Tatost

Vac and sancock are married

@NitNat if you need help populating a server tell me. ;)

@NitNat if you need help populating a server tell me. ;)

Minecraft is progressing well, will post update pics soon ^_^

I'm going to create XenoGamersUnofficial and grief you guys, with my squad of anti xgers. muwahahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg2GweVmc0s Thank's for the xG youtube, @Rhododendron!

This is almost as disgusting as me, man.

This is almost as disgusting as me, man.

This is almost as disgusting as me, man.

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

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.

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.

Well we could always go with the ever-popular Randomizer or x10. As for a personal suggestion, an old community game-mode I played was Huntsman Hell. Here's a video that explains Huntsman Hell pretty well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTu23_QKvwg

idk how long i've said this lol
 
 
Also yeah, if you really wanted to revive jb, then maybe all those changes that were made should just be reverted, since like hush said almost all of the rebellion left because the server was made way too ct sided. Before anyone starts throwing hate at me, im just saying MY OWN OPINION on the matter, don't get butthurt, k? kthx.
I feel like banning the skullcutter, vaccinator, even getting to the point about talking about demoknight took this whole vendetta it seems most of you had against the rebellion way too far, and its pretty bad how the only way we got this to stop was just leave.. People complained about how "op" the skullcutter and vac combo was, well really it wasn't, unless no one ever noticed, most of the rebellion never went for ammo, learn how to use your eyes like a guard should be able to and the rebellion wouldn't have been much of a problem, lol. I don't think people realized that rebelling is PART OF JAILBREAK, and yet people complained that it killed the server, ever notice how when halfway competent guards got in the game the rebellion never really harmed anything? And yet, no one could drop it. If rebelling was that much of a problem, instead of threatening to ban us for "purposely killing the server", then actually do it and have fun defending yourself when you don't have any proof against us doing so. So really, im just gonna say learn how to play the game and kill a bunch of people with melees or stop complaining.

I have an idea that could potentially help, and would make the majority of players happy, though it would take more work than slapping a .smx file and a map rotation onto a server.
 
We could always code an xG specific gamemode. This way we could have 100% control of what happens in the server.
Or if that seems like too much work, we could make a special xG map. If it were to act like our trade servers, just give the map a ton of things to keep players occupied other than spawn camping and trading.
 
I mean, we've recycled a TON of different maps and gamemodes but people will find a way to find exploits, or annoying glitches in 'em, or just generally get bored and stop playing. If we had something that's 100% custom, it could even replace multiple servers at once.
Think about it: a map built with a mini Deathrun game built in (can even be 100% automated if done correctly), a large area for people to dick around in like the trade servers, special areas for events to take place, hell you could even use it as an excuse to test new scripts and plugins. This way if we give players enough choices with a single map, then it should practically populate itself.
 
Now I may not have too much map making/coding experience, but this is a good excuse for me to learn. Plus, it could always be a team project. It would get done faster and incorporate more ideas into the map.
I just think it'd be a neat experience to have the community come together to make something that could be pretty good.
 
TL;DR: Let's make an xG custom, multi-purpose map, ya dinguses!

To be honest we shouldn't be talking about populated servers here, they are populated because of how crappy you think they are and how cancerous you find them to be at times
, don't try to change that, otherwise you'll end up with a pretty dead server, vsh is the concrete exemple of that, the server was populated 24/7, some good choices were made to improve the server and it turns out they were bad for the population, and killed the server, also, we all have to admit that some servers were alive because of some specific regulars, members or staff, vsh was populated thanks to Bone and Hina, jb1 was populated too, I even remember there was a time when I couldn't join the server because it was full, and jb1 was alive thanks to some people, and died because of some others, (not gonna mention names, to avoid creating tension, but we all know what happened there), also one other thing;
Staff should learn to be friendly, help others, share knowledge and communicate more, especially with other staff member.

I honestly have to agree with @Vector here, don't talk down about the server and then call another server that's got literally the same amount of cancer on it "better." Mainly the most staff I see on Poketrade is @Parasect, @Floppy, sometimes @Bagel and I. Even with us on the server it can get pretty cancerous. I wouldn't go so far to saying it's better than TGH though. @Vexx and @Vixen do really well at keeping that place clean so it's pretty nice there.
 
But, here are my thoughts on the servers-
TGH large population and has a normal amount of staff on at all times to keep it clean- keep
Pokemon Trading Center has a normal and stable population starting at around 10-11 AM, my time that is ;]. And has staff on mostly going to @Parasect.- keep
Deathrun is easy to populate with a group of friends, just our plugin is complete shiet.- I am honestly in between on this one
Jailbreak #1 is stable with people like @BreadNubic, Spoopy, @Floppy, @AlmostAllTheStaffThatPlaysTF2.- Keep.
Jailbreak #2 has unique maps to almost every other jailbreak server. All the good ones that is ;]. But, has almost no one on at all times. Probably able to be populated over the summer time- Remove until summer??
Zombie Fortress is a really, really fun gamemode that is populated over the summer.- remove until summer?
VSH has been getting bursts of population every now and then and is kinda fun for me and all the people I've seen on there.-keep
Scripts testing just remove this please it is never used by anyone.
Events can have people on there at random times.- in the middle here again
TF2ware can be populated over the summer-remove until summer

I don't think you've played on TGH as of late, @Vixen and I have done a great job at keeping the people over on there in line with the toxicity and whatnot. As for the dead servers, I have noticed that if you get about 4-5 people on a server, a lot more people will join. Populating servers isn't hard, we just need to find people who will spend their time on there, and actually join when it's dead to help get the population rolling. VSH is a server I've been really wanting to see surge in population as it is a game mode I really do enjoy. The wario-ware server is generally always dead, sometimes gets a few people. Trade events isn't even used for it's original purpose which was as xG TF2 hasn't had any events in a while.

fixed

I know that I need to update my video card because I have an Nvidia Quadra Series and can't run Overwatch with it. CS:GO I run at a constant 45-50 fps. TF2 is fine, somehow lol but I can't use dx9 so that sucks.

Oh please I probably know more about those old maps than anyone else here considering the amount of time i spent on em, if anything you need a test on them xddd

"Reasons for Joining:
I want to be a member because I like to help. Also when people ask me for help, I can tell them proudly"
 
Lol, More like annoying, trolling all the time and begging people for free items
A: Don't know, noticed him today
M: 0.1
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Sand doesn't have a bus, that was wakka. Sand has da earrape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xm0O_rqq_w

disgraceful??? hello???? this is a gaming community, people esentially play on our servers for fun. if you guys [@tatost and @CappyCappy] keep treating people who are trying to join like that we won't get a lot of submissions anymore. he was so sweet and all he wanted to do was help out the community, and you guys already ask higher ups to close it?
don't be so harsh to him, hes obviously really really new. the way you guys posted here was beneath contempt.