What makes a COD4 server popular?

[stilla-killa]

Not sure if this is in the correct section or not so sorry if it isnt. Now my question is what makes a COD4 server popular. Like right now I am running a 24 player server that runs most of the maps in TDM and HQ but remains mostly empty. It is not hardcore or old school btw.

[GeneralPatton]

Simple - How long is it running for.

The clans whose servers are populated are the clans that have members in them almost 24/7 having them going. If you don't have the active first 4 members or what not who keep starting the server, the server will remain dead.

[Keyelite]

Don't ban everyone who kills you, that usually deters people away from coming back regularly.

Essentially make it enjoyable or unique and always jump start it if it is empty

[troybob]

Simple - How long is it running for.

The clans whose servers are populated are the clans that have members in them almost 24/7 having them going. If you don't have the active first 4 members or what not who keep starting the server, the server will remain dead.

what he said. i've had one up for about a month now and i'm not in a clan. only a few guys from work get into it some nights a week.

basically, the more you populate it by forcing people into it (e.g. telling all your friends to get on at one time) the more people will see the server and play on it and look for it again.

[jackal22]

A lot of it is having the man power to kick start your servers after every patch and after everyone goes to sleep. 5 or so clan member can achieve this and the more the better.

[GeneralPatton]

A lot of it is having the man power to kick start your servers after every patch and after everyone goes to sleep. 5 or so clan member can achieve this and the more the better.

Yep, and if you have 5 people on at a time who play for hours on end, those are the servers who then get populated. Overtime, the servers just need 1-2 people to kick it off and it gets going almost instantly because you start having regulars who added it to their favorites and the only server in the mind of joining is yours.

People want servers they can rely on always being populated.

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This is going to throw myself out there for flaming but, also if you are super leet (Mainly no life) *cough* Patton *cough* and you have a 3v3 going or whatever trying to start the server, you may be the cause of why your server never gets going. /True Story:dead:

:laugh:

[Kodakk]

^^ Lies! Well, not really - I left and let Assassin do the dirty work.

But yeah, exactly as Patton and Troybob said - the main thing is to be kind to the players and to always have 4+ people in it.

[Twysted]

Have sensible rules and stick to them.
Be friendly.
Talk to your non clan players , sometimes clans forget to "involve" Joe Public
it can be easily done because clans communicater per TS or Vent.
So if a non clan member makes a good shot tell him

We have 4 cod4 servers running 24/7
our 30 slot HC Team deathmatch server is populated almost 24 hrs a day much the same as our 16 slot HC FFA

(we are finding it hard to populate our custom map server)

We have made our servers no hopping, no swearing servers and have built up a good core of regular players,
these regulars jump on our server and by doing so draw other"customers " in lol.

[Kylee!]

A good example isn't ours thats for sure...

No ones ever in it!

[Sloi sauce]

A good example isn't ours thats for sure...

No ones ever in it!

Same with the TBF2 server. We're going to try again on Friday evening, see if that works out: if it doesn't, I really don't know what we could possibly do to populate it.

[Kylee!]

I was in it yesterday, for the first time anyones been in it for forever, the most we got was 5 ...

[GeneralPatton]

Problem with the TotalCOD4 server, in my opinion, as been stated above is that it just doesn't have the core of guys to get it going. If the dedication is there for someone to sit in a server for maybe an hour alone till some more join, thats how a server takes off. It comes down to more of a dedication and motivation to see success than just being lucky.

[FPS[SONIC]]

If we could set a schedule, I'd meet you guys for gaming on both the CoD4 and BF2 servers! Well, not at the same time of course...

The problem is waiting and waiting and waiting... Then I disconnect and do something else.

[troybob]

Problem with the TotalCOD4 server, in my opinion, as been stated above is that it just doesn't have the core of guys to get it going. If the dedication is there for someone to sit in a server for maybe an hour alone till some more join, thats how a server takes off. It comes down to more of a dedication and motivation to see success than just being lucky.

kind of like the irc server :)

[CptainCrunch]

PLEASE! I BEG YOU! FOR THE LOVE OF ALL GAMING AND HOLY ITEMS IN LIFE, TURN VOTING OFF OF YOUR SERVER!

I know you want to give people choices and let everyone have say, but in the last two days, I have been kicked off seven servers via votes. The servers were overran with clan that wanted to stat pad or kids just wanting the server to be empty.

Dont let this happen to your server. Turn off voting. War is not a democracy.

Thank you,

Crunch

PS, Yes, I know there are 17,000 servers, but the point is that when you spend all that time setting up your server and/or all that money, dont you want your server full too?