We just did that this past week, after being on the same ips for almost 2 years... It sucks but definitely put the word out as far ahead as you can. And people are not always smart enough to connect to ips so we put on a reserved slot redirection plugin that had the number of slots as full server so it would immediately ask someone to move to the new server with the little redirect F3 message.
One of the harder things has actually been getting the community to put the effort in to getting the servers started, people want to pub so much they wont commit the time. But in the end if you run good servers your population should recover, weve changed ips almost 5 times across 5 years now and every time it sucked but we have only grown bigger and better. Alec Sanger wrote: > it sucks, but (almost) everyone has to do it at some point... > > What we did was announce the new IP a couple weeks before making the move. If > possible, keep the new server as well as the old server up for a week or so. > Change the name of the old server to "<Community> HAS MOVED TO <IP>". Add all > of your regulars to your friends list, and ensure that you keep in contact > with as many people as possible. If you have a community group, make sure to > post multiple announcements about the move. > > You'll definitely lose a bunch, but you should rebound quickly if you do it > right. > > Thank you, > Alec Sanger > P: 248.941.3813 > F: 313.286.8945 > > > > >> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:56:28 -0500 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [hlds] Anyone with active servers move to new IP addresses? >> >> Looking to get thoughts from people with the experience of moving their game >> server(s) to a new IP. >> >> Specifically I'm concerned about the effect on your community and on your >> server popularity. >> >> Discuss! >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live™ Hotmail®:…more than just e-mail. > http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_more_042009 > _______________________________________________ > 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
