Night Fights - WEEKNIGHTS at 8:00PM EST!!!

[Ihmhi]

Night Fights are on!

What are Night Fights?

Night Fights are guaranteed Fortress Forever action every weeknight - or as guaranteed as we can hope to make it. A collection of forum moderators, beta testers, server operators, clan leaders, and many other people who are the pillars of this community have gotten together to bring you some good pub play every weeknight!

When are Night Fights?

Night Fights will happen every weeknight (Monday through Friday) at 8:00 PM EST/GMT-5. This is 5:00 PM on the West Coast. Convert the time appropriately depending on where you live. Night Fights will last at least an hour.

Where will Night Fights happen?

Night Fights will occur at [AE]'s server. Here is the IP Address:

63.209.35.55:27015

You can bring up the console in-game by pressing ~ and typing:

connect 63.209.35.55:27015

What maps will be played?

Night Fights will be using the following map schedule. We will use it for a few weeks and see how it works out.

Each map will run 30 minutes, and if there are people around past 2 hours additional maps will be played - not necessarily along the theme of the night. It's all up to the admin(s) present.

Maps with their names in Red are being swapped out for reasons described at my most recent post. Replacements will be noted herein if they are decided.

Monday (CTF)
ff_medieval_b2
ff_congestus
ff_startec
ff_session

Tuesday (Sports)
ff_push
ff_waterpolo
murderball_nyro
ff_pigskin

Wednesday (CTF)
ff_myth_b2
ff_stowaway2
ff_meltdown
ff_openfire

Thursday (AvD/IaD)
ff_cornfield
ff_palermo
ff_cz2 (Replaced by ff_tiger)
ff_dustbowl

Friday (CTF)
ff_pirates
ff_flag4sky
ff_dropdown
ff_2mesa3_classic

New map schedule up Monday!

Anything else?

Depending on the success of Night Fights, it may expand in the future to multiple times and/or multiple servers. If you have any questions, comments, etc., post 'em in this thread!

[puppychow]

in for playing, also can help organize on whatever day is necessary. PM me Ihmi.

it would be nice for someone who has photoshop skills to make a Night Fights banner, including ip (noting this would have to be modified from time to time), and we could post this on other forums...I'd be happy to do the posting if someone could do the imagework.

edit - might wanna make this a sticky in other subforums, and think about the front page too. it might be buried here..

[Hammock]

Every night of the week with 20 volunteer members to support the program? We barely fill up two full pub servers during the week.

Perhaps you should start things off slowly and do it only once a week. That way it makes it special. Doing it every day wears you down, I was one of the guys who ran owol's FNFrags and it grew beyond just one night. That killed the whole thing very quickly, people were getting burned out running it, and people were getting bored playing it.

[Dr.Satan]

Originally Posted by Hammock

Every night of the week with 20 volunteer members to support the program? We barely fill up two full pub servers during the week.

Perhaps you should start things off slowly and do it only once a week. That way it makes it special. Doing it every day wears you down, I was one of the guys who ran owol's FNFrags and it grew beyond just one night. That killed the whole thing very quickly, people were getting burned out running it, and people were getting bored playing it.

well it's mainly we want like 4 / 5 dedicated guys each night...one Capitan to moderate the server and keep the maps and shit running and then 3 / 4 guys to be sure to play so that more people will come in. One of the main reasons we want separate people for each night is so that people don't get burned out. Mainly just looking for people who already play to say "yeah I'll be on every night I can Wed. or Friday or whatever." and then show up when you can.

Originally Posted by Ihmih

Edit: Thursday is now covered - we just need someone on deck for Thursday!

Fixed that to say Wednesday for ya Ihmhi

[greenday5494]

OMFG. TUESDAY AND THURSDAY ARE NOE MY MOST FAVORITE DAYS OF ALL TIME. WATERPOLO?!?!?! CZ2??!!??!?!?!?!!? COUNT ME IN! SCREW TF2 IMMA PLAY SOME FF WITH SOME GOOD OLE MAPS!

[Skanky Butterpuss]

how about next time you worry less about capitalizing your entire post and more about actually showing up to play

[greenday5494]

sorry. im just excited. when's the next one? is EA's server laways gonna be in this rotation

[Circuitous]

Pigskin... is... awesome.

[Icculus]

Any chance of bumping this up to 9:00pm EDT? I'd be up for it but I live on the East Coast and am usually putting my kids to bed at 8:00 EDT. Also that would give the West Coast people time to get home from work ETC since most people get off around 5:00pm.

-Icculus

[puppychow]

so it's ALL about YOU then...huh? HUH?



actually, 9pm might be better for inclusion of other time zones

[Icculus]

Originally Posted by puppychow

so it's ALL about YOU then...huh? HUH?



actually, 9pm might be better for inclusion of other time zones

Lol, I thought about that after I posted it. Guess i'm more self-centered then I give myself credit for!

-Icculus

[Ihmhi]

Anyone for Wednesday here? Anyone? I'd prefer a clan leader or someone well-established in the community. I'd like to get this started for Monday if we can.

[[AE] 82694]

My suggestion is to start with what you got and you can add people and nights as you go along. It's spring time a lot of people are busy with end of school push and shit like that.

[Dr.Satan]

Originally Posted by Icculus

Any chance of bumping this up to 9:00pm EDT? I'd be up for it but I live on the East Coast and am usually putting my kids to bed at 8:00 EDT. Also that would give the West Coast people time to get home from work ETC since most people get off around 5:00pm.

-Icculus

Preferably it will last longer then an hour...just jump in when your around!

[puppychow]

need a couple things:

• the first date this will be live advertised
• stickied in other sections of ff
• potentially on the front of ff
• a final, clean posting that can be linked to on other forums

maybe some of this is in the works already so if so, sorry for being a nag..i just want this to take off - and i do PR/Adertising for a living - i can't help myself.

[Dr.Satan]

probably won't go on the front page b/c it's not the dev's doing it...just Ihmhi's idea, but the rest seems doable!

[Ihmhi]

Yes, and for now we need people who can dedicate themselves to a night...

[Ihmhi]

Archiving the OP here, as I am changing it. And yes, I unapproved my own post. I just want to stash this in the thread if I need it in the future, so please leave it be guys. Thanks.

Friday Night Fights was pretty popular before, and ffpickup seems to be doing well. This is why I'm starting ffpickup, but for the forums.

Taking (stealing?) the name from FNF, this will be called Night Fights. The starting schedule will be Monday-Friday at 8:00PM EST every night (that's 5:00 PM for you folks on the West Coast). It will be hosted on [AE]'s public server in Dallas as that server is ping-neutral to both coasts of the states.

Yes, I do plan to expand this if it is succesful and set something up for Europe. I want to see how the first week or two goes before I go ahead and expand the program.

Okay then, so. Let's get things started, eh?

Here's the IP address of the [AE] server.

63.209.35.55:27015

We need people who can dedicate a minimum of one hour's time to be in the server. I want to have four people on hand every night, guaranteed, so we can definitely get a game or three going. If you are free for any one day Monday-Friday, please post here.

We also need Night Captains. We have Monday, Tuesday, and Friday covered, so we need a person to cover Wednesday and a person to cover Thursday. Yes, those are league nights, so presumably you would be in league.

Edit: Thursday is now covered - we just need someone on deck for Wednesday!

We need 20 people total to be staff on hand for this. Right now we have 3. Here's your chance to speak up and get in on some Fortress action.

If this program is succesful, we will expand the schedule, add secondary servers close to home (so to speak), and different times to accomidate our fellows over the Pond.

So then, who's up for it, eh?

[Ihmhi]

I've changed up the OP a bit.

Night Fights will be a little more easygoing for the moment. We have people on hand who will make it there, so don't worry about that. See you guys tomorrow!