[cluckay]

Title says it all.

[niffiwan]

It's not just you, there's so few people playing multi these days that you really need to schedule/organise a time in advance.

[Cyborg17]

I got into a pug on a Friday night about a year ago.  'Twas glorious.

[chief1983]

Awesome typo.

[Cyborg17]

Poor little guy.....

Hold on, doesn't pug mean "pick up group"?

[chief1983]

Thought he meant pub, like public game, as opposed to privately arranged.

[karajorma]

Either way, that's pretty much how I read it too.

[Sarkoth]

The last time I managed to find one other player in multiplayer was about 5 years ago. We both shot each other around 3 times until he disconnected. Could have been fun. Wasn't. Sad story makes Sarkoth sad.

[castor]

I managed to find one other player in multiplayer was about 5 years ago. We both shot each other around 3 times until he disconnected.

Sorry for kind of pointless bump, but damn

I wonder if it would help to have a simple down counting web timer for a fixed weekly MP event, running on FS2NET/HLP front pages?
Of course it wouldn't automatically make anyone to actually show up, but would serve as a reminder for the potentially interested people, and maybe capture the interest of some of those otherwise unaware.

[zookeeper]

Well, since this is now bumped already...

I bet there's enough people playing FS2O that you could actually have people online at the same time, but it'd require that the game heavily facilitate that. For example, have a small notice box at the corner of the mainhall telling you whether there are any people online, and allow you to actually join them with 1-3 clicks (instead of going through the obnoxious '90's multiplayer interface). And have some servers/matches running all the time for people to join without the need to set one up yourself.

I'm pretty convinced that multiplayer is dead mainly because it's so inconvenient to use (compare to any modern game in which you'll get to shoot other people in a few clicks), and that would be possible to fix although of course it'd be a big undertaking.

[jr2]

I'm pretty convinced that multiplayer is dead mainly because it's so inconvenient to use (compare to any modern game in which you'll get to shoot other people in a few clicks), and that would be possible to fix although of course it'd be a big undertaking.

QFT