I can't help but question what we are doing wrong.

[THE__DRIFTER]

After trying in many facets to bring traffic to our server; both with standard maps and with customs downloaded here; what are we doing wrong? Opinions please as I am at whits end on what to do to make us popular. Ideas and recommendations would be appreciated. Currently there is only 5 maps running; all custom maps from here. Suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Void]

Use very well-known good customs.

Or wait 'til the next update and use the new maps, those are always Server-fillers.

 

[Icarus]

It's difficult, but you need to get yourself a good base of regulars. Socialize with your players, add them to your friends, don't run large maps, etc.

 

[THE__DRIFTER]

Thanks for the move. I put all our members on notice as I am tired of supporting a useless community. I really believe in supporting things here and since I am the admin of our group and very dismayed I will be dropping things there and looking for a new place to be. I really want and need to be involved in a community that wants to get involved and it seems that the one I created doesn't fit in. Where can I go......

 

[captainAngry]

http://gaming.calculatedchaos.com

I'm the only admin of our community. We keep things lively and you can always find at least a few people online.

 

[Icarus]

Depends where you live, mostly.

 

[Altaco]

The thing is, this community spends more time mapping than actually playing tf2 for the most part. To build regulars for a server, it needs to have people in it a good portion of the time which apart from gamedays, ours hardly ever does.

 

[The Political Gamer]

Let me give you a breakdown of 2f2f as an example...

We have 4196 number of registered users.

Only 2,633 are in the Steam Group. (required for viewing the forums)

About~~ 1,000 or so are on the server every so often.

Only about~~ 300 or so are active members on the forums.

In conclusion, despite the appearance of having over 4,000 members in reality we only have about 300 "real" members.

 

[drp]

this.

you need to have a large group or a small of dedicated members to start a server.

 

[Galago]

I run both a clan and a server at once, so I always have easy access to people who'll help me start up my server. The interesting thing is, I just need ~3 people; we get a small game started, as and soon as I know it, my server's brimming with people. Oh yeah, and I run a fully vanilla server: no customs here bub.

EDIT: Ah, sorry, didn't see the post date on this one.