I have been in the server twice in the past 2 weeks, both times there were ~15 people and I was unable to find a game. But Eric's tip helps.
If you click find match and after a minute or two there's nobody on, ask in the main chat for someone to go on the find tab. There's always someone up for a battle!ive been wondering about that. on the CaP server it seems like you never get a match when you try and find. should we just challenge?
I agree with Frosty completely.. he made a good point... if there was more people on the server there would be more battles going on and more palytesting being done...So i also agree with Tennis that more poeple should go on the server and playtest.The main reason people don't come in the server is that it is VERY hard to get a battle going there and I am not sure if the lack of battles is solely a result of the lack of battlers. For example, I am on the server right now and there are about 24 players (4 of them being busy) and there is only one battle going on as we speak (mine). Only 1 battle with 20 active players around. Weird huh?
I agree with tennis that more people should get on the server and playtest the pokes. But it is hard to playtest any poke if no one is battling. So I'd like to ask the people who DO come in often to play some games instead of just chatting. Otherwise you are killing the point of having a server on shoddy in the first place (instead of having an IRC Channel). But that is my opinion.
The same thing goes for me. I like the different metagame that CAP has to offer since I got tired of the standard OU metagame. In the CAP server battling is a lot more fun because I feel the battles are more relaxed and winning isn't as important as it would be, if both players were laddering in the smogon server, for example.also, i happen to like the difference in the metagame since i sometimes tire of some pokes on OU. at least this is an alternative.
My point is that many people don't ladder anymore because they can't get to the top anymore. I think that bringing the MT Leaderboard back will heavily increase chances to playtest, as many people who regulate the server are only there for chatting purposes, myself included. The Mini Tournaments are announced in the main chat, so it would bring attention to the battlers and undoubtedly have more battles going on the server.HAL9000: 1. MAGMORTIFIED (1,564.12)*
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Beej: The reason why MTs are engaging in the first place is because they're events and people will make predictions/watch the battles/speculate further.
What we need is whatever will open us up to a larger pool of players. We could gather up all the data the CAP metagame has to offer, but how meaningful would that be if there was no one around to play it?Just because something is "more fun" and "easier" doesn't mean it's what we need right now.