what are we doing wrong?

[Netsky]

Compare both pictures at 16:50 my time => 10:50 est.
Edgegamers is mainly a north american community we all know that so on weekdays we can easily call it "downtime" atm.
But it bothers me that so many other north american servers get there servers populated even in downtime, it bothers me even more if you compare our community populationwise compared to some others in that picture.
Question i am asking myself and which i can't answer is why do those servers succeed in keeping them populated in downtime to while we can't.
Any ideas regarding this?

 

[Death]

Well that would be 10:50 am so not a lot of people would be playing at that time, I know I've played around that time and there is usually only a few populated servers.

Plus our servers are a bit more specific than those and smaller (besides OP metro) than the others you use as example. And I dont know about other people but I know that for filters, I dont have empty servers show up.

A possible solution (which I havent heard about us having besides for BC2) is a graveyard/morning shift for our servers to get them started. Which people in Europe and Asia and Africa could probably easily do since compared to est, they're at least 4 hours ahead, only problem is that the connection might be laggy.

 

[KILLERCANKILL]

We are doing nothing wrong really, server's always fluctuate, sometimes when other North American servers are empty ours are full. You cannot expect the servers to remain full 24/7 specially when we are still in the initial stage of getting our servers popularized. It takes time and effort but surely we will get there. What I do recommend is that people on vent should encourage each other to jump into servers and try to get them started. If you see that nothing is happening for more then 20-30 mins then try working on a different server. Lets keep working hard and im sure we will get there, i see too much focus lately on the metro server, try spreading out the numbers, specially working on the HC Rush and city maps server as they fill up fast and maintain strong numbers for a longer time.

 

[Tumblin]

Our player base does not play that early in the AM. That is usually when I come on, but I won't be able to fill any of the servers alone. Also the majority of our frequent pubbers play US prime time into the night. It is hard to get Euro players to stick with our servers during off times.

 

[Mr.SaJoRa]

from what ive seen there are quite alot of european servers so id assume they rather play on server in their country due to language/ping. and getting americans on the server at that time is prolly quite hard due to the huge amount of servers and some server filters so as someone else said our servers might not show up on a search result just cause of 1 filter.
all we can do is play on there, maybe have a nice talk with some pubs that join and add them and invite them to play again when we are trying to fill a server again.

 

[LilShortstuf]

We aren't doing anything wrong.

There are over 10,000 servers for BF3 and all of ours are in the top 1000. Our lowest ranked server is ranked 808 which means it is in 92nd percentile. Having all of our servers in the top 8% of BF3 servers is no small accomplishment.

There are a couple reasons for why are servers are not usually full in the early morning for North America. As of right now the BF vent rooms have 4 people in them and all of them are leadership members. The average age for our Division is (by my best guess) in the early to mid twenties. Most people in that age range are either at work or class at this time of the day. We also do not have all that many European members in our Division.

Another reason is that for the past few months our recruiting has not been great. That has turned around with the efforts of ThundrRok and all of the members who are recruiting. Once we recruit more people it will be easier to fill our servers and keep them full.

There are people who just plain don't like our rules. There are plenty of people who think our language rule is stupid because they want to be able to run their mouth when by some "miracle" or "hack" they are killed.

Finally our Division almost lost a server a few months back. Everyone has put an amazing amount of effort into filling our servers to get our servers to where they are. Saying that we doing something wrong lessens that amazing achievement. Our servers will keep filling and overtime they will spend more time full as recruiting picks up and our servers secure a solid pub-base.

In the future please use the drop box for all concerns, suggestions, and questions.

-LilShortstuf

 

[Netsky]

Thanks for the information guys i know understand our position more and personally i dont think the problem is the lack off euro recruits, as a european myself i fill up servers a lot which i like by the way and i see a lot off europeans on our servers in the meanwhile (i check using gameme trying to recruit). I think the recruiting problem or serverpopulation problem more is asian based.
europeans tend to play a lot on us servers, or on navite servers there aint really big european community's out here in europe due to culturual differences between population (language...) english nowadays is a language almost everyone can speak (at least the basics) reason why englishspeaking servers including us will always attract a lot off europeans (i've seen that happen in all the divisions i've been part off).
Geographically on the world map there's a grey area for me at least located at russian/arabian timezone.
Russians tend to isolate themselfs on russian only speaking servers, arabians and surrounding countries dont have enough pc's/population. Which brings me recruitingwise to a simple conclusion i guess its worth a shot focusing on asian recruits, if those guys pick up when americans start to drop off, the grey area will fade away. => more asians => europeans pick up on easier (fuller server) => after euro's get in its way easier to get servers going then.
Personnaly i think that would help our community.




One off the reasons why our bc2 servers are almost constantly full are more asians playing there (you can track that down using gameme)
if you don't have asians the servers gets empty and europeans who are looking for englishspeaking servers will find us harder cause we are starting up our servers early eastern afternoon-late estern afternoon.

ps: pingrelated: i am constantly running around 150 ping i hardly lag and a lot off euro's are on our servers you can check using gameme

 

[Koshachey]

There is a very simple answer for this:

Whenever I'm not playing on an eGO server, it's not worth playing on.


Edit: Oh wait, that's not what "ego" means.

 

[BRAVO51]

WIN speech by lil

 

[RandyOglestein]

Yeah most Americans have work between the hours of 7AM and 5PM-ish, then there's school for the high schoolers, and college. So yeah @ 10 AM, there probably wont be a lot on.

But we've done a LOT better than we were a couple months ago. We almost never had full servers. B2K has been full a LOT recently, and I've seen quite a few pubs that have come back b/c they like our server/rules.

So yeah, we have downtimes, but we're getting there =). Another thing is just popularity. I would say the majority of the BF3 fanbase doesn't think about the server they are playing on. They just join if the server is nearly full. We're getting our name out there, and our servers are doing much better.

 

[BRAVO51]

netsky u weren't here in december/ January, it was brutal. The servers were empty most of the time. They were so empty i managed to get most of my awards on gameme stats page at that time.