The reason I ask this is because the clan I am in has seen a sharp drop in player base recently.
2 or 3 months ago, it was packed, 50 slots out of 50, a good portion of the day. Now, however, we are lucky to have 30 people on at its peak. Originally, we had few rules...No Team Killing & No Flying Commanders. Everything else was within the scope of the rules. 98% of the clans members are over 21, and in most cases over 30. The majority of clan members pay for and have admin rights to the server. We run a full map rotation on the vanilla BF2 maps, all vehicles, and unlocks allowed. Our server is Ranked as well.
Since we did allow base attacking and artillery, we thought that might be causing a problem. So we tried the solution of "No Base Attacking". That didn't seem to work...still saw a low number of players.
We were a Streaming Punksbusted server....removed that as well, still no dice. Removed a couple of the less popular maps, like Songhua Stalemate, and things picked up slightly.
I haven't mentioned the clan name or the server itself since I don't want it to look like I'm spamming for players, but I would like to know what you look for in a good server so that hopefully we can attract more players.
2 or 3 months ago, it was packed, 50 slots out of 50, a good portion of the day. Now, however, we are lucky to have 30 people on at its peak. Originally, we had few rules...No Team Killing & No Flying Commanders. Everything else was within the scope of the rules. 98% of the clans members are over 21, and in most cases over 30. The majority of clan members pay for and have admin rights to the server. We run a full map rotation on the vanilla BF2 maps, all vehicles, and unlocks allowed. Our server is Ranked as well.
Since we did allow base attacking and artillery, we thought that might be causing a problem. So we tried the solution of "No Base Attacking". That didn't seem to work...still saw a low number of players.
We were a Streaming Punksbusted server....removed that as well, still no dice. Removed a couple of the less popular maps, like Songhua Stalemate, and things picked up slightly.
I haven't mentioned the clan name or the server itself since I don't want it to look like I'm spamming for players, but I would like to know what you look for in a good server so that hopefully we can attract more players.
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