Since am3 doesn't fill up at all.. We changed the no-crits to crits again, so it will get some f2p players at least. Only now we need some people to fill it up ofcourse, but it would be a good test to see if it stays full and if the bots leave correctly and such.
Can we make the bots stay until there are atleast 5 human players? Right now a bot leaves as soon as a human player joins the team, but this makes it that the teams barely ever go over a 3 vs 3. If we'd get 5 players in, we'd be on a 6vs6 already, that is usually enough to sustain the players in the server, and fill it up to the end.
Could we consider making it a CTF only server, all vanilla settings but only CTF maps. Have been playing on a random server recently, just this morning it went from 4 players to 24 in less then 2 minutes. Not a big community and have never seen an admin on there so it doesn't seem to be particularly popular with a regular playerbase, just random people joining. It is a CTF server and rotates turbine, doublecross and 2fort. But we could add more for variety.
in the weekend we should just put it on dustbowl, and join it. we normally fill AM2 in the weekend aswell. As long as we can fill them in the weekend its a start. AM1 used to be the pride and joy, but now.. its 14:00 and its not full yet, its just weird.
People are to lazy to fill stuff for some reason. So every admin who can should just idle in 1 of the servers. But keeping the bots on there is a bad idea IMO. At least untill the issue has been fixed (I dont think it has been at least) which I called earlier in: <a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.lethal-zone.eu/ideas-suggestions/bots-on-am3-t10873.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">ideas-suggestions/bots-on-am3-t10873.html</a>
Same yesterday. My friend and I wanted to play some TF2 and around lunchtime, but all the LZ servers were empty. We waited around half an hour and then joined AM1 anyway as the only two people. 15 minutes later the server was full. Maybe it just needs a couple of people there to entice a few more people to join and then it'll fill up of its own accord?
Well thats default, once people join the server it will fill up pretty quickly. AM2 stays full till 23:30 or so "once" its filled. Same with dustbowl and the others, pretty much every server. I think too many people are playing diablo iii and are enjoying the sun But its friday, so it should be much better now.
I like the idea of a CTF only server. I don't think there are enough players for 3 "identical" AM Server. If we could make at least one server more distiguished (NO-Crits sadly doesn't do it), we could attract a different, maybe new group of players.
i know it has been discussed lots of times... what about setting AM1 default to crits active but make a vote about preferences? So if there enough players/regulars on the server that dont like crit, they vote them off. After a mapchange the crits are activated by default and a new vote about preferences starts? I think we had it like that some time ago. Do u guys think it would rly destroy the rating of the server or the gaming on AM1?