Drop the Sniper server?

[goztow]

Then why not put Renegade servers on all the nicknames we own? Or put servers up on 10 more games. It will hardly use any resources anyway and they're not in anybody's way. Does this indicate just how flawed your logic seems to me? If we don't use a server, then shut it down. If we use it, then keep it up.

At the very minimum you show a good example to other communities. If more people with a000 had done this, then the BI and TK2 server would probably have more traffic than they currently have.

[Gwynzer]

I still don't see any reason to shut down the snipe server. Yes, it's almost always empty, but even if it's just used once a year, that's better than not at all, right? It costs virtually no resources, we have no better use for the nicks, etc. Why not keep it?

It's annoying/lame with servers above us in the list have an unactive server in the list, lowering the chance for our playercount, however it is perfectly alright for us to do exactly the same, potentially damaging other communities?

That's what I'm hearing.  Maybe don't take the snipeserv offline, but at least put it onto another nick so we're not hogging topspots.  AFAIK, TK2 actually play on their ren server and have a low-ranking hostname, swap the nicks between snipe and TK2 and we still have both servers up, and there is no "topspot hogging".

[goztow]

Actually, we currently use b and snipe uses d.

[StealthEye]

Then why not put Renegade servers on all the nicknames we own? Or put servers up on 10 more games. It will hardly use any resources anyway and they're not in anybody's way. Does this indicate just how flawed your logic seems to me? If we don't use a server, then shut it down. If we use it, then keep it up.

At the very minimum you show a good example to other communities. If more people with a000 had done this, then the BI and TK2 server would probably have more traffic than they currently have.

There's nothing that will be improved if we shut it down. That's my point. The "flawed logic" you're pointing out is just the other way around of your flawed logic, that it helps making things more fair. It doesn't make it more fair, nor does it make it less fair.

It's annoying/lame with servers above us in the list have an unactive server in the list, lowering the chance for our playercount, however it is perfectly alright for us to do exactly the same, potentially damaging other communities?

I've never said those communities are lame. It's the system that is flawed, not any of the server owners. If it's not us getting the advantage, it's someone else. There's no way to avoid that, since the amount of top spots won't change. Again: the reason for not shutting it down isn't because it helps our other server in any way. I don't really believe it does anyway. There's just no reason to turn it off, and if it ain't broke don't fix it. There's no problem, why would shutting down the snipe server be a solution?

[shippo]

I would like to say that I don't see that many "new maps" servers. I sugjest that by chaning the sniper server into a new maps sever we would get more "trafic"

[EvilWhiteDragon]

We tried that/TK2 tried that. It works.... for 2 days and then it is as dead as before.

[lavakill]

You know what they say, "try try again"

[Friso1nl]

I have been talking to Stealtheye about small server things yesterday, and at one point I actually thought to myself that if the sniper server is indead used so little. Why not change it into a marathon server?

The reason for this is that some of us (including LeeumDee and I) Really like marathon servers. However, some other regulars (including the admins) like 40 minutes. So my guess is that we could try to run a Marathon server for a month to test how it works out. Possibly give it some extra modifications, like more crates (some weird ones, can think of a bunch already to be honest)

Possibly a (modified and downtuned) vet system (but that is up to the admins and not very likely)

I would like to hear your opinion (Except Friso1nl's opinion, he's a twat)

[StealthEye]

We're not going to make all kinds of modifications just to test for a month, that's way too much work. I don't think it will work out tbh, but if enough people want it I'm not against trying.

[shippo]

I'm for it 

[EvilWhiteDragon]

Marathon is indeed something we can try out. TK2 wants the server shutdown anyway, so I guess they don't mind (too much).

[cnc95fan]

How about a SCUD Storm server for the upcoming 1.3 patch

[EvilWhiteDragon]

1) are there people playing it?
2) only the slightest interest if there are no official servers and we could host the official server.

[cnc95fan]

1) are there people playing it?
2) only the slightest interest if there are no official servers and we could host the official server.

1.
There are people playing it indeed. Since we have been developing BETAs we have a few loose ends to fix before putting it on online multiplayer first. As for exact player figures, I'll post them on here in a while as it could take me a while to get an accurate number.

2.
There are no servers (due to lack of server support), never mind official servers. If you did decide to host a SCUD Storm server, we would be delighted to label you the official server - and advertise BlackIntel in whatever way we can, be it though our forums, SCUD Storm launcher etc.

[cnc95fan]

Quite hard to figure out how many people are/have played it, however;
.2 separate individuals PMd us about putting their Hamachi details on our ModDB info area, both channels are full afaik.
.At the time of writing, on ModDB, BETA 1.00 has had 932 downloads - March 6th
 1.01 has had 506 - March 16th
 1.2 has had 315 - 17th May
 We expect 1.3 to be a huge success due to many new features being (re)introduced with better gameplay and bug fixes.
.My own webspace has has over 20.4GB worth of SCUD Storm (just BETA 1.00) downloads since its release, and at 97mb/download you do the math