Hi all,
Some might see this appeal as extremely unrealistic. For those, your constructive and useful comments are welcome - flaming is not. This thread might also be in breach of forum rules (I did check, but couldn't see anything applicable). If so, please delete, or move to a more appropriate location).
In my introductory post on the FH2T forum recently, I mentioned the aging BF2 platform, and the apparent slow decline of FH2 despite a small, keen community of supporters and developers. We all like to play on well populated servers, public games or otherwise, and enjoy being able to join in such games pretty much around the clock. But since FH2 was released, no doubt, players from Australia and the SE Pacific / Asia regions have, should they wish to play on well-supported servers, had little choice but to play on European and US servers, and bear the relative handicap that a higher ping time entails.
In a nutshell, we've been adding to the numbers in EU and US servers for years, but for the sake of the longevity of the community and this game we all enjoy so much, I'm here to ask the same favour of EU, US and other international players in return.
Oceania players, who have been kindly provided their own section on the ForgottenHonor forum, and four reliable servers thanks to the generosity of the wonderful folks at the AEF gaming community last weekend started an FH2 Campaign entitled "A New Dawn".
Whilst we've had some overseas players sign-up, it seems common that they do so without realising the server location and time of our events and, more often than not, they simply disappear once they find out. From what I've seen in my short time with them so far, most never show at all.
Our 12 week campaign is a more social game than FH2T, and the battles consist of just 2 x 1hr rounds. We may even do some practice / training / recon at the same time on any weeknight. Tues to Fri nights have been popular. We'll tend to gather an hour or two before the battle for any last-minute preparations, too.
The only thing that is fairly strict is our start time for our battles, which is currently 9:00am UTC each Saturday morning, I believe. (Saturday 8:00pm AEDST). This translates to:
2:00am PDT (UTC-7) for US West coast
5:00am EDT (UTC-4) for US East coast
11:00am CEST (UTC+2) for Central European players.
Use this Time Zone Converter for other locations, setting the competition time to 8:00pm Sydney time.
Feel free to drop into the AEF's TeamSpeak server with us at 202.62.137.195:9989, and look for us in the "private channels" for Forgotten Hope 2.
For those players who are able, we'd love to have you and would be most grateful for your effort and participation. You'd be helping keep interest in this game alive, and supporting your fellow players worldwide.
Thanks for reading.
Gary