[Invisible_Assassin]

Hello,

I've played in your server & saw that it is empty all too often. However, I've been emailed on another server & the admin asked questions like do you like this server & will you invite people to this server & so I know that you care about the popularity of the server.

So, to help you populate the server, I thought about what draws the first player in. You need a player be first in the server & they're not going to just hang out & wait for another player & even if they do then it's possible that the new guy will leave quickly if he doesn't feel like he's winning or doing well.

So how to enhance the server so the first guy stays? Well, add bots of course, but not many. 4 would be fine. Adding bots costs you no money, but allows a 1st player to at least play the game while they wait for more players. Personally, I hate bots; but if you don't get that first person to hang out & wait, there will be no second, third, fourth person in your server either. Bots suck though, so please keep the count down to 4 or 6 at maximum.

Thank you for listening. I hope it works out for you.

[Horsepower]

thanks for your suggestion. we're still in the process of setting that server up though.

[Invisible_Assassin]

Hello,
Revisiting this: It appears that you've added so many bots that they're in active games.



Consider the average warcraft CS gamer. He clicks on CS, clicks internet servers tab, clicks sort by name, scrolls to Warcraft & WC3, finds a group of servers, adds them to favorites, goes to favorites, and removes anything non-WC3.

Then the player looks at each server. Maybe he likes only a few people or maybe he likes to play in a game with a lot of people. Whatever he does, he doesn't pick your server. THere might be 4 or 8 people in there, but he doesn't pick it because it has bots in it. He skips that one.


The bots thing is working. I see people in there playing the bots. But then they leave because you still have bots in the game when there are enough people in the game. You need 4-6 bots. When people come in, they need to replace those bots. There can't be extra bot room. It can't be 4-6 bots until there are 12 people & then begin removing bots. It needs to kick them out immediately.

If you do this, then you'll have a couple guys come in, and then a couple more, and there won't be bots, so the average Warcraft CS player that searches might come right into your server.

I play CS 6-10 hours a day. It's a fulltime job to me. I know what I'm talking about. Trust me. You're still spinning your tires and you're almost there. This is a good server & it deserves to be played.

Best of luck.

[Horsepower]

we're going to take the bots out. people are leveling up and geting xp points on them.

[Invisible_Assassin]

Well, that could be a problem. I can certainly see how it could be done, although my method would probably be 100 times as effective. (I did join when there was a single person twice & both times that person left, most likely because they were abusing the system).



I guess in that case, then a good way to enhance your servers population is to set up a schedule for people to attend the server. If you set up the time to be around 6PM PST, then you would get all the people you want. Hell, if I were a permanent part of your group then I'd show up on a scheduled basis with other people, and if you had times for people to show up then you could have the 1st few people in all at the same time & the server would grow.

I'm just trying to help because I really liked the way you reached out to the community & to me & I'm trying to help you become a bigger, better server. Good luck!

[nizrulesall]

well hopefully you know your own lil group of friends and you can bring them to the server. I know i cant play on a schedule as my work schedule varies. so you'll see me in there at all different hours of the day/night. all we gotta do is get a couple clans to "adopt" the server and then we'll have plenty of peeps in it.

[Invisible_Assassin]

An excellent method as well. I hope it works out for you. Hate to see you just come & go.

[JonnyW@dd]

we wont come and go belive you me

[PrYm3r]

I think we may have our 1st clan [BADPC] They all seem young,but at the same time not smacktards Anyway they have @ least 8 to 10 members that can play decent.Looks like their going to play at Ninja for awile So welcome all u Victim's

[JonnyW@dd]

Fragtastic