Server Size Reduction?

What if there's more than 120 people online?

 

Not what I'm saying. What if there's more than 120 people online, on either ctf 1, ctf 2, or ctf 3? It's gotten close to/surpassed that before on Free Friday.

 

Ohh that's what you're saying. Sorry that wasn't clear to me when I read your post the first time around.

I'm not sure what I think about that. It might raise potential scheduling issues with practices or official/unofficial matches since whether or not one of the match servers would be opened wouldn't be a sure thing. But I haven't been very active in teams for a long time so I don't know how many teams actually schedule events on Fridays.

I agree, they would. I completely get that frustration of having only one server with more than 5 people on it while there's 50+ online, since that's what happens almost every single day. It's especially annoying when (as you said) the one popular server is full and you can't join it, leaving you stuck on the empty server hoping for 6 people to join it and stay there for 1 minute so that a game can start.

My reservations aside I think slightly lowering the server size from 50 to 40 per game would be a great way to keep this from happening.

Just realized I'd suggested the same thing almost a year ago.

 

The "super secret server" is used as a second match server. It's used when the match server is occupied and another event/practice/match is scheduled. As Admiral said, opening it or using the official match server on Fridays has the possibility to interfere with matches, practices, or events.

 

So you are saying they should change the size because you can't join full servers? That is exactly why people buy ranks, if you change this noone will buy a rank!

 

I have friends with mvp that log of for me <3 @Gowrbehmunk

 

Not really, because it's easier for a server to be full if its maximum player amount is 40. Currently, it's either you play a full and unenjoyable game (crowded flagrooms), or play a very small, less exciting game. Lowering it to 40 would fix the problem, since the maps would be less crowded, and servers would be more evened up.

 

You're not really seeing Daniellll's point here. The fact that players would be annoyed playing an empty game would be an incentive for them to buy a rank to join a full game. If we were to lower the maximum server size, we would start cutting into Brawl's profits.

 

Similarly to what I said, it's a lot easier to reach the player limit, so ranks could be used for joining full servers more easily. The current maximum server size is not reached every time of the day, and lowering the maximum server size would potentially increase the time that there is at least one full CTF server. It doesn't ruin the incentive of people buying ranks to join a full game imo.

Even if it might decrease the need to buy ranks to join a full game, I don't think that lowering the maximum server size would cut into Brawl's profits. Joining full servers are not the only perks a CTF rank provides. They can still switch teams, and access certain classes, which are, in my opinion, the perks that are more recognized and useful.

 

I'm not really sure how much money brawl is going to save doing this, so I can't really see the point in me having an opinion on it. If reducing the slots (until we need them) saves a significant amount of money, then of course it's worth doing, but that all depends on the server pricing structure. I don't have any idea what that pricing structure is, so I can't really comment.

 

or 1 server with no playerlimit ;D

 

nuuu plz i needz to farm ma caps

 

I personally plus one this idea, but like @kevshadowslayer and @Proterozoic said, be careful with the prices. +1

This would be good, too.

 

Heyy anytime bud @Kriz

 

rest in **** for false ban @Gowrbehmunk

Besides that, I do sort of agree with this here, but as everyone stated above we'd end up losing profit, which would farther decrease the possibility of adding more servers in the future. Though, if we can somehow manage to keep people intrigued into the perks of ranks, and have it so that there is something like 2 full games with less people, and 1 server left over that is completely empty. I would love this since I think maybe most of us can agree that the map rotation isn't the best at the moment, and some may just want to play a different map then the one that was played like 3 times in a row.