this is CRAZY, most small dojo votes, comes from ppl who id never seen in ultimate aikido server, and all bigdojo votes comes from pll wich i saw every day in the server.
BTW notnoob, small dojo gives more chances for a noob winner move! of course if you are enought skilled this shouldnt happend...but its boring to me play just for win i like impro and risky moves.

@SmileyJones - It's when you combine all 3 of the things I mentioned that fighting becomes a problem. Sure 1 person can do it while the other sticks to typical aikido stuff, but if both try it just doesn't work.

@Zorath - Improv moves are common amongst a lot of the people that have been playing a long time, basically the people who have lost interest in winning and just want to have fun. I agree that 'noob' moves are common with other players, same with sticking to a handful of openers. However giving it a bigger dojo won't stop this happening, people can and will shovel regardless. I'm not being biased, I've played in both but my preference is still towards the smaller dojo.

Reading though this thread has lead me to a simple conclusion: New mod needed.

Bigger area, shorter turn frames, longer match. That would result in something where combat was viable. Shorter frames allow for more technical playing so IMO 35 should be the highest. Maybe increase the engage distance? I'm not sure about that but it could be something to test. And of course the dojo... The 800 used on most big dojo-aikido mods is maybe too big? At that size it may as well not be turned on. 600ish could be a good compromise.

Anyhoo (I talk too much), maybe time to create a whole new mod rather than changing a few things & calling it aikido.

:| chuji of course im not there all the time... i never say small dojo sucks, i love it! i just think it should be an alternative for fun, too much ppl likes big dojo!

i see only newbies and lowactive players are voting for small dojo.

How many plain aikido servers do we have? aikido7, aikido8, qa1, qa2, q3, qa4 + always empty sambo7. And noone server with aikidobigdojo.tbm =/

ultimate server must be aikidobigdojo.tbm

I agree with nirs

me too.AikiBd coz

no way! sambo should stay, if we change ultimate aikido to bigdojo, no one gonna lose anything... and someones will win something.
did somebody know any way to ask hampa to make 1 ultimate server more? or maybe 2. i know there is low activity on those servers. but there is more pll playing each day!

YEAH!! aikido bigdojo seted . ironically im sad now :S It is full of ppl.

greykido with dojosize 550 is as close to bd aikido you guys will get, now stop bitching

Motivation shouldn't be needed, just play the game for fun. Before you know it a few thousand matches have gone by, you've had a laugh and generally speaking you'll get more from the game that way.

I still lol at the aikido replay in my autosave of Siku deciding the other guy needed a hug. ^_^

http://www.box.net/shared/lfljvh8767

hugs for all