CaptainCockslap
Corporal
I say we trim the fat. Lets ditch the servers that nobody uses. Im not sure exactly how much it costs, but I don't think its right for wally to be paying his own hard earned money to pay for OUR servers that barely being used. I mean that winds up being A LOT of handjobs at truckstops.
Shouldn't we trim the fat? Lets bring it down to three or four servers instead of 8, 5 of which almost never get used used, and 2 other only rarely get used when some of us get bored and decide to leave s1.
The broadcast ffa server is the most popular, obviously it stays. Server 7/Old server 3 is my personal favorite, its just that there is hardly anybody in there most of the time. Lets keep that TDM/Sabotage rotation with the occasional killhouse/shipment ffa for shits n giggles. Maybe the third can rotate between game types, ffa/tdm/sabotage/old school. The miscellaneous server.
Whether or not you agree about server content, you gotta admit it is unfair for wally to be paying all this money for servers that are almost always empty. Now i know we're still a bit new and things will pick up, but i don't think we have the playerbase to support 8 entire servers.
Is my analysis of this situation wrong? Wally what do you think? Of course its your decision, its your money. We are your loyal subjects and will do as our glorious leader says. I just think that by consolidating, we can save you money and concentrate those that do play our servers into a smaller area. If they get bored of FFA broadcast, they can go to a TDM/Sabotage rotation game, etc. Maybe this way more people will start playing on the others too so they dont have to switch to an empty server which most people won't do anyways. Its kinda dull sitting in an empty server waiting for others to join then playing that awkward 1v1 or 2v1 until more people show up.
Back in 1.6, when there were just 3 servers to choose from, we were totally full almost all of the time. I had to wait for someone to leave s3 in order to get in at least 1/2 the time. That server should be hoppin, but yet it usually only has people in it when a few of us go there and wait for other random plays to follow. We've tried playing on s1 then telling everyone to switch to s7 to try and get that going, and it usually winds up that only one or two of the s1 players follow. Not really enough for a TDm or sab game.
Another idea is to schedule more events, such as killhouse shotgun one hour once a week or a shipment sniper only or something weird like that. These are only two ideas off the top of my head but there are all kinds of interesting things we could do for events. Like an ACOG only round or specific times for no gravity sniping rounds. Have members make binds advertising the events and saying anyone is welcome as long as they follow the rules. Go to s1 an hour beforehand and advertise the crap out of the event. Say that there will be prizes for the winner or something. What prizes? i dunno. Maybe winner gets a to go on shipment with a few of us and get free headshots until he gets his golden gun. Pretend we're gonna send them a free brand new video card or hire him an expensive high class hooker for a night. Free trips to vegas? Whatever. Lie about it if you have to! Thats not really the point.
There are all sorts of things we can do to try to bring in more people to the other server, and most of the regulars that start playing on the broadcast ffa server eventually come over, make introductions, and start posting/chatting on shoutbox. Obviously people do like the servers we do have enough to come back and then many of those wind up joining the forums. This could be good for membership recruiting as well.
Im just rambling some random thoughts. Some are good some are stupid, i know that. No need to point it out. My point is just wally is paying a lot of money for something that hardly gets used and I think we owe it to him to try and consolidate and improve in anyway we can.
Shouldn't we trim the fat? Lets bring it down to three or four servers instead of 8, 5 of which almost never get used used, and 2 other only rarely get used when some of us get bored and decide to leave s1.
The broadcast ffa server is the most popular, obviously it stays. Server 7/Old server 3 is my personal favorite, its just that there is hardly anybody in there most of the time. Lets keep that TDM/Sabotage rotation with the occasional killhouse/shipment ffa for shits n giggles. Maybe the third can rotate between game types, ffa/tdm/sabotage/old school. The miscellaneous server.
Whether or not you agree about server content, you gotta admit it is unfair for wally to be paying all this money for servers that are almost always empty. Now i know we're still a bit new and things will pick up, but i don't think we have the playerbase to support 8 entire servers.
Is my analysis of this situation wrong? Wally what do you think? Of course its your decision, its your money. We are your loyal subjects and will do as our glorious leader says. I just think that by consolidating, we can save you money and concentrate those that do play our servers into a smaller area. If they get bored of FFA broadcast, they can go to a TDM/Sabotage rotation game, etc. Maybe this way more people will start playing on the others too so they dont have to switch to an empty server which most people won't do anyways. Its kinda dull sitting in an empty server waiting for others to join then playing that awkward 1v1 or 2v1 until more people show up.
Back in 1.6, when there were just 3 servers to choose from, we were totally full almost all of the time. I had to wait for someone to leave s3 in order to get in at least 1/2 the time. That server should be hoppin, but yet it usually only has people in it when a few of us go there and wait for other random plays to follow. We've tried playing on s1 then telling everyone to switch to s7 to try and get that going, and it usually winds up that only one or two of the s1 players follow. Not really enough for a TDm or sab game.
Another idea is to schedule more events, such as killhouse shotgun one hour once a week or a shipment sniper only or something weird like that. These are only two ideas off the top of my head but there are all kinds of interesting things we could do for events. Like an ACOG only round or specific times for no gravity sniping rounds. Have members make binds advertising the events and saying anyone is welcome as long as they follow the rules. Go to s1 an hour beforehand and advertise the crap out of the event. Say that there will be prizes for the winner or something. What prizes? i dunno. Maybe winner gets a to go on shipment with a few of us and get free headshots until he gets his golden gun. Pretend we're gonna send them a free brand new video card or hire him an expensive high class hooker for a night. Free trips to vegas? Whatever. Lie about it if you have to! Thats not really the point.
There are all sorts of things we can do to try to bring in more people to the other server, and most of the regulars that start playing on the broadcast ffa server eventually come over, make introductions, and start posting/chatting on shoutbox. Obviously people do like the servers we do have enough to come back and then many of those wind up joining the forums. This could be good for membership recruiting as well.
Im just rambling some random thoughts. Some are good some are stupid, i know that. No need to point it out. My point is just wally is paying a lot of money for something that hardly gets used and I think we owe it to him to try and consolidate and improve in anyway we can.
