Late yesterday I moved our #1 server from NY/NJ to an undisclosed location and I'm very happy to report it did extremely well. It filled up quickly and stayed relatively full until an early morning crash emptied us out.
We also had far more brand new people connecting than with any other location. Please remember to be friendly, helpful and make folks feel at home, this will be the most important feature that can separate us from the other 7, 000 BF3 servers out there. You cam here and stuck here because someone was nice to you and you enjoyed playing in our server, so please pass that forward.
I expect a large number of servers to drop out in the next month, and we want as much traffic as possible, and the opportunity to welcome new people and make new friends.
The new server, like most others unfortunately, can get a little rubberbandy when full, but it is certainly playable and I'm working on the lag with our Host. Tehran is laggy on every server regardless of the player count, but the map is fun anyway.
OK, I finally had a chance to set up the TS Plugin for our new server, in the secret location.... Setting up that plugin and getting it to talk back and forth with our TS server is a giant pain in the ass, but it should be working now. It will have all players in the same channel until 10 total are in the TS server then it will split you into two team channels.
For the moment I have disabled the squad functionality because I have to set the threshold too low. This is because this plugin has not been updated for a server as large as 64 players, consequently it forces people into squad channels at a lower threshold than I would prefer. Once he fixes this I will set a "break into squads" threshold around 18-22 players.
I strongly encourage folks to get into squads regardless of our plugin or TS.
Hopefully we can get going quickly and have a busy day today. I have been successful lowering the start threshold, so you can hop in and run around, learn the maps and so forth with just 2 players.
Thank you to each and every one of you folk primarily playing in our server, and particularly thank you to the folks who spend a lot of time in there getting it started in the mornings and after crashes.
Take care folks,
-- Cain
We also had far more brand new people connecting than with any other location. Please remember to be friendly, helpful and make folks feel at home, this will be the most important feature that can separate us from the other 7, 000 BF3 servers out there. You cam here and stuck here because someone was nice to you and you enjoyed playing in our server, so please pass that forward.
I expect a large number of servers to drop out in the next month, and we want as much traffic as possible, and the opportunity to welcome new people and make new friends.
The new server, like most others unfortunately, can get a little rubberbandy when full, but it is certainly playable and I'm working on the lag with our Host. Tehran is laggy on every server regardless of the player count, but the map is fun anyway.
OK, I finally had a chance to set up the TS Plugin for our new server, in the secret location.... Setting up that plugin and getting it to talk back and forth with our TS server is a giant pain in the ass, but it should be working now. It will have all players in the same channel until 10 total are in the TS server then it will split you into two team channels.
For the moment I have disabled the squad functionality because I have to set the threshold too low. This is because this plugin has not been updated for a server as large as 64 players, consequently it forces people into squad channels at a lower threshold than I would prefer. Once he fixes this I will set a "break into squads" threshold around 18-22 players.
I strongly encourage folks to get into squads regardless of our plugin or TS.
Hopefully we can get going quickly and have a busy day today. I have been successful lowering the start threshold, so you can hop in and run around, learn the maps and so forth with just 2 players.
Thank you to each and every one of you folk primarily playing in our server, and particularly thank you to the folks who spend a lot of time in there getting it started in the mornings and after crashes.
Take care folks,
-- Cain
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