To be honest although there might be some truth in what your all saying a server will really only get popular if it's run correctly. If you have good admins that don't take the piss "admin abuse" and a good bunch of people that have a good laugh it doesn't matter what the IP is as long as people enjoy the games played on it. I ran a community server for over two and a half years, it was always busy we ended up with 3 servers in the end, now its even busier today than it ever was. If you get on your server, manage it right i.e.. "not every good player is a hacker" try and stop people whinging about such matters people will return time and time again. I'm more than sure everyone has there favourite place to play some like custom maps so like freaky mods, some like bog standard but enjoy the game play, Welcome people, manage it well and they will come!
----- Original Message ----- From: "element5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 7:43 PM Subject: RE: [hlds] players My server is .86 and traffic is non-existent now. I queried the top 20 servers and found most of them below .25 for last octet. Also, it seems if you run on the default port of 27015 your server shows up quicker in the list. >Message: 6 >From: "John A DeNArdo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [hlds] players >Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:04:41 -0400 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >My IP`S for the server are 64.179.89.100:27016 and 27015 > > > seems to be semmie low no ??? > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "TMRh20 ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:22 PM >Subject: RE: [hlds] players > > >> I'm willing to bet that the last digit in your ip addy is above .. lets >say >> 150 or so... the server listings load in an order determined by the last >> digit of your ip address. SO say ur ip address ends with the number 1. You >> will have a full server 24/7. Guaranteed. Sounds lame but its true. I had >> the same problem when I went from a x.x.x.5 ip to a x.x.x.135 or something >> ... BIG BIG difference in the amount of players. Hope this helps :p >> >> >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >From: "John A DeNArdo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 6:49 AM >> >Subject: [hlds] players >> > >> > >> >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >> >-- >> >[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] >> >Hi all, I have 2 counter-strike servers running on a dedicated T1 >line,one >> >has the wc3 mod,and the other is just counter-strike. The problem I am >> >having is that no one seems to ever join the server. Is there a way to >draw >> >players in ? I have all the latist maps and lots of the old ones, I try >> >changing the map cycle to what I think are maps that people like to >> >play,but >> >still verry small amout of newcomers. I have a clan called The [DAM]CLAN >> >there are around 15 of us and we are all over 35. We have regular games >> >agenst eachother one Sun. and Wen. nights for one hr long each. we do not >> >put a pass on, and still no one seems to join. I have played Cstrike >since >> >it was first out, when 200 servers was a lot, now there are a ton of >them, >> >are there just to many to chose from now. when there were just a few,my >> >servers were full all the time. >> >Should I just give up on runnig them,or dose someone have a anser ?? >> > >> > Thanks >> > [DAM]DARKSTAR >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Add photos to your e-mail with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* >> >http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht tp://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
