Originally Posted by MDFubar

Reality is that there was some discussion on the maps and servers in previous threads, but conquest is what bring the players. Titan, doesn't bring the players as most people actually prefer Conquest. The NS server was hardly ever utilized and the same goes for when we had a Titan server. I believe that the admins do a fine job of trying to break things up with the Friday night happenings. There are special happenings with NS, Titan, and even Clan mod. Which, if you haven't played it Clan Mod is awesome and very challenging.

If you are tired of the same old strats, then SL and devise your own. I had a couple of common happenings and the problem is that everyone knew what I was gonna do as SL. So, I had to change my plans and devise new strats to be effective. Go beyond your strengths and develope new ones by pushing the envelope on new strats that you come up with. They don't always work, but you won't know(and neither will anyone else) unless you try. Remember that making a decision, even if it is wrong, is better than not making one. Challenge yourself to come up with something new.

My memory serves me that the secodn server was never really populated, and still isn't.
Good suggestions on trying to mix it up. Also, Tampa is in the rotation. I just played it the other night on our server. We also had a mixture of bigger and smaller maps. The 16 player maps are very exciting with 50 people on them....LOL

Now the $65,000 question - were you comparing player counts while the Conquest server was still up? Everyone plays on the full server. Why join an empty one? Were we to run nothing but an NS server, I'm willing to bet you'd see the same number of players after a short time. There's really not a single good reason for not getting NS (were it actually played). The maps are generally pretty fun, more fun than Fall of Berlin's spamfestathon 3000 at any rate.

As for the strat thing, you can Occam's Razor any strat down to some basic principles. I can mentally masturbate all day about some new way to attack on Carebear, but it will always fall into a handful of situations. Which way are we going? There's only about three 'routes' through Carebear with some slight deviation. As the maps we run on the Conquest server the most are these tiny, cramped rocket spamfests, your options are severely restricted, which is quite ironic for a TG server. There's no strat you can design for Fall of Berlin that gets around the basic chokepointyness of the first flag, and usually half the game is fought over it as a result. A major, terrible flaw in map design, but as YOURSELF why would TACTICAL GAMER encourage maps that are the most railroaded? I can't think of a good answer for that either (On a similar note, I'd love to see what a Gunship would do on Fall of Berlin. Flying in those tight urban canyons sounds fun, it not impractical)

As I said, mix Titan and Conquest at the very least.

As for Friday night, well, when you work every Friday night you're pretty much SOL. Between that and time zone differences there's never a prayer of me seeing any of it.