when you're in the match browser, click customize to select your favourite game mode and location ("in your vicinity" or a single server location), then select bottom left "all populated" to see all servers with at least 1 player on it, sometime you'll have to wait in spec till the last game is finished

for duel you better make friends (community - friend) or wait alone on a server for a bit

click on the home icon top right to save that view for every login

get ql elo display (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/111519) so you can find appropriate opponents better

get a subscription to play ztn when you want

Thanks for detailed explanation. I'm gonna look into it some time today or tomorrow (got a real big poker tournament now) and reply back.

Also, download qlprism

or just join an empty server and vote bloodrun, somebody will join you soon

Download qlprism. All mods(including elo display) that you need are there.

Any way to change my ql nick?

Buy prem/pro, ask support to change nickname.

or create a new account (standard). No email confirmation needed.

lol dude, don't say that in public... everyone will end up doing it!

get switched into ql and play for stats and shit

ah...

wat thats a nice goal

Wanna be a famous ql player.

Sucks that ql requires money to make the game feel comfortable.

Just joined some random server with unknown to me map and the textures went fucked up. What's the deal with it? Do I have to pay for it as well to get rid of it?

Yes to play QL with all the benefits and stuff you had access to in Q3A from the beginning you have to pull out your credit card and pay id money they don't deserve.

Though fucked up textures are normally not included in the standard-subscription so it might actually be a bug or something on your side.

all the benefits and stuff you had access to in q3a after pulling out your credit card and paying id money*

Bitch please...

q3 wasn't free and wasn't cheap either (inflation included). BTW q3 is still around there, just with 0.1% of QL's population (which still is 1000x than warsow's though) and without all the amenities that people seem to forget about but are the reason why QL revived Q3 and the genre itself.

Also in q3 someone paid for servers and developed mods/maps altruistically. Now those costs and others added on QL are reflected on paying members, which is a better solution than bubbles that always end up bursting.


edit: The optimum would be a workaround using the current TF2 model. A great example is steam workshop: it is awesome that people can submit their content then valve sells it on the official store splitting the money, which removes the burden of having to create everything while at the same time making it sustainable on the long run.

prevent people from making maps/mods for free
make maps/mods for subscribers only
???
profit

You have to buy the game once a year, or be map restricted.
And if you cant pay a few bucks once a year for a game you play, then maybe find another free game you enjoy u_u

or get a friend who's got pro membership.

sure if your that cheap and want to restrict yourself