Hi all,

Our server ranking has dipped recently, and we have seen a decline in the number of public on our server . Does anyone have any ideas how we may encourage more public on and potentially new members? I am out of ideas . It's probably a balance between what we want to play and whats popular. Please post your suggestions.

No ORCA, calling the server "[-KBD-] Hot Titty Babes" is not an option!!



Here's some food for thought.

This is a snapshot countup of servers with more that 10 playing.



_______Ranked____AWE4 Modded
TDM_____162___________9
S&D______55___________4
HQ_______42___________0
DOM______28___________0
DM_______26___________0
SAB______23___________1
CTF______NA___________2

The Mellow Gents have exactly the same problem with a distinct lack of public players joining, Deadly Forces is the complete opposite due to only one tiny detail, all our public servers are 1.2.

I have no idea why they are so popular pretty much 24/7 but they are completely bursting full to the point that Df members have to use a private password just to get on! Having spoken to Ebola (DF Clan Leader) about it he has said that our latest patched servers are always dead and no matter what gametype he tried this didnt change.

Well that's my 20p worth, I have Copied and pasted CoD4 twice in different places on my C drive and patched each one seperately (very easy) so I have 1.2, 1.4 and 1.5 so im free to join any server no matter what the patch.

Failing that I think "Hot Titty Babes" as your title would have the same affect try it!

In discussion with kaTana we think that the reason that the server has died recently is our server has been upgraded to 1.5. We can only suspect that people dont wont to upgrade to 1.5 due to there favourite servers havent upgraded yet.

On the stats in the above post we have the following proposal. For a test we would run our server as a Team Death Match server for a couple of days to see if that can draw in some new blood, as mixed mode seems to only attract tumbleweed

Can Clan members please post to say if you agree or not.

Yeah that sounds fine to me..... would we have to go back to patch 1.4??

If we can get several people who come back again and again... hopefully they'll enter in the banter with us (abuse Eddie!) and they'll wanna join... Last night was ok when u opened shipment for TDM... seemed a few in....

It seems like the Mellow Gents are having the same problem. I suggest that we gate crash their server at lean periods. They are a good bunch of lads, and play mixed hardcore.

Some of their members have aleady been on our server and boosted our numbers (their clan tags are >Esq<. It seems only fair that we do the same for them. I'm sure that between the 2 clans, se can get a decent game going most nights.

I have tried to get onto their website, but get an "invalid ip" error. Eddie has the same problem. Those that can, please register with their forum and get the banter going. I'm sure we can arrange some good friendly matches with them in the next few weeks.

Their website is http://www.mg.euro-gamer.net/

Server Name: Mellow Gentlemen >Esq< Mixed
Server address 193.93.47.119:28961

Please add this to fav.

I think if you get enuf clan members on the server get a few to remove there tags so it looks like u have members and public playin, this way it might get more people on when they see a mixture of both playin. We did this on the BVA servers a few years ago when the numbers were low and it made a difference. Personally I like servers with more members playin but new ppeople to FPS cud be put of.