Hello everyone, It has come to my attention that the dustbowl server has been empty for a couple of months compared to AM1. The server used to be filled with regulars such as herr boogie, hbro, woody, sterko, fixxy, STJ and others including myself. Back in the old days, we used to fill dustbowl 24/7 however it now takes a combine effort by all the regulars and randoms joining the server to make it full. I know some players consider dustbowl 24/7 compared to AM1to be boring but its sad to see the server empty everyday. So maybe we can all make a combined effort to fill dustbowl 24/7 like in the old days? Born2lag
its the month of the year, the ying yang, the rotation of the sun. X3 Orange seems to fill up just fine these days, while 2fort does not anymore. AM1 fills up good nowadays again, while dustbowl does not. Dont forget that if AM1 is empty and dustbowl is almost full that some prefer to go there (regulars) which is just the way the cookie crumbles.
I saw that to. And since I can't bother anymore to fill it on my own, I'm not playing at all. But like Snel says, it's the month of the year. It'll come back
aye, trying to fill it myself any time i'm on tf2. and inviting peepz but it's hard to fill with even 9 people :/
Yep, I have tried too even with 12 people its still dead. I think the ying and yang isnt balanced this year..
I played a lot on the dustbowl server so i got pretty tired of the map and focused more on trying to fill am1. I shall try to pop on it more, it can be a good laugh and a bit more relaxing when you aren't in so much of a competitive mood.
Om nom nom nomnivore. Considered it might have dropped out of some sort of listing which made it show up for more people? Changed IP this / last year? Such things. I'll be back, eventually.
So you want to fill a server but have one team entirely spawn camping and the other team just playing along? Because that's what I saw going on yesterday.I mean for the sake of the server try to balance the teams. After a round yesterday for example where BLU was missing 2-3 players I didn't see anyone from RED joining it,nope,they were happy as could be winning and even getting Auto-balanced I noticed someone switching back to RED. Anyways I stopped playing on Dustbowl because of this.If you want to hear me rant on about this I can be found on mumble almost everyday but this will do just fine in short
What STJ says, is indeed the problem. Teams on Dustbowl are most of the time so unbalanced, that is not fun to play anymore. Mostly because of newbies joining this server (Don't know why) But if you are in a team with players never played before, you are doomed to lose. A scamble doesn't always help, but it at least 'confuses' the players for a little while, which can end up in teams being balanced. And then you have the problem of attack and defense. In some cases you have 2 teams that are just very bad at defending. But if you then join the defending team, you get steamrolled, which isn't pleasant at all. But what you can do against this issue, is a riddle to me. I think it's a never ending story for dustbowl.
It shouldnt be. If so many newbies join the server the should most of the time be divided equally amongs most teams. What is killing the server is the experienced players stacking 1 team and just go purely for the kills. On top of this when they do get autobalanced or scramble balanced they rejoin the other team because its not fun anymore for them apparently. Stacking isnt necessarily a problem as long as the other team has experienced players too. But on Dustbowl they dont, so the solution is simple. Stop being a dick and dont stack if it ruins the team balance completly. Dustbowl for quite some time now has been either steamroll the enemy instantly or get steamrolled instantly. I'm not surprised at all that the server has few people on it lately.
I thought i forgot to mention something. I try to not join the steamrolling team, which makes absolutely no difference. But if people see someone of LZ joining a team, maybe others will follow. And maybe making it more balanced.
Yes, thats true. Steamrolling usually occurs when all the regulars join the same team during the evenings and rape the server. However, I remembered a time when in the morning towards the afternoon newbies will be on the server not getting anything done.
Yeah I just love how everyone joins the team Boogie is on just because they are afraid of losing... its just pathetic... especially from other very good players... I love dustbowl and it was awesome server but I cant play there alone :/ and thats why Im goin to different dustbowl servers. What can we do? Other servers use bots to start populating the server. It usually works You might consider adding some bots too. Maybe also /votekick
I've always have bad "things" with bots, but if you can find the super config for bots to start with, i'll give it a try.
What would you mean by "bad things" ? Wiki provides a lot of info about them and links for additional navigation files. http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Bots