TF2 Server changes update

[Maserati]

Just a quick heads up:

• Helltower will remain as is till the end of the Screamfortress event 11/12/14 at which point it will become Hightower again.
• Harvest is back to normal
• Foundry has returned... dont forget it needs love...
• Egypt server has been closed, sorry kids there was just not enough left to do to keep it around.

Our hope is to aliviate the sense of having the need to fill serves feel like a job. We want you guys to have fun. Which is why this is now officially goodbye to our 6th server, we can always ask for it back if we maintain the remaining 5 filled. Our Goal presently is to get out of the high 1000s 2000s back to the hundreads in the server rankings. Having less servers to spread out and fill will allow us to do so.

How to keep servers filled?

• Help the FFTF and leadership when called upon by steam. aka come have fun with your division!
• Idle servers when possible we have an app for that. (volunteer)
• Recruit new members, be friendly to our visitors and they may just join us.

That is all, see you all for Black Mesa Tonight, hosted by the one and only Shiznoe

-Maserati

 

[Gerbil]

Thank you hyde.

 

[Shark]

Thanks for the update! ^_^

 

[Mr. Monday]

Egypt server has been closed, sorry kids there was just not enough left to do to keep it around.

Ouch. I may not have liked that map very much, but a lot of people did. It's a shame that it couldn't stay filled.

 

[Rawburt]

rip only good server and map and sub community and hobby and everything

 

[Maserati]

Much like valve maps if there is an interest, I have no problems with having a weekly or monthly Egypt night.

 

[Nix]

As much as it hurts, I have to agree. Let's work hard and get it back.

 

[Fraurrix]

I didn't play on Egypt very much, but that's a shame to hear. I know it was a favorite for many members.

 

[Fifteen]

rip only good server and map and sub community and hobby and everything

rip us

I already went on my raving about Egypt, but still hate to see that the server is now closed.

 

[Rawburt]

Much like valve maps if there is an interest, I have no problems with having a weekly or monthly Egypt night.

I personally would like that, even though it'd certainly be different.

It's just sort of depressing seeing yet another server that so many members of this community loved being lost because not enough faceless pubs joined to make its Game Tracker ranking - of all things deemed important to you guys - high enough.

I'll leave all of this Egypt madness at that, I've shouted at nobody for long enough on this subject.

RIP egyptzorz 2014 ;-; #gonebutnotforgotten

 

[Fun377]

Valve Maps -> Payload Maps -> Egypt

C'mon, guys. We can't lose Foundry next.

 

[Mr. Monday]

It's just sort of depressing seeing yet another server that so many members of this community loved being lost because not enough faceless pubs joined to make its Game Tracker ranking

Faceless pubs? I think you mean anybody. Egypt was empty every time I joined. When it filled, it would immediately empty. If the server stayed even moderately full of regulars all the time, it wouldn't be bad. However, it was almost always empty. Why pay server costs for a server that sees play maybe once a day?

 

[Insomnia Princess]

Faceless pubs? I think you mean anybody. Egypt was empty every time I joined. When it filled, it would immediately empty. If the server stayed even moderately full of regulars all the time, it wouldn't be bad. However, it was almost always empty. Why pay server costs for a server that sees play maybe once a day?

^ This

Unfortunately, many things were done to attempt to save Egypt. Summer of Sand, for one. I had several PMs and TS chats with members who played on the server, detailing exactly what needed to be done to save it and offering to do everything I could to help. I even offered to do a meeting with reps from the server's fans to try to turn this around.

I made the same offer to Foundry and some of the regs who are not even eGO members took me up on the offer. Egypt did not. We're not talking a couple of weeks of a dip, either. We're talking months worth of dropping ranks and an empty server.

Then I saw they seem to have their own Egypt server to play on now so... why keep this around when we were only keeping it for them? Doesn't make sense.

There are many other things we can do with our resources.

It's not personal and I'm sorry to those who are upset by the decision but I stand by it 100%.

Play on the server= keep the server.
Server sits empty= It gets cut.

 

[VP :3]

Video games!

 

[Bhruic]

Then I saw they seem to have their own Egypt server to play on now so... why keep this around when we were only keeping it for them?

I'm rather disappointed in this disingenuous statement. The only reason "they" have an Egypt server at this point is because "we" don't. Had the eGO Egypt server not been switched to a Halloween map, there would have been no need - and certainly no desire - to have set one up.

I'm not going to argue about the decision to cut it - it's eGO's money, so their decision - but I refuse to be used as part of the justification for it (as the person who set up the Egypt server), even if indirectly.

 

[Maserati]

Bhuric what you did is admirable and I dont believe anyone is putting a negative on it though IP has a point...Egypt was kept around for as long as it was due to its following. That group now has a place to call home and thats great. Its unfortunate that it could not be with us but hope to continue having you and said group around as we have events and other maps here to enjoy. At the end of the day we are all here cause we love this game and we have been blessed to meet people that share the same interest, some of them even our friends as a result.

eGO as big as it is has no reason to have servers with such low rankings... its not completely financial but it does become harder to justify having empty servers and it only causes stress for the people trying to make this a better place, our time and resources can be put to much better use, Im sure I can speak for quite a bit of us when I say.. Id like to play another game other than TF2 sometime instead of burning myself out and filling all day or gee Id love to get involved in the competitive end.

Granted I personally try to portion my gaming to avoid becoming burned out and which is why I love being your Events advisor, I can get as creative or as serious as id like and my team is the same way.

Ive said it already...we can always ask for servers back but our priority is to have servers that will be successful.

With that being said... I am closing this thread as it was not meant to be a RIP egypt part...ive lost count at this point with continued debates. Lets find solutions instead of continuing down this path of negativity. Lets have fun along the way and make this the best place for the tf2 community cause we are just that.


Thanks for reading.

 

[Insomnia Princess]

Yea, I didn't mean to be flippant or disrespectful Bhruric. Sorry if it sounded that way.