Abunch of empty servers and 1-2 full ones, lets try to change that

[Arghy]

So i havent been playing as much mostly due to work, school and the CTD problems but i always tried to get in a few sessions a day if only to contribute a report if i crashed. Lately i cant friggin play because theres 1-2server full and a ton empty, i tried joining another server and waiting to see if anyone wants to join but that hasent been working. We need some sort of lobby(suggest a steam group as its worked wonders for alien swarm) where we can chill in and see if theres just no one else on or theres a ton of people on not wanting to join a server and wait for others.

We also need to begin advertising more--i'll hit up penny-arcade or just bump the thread there but i'm banned from SA so someone go rally supporters there. The more players we got the better the feedback for the devs.

*forgot to add, some times your friends have seen the game but never really looked at it--GO YELL AT THEM AND SPREAD THE WORD*

[Arghy]

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3381403

Thats the SA thread go post positive things about how awesome the game is and how we need new players, i'll edit this with the PA one once i find it.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=95954

The PA thread--free to register and post so be sure to spread positive feedback about the game there. I'm shit at creating OP's so if someone wants to spend some time creating a new thread dedicated to MWLL instead of that abomination thread they should create one.

I played eve for nearly 2 years in goonfleet, mass recruiting works so spread that glorious propaganda and revive my casual MWLL sessions!

[Taemien]

If someone's got an active WoW account, advertise over on their forums. They're pretty active.

[(TLL)Siilk]

 Are you sure we need WoW crowd in MWLL?

[=CJW= Rad Hanzo]

We will take any blood that is willing to succumb to the bad voodoo of mechmysteries xDDD

[Taemien]

Are you sure we need WoW crowd in MWLL?

Can't be worse then the average FPS gamer.

I've been on WoW Voicechat before. Its much much tamer and coherent then you'll ever hear on Halo or COD.

[Warhammer WHM-6R]

Also i would assume that the average WoW player is a bit more patient than the FPS player and willing to learn the game instead of just flaming better players and rage quiting. Sometimes when I am in game some of the conversations going on are just childishly vulgar and uncool :/

Makes me sad that such an awesome game and dedicated BT fanbase can attract that kind of self absorbed lunatic. *very very very sad face*

[edit]:
It would be good to spread out our players on more servers because that will teach us more skills and will also be easier on newer players. If the skill level is too high or being stomped by other team while learning to twist your torso? Just go to another server.

[Slacksby]

The other thing that could help with this is if we stayed clear of those 32 slot servers that just can't handle a full load of players. I know it's fun to get into a large scale all out brawl, but it quickly loses its shine once ballistics stop registering hits and fbombs fall as duds in the sand. It's funny, you'll read a bunch of complaints in chat about the server not being able to handle it, but then the same crew lineup to login and fill it back up again instead of spreading themselves over the better performing servers.

I'd say that I'd happily boycott them and vow to only login to the 24-28 slot servers, but the reality is all the action ends up congregating to the biggest server anyways, and it gets old seeing 32/32, 24/24, and 3/24 in the server list. I'll get my fix anyway I can and unfortunately that means following the crowds.

[SquareSphere }12thVR{]

I agree on the 32 slot servers.  I know of maybe 1 or 2 that could handle it but they're generally not the ones populated so I avoid them when I can.

[(TLL)KitLightning]

Having it at 24 slots is the maximum I'd go for, if it needs to run at an acceptable level. Though even when this is capped out the server may act in an unpredictable way and cause issues like TBolts not dealing damage or absurd amounts of negated NARC's.

[IG142]

Completely agree, we need players spread out more. Personally I can't play in 32 player servers very well because of my framerate, but even aside from that the servers usually don't handle it well either. Towards the late game hits stop registering all over the place. The other day I traded AC20 fire between my Demolisher and an enemy's for 1-2 minutes with no damage to either of us, and another time I expended about 3 tons of MRM40 ammo from a Mauler D with no hits registered.

I prefer below 20 myself, but 24 would probably be a good round number. This was the maximum before 0.4, was it not?

[(TLL)KitLightning]

TLL experienced to many crashes and bad connections on our 32 slot servers so we went for 24 slots instead, I can't recall when we moved to a lower number. Though I think that even 24 slots may be to great for Crysis Wars, that I do see the servers behaving odd at times when they are capped out. It is also map/client depended that some maps may run smoothly on 32 slots while other maps run poorly even on 24 slots.

[Taemien]

Run them at 16, 18, or 20 instead?

[LordHack]

TLL experienced to many crashes and bad connections on our 32 slot servers so we went for 24 slots instead, I can't recall when we moved to a lower number. Though I think that even 24 slots may be to great for Crysis Wars, that I do see the servers behaving odd at times when they are capped out. It is also map/client depended that some maps may run smoothly on 32 slots while other maps run poorly even on 24 slots.

It boggles me why some continue to run 32 slots when issues are glaringly apparent.... but they do....

[Toth]

We'll be looking into server crashes with a finer tooth comb soon. Its not an easy problem to solve I"m afraid.