Hi there,

I currently run a 12 slot server for Black Ops however I am finding that the 18 slot servers have an unfair advantage in the server rankings.

It seems to rate by the highest amount of players in the server which means that an 18 player server will ALWAYS have a higher ranking than a 12 slot one.

Is there any plans to even the playing field a bit?

How exactly would it be fair for a full tiny server to be the same rank as a full large server? If you could propose a way this would work, then i am sure it could be considered. However, it is obvious that a full bigger server is much more popular than a smaller server because more players go through it.

I disagree.

We run a 12 person server specifically because we prefer playing with that many people.

How would a server that has 13 people in it our of 18 be more popular than a server with constantly 12/12 in it?

My preference would be to base it on how many slots are empty.

Over the weekend we had 10-12 people on our server almost 24 hours a day and actually went down several rankings because we could not compete with the 18 player servers since they obviously have a handicap.

Your 12 slot server will never compete against a larger server in the same game Unless the larger server sits smpty the majority of the time

Its ranked by how many players the server sees or has use it

Its not a handicap f anything your is the one with the problem just bump the slots to 18 and you wil see your ranking go up,Provided of course its kept full:)

yes, we could increase it to 18 players but would do it for the sake of rankings since we do not enjoy playing with that many.

I'm not implying that we should be the top ranked just cos we fill up quicker, I am just asking for a fairer way of ranking servers. As I said, an 18 person server doesn't need to try very hard to beat us because they have more slots to fill.

We are currently in the top 800 worldwide but can't move any higher since we have chosen not to have absolute bedlam in our server

I wouldn't have minded a discussion about how the rankings could have been improved or even suggestions as to how we could boost rankings for 12 people servers but was told that it was impossible for our server to be popular because of a choice we made.

EDIT: I just wanted to add, that if it can't be done due to it then being unfair for the 18 player servers then that's fine. I would have prefered that information to come from the website admin as a but more of a diplomatic answer explaining it can't be done (and possibly even a reason or two why) instead of saying that a larger server is more popular just because they have more slots to play with.

I was asking if it could be done and do not feel as though my question has been taken with sincerity.

burn wrote:
If you could propose a way this would work, then i am sure it could be considered.
Like I said before, if you can propose a way this would work, please do. It goes to what I mentioned earlier... it would not be fair for a full 2 slot server to fit in with a half full 32 slot server. If a 12 slot server wants to be ranked wants to be equal to a 18 slot server, so does a 18 to a 24 slot server, and a 24 to a 30, and so on. Soon enough, every server is "equal"

A server that averages 40 players can't be less popular than a server that averages 12 players. The server that averages 40 players is much more popular than the 12 slot because there are more people playing on it on a daily basis.

:'(Get a bigger server and stop crying.:'(