We're lacking servers for people to play on!

[Caribou]

I just realized this. For the past few hours ever since we've been purchasable on Steam - there has been a rising amount of new players, and about 700 have been playing in servers on average for the past hour or two now. A concern is that there aren't many servers available. I have seen 200-250 servers online, and a lot of the good servers are full. The ratio of players to servers isn't looking too good, but I think this could be fixed by us trying to put good servers online and upping the player limit in our servers.

What do you guys think?

[Ad Bot]

[DrenDran]

Less than half of the servers even have one person on them.
I think we're fine.

[Caribou]

Less than half of the servers even have one person on them.
I think we're fine.

I didn't think of this. I also just thought of this: it would help if you could see the picture preview of the server on the server list before you join, so that way players can know what they wanna play or not.

[Rav£ncroft]

I just put my Falling Tiles up for the first time in months. Already got 35 people.

[Caribou]

I just put my Falling Tiles up for the first time in months. Already got 35 people.

Holy crap, how long did it take you to get your first player? Normally, it'd take people 5-10 minutes during the day.

[DarkStride]

during the day.

Theres your problem. Most of us have school or work.

[Conan]

i'll go quickly set up a Snowcliff TDM server.

[nixton]

I honestly think that BL being released on Steam was a true opportunity for servers to gain more players not like the old days where a host had to sit on the server for like an hour, waiting, so hopefully a player would join. But right now, I'm seeing a lot of new folks on various types of servers, so I really don't think that we are lacking in servers for people to join and play on.

[Bisjac]

you guys need to not be making so many generic hangout freebuilds right now.

get specific with your game titles and have a purpose.
the new people can understand what an unfinished server is and will be OK with that. but don't let them be forced to visit the spammy "nothing" servers.

I promise you that a server called "new players learn to play" or something would fill up with the new guys quickly.
many of them seem to be struggling with hosting dead ping servers for themselves.

[KickFlow]

Holy crap, how long did it take you to get your first player? Normally, it'd take people 5-10 minutes during the day.

a good third of them is racerboy multiclienting.

[hodot]

my boulder dash is getting buried

welp i'm finished

[DrumStix]

Once I get my AirRace finished, I could have a few players... But who knows how long that will be with no helpers.

[Blake1]

gonna host a little simon says for about an hour

anyone up for the challenge?

[Bisjac]

then don't host a game that you only join a game mode. host something that will have them building.

[Greek2me]

I can get a dogfight server online by tomorrow. I need to study for finals tonight.


Edit: Somebody set up a trench TDM porfavor