Ditto can be said of the Lambda... shame it's often hard to actually find this "one person".

Well...I'm here now.

People definitely seem to join when there's someone hanging around on a server. Sometimes it just ramps up exponentially until there's a full on battle going.

Anyway, I just started the game in windowed mode and joined a server. Now I'm doing something else until someone joins. I suggest this as a strategy for luring players to a server.

I really do hope that this mod survives! I still think Galactic Conquest was one of the coolest games ever and would still play it now if it was still alive. Though it is said that this game is not Galactic Conquest II, it seems to me that everything that made me love Galactic Conquest is also present in First Strike plus nicer graphics and new stuff. So I can't wait to get started.

Try to look at it this way: A sentinel landing craft only needs one person to actually fly; from that point on, the more the merrier.

Ditto can be said of the Lambda... shame it's often hard to actually find this "one person".

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All I'll say (at risk of death from Talon!) is this:

There is more than just jundland.

I know it's a cliche, but just hang in there. We have things ticking along although if I'm honest it is at a much slower rate due to the loss of so many team members over the past months. I realise its been a long wait but we are trying to complete this next release as quickly as we can.

It is much more fun than sitting on a server playing Mos Espa fighting over the same areas we've been fighting at for over a year while sitting in hope that an Unknown will join the server and be decent.

Mos Espa is a pain, even more so without vehicles sprinkled in.

The main thing that keeps me coming however, is star wars. That's the main reason I like this game. And I think the main problem is, that there are not enough enthusiastic (read: fanatic) SW  fans that play bf2142. But then again, for a star wars and FPS fan like me, this is a dream come true.

That's what I love First Strike for, too. Commercial SW games have a tendency to try to shoehorn as much of the films into the games, from quotes to battles to characters, and this often damages gameplay.

First Strike just aims to recreate the locales as authentically as possible, knowing that the "film moments" will then come naturally.

But we have populated the servers so many times, and trust me, even though four players is a start, after playing with that amount for MONTHS, you get mad at how much time you wasted for nothing. TWICE only have I seen over 40 players.

Anyway, next month I'll be available to play FS. I'm working on a project and my "Play Only Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Nothing Else" phase is at it's end.

FS is too different from what people are used to in the way the game works.  BF players try capping non-linked CPs, new players fail utterly in combat because our guns are fairly inaccurate until you learn how it's used properly.  By that time, they've usually already quit because of empty servers or they are sick of being owned.
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This is where I blame the player. I started Bf2142 pretty late, and got owned over and over before I learned to play, started to know the maps and got unlocks. Now I'm in top 5 all the time. It takes patience, and that is something that players don't seem to have. They just want to come in and kick everyone's a**. That's not how life works.

I understand that empty servers are problem, but this is partially a loop thing. If you don't get in on empty server, other players stay out from there. It gets situation where there are people waiting for others to show up. I've noticed this many time. Servers are empty for a long time, and when I get in, suddenly there are three players with me. I agree that 4 players is not much, but it's a start.

The main thing that keeps me coming however, is star wars. That's the main reason I like this game. And I think the main problem is, that there are not enough enthusiastic (read: fanatic) SW  fans that play bf2142. But then again, for a star wars and FPS fan like me, this is a dream come true.

Vehicle maps all require large amounts of players. Half the vehicle maps are also unbalanced in some form another (tanks not being equal, terrain giving the advantage to one team). Space isn't fun with 4 players - the only space map I enjoy with small players is Yavin, which still causes crashes for a large amount of FS players.

That, and the people who play FS regularly are now really good, and most of us are sick of playing with the same people over and over. And it's no fun going "easy" (Going easy = REALLY EASY, and vets still end up winning without trying that hard) on the newbies.  FS is too different from what people are used to in the way the game works.  BF players try capping non-linked CPs, new players fail utterly in combat because our guns are fairly inaccurate until you learn how it's used properly.  By that time, they've usually already quit because of empty servers or they are sick of being owned.

FS has a lot of variety, but variety doesn't always mean good.  There is little in FS which has been properly designed for small playercounts, a trend that is continuing.   You've been gone for 10 months, in that 10 months we've basically been playing the same few maps (none from later versions than 1.2 I believe) almost over and over, injecting one of the worse ones into the rotation for a taste of something different, with basically the same people all the time. Even with such amazing gameplay, under these conditions, things get boring pretty quickly.

I've been playing on totally different maps recently which are more suitable for low numbers of players, and even though there are just a few of us at it. It is much more fun than sitting on a server playing Mos Espa fighting over the same areas we've been fighting at for over a year while sitting in hope that an Unknown will join the server and be decent.

Also, many of the clans that were playing First Strike have moved onto BF:BC2.  Much more fun than sitting on an empty server.

I do love this mod, and would love to see more people playing.  I feel I've done more than enough to try get more people playing though, so I'm not going to contribute much more to it without knowing there will actually be some decent results from trying.

There is also big amount of maps already in this mod, and with big variety. Space maps and land maps with big variety of vehicles (more than in bf2142). Regular maps and push maps. Different terrains, weathers, visibility etc... I honestly do not understand why there's not more players on servers. For my taste this mod is simply perfect.