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Its nice to have a Warlord with Vehicles - what about making standard BF2 as you already have a SF server?  Too many I/O for my liking....

{UK-US}Scotty wrote:

Its nice to have a Warlord with Vehicles - what about making standard BF2 as you already have a SF server?  Too many I/O for my liking....

I'm with you on the Warlord with vehicles.  If for nothing else, the 4 wheelers.  We had the server set up as a standard BF2 server to start with, but it sat empty most of the time.

Thanks for the input!

bEAv3D wrote:

Skorpy-chan wrote:

Generally, vanilla city maps with vehicles, FF on, limited or no rotation, big maps, at least 10 people a side. IO is godawful.

If I'm in the mood for the SF toys, small maps with vehicles. I haven't played enough of it to really get a preference because nobody plays it and half the time I join a server in the middle of grenade spamfests. Again, no IO because it sucks.

I agree with you on not having a large variety of maps.  Less load time means more time for killing!  So, I'm thinking you would prefer a 24/7 server of some sort?  I have a feeling NOT having it set to IO is going to be a good thing. 


Thanks for the help!

Actually, 24/7 servers don't keep my interest for long. I get sick of the same map over and over. Ideally, a server has 3-5 different maps rotating to keep things fresh.
There are too many IO servers around, don't join the crowd, PLEASE.

Personally, I recommend Sharqi, Mashtuur, Songua Stalemate (because it needs more love), Dragon Valley, FuShe, and maybe Zatar Wetlands for a big open choice. Karkand is popular but gets boring fast, and Jalalabad is a server killer because it's just Karkand with even less chance for the defense.

bEAv3D wrote:

I will offer up the map suggestions to the clan.  I don't know how likely it will be that we switch back to a Vanilla server, but we'll see.  Last night we switched it back to an IO server (poop).  However, we put it on smaller (32 player) maps, so we'll see how that goes.

Thanks again for everyone's advice.

One thing that is needed is a 24/7 Mashtuur City server, either IO or not. Easily the best city map.

I will neither confirm nor deny that this "bEAv3D" character has anything to do with )HTH( clan.   Just kidding.

Personally, I love I/O (Vanilla or SF) but I really detested the small "We just got the server populated games" in Vanilla with vehicles, as they invariably turned into a good ol fashioned marsh mellow roast once the camping started.  This usually resulted in at least a few disconnects that either ended the game or kept it small enough to ensure another round of camping.  Thus the reason very few guests made multiple return visits to the server.

Sooooooooooo, I guess the question is...If you could make a server of your own, how would you set it up to ensure that your guests enjoy the experience?

We seemed to have found a good formula for our SF Vehicle server.  Since the beginning of December it was ranked #198, then dropped to #395, and is now pulled out of it's nose dive and is currently #39.  What we are looking to do, is set up our second server in such a way as to make it appealing to the BF2 community and still be different from the SF Vehicle server we are running.  )HTH( would love to hear from as many people as possible so we can provide a decent product.

I reiterate: A mix of the more mobile city maps with open maps reasonably low on jets. Something like sharqi -> Dragon Valley -> Mashtuur -> Zatar Wetlands -> Songua -> FuShe. Unlocks allowed, vehicles enabled. That's about as far from SF as you can get without degenerating into mass jet rape.