Vita Nova developing Vita Nova COD4 Pickups!

Posted by Will wizinium Hunter on 2010-07-09 01:07:33
Tags: CoD4, vitanova
Vita Nova are happy to announce that they are working on developing Vita Nova COD4 pickups!

After the recent decline of the Multiplay COD4 Pickups, Vita Nova have decided to develop their own Pickups. Vita Nova want to give pickups a fresh start and run them how they feel is best for the community. For people who have never played a pickup here is a quick reminder of what they are:

"For people who dont what pickups are, I will give you a brief introduction along with a guide on how to participate in the pickups. Pickups or pug for short is a quick way to get a 5v5 match. 10 people add up to the MPUK bot and the bot splits the players up into 2 teams and a map is voted between the players. There is also a ventrilo with seperate channels to join, so communication is easy."

We have a server company willing to be bring this project to the community and we hope to launch the Vita Nova pickups next month. The channel in which the pickups will be held will be #vita-nova.pickup . Make sure you join this channel and get behind this community based project.

Before we launch the channels we are looking for admins to admin the pickups! If you are interested in joining a fun based team who want to help the community then fill out this application form:

- Name
- Age
- Country
- Link to tek9 profile
- Information about yourself
- Why do you want to become an admin of Pickups?
- Experience?

Closing date: 1st August so you have plenty of time to get your application in!

Once you have done this, send your email to will[a-t]heavenmedia[dot]com with the title "Vita Nova Pickup Admin"

As this is a community project we want to hear your ideas about developing the pickups. What do you want to see from the pickups? What can improve from the way in which Multiplay ran them? General thoughts, do you want to see Vita Nova Pickups or is it a waste of time? Post all your thoughts below.

If you have any problems then feel free to contact the staff at Vita Nova or myself ( tek9|wizinium ) at #vita-nova

Thanks for reading and posting your thoughts, #vita-nova.pickup

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64 comments

25 months ago
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What kind of servers will it be using?
25 months ago
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CoD4 promod servers what other kind of servers are there!

Moral of the story: Ask a stupid question get a stupid answer!

25 months ago
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there no such thing as stupid questions.

atleast thats what we say in sweden ;)

OT: sound good. keep up the good work :D
25 months ago
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Indd cptsniper.
There are no stupid questions vanner, only stupid answers
25 months ago
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Cptsn1p3r knows
25 months ago
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think he means wich server hosted? plz no laggy multiplay servers :)
25 months ago
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Fix some typos other than that looks awesome.
25 months ago
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nearly falling asleep on chair!
25 months ago
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Being a fellow news writer, I feel for you.
25 months ago
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Me and ono to take back our riteful number 1 and 2 position in most pickup games. :D
25 months ago
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CorridorCarl #1 wcyd
25 months ago
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Mate CorridorCarl had nothing on us back in the day he was way down at like 10th place pfft. Wasn't even a major challenger..... :D
25 months ago
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Please any server hosting apart from mutliplay
25 months ago
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immortal servers i hope :D
25 months ago
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Will be gd@first then will fail like always
25 months ago
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atleast with that attitude...
25 months ago
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YCN is my guess :)
25 months ago
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GG
25 months ago
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Be interesting to hear how exactly you are going to prevent the usual loss of interest, because of people messing up games by leaving, not showing up, or whatever.
25 months ago
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Through our continued partnership with immortal-servers.com/ they willl be the source of the servers.
25 months ago
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haha nice
25 months ago
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I'll do it if you supply me with a bouncer.
25 months ago
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sick, hopefully admins take actions to early leavers / people not showing up
25 months ago
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Let carlzn do the adminning
25 months ago
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Finallyy :)) CuON :) Will they be German or British hosted servers?
25 months ago
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British.
25 months ago
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the best.
25 months ago
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why brithish and not more central?
25 months ago
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@sentrix 'why brithish and not more central?'

probably because the people who have sorted it out are brits and the company willing to support it is a UK company.
25 months ago
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Great idea !
25 months ago
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Oh dear will
25 months ago
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<3
25 months ago
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nice =)
25 months ago
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nice work, sounds good
25 months ago
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CU ON!
25 months ago
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YESSSS BOYSSS!!!!

<3 pickups

#vita-nova.pickup
25 months ago
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Nice, pickups rock :)
25 months ago
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great idea, but as already said:will fail after some time
The mpuk pickups were great untill you had someone who left/did not show up/wasn't on vent/...
25 months ago
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Use the HoN leaver-system ;)
25 months ago
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Yeah it will be brilliant to start with but we will think of ways to prevent leavers. If the no-shows/leaving becomes too much then we would close the pickups. It's a community effort and if the community mess it up then it will be taken away so post your ideas so help us stop this!
25 months ago
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Its easy to prevent the ones that leaves after the game have started, just let the bot pickout 1 or 2 players to screenshot the guids, and after he leave, you can ban his guid from servers.
25 months ago
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yay > Esl Gather recreated idd.
25 months ago
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Should also test custom beta maps in pickups, anyway keep up the great work VN crew!
25 months ago
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this
25 months ago
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So long as you can sustain pickups, and deal with the tossers and the leavers, this should be great. :)
25 months ago
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:-)
25 months ago
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NICE!
25 months ago
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Tbh, I think the only way to stop leavers/noshowers is to give them a longer ban.. because not only will it scare people into playing each game they sign up for, but it will also teach the people who do leave/noshow not to do it again.

3 strike rule imo.

1. 5 Day ban (no big deal)
2. 2 week ban
3. 1 month.

Should this person do it a 4th time, they should be perm banned.

edited 2010-07-09 13:14:17
25 months ago
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I take it your not using the MPUK pickup bot?
25 months ago
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If its avalible to them, dont see why they cant use it. Was a good bot..
25 months ago
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yeh I agree, but its made by MPUK afterall and I cant see them letting a 'rival pickup' use it
25 months ago
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[13:30] <Xhosa`NuCl3aR> !last
[13:30] <@Pickups1> Last game in #mpukcod4.pickup was 2 months, 1 week, 4 days, 18 hours, 9 minutes, 40 seconds ago on server #8

a rival pickup?
MPUK pickups is as dead as a pickup channel can be mate
25 months ago
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glad to see pickups coming back
25 months ago
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gl VN!
25 months ago
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Gwan will! finally summit to do for the clanless players :D

i'll apply for admin when i have time ;p
25 months ago
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i plan on being that laggy yank that joins the pug

muhahahaha
25 months ago
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fuuuuuuuu
25 months ago
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not with that name you won't kidda
25 months ago
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sounds great I loved the mpukcod4.pickup things

for solving the leavers problem:

Let the people report him/her, then give a warning
after 3 warnings 1 week ban
after 2 warnings after the unban a month banned
after anoather warning after the month ban perm ban from VN
25 months ago
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this
25 months ago
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cu on =]
25 months ago
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looking forward to it, however something has to be down to stop them becoming inactive aswell. maybe some sort of prizes for most games played each month? idk, but i really want them to last.
25 months ago
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Nice project srsly =)
24 months ago
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leave week ban. only auth players with same nicks + ranking system

edit : new/cless players could get faster in to da game

edited 2010-07-17 18:15:19
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