Another thing to note is that currently First Strike doesn't seem to handle really heavily populated servers that well at the moment. Anything over 30+ players, particularly in a space map like Battle of Yavin or a vehicle heavy map like Ryloth and (for me at least) the game has a tendancy to grind to a halt when the lasers start flying. I've found that around 20+ people in a server provides me with the best games, it doesn't get too laggy and there are still enough people to have epic battles.

That said, if the server ran smooth for me with nearly 60 players in there? I would jump at the chance to have  a scrap on that scale, but I just don't think the game/server/or my machine performs well enough to achieve that.

As Imperial pointed out, both DS and RT servers were well populated last night.

Ours didn't go much over 10 players at any time. It was rather dull. I didn't feel like playing much with so few players and overall played a bit over an hour. With both servers combined we could've got to 30+ players.

Remember when we had to organise community games to get 15 people together? Those were the days...

yup good times

I suggest we start playing on our server (64 slots) mainly in the weekend instead of RogueTribe (24 slots) as there will be more players but probably not enough to fill 2 servers. We might even consider turning off FF if the RT'ers can't stand it. Take into account that all the clan games will be played with FF on (if there would be any!)

I disagree. Keep things just as they are.

As Imperial pointed out, both DS and RT servers were well populated last night. I believe that's because we both stuck to our respective servers to get them populated. We've known for some time that there are sufficient regular players out there to populate multiple servers, but many of them appear to reluctant to join a server that's not already populated. We gave them a choice of 2 servers up and running last night, and they took both choices. That's nothing but good news!

I like playing with SamZi, Gwynzer and the rest of the DS crew, but I'm happy to forgo to pleasure if it means we end up with more players overall. There are other advantages, too; Samzi won't be able to steal my kills and gold stars if we're on different servers!