything, quite simply you are not going to get it. Dtacs, commanding isn't that difficult, just a lot of players are annoying (In my opinion until the commander role is fixed, the game works better without one).

Edited April 29, 200915 yr by YAK

Psyrus, perhaps you have a mentality of 'anything goes' but when people repeatedly come in saying "Don't try, it won't work" - THAT is an example of bad manners. Even worse when they don't give a reason, just an inconsiderate answer that doesn't help anyone.

 

I don't wish to further derail your topic, however I would say that you would do well to remember that people can have opposing opinions to your own, and that just because you disagree with them, doesn't mean you should start attacking people even if it's in a non-direct manner. I don't say this as an admin as I hold no authority around here, I just think that there's a definite place for civility in the world that forums and internet-users appear to disregard it a good portion of the time. I probably should have PMed you that link, my apologies.

 

I signed the petition months ago, but like others I'm realisitic in my expectations that it is a completely futile effort, especially since the DICE rep on the BF?/EA? forums was rather adamant of 64pl being the stable limit.