About Teeworlds

Any chance that mouse is less common and the community is aging?

Is mouse common??

I share your concern & experience. We will eventually try to reinvigorate the so-called 'vanilla' community but that's a long haul project. I guess the game isn't new anymore and many players have moved on, but it's true we used to have many new and beautiful maps, and many more players on standard gametypes at anytime of the day or night.

You obviously don't know what you're talking about. The ddrace community is prospering and we're having a lot of fun there. We are a strong community and consider ourselves to be the new "vanilla". I think this is what the original devs wanted this game to be all along: a place where you can explore community made maps and solve obstacles together. As of today, we are the only ones discovering the limits of the game physics with harder maps over and over again, while the self proclaimed "old school vanilla players" are afraid to leave the only 2 maps they can play. It's no wonder 95% of new players choose the promising DDrace way instead of dwelling with the degenerated remnants of what once was a snobby ctf community.

Also, due to popular demand, it's just a matter of time until DDrace will be a legit official game mode, and this community will be united at last.

Teamfighting games are currently very popular (like LoL and DotA).
But teeworlds is obviously (or actually not obv.) missing some important things, otherwise it would be as popular too.

Just find them and rock on.

SAY WHAT? It is not appealing because it is a fair game?
If you want to discover the game, discover the limit of your mouse and mind. Also, the DDRace comment above is untrue, standard gametype is fair, skill always matter in deathmatch. Random errors never play a significant role in game.

The difference as I see it, is small thing like ping and mouse. I can't even hope for getting better if I change my mouse setting, new player has to discover these tricks. Also, I just said random errors never play a role in DM, I lied. If you have avg. 200 ping like me, then you can't win a rational player with ~40 ping with any active strategy, it is impossible, if s/he hooks you, you are highly likely to lose the first few shots, this is the random error. A good rational player can exploit such weakness and you are in great disadvantage. <- New player has to be lucky to find a challenging and fair game.

On DDrace it's different, complexity isn't a thing, you can get around the "procedure" by practice, the frozen tee is quite stable. I've seen player with 300+ ping play DDRace like nothing, s/he can hammer and swing accurately, you just have to adapt the delay. (With that being said, I don't know how s/he adapts it, I can't and don't have the time to do that.)

Therefore, I don't believe that the game has problems, it is just the small things are getting in the way, but it gets the new player away.

Where did someone say something different? I don't like it if a rant starts with complaining about something I can't see in the previous comment.

EDIT:
Btw, I think that skill is just getting the right procedures into your head, no matter what the game is about.

Yes it is exact. Nobody wants to be a killed. But it is a war game. For comfort there is Sims. Who doesn't want to battle, can escape in Race or City. What it is possible to add in Teeworlds as war game? Balanced gameplay. Let's look at Mods. It is a lot of Mods adding new elements of a gameplay in game. There are things keeping balance but as there are a lot of super guns and laser walls calling for a camping. The camping is drug for Noobs, and a thing which kills any gameplay. Still there is a wish to see moving Death tiles and collision tiles, it would make possible creation of traps and moving platforms. To the word it would be remarkable if the speed of loading of heavy Maps from the server becomes quicker. I understand my offers are suitable for the subject Ideas for the next version more. But I doubt that authors will want to realize them. So though here I will dream)