After my first gaming experiences at GTO I can see the charms of playing there, but I think there are also many disadvantages. But since my experience playing there is really only slim, maybe I am missing something. So please correct me if I am wrong.
GTO:
Advantages:
1. No need to bother with setting up the hosting
2. Much more players
3. AAA players play only Spring 1942 or Revised, no BigWorlds, NWO etc.
4. Keeps your basic personal stats
5. Has functioning and competitive league
6. Time control
Disadvantages:
1. You can play only after you pay GTO coins, which costs you money
2. You can save the game only to the PBEM format whch costs you more money
3. No chance to observe other games when they are played /but I was told they work on it/
4. No battle calc, no complete picture of the game (no TUV statistics), less user friendly interface
5. Keeps personal statistics, but not precisely enough (you cannot see who did you play)
6. Time control
7. No edit option to fix or bypass the bugs
TripleA
Advantages:
1. Open source for free
2. The old bunch of the nice guys
3. When you get bored with spring 1942, you can play AA50 or some of the special maps for a change :-)
4. Very good interface, keeps control of the stats during game
5. You can easily save and you can watch other players’ games
6. It has the kind edit mode
7. Sometimes you can play Hobbes here :-)
Disadvantages:
1. Really hard to get a V4 game sometimes
2. Limited number of oponents
3. No personal stats at all
4. The league is not working if someone so mediocre as I can lead it after 20 + games in 6 months :mrgreen:
5. Not entirely easy to host a game
6. Not that much challenging oposition (I think Hobbes must have hit really something extreme when he lost his first 2 games, since I am 4-0 at GTO after four games, taking Moscow R2 in the last one :roll:)
Well, please those lists are just from a top of my mind, please correct me, vote and discuss! I would be esspecially interested in ideas what can be done to get more people playing at TripleA because I sort of love it there and after a few experiences at GTO I am affraid I might get seduced by the marvellously easy way you get a game there.