Thoughtful Discussion: Highschool Server

"All things eventually die." I don't remember who said it, but today is and the coming weeks are certainly not the case for Highschool! i say we rise up to the challenge and MAKE highschool popular once again! The good 'ole days of people coming in to have fun and mess around on a really well done map. So who's with me? Let's do this!
 
I honestly think the biggest reason is people are generally losing interest in CS:S. The quality of the games coming out has been good, so people are stepping away from CS:S. With this people will eventually come back. CS:S is like that raging case of...........ya know that won't go away. Its hard to fill a custom map server without a huge base of regulars. Without that filling the server is tough. I honestly would say maybe the option for the time being would be to change it to a 24/7 Assault or some other stock map for a while to bring up the ranking.
 
Just gonna put this here because it was such a great day for Highschool:
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Great job. Been awhile since I've seen hs full. Hate I was unable to b there but life happens
 
we should make sure drew is kept icy cold more often, HS's survival depends on it!
 
From my observation CS is constantly struggling satisfying one of two servers. If HS is being filled, Jail suffers, if Jail is being filled, HS suffers. Its a constant struggle. I'd find away to solve this first. I know CS wanted to start a Fill Server Captain program and I can only advise as one of the TF2 captains, that if that person or group of people start to rally the troops you go and help or respectfully decline as opposed to having to struggle with being told "nooo go to {jail}, leadership will take it away" on global chat where your peers can see this. This starts a favoritism discussion battle over global and It makes it harder to achieve the goal of increasing the rankings and getting the servers filled.

Ideally, If you are filling, you'll get pubs to flock in to the servers in need of filling like HS and you now have Jail to concentrate on and have fun. Looking at GTTracker, it seems HS has mostly Afternoon activity, but not really to the point it fills and dies. I'm guessing people get bored so with that I would motion towards a Rotation Server as flamelauncher11 suggested previously in another thread, HS might be a good server to experiment this on and I truly believe that that server would benefit overall from it, for those that like HS it wouldn't be really gone, you could always mapvote for it.

Last suggestion, Offer incentives for being in the server. and filling it. I remember one of my first times Killroy gave away CS:GO goodies. I think even jail credits were given out at some point.
We already have a server filling team and population7 is in charge of high school
 
I've never really played HS til today. It's got a bit of a learning curve, and the play style is completely different than other maps I find. Getting a few people on and then inviting others at peak times seems to work though, I wouldn't have known there were people on the server if Drew didn't send me an invite.
 
Lol posted up a thread for drew on filling high school today! Such a blast when the server is full. So yeah think we should host a high school night and start giving out prizes and awards for incentive and stuff. Today was proof that high school is not dead or lost, We need to work harder on it for sure though.
 
Lol posted up a thread for drew on filling high school today! Such a blast when the server is full. So yeah think we should host a high school night and start giving out prizes and awards for incentive and stuff. Today was proof that high school is not dead or lost, We need to work harder on it for sure though.

You're cute. :3
 
Mr. Doom I'd love to run an experiment on high school... Enable all-talk.

High School can never get filled(without help from community members), people get board playing 3v3, 2v2, after a few rounds. If we want high school to fill up we need people to enjoy playing on the server when it's not completely filled yet.

What makes a player keep joining a server is there first experience on that server. If they get into a 3v3 match. With a mic less team and getting owned... it's going to get boring fast. With all talk you can at least talk to the other team and be like "man nice shot" or "better luck next time". Granted the other team might not have a mic but it's a slim chance they might.

I think in order for high school to run successfully in the future. We need to enable all talk, but not for ever just till people get used to playing on the server. Now here is the fault with my idea... "People will get confused with all-talk, being switched to team only talk". If people really enjoy playing on hs then i don't see how having it changed will stop them from playing. If they played enough high school they will get use to the "regular" players and just want to play with them.

This Idea Is SO CRAZY, it just might work.

Hope this made sense, sorry for grammar and such, if you need clarification on what i typed above feel free to ask <3
-Snuggle-Boo out.
 
Mr. Doom I'd love to run an experiment on high school... Enable all-talk.

High School can never get filled(without help from community members), people get board playing 3v3, 2v2, after a few rounds. If we want high school to fill up we need people to enjoy playing on the server when it's not completely filled yet.

What makes a player keep joining a server is there first experience on that server. If they get into a 3v3 match. With a mic less team and getting owned... it's going to get boring fast. With all talk you can at least talk to the other team and be like "man nice shot" or "better luck next time". Granted the other team might not have a mic but it's a slim chance they might.

I think in order for high school to run successfully in the future. We need to enable all talk, but not for ever just till people get used to playing on the server. Now here is the fault with my idea... "People will get confused with all-talk, being switched to team only talk". If people really enjoy playing on hs then i don't see how having it changed will stop them from playing. If they played enough high school they will get use to the "regular" players and just want to play with them.

This Idea Is SO CRAZY, it just might work.

Hope this made sense, sorry for grammar and such, if you need clarification on what i typed above feel free to ask <3
-Snuggle-Boo out.

I agree with the getting bored fast part, even though I don't speak on my mic at all a big part of me leaving a server is because nobody is speaking on the mic, just have a few people calling out places to go or having small conversations keeps me a little more into the game idk why. Maybe having an option to enable all talk when you're dead? Idk if that's possible but having it on all the time removes the option to call out where to go without the other team knowing ( unless you type )
 
I think enabling all talk is a good idea, with the ability to vote to turn it off
or
it just automatically turns off when the player count reaches something like 16
 
I vote for all talk when you're dead and when the last two people are alive. That would be extremely interesting to hear.
 
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