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I had originally posted this in the server owners lounge, however I decided to move it here so that more gamers that supported the mods could read it if they wanted. I would sincerely appreciate hearing your feedback and suggestions on the possibility of trying something like this to help support the mods and the gamers that enjoy playing them.
What I am going to suggest here will require an open mind and a willingness on your part to support the mods for the community and the gamers that enjoy playing the mods so that we all have good populated mod servers to game on.
From what I have seen most of us that are active here on the forums have fairly successful ranked servers that we host for the community so that is not an issue, however based on what I have been reading on the forums in the past few months is that we are all pretty much facing the same problem when it come to keeping our mod servers populated on a regular basis. The mod servers that do seem to fair well for an extended period after a new release are usually limited to the ones that are populated regular by the clan members that are hosting it or the servers that illegally display the ranked icon but that is being addressed in another thread so enough on that subject.
What I would like to see happen is a kind of partnership agreement between a few of us server owners and clan leaders that are active in supporting and playing the mods. My idea is basically this, we get a few of us together and we each decide on 1 or 2 mods that we want to host for the community. Each individual community would agree on which mods they were going to host so that no 2- communities were hosting competing mods. Each community/clan would be limited to hosting no more than 2- different types of mods, however there would be no limit on the number of servers being hosted i.e. if your clan is hosting say DCON & PR you could host multiple servers for each mod respectively.
The next part of this agreement would involve the cross promotion of each others mod servers on your respective websites and forums for the different clans mods servers that are participating in the agreement. Basically what this would entail is a section on your site and or forums that would help promote the server that are participating in the mod server network and hopefully this will help drive more player and forum traffic to all of us which is what we all trying to do already. The only difference here is that we are working to support another’s server for the overall good of the mod community.
There would be no requirement for allowing cross administration between the servers and each clan would be permitted to make their own rules as they see fit, however we would all need to agree on a general code of conduct to help insure that no matter which serve they are playing on that they get treated fairly and with respect.
With that said there are many other specific details that I am sure some of you may have questions or comment on concerning doing something like this so before you start saying this will never work or I am not going to promote another clans server, think about this. For the most part all of us are struggling to keep our mod servers populated so if we all agree in advance on which mods we are each going to host so that we are not competing for the same player traffic. If you think about how many of you have small business associations in your community? Well it’s kind of like that, a bunch of individual business owners supporting each other for the good of the community as a whole.
Another thing is that this does not need to be a complicated time consuming arrangement since all we need to do is decide on who wants to participate, which mod server or servers each of us is going to host. Then we need to decide on how we will cross promote for each other so that it’s fair for all participants involved and then come up with an agreeable basic code of conduct.
Anyway I think I have made my basic point here so now I want to hear back from you guys if you’re interested so that we can discuss any ideas or questions you may have. Please take the time to think about the potential benefit to all of us that host and support the mods before you consider if you wish to participate in something like this. If there is enough serious interest then we can proceed with more detailed discussions on how to proceed, however I think the sooner we decide the sooner it will begin to benefit us all.
Thanks- Mitch
What I am going to suggest here will require an open mind and a willingness on your part to support the mods for the community and the gamers that enjoy playing the mods so that we all have good populated mod servers to game on.
From what I have seen most of us that are active here on the forums have fairly successful ranked servers that we host for the community so that is not an issue, however based on what I have been reading on the forums in the past few months is that we are all pretty much facing the same problem when it come to keeping our mod servers populated on a regular basis. The mod servers that do seem to fair well for an extended period after a new release are usually limited to the ones that are populated regular by the clan members that are hosting it or the servers that illegally display the ranked icon but that is being addressed in another thread so enough on that subject.
What I would like to see happen is a kind of partnership agreement between a few of us server owners and clan leaders that are active in supporting and playing the mods. My idea is basically this, we get a few of us together and we each decide on 1 or 2 mods that we want to host for the community. Each individual community would agree on which mods they were going to host so that no 2- communities were hosting competing mods. Each community/clan would be limited to hosting no more than 2- different types of mods, however there would be no limit on the number of servers being hosted i.e. if your clan is hosting say DCON & PR you could host multiple servers for each mod respectively.
The next part of this agreement would involve the cross promotion of each others mod servers on your respective websites and forums for the different clans mods servers that are participating in the agreement. Basically what this would entail is a section on your site and or forums that would help promote the server that are participating in the mod server network and hopefully this will help drive more player and forum traffic to all of us which is what we all trying to do already. The only difference here is that we are working to support another’s server for the overall good of the mod community.
There would be no requirement for allowing cross administration between the servers and each clan would be permitted to make their own rules as they see fit, however we would all need to agree on a general code of conduct to help insure that no matter which serve they are playing on that they get treated fairly and with respect.
With that said there are many other specific details that I am sure some of you may have questions or comment on concerning doing something like this so before you start saying this will never work or I am not going to promote another clans server, think about this. For the most part all of us are struggling to keep our mod servers populated so if we all agree in advance on which mods we are each going to host so that we are not competing for the same player traffic. If you think about how many of you have small business associations in your community? Well it’s kind of like that, a bunch of individual business owners supporting each other for the good of the community as a whole.
Another thing is that this does not need to be a complicated time consuming arrangement since all we need to do is decide on who wants to participate, which mod server or servers each of us is going to host. Then we need to decide on how we will cross promote for each other so that it’s fair for all participants involved and then come up with an agreeable basic code of conduct.
Anyway I think I have made my basic point here so now I want to hear back from you guys if you’re interested so that we can discuss any ideas or questions you may have. Please take the time to think about the potential benefit to all of us that host and support the mods before you consider if you wish to participate in something like this. If there is enough serious interest then we can proceed with more detailed discussions on how to proceed, however I think the sooner we decide the sooner it will begin to benefit us all.
Thanks- Mitch
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