Comments and suggestions

[modenaf1]

[quote1204823006=MostlyHarmless]
I have it on a dust2 office rotation. Equal to donner and ava. It still isnt getting any fuller easy. I like many of your suggestions but i think Customs attract a bigger variety of people.
[/quote1204823006]


Well, I hate to say, while I absolutely love many customs, if the goal is to get a lot more people instantly then they might not be a good idea to have on at times you want tons of people just spotting it on the pub list and joining.

From my experience I have always gotten more regulars to my server and return players with customs, but lower amounts of actual people on the server in the beginning, not eventually though.

Even now that I don't run my own servers I still find this just as a player. I normally don't boot up counter-strike and look in the server list for customs, not all of them are great and also I don't necessarily want to screw with downloading them, so when I'm just hitting random pubs I normally don't join random customs.


But, I must say, I absolutely love customs, if I find a server that ends up running a custom I love, and can't find any other server that plays that custom, I will definitely favorite that server and return to it time and time again.




So, if there is a custom that in general people like, I think it could be definitely a good idea in the end for getting more people because it works the same way in the business world, new customers are always important, but return customers and return to business time after time are most companies main source of revenue and profit. I think it will work the same way with the servers in CS. If you want just a bunch of random people joining the servers who are just surfing the pubs then I wouldn't run customs, but if you want to build up a base of people who return time after time, I say find a good custom that nobody else is running on their server that people like, and most importantly, rotate it between a normal map and the custom. The normal map to just catch people who are surfing the pubs and switch it to the custom and if they like it, they will be back.

To get people to stay, there has to be a reason to stay, or else its easier to just search for the map you want with the amount of players you want and just pick the server with the lowest ping. The only two things that make me add a server to favorites and visit it frequently are:

1.) It is running a custom map or something unique about it I like that I can't find anywhere else

2.) I like the types of people and clan associated with the server or the servers regulars


That's why I am glad to say I'm part of Edgegamers. It was just a random cs_office pub server to me at first that I probably would have left and not returned to until zoomer mentioned I join the clan and told me what it was about and what it stood for. So you guys definitely have the clan thing and friendly regulars thing going for you, I just say run a custom map that seems to be pretty popular 25-40 percent of the time and stick with it for a month or so and once more regulars start to play I think those numbers will start going up.


-Nick

 

[Mostly Harmless]

Ok well how does office dust2 italy and 1 good custom map? any ideas on what that may be? i have alot of requests for LOST and tydirium. i personaly like nightfever. Is that enough just one custom map?. or do wee need like to regular maps and 2 customs.

 

[EASY_KILL]

i really think we need mor maps in the rotation at least 8 different maps

 

[Pizza Steve]

Add Deathmatch or put some fy maps in there. They are short and small and make rounds go quickly.

 

[modenaf1]

As far as custom maps go, I definitely LOVE de_losttemple. That map is incredible, whoever picked it first for use on the eGO server has some awesome taste in maps.

It is just like an aztec ish de_dust 2. Amazing map.

 

[EASY_KILL]

yeah lost temple is cool or and the office kiend where u have 2 plant a bomb not the inlimited 1 but the other 1 with the 2 bomb sights

 

[Blindsfell]

For now....

1 server running source mod, beams, bet, no awps/autos, and using a map rotation of office/ dust2/ italy. Each map ran for 30 minutes. I would get rid of the bank because it is a pain and I think laggs the server. No barrells for lagg purposes. No autos/awps to make the game more fun and balanced. Run beams to make it cool. And use betting for money. I would run those maps because they are the most popular clasic maps.

In the long run...

4 servers. The stock server ^^^, a custom map gun game server, a zombie mod server, and a custom maps server (w/ map vote at the end of 30 minutes). I think a zombie mod server would be a hit for the clan. There aren't many still out there that are good and I think ours will be good.

 

[Colonel Klondike{RD}]

i vote no beams. they are so annoying to turn off every time you join the server or change maps

 

[50centricher]

you should bring in some surf maps
they are fun and they get your mind thinking

 

[Blindsfell]

Bump. We still need to get this bad boy full so I wanted to bring it back up for suggestions.

I don't know if many of you have noticed but there are hardly ever pubs in our server. Most of the time we have 0-2 pubs in the server! That is why I think the server needs more of a flare that makes it better than the rest. A flare that makes gamers want to come back for more. What is this flare? Well there are some possibilities. My suggestion is those phrases "mmmmm monster kill", "dominating", etc... It makes ppl feel good when theyre doing good and it just adds that flare that makes ppl get into it. My other suggestion is that we start having road trips. During road trips ppl will seee our tags and know that we have moved into cs:s. Then they will search for the ip and play there. Just my 2 cents.

 

[panda monium]

I agree with Blindsfell about the roadtrio thing. I read some where that we did that, but I haven't heard of any. And I think that the custom maps are for the most part bad, except LOST and Losttemple. The vote map is a great idea, but only after about 20 - 30 minutes, cause no one wants to play the same map for 2 hours. The rotation right now is good, i like it with Pariah, dust2, office, italy, nightfever. I personally like nightfever the least, so it should be taken off. And I think that i remember a huge map vote when i first joined that had about 8 diff maps, and I think that another vote like that would be a great idea. The custom map friday or monday or _____day is an awesome idea. In addition to the custom map day, maybe on the same day a knife/handgun/SK game would be a good addition. The deathmatch server, or even a night of deathmatch would be another good addition. Oh, dust2/office unlimited are not right for the server right now, they need to be played with deathmatch and only deathmatch. and no beams. exploding barrels should be voted on by the clan so that the majority rules. And, i have noticed that some of the pubs that have come to our server are in another clan, and they usually come in two or three (tripod for example), so if we would send 4~6 people on the road trip it would be more effective than 2 people.
that's my 2 cents

 

[THUNDAAR]

---Well, maps are too long (time wise, maybe ask the gamers if they want to extend...)
---If we want the server to become popular with gamers outside eGO, we need maps which everyone likes or are willing to play.
---I like the beams
---Admins could have the power to choose maps, or have votes, to keep the players in the server
---We need SCATMAN
---We could form a relationship with some clans/members (like *TRIpod*) which can boost the level of gaming
---Many others but i these ae the main ideas

 

[Crimson]

I think Inferno, D2, and Office are great maps for a rotation. Just because those are the only maps i see when they get populated with people actually wanting to play those map. Other maps are just unknown to other people. I think we should hold out on other maps and like milkboy said about the custom map stuff. Of course it can be done when we have our night fights and stuff.

Or

We can just go with d2 or office again. We actually got our server populated to 32 last time for the old server. It was growing real well. On a recruiting stand point we are getting less recruits. I could be wrong, but thats what i see. I would go to the 2 map of d2 and office though.


Oh and how bou those free servers?
Do we get one? Maybe we can host 24/7 maps like office and d2 and people can choose.

 

[imported_gosuB33R]

I like milkboys idea of having something special on certain days. one day could be rtv day another custom maps and another could be dustfest.

or at least a nominate where ppl nominate maps and vote on them.

may be a sniper map one day. i know awp is banned, but if everyone is using it, no one can really complain. awp maps are fun sometimes.

 

[panda monium]

what about that server we have, the one that has been locked for about a century now? Ok, maybe not a century, but what about we unlock it and turn it into a D2/Office 24/7 server, that way we can have a d2/office and the other rotation for the other server. Cause i agree with crimson about most people wanting office/d2, so maybe we can recruit mainly on that server and have members on both servers.