Modern Weap Cust Maps - New Weapons Mod!!, steel's latest concoction Options

[steel]

Okay dudes and dudettes, I've finished my newest modern weapons mod and it is running like glass on our Modern Weapons Custom Maps server at 67.106.77.244:28960. Please check it out and let me know what you think.

My original Modern Weapons mod was based upon Tally's mod. Over time, I changed the way the guns shot (mostly ammo and recoil), removed the MAC-11, and eventually added a souped up Kar98, M1carbine, and MP44 with all customized sounds. So the guns were M4a1, AK-47, SIG552, M40a3, Kar98, M1carbine, MP44, and UMP. I later added TNT and fiery smoke grenades but they were glitchy, so I took em back out. Of the top 5 modern weapons coduo servers, 4 are using this mod (the 5th is using the Zoxo mod).

What I did in this newest version of my mod, was remove some weapons and pull in some weapons based on those in the Zoxo mod. I changed a few things about the guns and mapped them differently weapon-wise, but basically, if you like playing them in the Zoxo mod, you'll love 'em here. Ah, the sweet steely touch! So the guns now are:

G36, MP5, M4a1, AK-47, Dragunov Sniper, Kar98, M1carbine, and UMP. (No other server in the world contains this weapons mix!)

The mod also includes our very own {MOB} custom compass, and you may catch one or two other little goodies I added along the way. Enjoy!

And as always on MWCM, if you dislike any of the maps, or know of maps you'd like to see there, just speak up.

Frag on!

[steel]

Hi Rock, thanks for the great feedback.

There are several reasons why I made the new weapons mod. One thing is that I just retired in March and now have more time for playing with/on MWCM.

Also my main goal for MWCM has always been for it to be #1, translation, full of players. From its beginning in Nov 2005, til about Dec 2006, it was the #1 modern weapons server (re: www.game-monitor.com), and always around 25th or so of all coduo servers worldwide. It is now 4th of all modern weapons servers and about 60th of all coduo servers worldwide.

Whereas the server used to be full 24x7 most of the time, it had become 12 or so players during the weekdays, and 20-something on the weekends, very rarely getting full at all. And lots & lots of time of sitting EMPTY...... dreaded black-hole death to any server.

Thinking about coduo aging, ergo fewer players playing, it's not a good thing to let a server also slip in its number of players and spend increasing amounts of time empty. It was time to either turn it around, meaning attract more players, or shut it down and walk away. I chose to give one last try to save the old girl, and made this new mod.

I beg to differ with you when you say you can play this mod anywhere, lol. As a matter of fact, like I said in my original post, of the top 5 modern weapons servers, four of them are running one of the previous versions of my modern weapons mod, the one you like better (you can always identify my mods, as they've got "steel" in the filename).

There is no other server in the world with my new mod mix of weapons (until someone decides to use it on their server too, lol). I looked through the player stats for nearly the whole last year and kept the most popular guns and replaced the least popular guns. And I replaced those guns with some based on what I saw and really liked in the Zoxo mod.

So far, my new mod has once again filled-up the server. Heck, it's full right now, on a Tuesday morning! Been a long time since that's happened.

Keep in mind that an empty or poorly populated server is NEVER fun to play, no matter what mod or maps it's running. It attracts no one and is not worth the time or expense to keep it going.

Again Rock, thanks for your feedback. I will be keeping my eyes and ears open about the new mod. If at any point it seems the majority of players want the old mod back, boom, done.

[*USS* Sgt. Rock]

No disrespect intended by my post at all Steel not that you took it that way anyway (Just wanted you to know that). I was just speaking my mind. You are more in tune with the numbers I am sure. As for the weapons, I was speaking from a general sense. For example (and remember I am not a server admin just a user) As an example I think "40 n over vets" plays with the similar mod/weapons maybe not exact but similar, ie MP5, UZI, where you have the Dragonov instead of the Sako, Remington. I think it is like AWE v2.1 or something like that. Once again I am not into all the details that I am sure you are aware of. I am sure I will play it here at times maybe not as much now. I know my son who plays as "Son Of...." doesn't care one way or another about the mods so he will still be on alot.



Yes, I see fewer numbers playing UO these days as well. Not sure if people have gone to 2 yet or other games and the numbers are just split up. I know I recently got 2 and BF2 as well. Don't much care for BF2 and COD2 well that is a whole new critter in a way. I hope people havent been scared off by COD2 ie. left UO, tried 2, didn't like it and went on to an entirely different game. Game dispersion may be why numbers have fallen off. Our servers too have seen drastic numbers fall off. Servers that normally had 25 or more players now sit empty. Kudo's for trying to keep UO alive and kicking.