Hey everyone! I noticed we have a lot of TF2 servers that aren't at maximum capacity at any time. The arena or no crits server for example. Do you guys have any idea how we could fill those up more? Most of the time no one is playing there. I'd call myself a bit of an arena nut. I'd love to play some arena with you guys and everyone else willing to play. I hope you guys have an idea how to fill those servers up! <3
Servers usually fill up quickly with at least 6 players on it. We'd just need some people willing to stay there and wait for players. I volunteer for that job since I love arena as well
Start playing and invite your friends. Be on the server(s) as much as possible and take good care of it. That will create a playerbase for it and make it popular. Eventually filling the server would become more and more easy.
How about an event? LZ people gathering on the arena server and fighting each other sounds like fun to me. Maybe we could meet in mumble for that, so in the end there will be two teams. Not to mention how popular the mumble channel and the server are going to be.
Problem with events are that they are hard to organise and usually on work once or twice. After that, the server is still dead.
That sounds like a great idea! Kill, your idea is very logical and all. But very hard to pull off. It's theoretically correct and all but hard to actually pull off. :-( The event sounds like a great idea! Make some nice event on the arena server. Maybe a small price raffle lots of fun. Everyone on mumble. Have a few beers together! I second your idea Japtor. On the fact that they only work once or twice; It's something I'd put my time into. Even if it only works once or twice. In my experience inviting all my friends also only works once or twice. If we make it a memorable experience though, people will..Well. Remember it. Maybe we could make friday night arena night or something? We could look into that.
I'm in! Edit: Making a seperate thread for this idea seems to be appropriate. Something like "LZ Arena Server Event". Then we can list all people interested in playing arena, so we can see if this event is realizable.
Really sorry to burst your bubble, but that won't work. We've tried "Monday Custom Maps" or "Sunday Funday" and all the other stuff. Never got attention. If you want to try it, sure, go ahead. But don't expect too much from it. Your idea is actually much harder to "pull off" properly.
Don't worry Kill. I'm up for the challenge. Of course I'm expecting it to be a lot of hard work. But I don't mind giving it a try. I'm hoping there'll be some people wanting to help me. And with Japtor and me that's already 2 people on the server on Friday! Two more than usual! ;-) Being pessimistic isn't going to bring us anywhere. And trying never hurts. So I am looking for volunteers wanting to help or be part of the Friday Night Arena. It'll be fun! I used to play on this server called "Festers Place". A place where a lot of the FakkelBrigade guys played, most of the players there were casual gamers who enjoyed to play with Microphone whilst enjoying a beer and/or a smoke. On Friday's they'd have these amazing nights where almost everyone was drunk. There was a waiting time of about 30 minutes to get into the server, haha.