Save BF4

[driz 2626]

Since the first week our server is dead and Im wondering what we can do to restore it. I know a comment made previously while it was full was our SOs lacked admin rights, i dont know if this was ever resolved. Was procon ever set up?

 

Should we perhaps change the server type from hardcore to something else? I know myself and most of the sG guys who play only play hardcore, but this isn't necessarily the best way to pull in new people..

 

Perhaps we can launch a voting thing that is advertised in the game, we can populate it ourselves so others join and non sg members can vote on what makes them want to play on a particular server. 

 

anyway, just wanted to open a discussion channel on how to populate and keep populated our bf server, it hurts my soul to have to play on another server when we're paying for one... or maybe our server is a lost cause?

[Illogical 1126]

I know for me at least the reason I'm not is because I d/c after 5 minutes of playing saying punkbuster is fucked ( which its not). So once bf4 gets its shit together I'd def play all day err day. 

[Renegade 1198]

We just need to set up nights were we all get on BF4 together and start the popuation.

 

Once a server goes dead it stays dead until someone starts to populate it for the sole purpose of poulating it.

 

No one wants to join a server with 3 people in it but if a server has 10+ in it they might.

[Oreo 2073]

I mean, i'm not trying to be rude but it's not rocket science. It has nothing to do with admin rights, it's exactly what Renegade said.

 

We just need to set up nights were we all get on BF4 together and start the popuation.

 

Once a server goes dead it stays dead until someone starts to populate it for the sole purpose of poulating it.

 

No one wants to join a server with 3 people in it but if a server has 10+ in it they might.

 

We don't have a constant playerbase on it. All we really need to do is populate it for a good week or two and it should sustain itself.

Edited December 14, 2013 by Oreo

[Bryan 207]

i would play on a daily but im not a huge fan of parkcore, but i had a server up with air superiority it was filled cause the tickets were like 400 instead of 100, maybe change the game mode? and no i do not have the server up anymore

Edited December 14, 2013 by akarhi

[Oreo 2073]

i would play on a daily but im not a huge fan of parkcore, but i had a server up with air superiority it was filled cause the tickets were like 400 instead of 100, maybe change the game mode? and no i do not have the server up anymore

Are our tickets not set to like 500+? That would definitely be a factor.

[AntyCrix 591]

Are our tickets not set to like 500+? That would definitely be a factor.

 

Nah ticket count is fine. You were right to say that it's what Renegade pointed out that's the problem.

EDIT: I did try Thursday and Friday to get people in Teamspeak so we could populate it, nobody came either day. Everyone was playing in different servers.

Edited December 14, 2013 by Drake

[yeet 1050]

Also we need to change the name, the amount of people we get is related to the appeal to eye eye that our server gives off. If you notice a majority of constantly full servers have the game mode INFRONT of the clan name or have the abbreviation of the name infront of it. People don't want to have to skin 2 inches over to what the game mode is since most people are just a "skim and click join" type of person. Also making the game mode in ALL CAPS will help the server out somewhat too. Something like: OFFICIAL CONQUEST HARDCORE 24/7 [ALL MAPS] - joinsg.net

 

or something of that sort, we NEED to make it appealing to the eye though. "Syndicate Gamers 24/7 Hardcore Conquest" isn't very appealing. you need to grab the attention of the player base

[Howard Dean 2502]

We need to make the server name "[HARDCORE] SG 360noscope420blazeitfgt365cod4lyfe"

[Elmo 1272]

dont have game 

[Lv. 100 Garchomp 362]

We technically COULD move it to another game mode... it doesn't have to be CQ. Just for the love of god... rush is worse in BF4 than it was in BF3.

[driz 2626]

so is the consensus that we 

1) need to change the name

2) populate the server every so often to get others to join

 

if that's it, i think 2 should be manageable, but who right now can accomplish 1?

[AntyCrix 591]

so is the consensus that we 

1) need to change the name

2) populate the server every so often to get others to join

 

if that's it, i think 2 should be manageable, but who right now can accomplish 1?

 

All we really need is 5-8 sG members to come to the server. The population will go up eventually in about an hour or so if those initial members stay in the server

[Siesan 1802]

so is the consensus that we 

1) need to change the name

2) populate the server every so often to get others to join

 

if that's it, i think 2 should be manageable, but who right now can accomplish 1?

I think Marvin and Jason have that ability

[Ichalvl 1752]

This is think-tank style shit right here, but hear me out.

 

I know that populating servers is hard, and I know we have server officers dedicated to it. However, those SO's won't just magically make the place have people.

 

What I'm suggesting is that we open up some sort of rewards system - Let's say we set a date to populate the server on Saturday, and you'll get... 5 points if you stay on it for a couple of hours and get the population going. 

 

Because right now, many people have more fun things to do than sit around on an almost-empty server waiting for people to join.

 

No clue what these rewards could entail, maybe cool gizmos on the forums, credits on CS:GO servers, EXP on surf, something. Because right now it's tried and true that off-games are ridiculously hard to populate (TTT, BF4, ETC)

 

 

Again, this is just think-tanking. Never said it's a good idea, never said it's bad. Interested in what y'all think.

[Bryan 207]

Have a mix up gamemode like Hardcore CQ, obliteration, and rush. People like having mix up instead of playing the same thing and rage about it

[AntyCrix 591]

Join Teamspeak if you really think we should be populating our server, Garchomp and I are in here waiting. We're trying to get at least three/four more people so we are able to populate it.

[Bryan 207]

try "24/7 HC Conquest/obliteration 1600 tickets/instant vechial respawn sG" people are wanting that juicy tickets/kills

[AntyCrix 591]

Well the server needs to be fixed because it's currently sitting on Normal mode instead of Hardcore.

[Sakata 1088]

Deja vu.

[Velo 2077]

Put in fly maps and port caspian border.

[AntyCrix 591]

Put in fly maps and port caspian border.

 

pls velo pls