General server discussion

[Shady]

I think we need to start a nice encouragement thread/campaign so that people will start filling up the second server. as boring as it may be to wait 30 minutes to get enough players for a proper game, it's worth it.

*edit oh look a whole thread now.

So to expand. I myself would rather sit there refreshing for 10 minutes, we all would. But I think it's time that we start setting a trend.
Just start jumping into the empty server when the other server is full. Go afk for a few minutes while you wait for a couple other players, then just sit back and watch the population flow.

[Aussie@SASR@Sniper]

Originally Posted by Shady

I think we need to start a nice encouragement thread/campaign so that people will start filling up the second server. as boring as it may be to wait 30 minutes to get enough players for a proper game, it's worth it.

+1 Shady I think if people did fill up the other server there would be almost 2 full servers

[Wokeye]

The other night when black gold was running there was 25+ on the second server, 64 on the first.

There do appear to be enough players some nights (esp the last few weeks with a surge of new players...where are they coming from??) so any tricks/ideas to filling that second server would be great IMO.

[Noddy]

Not issues
Not server specific rotation discussion

[ZondaX15]

I could rangle up the ol' [BLP] clan to make a promotional video?

[Fall.au]

only time thers enuf interest is within the first week of a new release other than that wont work.

id rather and will wait for a slot in the full server

[Shady]

Originally Posted by Fall.au

only time thers enuf interest is within the first week of a new release other than that wont work.

id rather and will wait for a slot in the full server

This is the trend we need to start breaking. If there's enough people to fill up one of the servers and keep it full all night, there should be plenty to at least half fill the other server.

Admins what would be the possibility of putting skirmish maps back on the other server?

[RollingInTheHurt]

Biggest killer of player count is server crashes.
Plain and simple you can go from full 64 to 20 something after just one single crash.
Really needs to be looked into. I know lots of USA servers I play on never crash (or very rarely).
Might be hardware/OS, might be admin related, I dont know. All I know is USA servers appear to be more rock solid than ours, especially during map changes where it would appear (me personally) has most of the server crashes/dropouts.

[Stiff]

Might want to change the usual overflow server to just maps that work with fewer players.

[Fall.au]

server crashes often ruin the population of bigD gaming project reality servers as often people cant be flowered making a new game when the one they wer half way thru just crashed its a shame that this issue often occurs

[Noddy]

Originally Posted by RollingInTheHurt

Biggest killer of player count is server crashes.
Plain and simple you can go from full 64 to 20 something after just one single crash.
Really needs to be looked into. I know lots of USA servers I play on never crash (or very rarely).
Might be hardware/OS, might be admin related, I dont know. All I know is USA servers appear to be more rock solid than ours, especially during map changes where it would appear (me personally) has most of the server crashes/dropouts.

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear when I suggested that this thread wasn't for reporting server issues (we already have a thread for that).

Please use the Report Server Issues here whenever you experience a Server crash so we can try and find root cause. Most crashes during map changes are generally client side in any case.

FWIW most servers have been having random crash issues up until recently due to code issues which has been patched.

might be admin related

BigD admins are well none for deliberately crashing servers for giggles.. you'll get used to it (not sure how else to respond to such a statement).

ETA:

Originally Posted by Fall.au

ye server crashes so oftne kill server cos ppl cbf starting up a new round

Please try and use at least a modicum of grammer and spelling - you've got a lot of valuable things to add to this community..when you rush though something gets lost in translation....

[Ford_Jam]

This isn't really new. The player numbers fluctuate. Two months ago this thread was made because there weren't enough players, now there is too many players.

[bkt]

Especially with the 10v10 (hopefully) following the world cup I really dig the idea of 1 server having skirmish maps only. There's nothing like a 4km map at 11pm to kill a server of 40 people.

[Shady]

The issue has been around at every new release and funnily enough mid way through now. Might as well get into the habit now rather then later.

[CaptainKoons]

Originally Posted by Shady

I think we need to start a nice encouragement thread/campaign so that people will start filling up the second server. as boring as it may be to wait 30 minutes to get enough players for a proper game, it's worth it.

+1

And as for waiting 30 minutes, I waited approx. 45 mins last night to get into the server, so would be happy with this outcome!!

[GruAncH]

Will do sounds good, I agree shady if everyone hops on then more will follow

[Madhouse]

Whynot make the spare server a co-op one? It works well overseas - I play on it when the BigD is full.

[Maz32]

i think when pr arma 2 comes out we should get a server for that even if it means loosing one bf2 server (since we are the home of Australian pr) and try and recruit some more people.
thats not really what your looking for but if more people playing more spots on servers will fill right??

its more of a long term solution. well i think so

[Shady]

Not enough of an Arma 2 player base to really bother.

[1GeKKo3]

Another option is to organise a group of dedicated community members to drop out of the server when its full, about 10, and kick off the other server.

Works in theory....if there are 10 dedicated community players........