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Hear me out but a friendly server with pony and minecraft maps would be lit AF. But honestly, if I could offer a real suggestion, if I learned anything in xG it's that if you want to build a population on a server the server should be simple, Like one or two maps tops simple. Our trade servers are the Perfect example. Our most consistently populated servers over the course of the tf2 division by far, and for most of their lifespan they had a combined two maps, Clocktown and Goldenrod city. And when tgh almost died right before and while I was DM I was a big supporter of the controversial decision to go back to 24/7 clocktown to save the server, and it worked. Now tgh and poke trade are still our most consistently populated servers, and the map pools have grown. So if I had to give some advice, I'd say pick a really cool, expansive, interesting map with lots of things to do, that people are actually passionate about playing on, base a server around it, and work from there until you have an actually good server that people spend their whole day on. Tl;dr: I've been here a long time, and we've done this throw some plugins on a server with no passion for the mode behind it and just hope population appears a bunch of times. It's only ever worked with ZF, and youtubers + good timing was the perfect storm. We have a way better track record with starting simple and working outward than we do with throwing all our hopes on dreams at a server and hoping it sticks. Just stop the cycle it's kind of depressing. As an example/suggestion, taking hyrule off of tgh and putting it on it's own server would draw more population than minimum 3/4 of the other ideas in this thread. You guys shouldn't be looking for modes, you should be looking for maps. This rambled, sorry, I've just seen this exact thread with the exact level of fake urgency at least six times, it wears on the soul.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive It's banned. although yes some servers still use it

My vote is on attempting a randomizer or x10, also have to agree with Vexx that it's the community/players that make a server and keep it going.

Congratulations to @Stevenn for winning the tournament. The top three will receive their prizes immediately 1. Steven 2. Schpetzel 3. Shoxie Next Saturday there will be another tournament with the same prizes. Stay tuned for another thread.

I'm going to have to disagree with you about that moosty. If there's anything I've learned, it's that the players make the server. Every server kinda draws its community around a few players because they're interesting or fun to be around. I wouldn't blame maps or bad plugins or anything on a server dying, it's just the community lost its interest. With so many other games out there and more releasing every day, you can't exactly expect all tf2 servers to keep a stable population after this long. It's been proven that we can populate any server if we just get a few people in it, those may being a select few personalities. If the whole "maps make the server" concept were true, TGH probably would've lost a lot of population when Nimbusland was removed. Besides, there's nothing wrong with trying something new at this point, it'll at least give a bit more variety to us.

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Apparently he has scammed people in tf2 as well, 1 report SteamRep » Toucan | 76561198168468561 | STEAM_0:1:104101416 @Lithium

That's actually not too bad. I use a GTX 1060 myself, and it runs all my games on Ultra at 60+ fps (144 fps for the games that can handle it). Though mine is the 6 gig version and the one in that PC is the 3 gig version, it's still a good GPU. The CPU boosts from 2.8 to 3.4 ghz, which isn't bad either I would recommend upgrading the Hard Drive (or installing an additional HDD or SSD) and RAM sometime down the line. But until then, it should handle the majority of games. It also seems like it doesn't list the motherboard specifically, but looks like you should be able to upgrade pretty much everything if you wanted to (as long as you have the case space). Obviously if you want complete control of how well the PC works, building it yourself is the better option, but if you'd rather not deal with picking out all the parts then physically installing them, then this PC is a good alternative.

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I'm fixing HG so it can be run w/o and admin being on and just give guests the ability to /sg start so if a group of members want to play a game they can

Me and Owl already looked into minigames and servers that have minigames. Would not recommend having minigames for more than an event (especially hg/sg as it is not as popular compared to newer gamemodes). The biggest issue is population. Low population can create boring and slow gameplay that minigames is not meant to have. Not only that, you need enough players that are willing to play the same gamemode. If we look at the recent hunger games event xG held, with 10-20 players, anyone who died early found themselves sitting in a waiting room for 5 to 10+ minutes. That is not very fun at all considering you don't have anything meaningful to do in game during the hang time. The large minigame servers have a big enough population to allow players to get into a new game within seconds. There's a reason there is only two big minigame servers. Other than that you have to worry about the following: Plugin configuration and compatibility. Lack of uniqueness from out-of-the-box gamemode plugins. Anti-cheat Teaming in solo gamemodes (and all of the loopholing people will pull). Incentive to play on the server (this applies to every type of server, but some more so than others). Factions/Townie would be the way to go with the current foundation. However, the gamemode chosen should be the sole focus until the server is operational.

A: 8 M: 7 Could be a little bit more mature :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=hFOfdLULUAk;list=PLfgzqTqPT8i-k8CYSo7aabRYuBwnKba0b This is a playlist with several songs in it appropriate.