BF2S Forums Which maps would make my clan's server more popular?

Karkand > Sharqi > Wake

3-5 rounds per map size 64 maps, your server will be rocking in no time.

Fuzzball_the_Shooter wrote:

You could do Dragon Valley (lots of people like this map), Karkand, Sharqi, Dalian Plant, Mashturr, and Wake. Thats a rotation of 3 PLA and 3 MEC maps. Actually if you do that, I'll play on your server all the time.

cheat0r

Strike at Kirkwood

Wake favors USMC. USMC captures airfield, china loses.

24/7 Clean Sweep!!!

A 24/7 Clean Sweep would make your server very popular, mainly because it's what the community has asked for. Every plane whore loves Clean Sweep.

If you increase the number of rounds per map more people will come. 24/7 servers are also popular, because when people have a hankering for a specific map, they want to join and play it, and not reload every two rounds.  Searching for 24/7 is also fast and easy, and you know your not going to join a sharqi, or karkand, or wake server and then have the map change on you after one measley round. Map cycle servers are much harder to support, mostly because the round changes too often, and people aren't sure if they like your servers map cycle when they join (they don't know it yet), so they may or may not come back.

All in all, if you want max population on your server, large map, 24/7 XXXXXX server name, 15 rounds before reloading, and choose a good 24/7 map.

If you want a reasonable population, but a map cycle, at least increase the number of rounds to 3, and choose maps that people will stay around for. If you choose Songhua Stalemate in your map cycle for example, while it is a fun map, only people looking specifically for that map will join while your server is on that map, which is not very many. So your server population will decline radically for unpopular maps, and refill for more popular maps that people are searching for.

As for retention of players, if you have bad or abusive admins, people will not stick around. If your admins only kick team-killers, padders and glitchers, and don't interfere with the running of the server, people will be happy. Players want admins around, but if you do too much on your server, people will all become whiney nagging bitches.

It is best to keep the admining to a minimum and people just learn to live with spawn camping and the occasionaly idiot etc. What happens when you enforce things like spawn camping, is it gives a lot of bad admins too many excuses to kick people and ban people for personal reasons. E.g. oh noes that guy shot me too much I'm going to kick him for spawn killing when really he shot me fair and square and I am just bitter. Then the whole server becomes a whine fest saying xyz is stealing our tank and spawn killing, and yhz is team killing for the chopper, and nnn is shooting everyone in the legs, and ttt is driving away without picking anyone up, and with all the whining admins start making poor decisions about who to kick, who to ban, and other people say to themselves, wow these admins have a short fuse I'm outta here and they won't come back.

As bad as the non-admin, non-clan servers can be (spawn killing), most pubs are still better if they have low admins and no clans, than a server with rules, clans, and clan-admins. People specifically search for these servers the most. Most people avoid joining servers with players all of the same clan tag, because you know if you are doing well, they will start bitching about cheats, spawn killing, or other excuses to ban you. If you are doing poorly, they will talk shit all day to you. Hence, nobody wants to join.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, don't include rules such as no spawn-camping the essex, or no spawn-camping uncap bases, unless you have admins on at all hours, ALWAYS. The most frusterating thing about servers with rules is having no way to enforce them as a public player, and having no admins around. Hence, while you may play on a server with rules a lot of the time, and you never break the rules. Tards always join the server and break the rules at every opportunity. No admins around to deal with it, it becomes an unfair scenario. If you do it back to them, you risk getting banned should an admin actually show up. So people won't return to a server like that.

The better solution is no rules, and low number of admins, and people will know what they are up against.

Last edited by [CANADA]_Zenmaster (2006-03-20 11:09:36)

IMO, anything.... but PLEASE more than 2 STUPID ROUNDS PER MAP!!! i HATE loading! i dont get it why most SF maps got only 2 rounds per map. I only play at servers that has at least 3 like tomclancy or moongamers. I like playing in a map witout loading and reloading maps.... plus its a pain to finally be able to meet and create a good squad and come up with a good planning, then BAM the map changes..... strategy went out the window.......

my plea to all of you server owners out there: please change the default 2rounds/map into something more. preferably 5 or more.

thank you.

The probability of a certain map being played when people are joining doesn't depend on the amount of rounds. Only on the amount of maps in the cycle. When people see a nice map being played with desired number of rounds they are likely to join.

Dragon>dalian>oman>kubra>karkand

where is ure server based???

Last edited by elite (2006-03-20 16:40:06)

Fuzzball_the_Shooter wrote:

You could do Dragon Valley (lots of people like this map), Karkand, Sharqi, Dalian Plant, Mashturr, and Wake. Thats a rotation of 3 PLA and 3 MEC maps. Actually if you do that, I'll play on your server all the time.

Try the Filthy 13 server.


My clan usally rotates through all of the regular BF2 maps except Kubra because the server has issues with this map.  We were once ranked #2 according to ServerSpy.  I have played with the clan since late Dec 05, and have not seen the server drop below 65.  According to Game Monitor the server is 80.  Also, it seems that maps with a lot of urban maps rank higher, IMO.

Edit the lowest I have seen our server.

Last edited by dubbs (2006-03-20 18:54:59)