• Registered: 2009-01-20
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Topic: Nobody on servers!

Is there anybody on Servers at night?
In France, there is nobody on morning and nobody on afternoon!
Maybe you have to tell everybody to go on servers!

Excellent mod guys! Continue!

  • SamZi
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Re: Nobody on servers!

It tends to get quiet during the week sometime after a new patch release. I've never seen a populated server before GMT 16. So try a few hours after that and you'll have more luck finding a populated server. It would be great if everyone used Game-Monitor to check server population. It's quick and easy, just add this to your bookmarks:
http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php? … l&pg=1

Wish we could have some sort of agreement on when to populate a server. We can gather heaps of players for the Community Games so this could work. Say, have everyone populate a server between 17-18 GMT. It seems that people take a long time to start the game to see if there's anyone on and (this is especially true to new players) when they see no populated servers, they start to think there really are no players on, ever. This is not true but when things get quiet, more and more people start giving up thinking "oh bugger it there won't be any players anyway."

  • Gwynzer
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Re: Nobody on servers!

The main problem is that players and more specifically, clans, havent been POPULATING servers when empty.  This was not a problem a while ago, DS and RT would regularly populate one or the other server to get games going, however RT have recently lost a couple of members to other games (such as Call of Duty), and I have been to busy to poke my fellow DSers to play.  Once a server is populated, however, games tend to start up pretty quickly.

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4 Reply by Marc Shepard (edited by Marc Shepard 2009-01-21 11:51:49)

  • Registered: 2009-01-20
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Re: Nobody on servers!

Game-monitor is nice but in "mod/expansion", there isn't First Strike!
I think my english is bad, please, try to understand me and I'll try to have English lessons!

When are you on Servers? What time? Because i've fid something to see the time in US or everywhere... I don't know how o say it in English so...
Thanks!

  • SamZi
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Re: Nobody on servers!

Uh... Those ARE the First Strike servers. You don't have to change anything.

  • Registered: 2009-01-20
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Re: Nobody on servers!

There are less than 20 FS servers!
And i didn't said that there are no servers! I said that nobody play!

  • Gwynzer
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Re: Nobody on servers!

No point in having lots of servers when there are few people playing on the current ones.  Jump ingame, get others to join you, join a "known" server (RougeTribe, WOLFGaming DSGaming, or the RSF 16p server for very slow days) and soon enough people will start to join, it just takes a little time and patience.

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