i really liked the hardcore 64 conquest server, and yes it has been hard to populate. im not sure why take metro off the hardcore server rotation. one of the, if not the easiest maps to poulate a server on. tht 24/7 metro server is on normal with no ff and is very popular, and so is that air map server. not sure why people would complain about not having normal mode when the only server tht is suffering is the hardcore one. i do not care to much for normal mode, i only play it so i can frag out with clan mates and help populate. need to add metro back to begining of rotation on hardcore server and make a 600 or 700 ticket server. this might help, and keep auto balance on. or when bf2 expansion comes out, switch it over to that if alll else fails. need hc though, just my suggestion to the powers that be