Ok heres my general feed back after playing with bots for roughly 3 hours today:
People join the server as they see 8 players there. Then when they see a list of BOTS and one player, they leave straight away (which has already been established)
So here are a list of my suggestions that, if practical, could encourage more people to join:
- Have 8 bots whilst one player is using the server, but as soon as two humans are present in the server, remove ALL the bots. This fausly attracts people to the server, and when they are there instead of being disappointed that they only have one opponent, a little fun could be created with one on one knife fights. Eventually more people will join and things will kick off.
-Advertise the server as a 24/7 server. At the moment it is more or less only being used when for small periods of time. Putting 24/7 in part of the server name could attract more people and keep things ticking over
-Promoting the 24/7 theme:
-Find other gaming communities, similar to this in other parts of the world, for examle servers in the UK and Australlia. These servers may also be facing similar problems where there servers are packed at peak times but empty at others. If this server and the other server could hook up and promote each others IP addresses, then maybe people will join each others servers when their normal server is busy, but due to the time differences the other server will not be busy.
-We need to find a wider range of users. Most people using the server are from america. Encouraging people from other countries to stay and bring their friends along will allow these people to play during their suitable time and if they stay for long enough it will keep the server ticking other till the american dudes arrive
Sorry if this post is hard to keep up with as its a bit complicated but hopefully my suggestions will help, and il try and promote this server to foriegn users
thanks bb