No-one on our server

[FrEnZy]

I think we need to find out what changed, we used to have players on there, and for me it's one of the best pinging servers around.

[Tutonic]

We need to make more of an effort to 'seed' the server in the evenings - nobody's going to join our server if they see it completely empty.

I for one will be pestering people to join me on our server if I fancy a game, instead of just dissapearing into someone elses public server.

[Gone_Away]

A a member of the community I'm dismayed by a few things..

1. Only one admin and one public admin have bothered to comment on what is clearly an important situation. If a Senior Admin like Blunt expresses something like he has, it's a recognition of a serious issue. I would have expected a detailed response from the Game Leader. Almost 48 hours has passed and not a peep.

2. Are the BC2 admins listening to the community? Suggestions have been made to remove the FF, put in a mixed rotation. It seems that it takes ages for the TGL and the BC2 admins to deliberate and make changes. When changes are made (I believe FF was taken off tonight?) there is no clear communication of the change and acknowlegement back to the community.

3. "Community night" again, are the admins listening? Several folks including one of the BC2 public admins have mentioned that Friday is not a good night.. Shouldn't the community have been asked? A simple poll thread could have sufficed.

As Pen has stated.. Kill or Cure. Do we have the Cure or do we let the game slip away?

NF

[kregoron]

Remove HC mode tag and FF. (we saw the other night that people actually joined if removed, sadly it reverted back to be listed as HC and no more joined)

Mixed Mixed Mixed Mixed Mixed!

[GhostMjr]

At the LAN we had a long discussion about BC2 and an agenda was posted up on this forum.

A whole host of positives negatives and ways to push forward the game were discussed.

The minutes of this meeting will be published and everyone will see what was talked about and what will be moved forward now that the bc2 admin section has been put back up i can get my version put up then checked and then published.

Overall the section is working well for a game that is changing almost everyweek.

We have a community and yes we are getting games going look at last night for instance.

If individuals want to play individually i can't stop them , some join TS some don't its their choice where they play not mine.

All i can do is provide a server that is for the good of the community and a meeting place.

At the meeting the Friday Night community night was discussed and we are going to continue with this after working out what we can and cannot do.

We are now in a position to relaunch this and this was going to be done last week but this week is perfect as last week cs clashed with it.

I have been in chats with multiplay who aren't the easiest or quickest people to get hold of this week and finally have a way to switch ff off.

If anyone of a number of settings are set to true or 1 then the server will show as hardcore.

Now that i know what to change i can edit the server config to do just that so it doesn't as hardcore or ff on and will draw players in.

Currently there is NO way of running two game modes simultaneously unless we use a third party tool which i was going to ask one of my bc2 admins to look into as multiplay doesn't support it.

Polls have been cast before for community night and friday won by a landslide so thats what went forward: http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?30574-What-is-your-preferred-night-for-bc2

In all the game is in a trial if it works we'll keep it if it doesn't we will improve the way we run it or it will be pulled and this was discussed at the open forum meeting at the lan.

[kregoron]

heres a bit about HC listing

A server is marked as "hardcore" either when Friendly Fire is  enabled,  or when all the typical hardcore settings (hardcore, killcam, minimap,  damage, hud etc)  have been flipped

and if i recall the settings correctly

vars.hardCore (true or false) (default false)
vars.teamBalance (true or false) (default true)
vars.miniMap (true or false) (default true)
vars.crossHair (true or false) (default true)
vars.3dSpotting (true or false) (default true)
vars.miniMapSpotting (true or false) (default true)
vars.thirdPersonVehicleCameras (true or false) (default true)
vars.killCam (true or false)         (default true)

friendly needs to be off.

[Ranger]

Hello all!

I finally ahve a machine capable of playing BFBC2 - so tell me, what is the best night to catch you chaps online?

All the best - Ranger

[Tutonic]

Hi Ranger,

Friday is our official community night, but you'll find someone playing most week-nights.