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The Blockland Theory - A look into the game.
The Brighter Dark:
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Operator¹:
you should work on your grammar
Jam_Jar:
--- Quote from: CharlesSpeaking on July 16, 2013, 05:24:02 PM ---if there's a server called "slaveland" with some players, people will be curious on what exactly it is and how it got the players
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Both ANT and I have the same thing though? When we host a server with purpose like a TDM or project, the server is nearly completely ignored. Only the odd few players will appear but other than that, it's just us two a few friends.
But as soon as we just put a silly name or most of the time just "Server" it gets so much attention. ANT has had a server completely full when it had 0 bricks and was called "Serber". It doesn't make sense ;-;
One thing that does boost the amount of people that join a server can be topics on the forums and getting the word around. Maybe not for those one time servers but for established ideas that you plan to keep on rolling it can do a great deal of good.
Conan:
ok to comment on that
i host tdm's and stuff and they don't always get players. but once I hosted a server named "Art-titecture" and people came along and freebuilt and stuff and it was a nice chat server while we build small things.
i would correlate server popularity with two factors: how many players are there right now, and the name of the server. Name of the server goes above how many people there is in the server. In addition BLID may play a role in people deciding whether or not to join a server, as well as previous experiences in it.
this would explain why servers like Bones4's Titanic quickly gets so many players, and also why servers like Tezuni's have so many players. Players know that these servers either 1) have something really interesting to look at or 2) have something fun (or not) to do. Nobody joins a server where they don't expect anything to happen, to catch their attention or pique their curiosity or motivate them to build.
Badger:
Oh no! No one is on blockland because of vacations in the summer and a bunch of people playing their new steam games!