Reduction in Servers.

We always drop in player count during the school year. When summer comes, we normally get a surge of new players, making the 7-12 servers needed. It'll be summer before you know it

 

There used to be twenty servers believe it or not. During the summer, there was a point when all had over 30+ people.

 

I think that we should have servers 7-12 disabled through the winter, when the activity drops considerably, but to reactivate them around mid spring, when the huge influx of players occur. I don't know much about servers, but I think that would be more cost effective than keeping six mostly unused servers around.

man, those were the days.

 

When I started playing War, all servers were full, specially the 1-5 (always full) and also the server 6-14 (yes, 14 servers before) had 30 players. I don't know what happened. With Party, when it came out, Party had 22 servers, all almost full, and war lose it members. And also in my opinion, I think War becomes rotten because of some players. They don't care about playing, sometimes some players tell me that they are better than me because they have a better KDR than us, but I don't care, they don't think that I and I think so many other player, are playing for fun, we don't care about our score, everything we want are the funny moments that we have with the friend (or something better). But some players don't understand this way.
They don't love our way of doing play. They don't understand. That's maybe why War lose so many players who are playing other server or made their "outro".
They just deleted 2 servers, I don't know why. And also they was a other parkour which it was really great.

To conclude, I think War becomes rotten because of what I said.

 

I don't play war anymore but I disagree. What sig said pretty much sums it up.

 

I agree with @jkzoom and @Striker_Sly.

If the number of players is predictable why not reduce the number of servers in the winter months and then expand for summer.

My impression is that a cost/benefit analysis would show it would save money in the long run.

 

Yes but occasionally we get bursts of new plays; if we reduce the servers by half, although the remaining servers would all have players, most servers would be full. A much easier way to reduce lag and cost is to lower the player capacity of all the servers, so servers like server 1 don't have 50+ players.

 

Maybe we just have 10 servers.

 

One year ago, there were 14 servers. Now 12, and I totally agree with you.

 

Just like how some food items in restaurants are only available during breakfast/lunch/dinners. Thus the server would save more money leading up to reducing the cost of donor weapons, then finally leading up to them being more giveaways where I can acquire them all MUAHAHAHA

 

but in all truthfulness I agree with @jkzoom

 

I personally like to have some empty servers. It makes room if you want to 1v1 and also makes room for bug testing withough altering other players game play.

 

I think that as many said that the servers 7 to 12 should be disabled during the school year but enabled during summer.

 

Agreed

 

I started what 2012? Or 2011 on war but moved to warz