Servers

[MoeB]

Egypt is alright, but I'm not too sold to add it to a rotation with Dustbowl!

Team balance is all good if I'm still able to switch back to the other team where my friends are on. If it's one of those obtrusive ones where if you get switched and you can't go back to the other team, even if you disconnect and then reconnect to the server, I'm going to go berserk! Also, full out random team scrambles where when one team dominates and then the teams are completely different the next round are gay.

Also, MoeB, it's incredibly random that you would look to me, of all people, to ask for an opinion about this!

[MoeB]

Ok. It has been more than a week since the Engy update was release and now all of the servers except #3(this server fills itself up which is awesome) are pretty much empty. I think this has to do with the current map rotations. Let's try a different approach! In the past and prior to last week the most played maps on our servers have been goldrush, badwater and dustbowl. Let's change #4 to 24/7 goldrush and #5 to 24/7 badwater both capped at 22 slots. 22 player slots servers are more friendly to those with older PCs and the lack of a rotation will make people happy! A 22 player slot server also looks healthier at 15/22 than if it were 15/32. If you're joining a server to play goldrush then you want to play goldrush and will probably be put off if it were to change to a different map.
Regarding #1 and #2, well, maybe we can apply the same formula to these servers and pick two popular maps from the graph below.

[manofphat]

I like MoeB's approach. Does anyone think otherwise?

[aSydiK]

Fine by me but can we leave #1 and #2 alone for those of us that don't wanna play 24/7 maps?

[monty slick]

Based on that graph and the population in #3 lately, we should have another 24/7 DB server. Give 'em what they want.

[MoeB]

Fine by me but can we leave #1 and #2 alone for those of us that don't wanna play 24/7 maps?

Those two are always empty mang. Having said that I'm not against having one server with a rotation.

Server #1


Server #2

[0ptik]

Nice approach, but like Mike said, some of us regulars enjoy filling #1 and playing with all our friends. Mostly without randos. Keep at least #1 as is. We have not been successful with #2 for as long as i remember.

[BrAy]

Would be nice to try Moeb's approach. Just curious how about lowering the spawn times and see what happens? i've been playing Number 3 in the afternoons lately and its seems a handfull of players complain about the default time. i think we've tried it before but i can't remember

[Sweetlou]

if you drop it from 24 to 15sec, ppl will stop bitching... hopefully

[cujo]

We did and it was a disaster. Final cap on level 3 was impossible.