Goonhub
07-02-2014, 02:40 PM
I was going to make my own thread for this idea but I might as well drop it here.
Implement a server cap
Because the major problem seems really obvious. If the choice is play on a crowded server or play on an empty server people will pick the crowded server because the empty one is dull as hell. I can't blame them for that. But I would bet a lot of people in the overpopulated server wish there was a less-crowded but not nearly empty server they could join. Just none of them want to go to another server and try and populate it.
So force them. If everyone can't pile into the same server, people would likely jump into the second most-populated server and pretty soon you have 2 maybe 3 reasonably populated servers. I realize that some people would just not play SS13 if they were forced to help populate a server, but I can also tell you that's already happening anyways. I haven't played in about two weeks because every time I go to play, all the servers are overpopulated and underpopulated and I just go do something else. I doubt I'm the only one.
Also with a server cap, low pop servers would fill much, much faster as the full server would stop taking people in. It makes them that much more attractive.
Implement a server cap
Because the major problem seems really obvious. If the choice is play on a crowded server or play on an empty server people will pick the crowded server because the empty one is dull as hell. I can't blame them for that. But I would bet a lot of people in the overpopulated server wish there was a less-crowded but not nearly empty server they could join. Just none of them want to go to another server and try and populate it.
So force them. If everyone can't pile into the same server, people would likely jump into the second most-populated server and pretty soon you have 2 maybe 3 reasonably populated servers. I realize that some people would just not play SS13 if they were forced to help populate a server, but I can also tell you that's already happening anyways. I haven't played in about two weeks because every time I go to play, all the servers are overpopulated and underpopulated and I just go do something else. I doubt I'm the only one.
Also with a server cap, low pop servers would fill much, much faster as the full server would stop taking people in. It makes them that much more attractive.