Counter-Strike: Source We Need a Rotation Server!
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my 2 cents, Rotation server would be cool for you guys, if anything I could see this happening with your HS one as its really hard to fill, I was sitting with RIC almost all night yesterday and nobody hopped on. Italy never fully fills, Office does decent. Your Jail server is not on Gameme listed so as far as ranking goes it more of a leisure server imo like TF2 quakelive server which is why when I help cs fill i don't prioritize it and also you need a good group apparently to jail. I'd vote maybe converting hs to rotation and adding hs as an option on it so its not really gone, win win.
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Italy is full quite a lot, it just depends on when you go on .__.
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If you ask me, I think that we should support the HS server a bit more. I also think we should just make a poll on what the players want overall.
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If we keep filling it over a large period of time, pubs will start to join, who will invite their friends. Filling a server is all about developing a active pub base, not just to get the ranks up one day. Just because not a lot of them look for that kind of map, doesn't mean they will never try it out.
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Why not use highschool as a rotation server? Not a complete rotation but partial. Make it go like
highschool
italy
highschool
office
highschool
de_dust2
highschool
etc...
Make the rotation speeds around 20 mins each so each map will be quick, but highschool will still be in there a lot!
highschool
italy
highschool
office
highschool
de_dust2
highschool
etc...
Make the rotation speeds around 20 mins each so each map will be quick, but highschool will still be in there a lot!
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Seems likely people would just hop off into the filled servers when the map switches to something we already have a server for.
Could replace the default vanilla maps with ones that are a little different, like cs_italy_tactik2 or de_dust2_pro
Tbh I think Italy_tactik is a lot more balanced than the original Italy
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I wouldn't do modded maps, aside from Highschool. New players don't like being stuck downloading a map; they want to play. I'd replace Dust2 with the original Dust and Italy with.... say.... Nuke! Or Assault! In fact, CS Assault is one of my favorite maps aside from Italy....
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Hmm. I see this has come up again. Well, from past experience of what eGO CS Division has tried, Rotation servers NEVER work.
Not possibly, not maybe. Never work. We have tried it multiple times and we just don't have the dedication or effort to fill them for long enough. I know you will say "But Mayhem! I will fill it everyday and it will work! I will get all my friends to do it!"
Well, to that I say good luck to you. Have heard that from many in the past and they have always fallen through.
Truly, this won't work as it hasn't in the past. Not trying to be mean or a negative nancy, just talking from past experience. Once you fill the servers CONSISTENTLY that we have, then maybe you can try this idea with leadership again.
Not possibly, not maybe. Never work. We have tried it multiple times and we just don't have the dedication or effort to fill them for long enough. I know you will say "But Mayhem! I will fill it everyday and it will work! I will get all my friends to do it!"
Well, to that I say good luck to you. Have heard that from many in the past and they have always fallen through.
Truly, this won't work as it hasn't in the past. Not trying to be mean or a negative nancy, just talking from past experience. Once you fill the servers CONSISTENTLY that we have, then maybe you can try this idea with leadership again.
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But Mayhem! I will fill it everyday and it will work! I will get all my friends to do it!
I accidentally just started a new thread about the same topic. I think a rotation server would be fantastic! I think it adds a great addition to the current servers. It would keep people interested! Especially those who lose interest a map after an hour or so. There are a great variety of maps out there. Especially some of the classics, and even some newer ones which add a fun twist to things! FULL SUPPORT!
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A rotation server has been done more times than I can count. They usually start off pretty strong, people fill it without being asked and everything's dandy. It rises in rank and people will think it will become a success. Then, people stop playing the server because they filled their craving for the month, and go back to playing any of our other (and in my opinion, much better) servers that only have one map that has a consistent group of people that play on it.
When people from our community stop making a concerted effort to actually play on that server for months on end to build up a following of non-community members, then that server will almost always fail. This trend has repeated itself for years and years on end. Why do you think the only rotation server we run is jail? Because other rotations just don't work for us. New servers take far more time and resources than most people think to start up, and when a server is empty 90% of the time, and the other 10% it's 7 eGO members in the server, 2 of which are spectating to "fill" it, there is really no good reason to keep it around and waste the server resources to support it.
Source: I've been here for a really long time.
When people from our community stop making a concerted effort to actually play on that server for months on end to build up a following of non-community members, then that server will almost always fail. This trend has repeated itself for years and years on end. Why do you think the only rotation server we run is jail? Because other rotations just don't work for us. New servers take far more time and resources than most people think to start up, and when a server is empty 90% of the time, and the other 10% it's 7 eGO members in the server, 2 of which are spectating to "fill" it, there is really no good reason to keep it around and waste the server resources to support it.
Source: I've been here for a really long time.
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So you would change the #8 Server IN THE WORLD to de_dust?
^^ Truth.
I read it that way as well. That rotation didn't make any sense at all to me. We already have Italy and Dust2 and Office 24x7.
Obviously I'm new and don't have the history. I totally get the history (and what it takes to spin up a new server and the resources involved). I think we have a nice mix of standard maps (I love Italy). I also love Assault and a lot of the old classic CS_ maps.
So the goal right now is to give Highschool support and hope that it takes off?
