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sorry, missed those!

I'm still taking in that someone actually found the patch notes! Good going.

Hot papayas.

Welcome back! It's nice to meet oldbies here and there. Get your other oldbies in here, get them to stop by and say hi!

It seems you and I are having the same idea here, Isaac. In fact, you're one of the streamers on my invite list! The idea is to have a proper game night, with you and other streamers aboard. During the time of the event, we can drop Youtube and Twitch links of our participating streamers here and there for people to check out a live APB game and invite them to our game and our community.

nice i'll throw your twitch link onto our media

I see you're wearing an {AW} tag. Going to do some clan recruiting?

You will most certainly have the freedom to add your own units and buildings (see: Raap's Hostile Waters). Every thing you may need to learn to do that can be found in the W3D Tutorials section. Of course, tutorials aren't worth much without the proper tools! GET STARTED - INSTALL THE TOOLS Game asset creation, character modeling, map making and more! All can be done with time, patience, and the desire to learn and to create!

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A River what now? Einstein, surely you're seeing things.

When the SDK is complete and released to the public, you will be free and able to create all the mission and campaign maps that you would like. Between bug fixes, infantry and vehicle changes, and balance refinements (as you can see in the latest 3.0.4.0 changelog), it is too much for the development team to undertake. With the SDK, this may be a task best left to the community to tackle.

Comic Sans is best font.

Shoot me a PM ahead of time when you plan to stream along with your link and I can share it across our media. Even better if I'm in-game with you!

Objectives may be neat, but don't expect those to be added to the current maps. Seamist of course being the exception that it itself has the one objective of defending/destroying the Allied Radar Dome. When it comes time to the release of the APB Source Development Kit, or SDK, you and everyone else will be free to experiment and conjure up new maps and even create mission maps. To the subject of the cruiser; the official stance is the cruiser is not happening. And that is all that needs to be said on that. More CPU is doable, but you have to consider the increased costs that puts on the infrastructure. The servers are maintained at a reasonable cost, and it's best to keep it at that. You may have to wait for an informed answer on the multi-threading/one core question. Divide the maps in what way? Infantry, All Out War, Objective; it all goes into the map rotation. I do see your idea of hovering over the current map in say, the server browser and it showing you if it's infantry-only, AOW, or otherwise. I'll ask if this is possible within the launcher. It shouldn't be difficult to get people to try this out, you are correct. It's the matter of getting the word out, as such is PR. I like to believe we are doing fairly well in that department, and with each day we endeavor to welcome more people into our community. The ideas that have come from this thread and from others in other sections of the forum will prove helpful.

If you glance over at the server listings in the launcher, you'll see the APB server is set to hold a maximum of 50 and the Reborn server can hold a maximum of 40. With the right PR, hitting those numbers is quite possible. The team has done well with using feedback; any and all feedback and criticism is welcome. Each patch that has been released for APB has been based on yours and players' comments, so raising concerns and asking questions here in the forums has been helpful. For the specifics on the hard limit, that's a question for a more knowledgeable person. I believe Pushwall can answer that. If not him, either jonwil or saberhawk. Pushwall, of course is the lead developer of APB, and jonwil and saberhawk are the guys who know all the ins-and-outs of the W3D engine. It's important to note that if either of them say something is impossible to do in this engine, listen to them. Campaign maps are not entirely unreasonable. A past map had everyone on the Allies team protecting the irreplaceable Allied MCV while Soviet AI launched constant attacks. The mission was complete when the MCV successfully deployed. Mission failure was losing the MCV. Don't expect a fully-fledged campaign. Please understand that the effort and time it would require is far too much for the team to undertake reasonably. To say that RA:APB is new would be false advertising? Delta version is new, but the mod itself dates back to 10~ years. If anything, it may be a delight to some to be able to play something that is both nostalgic and fresh; the nostalgia of playing Red Alert and crushing the Allied resistance and then being put in a soldier's boots in this FPS setting, and the fresh approach it brings to the table while still maintaining the original Red Alert goodness.

As I understand, a chat lobby system is one of the features to be added to the W3D Hub Launcher. Understand as well that danpaul88, our resident launcher expert, has more than several things already on his plate and a chat system isn't currently the number one priority. In the meantime, there are other options to get games started should you find the server empty: 1. You can join the TeamSpeak @ts.w3dhub.com and look in the W3D Games section; you'll likely find people who will join in. Additionally, you're chatting and playing at the same time, which is way fun in my opinion than in-game text chat alone. 2. You can message friends on Steam who have the launcher and ask if they would like to play. For your Steam friends who don't have the launcher or have never even heard of us, point them our direction and bring them over! Introduce them to our website, and invite them to join our Steam group! 3. Set up a Skype group chat of yourself and other friends, and send a message through there when you're wanting to play. If enough people were to have Skype and wish to share their information and be added to a group, it may be viable to even have an official W3D Hub Skype group chat for this purpose. Don't limit yourself to not having a chat system in the launcher. Find ways around it to contact friends and others and get people ingame! Keep the ideas coming.

APB_ICE would be proud.

I'll take some notes down on your suggestions and consider our options. In the meantime, link us to some streamers and Let's Players if you happen to come across some. Together we can get the word out, and everyone is more than welcome to help. And don't just let them know about the games; let them know about the forums too! More players, more forum visitors, and everything is the better for it! Keep the ideas coming. I agree. delta has brought up that there are quite a number of players on CnCNet; it's then a matter of how to best present our community and games to the RTS crowd there. Even then, maybe we can't get their interest because it simply isn't C&C RTS. Project Perfect Mod is another community to consider, although we may run into the same conflict of interest. I get that reaching out to streamers without a 24/7 active server is not a good idea, although perhaps we can invite them on a specific date; say, a game night. It has been some time since we have had one announced, we could see about organizing and setting a date. In that way, should streamers take us up on the invitations they'll come to a packed server and offer some coverage, and maybe we'll see returning visitors and players from that day onward. I would agree with the factors that you present; 2 especially. Keep the ideas coming.

how dare you

I'm not too well-versed with Twitch names and Youtubers; any specific persons that you watch that might have fun playing APB or Reborn?

Irwe has played some APB and streamed, and that's pretty cool. Isaac, a tester here actually, streams occasionally as well. Any particular streamers that you think may have interest in the games here? Our pages are right on our front page. See the shiny buttons to the right. http://www.w3dhub.com/#news You'll even see that we do also have our own Steam group. You're welcome to join and bring along others.

In your opinion, what is the right audience to reach? And what way, other than Steam, would you suggest we go about that? Note that we have a Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube for advertisement and promotional purpose.

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