[cod] Attracting Players and a Request

[Daniel M. Temme]

Hi there,

Jeff Abbott wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> My server has been sitting ridiculously idle for the past couple of
> weeks (since I jumped to CoD:UO from vanilla CoD, actually) and I was
> wondering what other people's thoughts were on what attracts players? 
> Obviously ping and responsiveness are important and my machine is on a
> very fast connection and has enough horsepower to keep at least 6
> people playing comfortably which is 6 more than it's been seeing. 
> Beyond that, though, I'd be interested in hearing if people have found
> any patterns or criteria of their most popular servers.

As far as I can tell, a lot of people seem to use favourites. I.e. once 
they liked your server they are likely to come back. The best way to 
initially get people playing is to not have the server at 0 players. 
Most people seem to filter out empty servers so it's kind of a hen/egg 
problem.

I never did anything to promote any of my (few) servers but after a 
while of having the server running steadily I always seemed to grow a 
base of regular players.

It's actually quite funny. We ban a lot of people without too much 
reason by way of habit and by way of doing justice to our domain name 
but that never seemed to have hurt the popularity of the server(s).

Have a nice day
Daniel