A Treatise on the Folly of Melee FF

[Berserker Pride]

EDIT: Its made.  Bump the thread with comments it's a bit of an issue even for those who want melee ff at 50%.  Because right now that puts ranged at 50% as well.  Ranged troops fire into fights too much as is.
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=91241.new#new

 

[ScientiaExcelsa]

Our appeals have not gone unheeded!

Hi Guys,

Weare getting some complaints that most of the servers have melee FF onand some players may be quitting due to it. Could we please make surethat at least half of the servers have melee FF set to off? There arelots of personal dedicated servers now and I am guessing that most ofthose would set melee FF to on, therefore we need to make sure that wehave plenty of melee FF off servers available. Maybe we can set a rulesuch as server 1-4 will always have melee FF off?

Thank you for your consideration,
-Armagan

 

[sadnhappy]

Yes and the list of official servers looks somewhat like this now, copied from Archonsod's post on the Admin child board.

EU 1 (TDM) has Friendly fire on 1% / 1%, which will be enough to give a stagger / hit animation but shouldn't cause too much damage.
EU 2 (FnD) is on 50/50
EU 3 (Siege) has melee FF Off

US 1 has FF on, 25% damage to friend (0% to self)
US 2 is Deathmatch, so moot
US 3 is on (50% damage friend)
US 4 (CTF) has melee FF off
US 5 has full melee FF (100 friend)
US 6 is off
US 7 is on, 5% damage to friend
US 8 is on 100 damage to friend.

 

[CryptoCactus]

Really, that information should be displayed in the server listing, as well. Right now all we get is "Allow Friendly Fire?: Yes" which is completely unhelpful.


edit: @ Marnid below (didn't figure it needed a new post): Thanks for that. I was trying to remember which server was which. I know S3 is Battle, because that's the one I'm on most, and I thought S8 was FnD, but then I thought "surely not, that wouldn't make sense". Heh.

edit 2: Wow, does the EU really only have 3 dedicated servers? And 0 Battle servers? Poor fellas. Although I guess most of the fan-hosted servers are over there.

 

[Orion]

That hardly complies with Scipio's demands at all. S8 or S3 should have no melee FF, and I just set S8 in such a way. FnD and Battle can't both be melee FF if Armagan wants half on and half off. Those are the two most popular.

I'd say US servers 4, 5, 6, and 8 be set with melee FF off, and 1, 2, 3, and 7 keep it on. Not that it matters in the deathmatch server anyway.

 

[ScientiaExcelsa]

I agreed with Marnid that servers 1-4 should remain on FF settings, and 5-8 be set to normal.  As long as we have either Battle or FnD, I'm happy.