Possible Idea.

[Linvill]

So,

Basically just going to ask you guys a question.

How would you Feel if we had a Fun server if u will.

Basically A server where we play on custom maps when the Pub Is full.

Just going to start a mini Thread on this.

Hit Me up with Ur ideas THought and Concenrs.

Then once i have collected all the data. I will make my Pitch to the Command Staff.

So Lets hear it 1st MRB and Bar.

And yes i know i can not spell.

Cpl. J. Linvill

Auto Master.

[Magoo]

I think that your heart is in the right place but it is a bad idea nonetheless.

When the pub is strong enough that you have to wait to get into it on a regular basis and it doesn't die overnight, think about pitching this idea again. Right now there is still work that needs to be done with the pub rank. If you introduced a gun game server or a custom map server the pub would die. Even if you monitored the pub to make sure that it didn't drop below a certain number of players you would still only get a map or two in on the "fun" server before the pub was dead and you had to shut it down. That would make the "fun" server a bad investment.

A healthy pub is the single most important thing for the survival of the unit.

[Viktor]

I also like the idea, but Magoo did mention some valid points. Another idea would be to make the private server public with custom maps say maybe 1 day every month or 2 weeks. Kind of like an event thing. But im not that much of a server guru, so im not too sure how hard/easy that would be.

[Kabasares]

I like the idea, but frankly I have to agree with Magoo here. We have to keep the pub monitored at all times. How high did we have the pub rank before the old server went down? It was probably in the high teens or low 20s. We're currently at 39, and as you've seen, it's not easy to bring the rank up. Between pubbing and the realisms we have in our private server, it would be hard to get any time in this new fun server you're suggesting. Hell, its hard starting up a realism in the private nowadays. We want at least 25 people in the pub before we even consider starting up a realism, and that's 25 people not including 1st MRB members, which is hard enough to accomplish.

[Linvill]

Basically My thought would be like marketing.

Try to bring in a Diferent Type of player.

Those Fun Pubbers who are interested in custom Maps, They would be taken care of by the New Server.

The Same Pubbers we attend to would be taken car of by our pub and realisms.

Basically this idea came to me as another way to brin more people to the unit as a whole regardless of what server they are useing to get to the unit.

Just the way i look at it i guess.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

I can honestly say from experience, a second public server for anything is just a waste of money. We've tried gun-game, hide-n-seek, 24/7 donner, 24/7 avalanche, custom maps only, zombie mod, I'm probably forgetting something else, but my point is it just would not stick. It always seems like a good idea, and it's popular for maybe a month at best, but then it just becomes drain on someone's pockets. And yes, we've had people offer to pay for them or have someone connected give us a free server to play with, but then idiotic bureaucracy and entitlement issues take over, who's earned the right to admin and who's paid for it.

It also becomes a drain on the main server. We're barely filling the pub enough during the day to even think about trying to keep two pubs active. We've heard about the mod that automatically sends overflow players to the second pub, but players join the full server for a reason, they don't want to click one server and pop out in an empty one somewhere else. Believe me, we've covered all possibilities. Until we have problems getting into our own servers around the clock due to overwhelming popularity, we won't even consider getting a second one.

[Abbate]

I can honestly say from experience, a second public server for anything is just a waste of money. We've tried gun-game, hide-n-seek, 24/7 donner, 24/7 avalanche, custom maps only, zombie mod, I'm probably forgetting something else, but my point is it just would not stick. It always seems like a good idea, and it's popular for maybe a month at best, but then it just becomes drain on someone's pockets. And yes, we've had people offer to pay for them or have someone connected give us a free server to play with, but then idiotic bureaucracy and entitlement issues take over, who's earned the right to admin and who's paid for it.

It also becomes a drain on the main server. We're barely filling the pub enough during the day to even think about trying to keep two pubs active. We've heard about the mod that automatically sends overflow players to the second pub, but players join the full server for a reason, they don't want to click one server and pop out in an empty one somewhere else. Believe me, we've covered all possibilities. Until we have problems getting into our own servers around the clock due to overwhelming popularity, we won't even consider getting a second one.

Agreed