raise the max player cap?

[Fork Included]

just thinking outloud, i'm not sure what our map situation is (meaning if we have the maps that can handle it)

but it seems we are consistantly reaching max capacity every night at 32 players, perhaps we should raise that, see what happens?

 

[Propaganda]

I don't think this is such a good idea Fork. 32 plays not too bad, anything over that is just a cluster. Once we get TD West set up properly should take up some of the load.

 

[HooB.wg]

I agree with Fork, hear me out on this one Prop...

1 - Raising the max player cap to 40 wouldn't be too bad or harmful.. I am sure 20 on 20 isn't too much worse than 32 players are. I have played on a well organized 64 man with relatively good latency and it worked out ok.. I think raising to a 40 man would be ideal.

2 - I have seen this before.. Where a server like TD creates almost a sister server in order to allow more people into the community. In this case I forsee a split unforunately.. I can see many members sticking to one particular server almost as if it was TD and WTF all over again. There will be some sort of splitting going on at least.

I think that raising the player limit a little bit will not only increase the number of people we can get in at one time, but allow the community to stay in as one whole server. What do you guys think?

 

[Remy]

Well seeing how TD is working on a second server right now, wait and see how that works out for now after that we can argue what to do from there. no need to waste the efforts of this west server yet

 

[Steve]

Raising the player cap will mean removing a lot of our current maps that are only supported in 32 player

Egon, mill, fire, contra, basically any custom if I am not mistken.

 

[Fork Included]

how will the BHA address the need for increased moderators for the second server?

 

[Fork Included]

[quote1238079990=Steve]
Raising the player cap will mean removing a lot of our current maps that are only supported in 32 player

Egon, mill, fire, contra, basically any custom if I am not mistken.
[/quote1238079990]

i'm not a map creator expert, but could that simply be fixed by increasing the spawn area variables?

 

[auron]

My suggestion is a TD gun game server that you can play in while you're waiting, or play on the days you just need to kill some time but don't want serious gameplay. I think it would take pressure off of the main server.

GG server failed before for a few reasons:
TD didn't have the player base it has now, and could rarely fill the main server.
Not enough people had admin, or appropriate levels of admin.
Changes were made slowly (new maps, gameplay changes)
47 had admin.

 

[Low Budget]

We are still waiting for our host to be ready with the dedicated servers so we can offer more games.

 

[iCe]

[quote1238081250=Fork Included]
how will the BHA address the need for increased moderators for the second server?
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they are working on everything relaxxxx forky! everything is in the works... it will come when it comes!

 

[iCe]

[quote1238081374=Auron]
My suggestion is a TD gun game server that you can play in while you're waiting, or play on the days you just need to kill some time but don't want serious gameplay. I think it would take pressure off of the main server.

GG server failed before for a few reasons:
TD didn't have the player base it has now, and could rarely fill the main server.
Not enough people had admin, or appropriate levels of admin.
Changes were made slowly (new maps, gameplay changes)
47 had admin.
[/quote1238081374]


lol at the last one!!!!!!!! 47 fail! sowwwwy <3

 

[Fork Included]

hey man, Alex was doing a pretty good job on the last GG server, he really took it seriously LOL, it was his pride and joy.

 

[iCe]

im busting his chops

 

[dead mike]

yea i thought the gungame server was pretty good an actually miss it, bring it back and add a DM feature to it so i dont have to spend half my time playing cs flying around watching other people steal my kills.

 

[TD|night blade]

Yeah, let's make it a 50 player server where no one can play most of the time because no maps let 50 play...

Wait, done that, been there, fuck it.

32 is perfectly fine.

 

[HooB.wg]

the new server seems like a good idea BUT (and I am not saying this will happen to TD as well) but I have seen numerous popular servers try this before and it has resulted in a simple split of the community.. Just a risk that TD can either benefit from or lose.. I am willing to see what happens

 

[Propaganda]

Before people start jumping to conclusions let me clarify a few things.

First off it's not so simple fixing the amount of spawn points on a map, it's a lot of fucking around. It's not worth the trouble.

I prefer 20-24 players on the server, I am sure there are others who do as well, anything over 32 is just too many IMO.

TD West is not a separatist server and it will not lead to some sort of split. It's a result of growth, there are many players who play on TD from Western Canada, so yes it's very likely you would see certain people more on the TD West server if they live in the west, why shouldn't they enjoy a 30 ping instead of playing against guys at 80 when they have 15?

The agenda is controlled growth and expansion.

 

[HooB.wg]

Makes sense to me

 

[B.From.Acc]

[quote1238089237=Auron]
My suggestion is a TD gun game server that you can play in while you're waiting, or play on the days you just need to kill some time but don't want serious gameplay. I think it would take pressure off of the main server.
[/quote1238089237]
i think this a good idea. and 32 is max, in my opinion, just too much work and too crowded.

an idea that may have been brought up already, have one extra slot so people will join the regular server, but then will redirect them to the gun game server? and they can play there while they wait for a slot to open up on the regular server.

 

[Narf!]

[quote1238091401=Propaganda]
Before people start jumping to conclusions let me clarify a few things.

First off it's not so simple fixing the amount of spawn points on a map, it's a lot of fucking around. It's not worth the trouble.

I prefer 20-24 players on the server, I am sure there are others who do as well, anything over 32 is just too many IMO.

TD West is not a separatist server and it will not lead to some sort of split. It's a result of growth, there are many players who play on TD from Western Canada, so yes it's very likely you would see certain people more on the TD West server if they live in the west, why shouldn't they enjoy a 30 ping instead of playing against guys at 80 when they have 15?

The agenda is controlled growth and expansion.
[/quote1238091401]

+1, plus a TD West server would segregate Leroy from the rest of us.

Joking aside, I would actually want the player cap to be reduced to 30 (+1 for source tv)