Getting new game server is procon available

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Originally Posted by durangod*:

 

Hi,

 

My BF3 server is dead so i am letting it die on the 16th of the month. However i am keeping my BF4 server. I was thinking about getting a BFHL server but now im thinking i may go another route all together.

 

Part of me thinks that i should stick with battlefield and go with battlefield bad company 2 and see if there is a procon layer available and also if there are plugins for that.

 

The other part of me thinks in order to get exposure for the team and members from a completely different source is to go with either the new counter-strike, or cod2, or something along those lines. However i have never heard of anything procon like for those older games and im assuming that they have tons of cheaters by now in them.

 

 

I also have to ask my team to invest in another game if they dont have what i choose.

 

 

Questions:

 

Is there a procon setup and plugins for BBC2?

Are there similar setups for games like COD2, Counter-Strike, DOD source, and the like games?

 

If you had to choose a new server right now, what would you go with? I am really hesitant about HL even with the new DLC release i think an investment in a HL server could be costly and non productive in getting traffic and members.

 

Please dont say minecraft lmao

 

 

Thanks

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Originally Posted by leibhold*:

 

Minecraft

 

 

There are plugins for bad company - from memory that's where I got the pictures for the manual.

 

Oh scrolling thought the plugin list - any plugs with BC2 icon should work

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Originally Posted by durangod*:

 

I wish I new why that game (minecraft) was so popular, I hear its number 1 in server rentals but I watched a game play video and its totally not for me lol.. I guess to each is own

 

Thanks for the feed back, regarding my other choice it seems counter strike global offensive is very popular. Looked at the game tracker server list and its got 7+ pages (I stopped at 7) of full to next to full servers. But the down side is that I think all cheat stuff is handled by valve and by VAC and it is out of admins hands. I don't even know if there is a interface for it other than the server admin area itself.

 

I will let the team decide what they want to do.

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Originally Posted by leibhold*:

 

Same here - Minecraft - where are the guns?

 

Always thought the helicopter physics were better on BC2

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Originally Posted by durangod*:

 

Very hard choice to make even for the team. From what i have seen and experienced, it seems that BF has had its time in the sunshine. Look at any BF server list and you see maybe 10-20 or less servers active and the rest all just sit empty. Where as older game styles without all the fluff like counter-strike and some of the others are alive and well with pages and pages of live full or almost full servers. Also COD2 is slow as well as Day Of Defeat Source, well its just always been that way.

 

I don't see a BF6 coming unless its a remake of something old. If they do BF5 as WW2'ish i think thats the life end of BF. I think players are tired of EA/DICE pushing things out the door and leaving them behind and "on to the next thing" business plan. We want what we have fixed and improved first.

 

What i am afraid of is that if i invest in BC2 then it will be no different than BF3 and the fact that i could get no traffic, i could get noone in the forum to even give me some input about what they wanted in a server, i got 0 replies, and thats why i am closing my BF3 server.

 

I am keeping my BF4 server because they at least gave me some feedback about what they wanted so i put 60hz and some other stuff on there and we will see.

 

I would like nothing better than to stick with BF and go with BC2 but my gut tells me i have to go where the players are if i am going to get traffic for my server and build my team over time. And the players are on CS. Well and role playing games too but i hate RPG games.

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Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

I wish I new why that game (minecraft) was so popular, I hear its number 1 in server rentals but I watched a game play video and its totally not for me lol.. I guess to each is own

I have about 3000 hours in battlefield titles, but also have at least 1500 hours in minecraft, lol. It sucks you in like a thousand dollar whore if you let it. My biggest project was about 400,000 blocks.

 

I think Yahtzee put it best as to why people like it. If you have 5 minutes, it's a funny review.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch_v=4wgQvij3rVE

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Originally Posted by durangod*:

 

LMAO OMG tooo funny... im not even gonna temp myself Thanks for sharing that, kudos!

 

Oh and i wanted to correct what i said before about CS servers being so full. I actually have the original game so i decided to go check for myself to see if there really were 31/32 (or such) players in these servers.

 

And well there were not, i tried 5 servers and everyone of them that showed almost full was either empty or only had just a couple of people in it, or a bunch of bots. So that zaps that plan, i dont know if they count bots in the servers or if the admins are using some kind of occupancy mod/hack, but that certainly woke me up to reality.

 

Also even with the small pings and servers that say USA on their description, they are all from like Guatemala or some other place with language i cant read. Plus the fact that you have to download maps automatically while the server loads, and i dont like downloading stuff that i cant scan or protect myself from.

 

So its a NO on CS (at least the old one)

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Originally Posted by EntraVenuS*:

 

stick with well admin'd bf4 servers (ranked) not official. we have 2 popular 64 slots (easier to keep full in my honest opinion) keep a high admin presence and enforce your server rules and people will keep rejoining day after day.

 

For a new server startup use Ultimate map manager to feed your server with vanilla maps until around 40 players then switch to all dlc from 40 players to 64 then you will enjoy the fruits of a full 64 man server.

 

This is my 10 cents worth after running popular servers since bf2 you dont have to follow what im saying its just a personal oppinion to someone starting out in the BF server world.

 

Dont think about running BF Hardline as the playerbase on pc is very low (people already have their favourite servers) and bfbc2 has established servers too.

 

This is a guideline you may make a server popular on any game dont take my word for it.. but this is what i would be trying if we had no popular servers

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Originally Posted by durangod*:

 

Thanks EntraVenuS, I will get the map manager now and get it going. Sadly i can only afford a 16 slot bf4 server as they are so expensive and at first i did try to do the squad dm maps as they are good for 16 slot server but that did not work. Maybe it was the map deal, i should stick with vanilla maps until it grows i guess.

 

Also i guess i should change my thinking a bit here, im under the impression that if you dont have a server for the games you play you cant grow, maybe i am wrong on that. Maybe the trick is the get members first who play the games we play and then get a server for those games as i can.

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Originally Posted by saccharin*:

 

I also think Helicopter physics were better on BC2

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Originally Posted by durangod*:

 

well after all the discussion here and on the forum, and my own personal issues with BF4. I decided to give it up and go with hardline. Yes this may sound crazy but I cant stand BF4 visually. It is so much different to look at than BF3. You play BF3 and its nice and clean and focused, I can see players even if they are behind a rock if they move it catches my eye at times. But with BF4 its out of focus, fuzzy, way too much color, and impossible for me to see players. Plus a BF4 server is expensive.

 

I tried, I really tried this last weekend to sit on my BF4 server and play the maps, but I just hated it visually so much I had to leave time and time again.

 

Hardline is more like BF3 visually than BF4 is so I went with that because at least I can see players to shoot them and can play it.

 

Plus the hardline players on the forum seem to be looking for someone with a mission to make a great server, I get excited and they love the excitement I show. So we will see how this goes with hardline.

 

Plus I love that I can get the M1903 Springfield lol I loved that weapon in other older games...