beasts_of_the_east wrote:
It was great to see the enthousiasm and huge amount of players last weeks on the new server. Unfortunately, our server isn't doing as well anymore as it was before, and the population has started to decrease. I know for most of you the holidays ended, and that's the reason why you have less time.
But lately also the war server has been more populated then the public one at several ocasions. Just to remind you, scrimming has never been the main concern in BE, and it will never be. We play games cause we have fun playing it. Not to show to other clan that we are the best, that's not our goal. We have our own BE league that is a nice competition to show your skills, and an extra scrim here and there is nice of course.
But the amount of scrims we have, need to be minimized to a certain level so that it is not hurting our public server. So think about our public server before entering a scrim please.
Cheers,
Bio



Populating the public server is important for our clan guys. And sometimes the war server is more populated than the public, that is a fact. But let me speak for myself, u guys cannot excpact me to populate the public server more than i already do. Playing wars against other clans is fun for a change. Its more exciting, gives more satisfaction and is also good for our clan rep.

I think the solution to populate our pub ou server is to actively recrute new members. More members = more activity = more population on our server. I think it is too easy to put all the blame of the server not being populated on those who play a war every now and then.

I mostly agree with you. Some people populate the public server very well, and play some wars on top, as an extra. Than it can be a nice addition to the gameplay.
I think that's the way it should be. However, when there are like 8 people playing in our public server and 5 leave to play a war, our public server is going to die cause the last 3 players in the server will leave in no time. And this has been happening multiple times a week.

So timing of wars is important, try to keep in mind in what state our public server is left behind. I don't say the wars are the sole course of our public server being less populated, and that we should not do any wars anymore. But it stays a concern, so I think it would be wise to reduce the amount of scrims a bit. It is still fun to play some scrims + a league match each week. This is just a request to not overdo it.

I totally agree on trying to attract new members, to get more activity. To this end, we need all active UO players to set good examples, and actively encourage others to join BE. And the place to do that in my opinion is...
our public server

i think we should leave the scrims to weekends so then we all are off school and work (hopefully) to populate the pub server and maybe do a war. Just a thought, give me your feedback on the suggestion.

Talking about the subject of population. The map rotation is to my opinion not optimal. We only have a 20 slot server. Playing smal and medium maps on gametypes like tdm, sd and hq are suited for such a server. Playing bel on rocket and ctf on italy is only fun when the server is fully populated. For larger clan servers (historians, LW!) wich have 64 slot server the gametype ctf, bel and bas suites better.

what im trying to say here is to focus on smal/medium maps and sd, tdm, hq gametypes because is suits better for a 20 slot server. let other servers run big maps and bel, ctf and bas gametypes.

Good suggestions. Thanks for thinking along guys! Shows me we're all heading in the same direction.

Scrims only in weekends? I think it is a nice thought, but the RICS and the league matches are already taken place in the weekends, which is already crowded. So I think there should still be some room for an occasional scrim here and there during the week.

I agree that some maps are also hurting the server population, and that is actually not what the rotation is aiming for. Give it some time and I hope we can make some changes to that as well.

And yeah, a big applause from me for The Spy who's already sitting in spec for over an hour in our server as we speak, trying to get our server populated. I know more people are doing this (like N@rk and Paranoid yesterday, and many more), but this is just an example I just saw. Great job guys, I love it when you do these kind of things for the clan!

beasts_of_the_east wrote:

But the amount of scrims we have, need to be minimized to a certain level so that it is not hurting our public server. So think about our public server before entering a scrim please.



+1

many good thoughts guys! indeed, specing helps to attract people, but it won't get the server populated if there's 4 speccing and1 playing, he will leave ofcourse so whenever you spec and see somone playing alone, waiting, just go play for 10 minutes and you'll see a 3v3 5v5 maybe. i've done this before, many times! and i have been specing more these days because now, when i go to soccer practice, i leave my UO on

The redirect is up and running. Now all of Unknowns work will be fully accessible. You should be able to download the maps fast. Be sure to turn "downloads" on in your options!! Check out the server for new maps and gametypes!! Great work Unknown!!

OK guys, Unknown has new maps in, I made a sweet rotation and the redirect works awesome. I will be in there populating so will anyone join me? The IP address is listed down below of the main page. Lets re voisit our first love together. Im loving it, Im in the UO server every morning for the next month so lets get some old school BE love here!!! Cya all in game!! Lets show Unknown how much we appreciate him

Wiggsy

Nice! Unfortunetly my speccomp is broken, but I'll still try to spec every now and then!