Server Changes: Foundry

[Maserati]

Ill be brutally honest, last night I was on 2fort with Nudist, Kandi, Lucario to name the few... After it began to die down I began looking at other places and servers where filled to the point I had to wait to get in... at almost 3am my time. I even found another fellow ego member I havent seen in months. The idea is not to have membership filling our servers but in order to do that the ranks need to be higher so theres more pubs filling it in for us. That particular server did not have any admins in it and it shows that its possible. Im not going to name it for reasons.

As for the corporate thinking... upper management looks at rankings and we cant defend against empty servers. It makes us look really inactive and im sure theyd much rather pay for servers that will get more traffic. It be nice that one day if someone wants to play tf2 one can just pick an ego server and it be populated already.. its difficult to do that when we are anywhere above rank 500 world wide.

Older games like DoDs and CSS have servers in the top 10 and dont have quickplay helping them. They are always full those being... Dust2 and Avalanche. They dont need a task force and members constatntly filling those servers. Thats the ultimate goal..get the ranks up high enough that theyll fill themselves.

 

[HaloRacer]

I was hoping the lack of depth in my answer would be indicative of my seriousness, but whatever... bad attempt I suppose. Now it's serious business apparently! You're right though, I don't fill CP, or much else for that matter unless I see the FFTF call. I've done more than my share of filling in the past, and now when I get on and play, I do what I want. I have a very stressful job and honestly the eGO community is very low on my list priorities. You're going to have to accept that some of us are not going to be "all in", even if we used to be. I will never act in a way that's detrimental to the eGO, but I am not going to be at every fill and I am not going to be recruiting players that I likely won't have a chance to follow up with.

I do think your observations are correct. We had a much more vibrant community about a year ago. There'd be at least 2-3 people seeding each server in the morning, and very regular player bases, TS was always buzzing. Rankings do matter to a certain extent... If they totally suck, it's very difficult to keep them filled. At the same time though, eGO shouldn't be expected to pay for servers that don't have players.

As far as the actual topic... I'm pretty firmly in the camp that we don't have the player resources to adequately maintain a rotation server.

 

[Mobilize]

upper management looks at rankings and we cant defend against empty servers.

I realize that ranking and full servers are important, but my question was, are we putting that in front of what the members of our division wants to play?

much rather pay for servers that will get more traffic.

It seems to me that upper management would rather have full servers than a satisfied community, which I highly doubt..?

With the money going in from my dedicated supporter, having servers available to this community so that I can play on them with friends I have met here, is what I thought I was paying for. Forcing people to fill servers they don't want to play on is not, even if this means we have to cut a server from the division.

 

[Ledzo]

Am I to be crucified for not helping you out with making it a popular server just to never play there again myself?.

I hate 2Fort and Dustbowl, but I totally would stay on them for hours if its to get them in the ranks they used to have. So that, in fine, we don't have to put in so much efforts to fill them up each time. So that, in fine, we get recruits out of these servers without even asking anyone to join (like css dust 2 or dods ava). If you follow my reasonement and see where I'm getting to, in the end the conclusion is: We need to work hard now to lift our feet up later.
Again, not trying to rule anyone around but we need everyone to put in a bit of their time for the sake of the whole division.
I know that coming from someone from the internet it might sound ridiculous but this division needs you, all of you, to grow progressively into a steady state of constant growth without even having us wasting our time sitting on a server waiting for pubs to join.
Also, there is much less liberty in having only 2 servers to work with than a simple corporate thinking eGO has always promoted. But then, that's my point of view.




Recruiting numbers of this month: 14
Server ranks: Bad

 

[Mobilize]

I hate 2Fort and Dustbowl, but I totally would stay on them for hours if its to get them in the ranks they used to have.

I guess that's where we differ; I'd rather not have a server which just a handful of divisional members enjoy (than fill the server to bring up the rank).

 

[Razberri]

So I was just running through the forums since I haven't been around in a while, what with having a baby and staying with my mom to get some help, and I know that my opinion doesn't mean much since I can't exactly help with this topic by filling... But I noticed the subject of the division a year ago came up... That might be exactly the key. Our division is completely different now that it was when i first joined a year and half ago. Different people, structure, leadership, atmosphere, servers... Almost everything besides the game itself. Maybe we need a new angle? I don't know exactly what the answer might be but a regroup and plan could help some? Maybe the people that are in the division now (because I can honestly say there are only a handful of active members I still recognize from when I started) might have different interests or approaches that would make for better success.

I don't really know and might be full of fluff, but that's just what I was thinking...

 

[mrcool]

I left eGO many years ago, and it sounds like none of the problems have changed at all, except to maybe get worse. If you look at my post history, you might think I'm angry at eGO, or I'm a jerk, or whatever. For those who might think that, I have about 5000 extra hours in TF2 because I helped idle in servers for so long. I also donated money for months. I don't know what the problem is, so I'm not going to make any assumptions. I do, however, find it ironic that most servers I play on have almost no rules (they certainly don't have as many as eGO) and rarely have an admin on, but they work just as well, if not better than, eGO servers. Some of them even have reserve slots and people pay to get in. At this point you're probably thinking, why is this guy even posting? My unfortunate conclusion is there is either something seriously wrong with eGO TF2, or there is nothing wrong with it, just not enough people like the style. I'm posting this in hopes of saving someone's time. It's been five years. Do you really think it's going to get better now? Yes, there were rah-rah cheerleaders then and now, and they might come in here and call me a troll and whatever else, but when it came time to fill servers, I was there, and they were making excuses.

 

[GardenGroveVW]

@mrcool: So what's your suggestion if you've come here to post and you know so much about the problems with eGO what are your solutions?

 

[Adam]

Large Trolly Post.

From GameMe.

this server needs more rules 0d 00:05h Aug 4, 2013 8:33:50 pm

Looking through your post history and reading this post, I am wondering why you are still here.
You come here, after not being active since 2011, and all you have to offer is complaints with no solutions.

If you're looking to troll, like your post history suggests you like to do, your comments or suggestions will not be welcome here.

 

[Dr. Doctor (inactive)]

[insert insanely long post here]

Also from GameME:

Mar 27, 2015 5:57:32 pm gg ego 24/7 =(eGO)= DUSTBOWL [GameME] edge-gamers.com
Mar 27, 2015 5:55:01 pm ego sucks 24/7 =(eGO)= DUSTBOWL [GameME] edge-gamers.com
Mar 27, 2015 5:52:26 pm banned the wrong guy 24/7 =(eGO)= DUSTBOWL [GameME] edge-gamers.com
Mar 27, 2015 5:48:34 pm where are you guys going wth 24/7 =(eGO)= DUSTBOWL [GameME] edge-gamers.com
Mar 27, 2015 5:42:40 pm hvy near spawn 24/7 =(eGO)= DUSTBOWL [GameME] edge-gamers.com
Mar 27, 2015 5:36:34 pm ego stacks 24/7 =(eGO)= DUSTBOWL [GameME] edge-gamers.com

 

[GardenGroveVW]

Lol ego sucks... Hey bro... That's original........ We haven't been hearing that since 2006 and its what year 2015? Almost 10 years after Forming this clan we must suck because we are still around.

 

[GardenGroveVW]

Also question for you.... If you say we suck, why play on our servers? I mean common sense tells me 'Hey I don't like that place, I'm going to find a better place that suits me.'

 

[Ex]

Alright boys/girls lady's & gents. Let's not get downed by some old upset member, So the topic of this thread is umm Changing the foundry server? Woo let's start fresh and get everyone'S opinions on what they like to play when on TF2!?!??!? Cool? Cool.

What's your guys favorite gamemode and maps?

I like the dusty map and the gamemode where you push the payload. xD

 

[Adam]

We had the map voting options loaded on this server.

Those who have played here:

1. Did they work?
2. What didn't you like about it?

 

[Dr. Doctor (inactive)]

Alright boys/girls lady's & gents. Let's not get downed by some old upset member, So the topic of this thread is umm Changing the foundry server? Woo let's start fresh and get everyone'S opinions on what they like to play when on TF2!?!??!? Cool? Cool.

What's your guys favorite gamemode and maps?

I like the dusty map and the gamemode where you push the payload. xD

Leave it to Ex to lighten the mood.

I like that map called...what is it...giant fan?

 

[Johnny_Joe]

We had the map voting options loaded on this server.

Those who have played here:

1. Did they work?
2. What didn't you like about it?

1. The voting system worked as intended with certain maps being weighed differently against ones thought to be "more fun".

2. Everyone picked maps that egregiously favored a certain type of class (ie. mobile classes) and this lead to short scout/solly based rounds that were won in less than 5 minutes and ended in bad rebalancing as well as the losing team building 3+ sentry nests, which a fun round doth not make.

This is why I only played on CPRotation like... 5 times, I very rarely got the feeling that it was going to be an equal engagement type of game and all of those times the map choice was very much geared towards a minority of classes.

 

[Earth Whale]

Throwing my two cents out there, I enjoy CP rot changes, but honestly the reason I don't play on ego servers is simply cause I prefer playing comp format with friends on the competitive 6s + HL team. Its just a more structured enjoyable version of the game. The change to the server came at an unfortunate time when I was dropping out of pub play and moving more towards just doing scrims + matches.

 

[Nix]

tldr

I think we're kinda missing the point.

I don't know how it is for you guys, but for me, our rules are not something that is going to be insanely popular. I uphold these rules because I think they are right, not because I think they'll get us more players and higher ranks. I know it's not going to be easy, and that's really ok. I expect that, and this is why I stay in this clan, even if I can't really do much right now.

 

[Maserati]

Would it be too much of a crazy out mind Idea to advertise we have a TS3 server and we allow moderate swearing there? I have to agree with Nix thats another thing we get notoriously dinged for every flipping table time. I like eGOs no swearing in servers cause I personally dont find the need to express myself like that. I rarely curse in RL tbh. im no sailor but there arw some that just use it in thier everyday language. Invite them to TS3 as part of thier Warning I would say. ..but just an idea.

 

[Ledzo]

Before anything, we should remove random crits on CP Rotation: A lot less people would swear, and the skills would be exaltated.