Team Fortress 2 Network

Vouch, i just got TF2 a day or 2 ago

man i dont doubt that it'd have more traction given that TF2 is free to play. i just think that historically we've tried branching out to other games and long term they lose traction and eventually a waste of computing power and i dont think our community is large enough to be suitable long term

most TF2 networks with gamemodes like this are literally all identical and I can't remember any specific one as they get lost throughout the weeks

coming from a guy with around 5k hours (over 2 accounts) in TF2, having a generic !taunts, !rtd server will have basically 0 traction because most people sort community servers by how full they are.
many servers are popular because they always have been, e.g. skial; they are a reputable trade server; they are from a popular youtuber; or they bring something new to the table (Uncle Dane's new servers are a resultant of that, but also because of his advertisement).
having 0-3 players on with a rare spike of 6 players will. not. attract. new. players. i've said this for the gmod server and i'll say it again: if we are branching out to new servers we need something special, totalfreedom was made popular because it was unique in it being the first freeop.

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also i'm pretty sure nobody plays deathrun and murder mystery on TF2 anymore lol

i don't think people would go for servers with a small player count anyway

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↩  ThePyroManActualAccount also have you ever played tf2?

not much, its not really the type of game i'd play often but thats a me thing

↩  lyicx
Often servers with low to no players, don't get player spikes, but sometimes they do get a few players wich will attract more people to start playing on it.
And due to the messages in chat (Example: "Check out our Minecraft Server! IP:play.totalfreedom.me"), they might be encouraged to visit the Minecraft Server too.

PS: I Vouch.

↩  ThatOneLiviRealAccount i dont think it quite works like that in practice

PS: i added a sick line thing instead of the slashes you had ***

As much as I would love this, nobody would play it, if you want this though I already have all of the server files for it although I couldn't find the taunt menu one

↩  ThePyroManActualAccount

↩  lyicx

what lyicx says, throwing together a server and hoping people will join will never create a sustainable playerbase ((((HENCE MY PREDICTION ON THE GMOD SERVER!))))
you can't just stick on a few commands to a server and expect people to come back:

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↩  ThePyroManActualAccount the bigger servers would never even start getting players if there were 0 players at online at the time

the bigger servers are bigger servers, they have laid the foundations for being the largest networks and have rewarded players for returning to their platforms.
they were the first to make these gamemode servers and that's why they are big.
large networks will either have servers with 1-2 players or fully maxed out, that's just how it is. it's not fun to play with only 3 people unless your friends all join an empty server.

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↩  ThePyroManActualAccount ive seen quite a lot of active deathrun servers these days

yeah thats the issue, you want to make a server which has been copy and pasted a thousand times, these servers purely get traction from their current player count which of course fluctuates.
by actually making something new, you can get the players more easily or atleast stand out from the crowd.
making a new server is never as cut and dry as "getting new players" because it will mainly just be our current players playing on a server that isn't our actual server.

i could probably count like a hundred !rtd cp orange x3 servers

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↩  ThatOneLiviRealAccount they might be encouraged to visit the Minecraft Server too.

getting a player from one eco-system to another is very difficult, advertising a game on another "might encourage" but i doubt it works in practice

↩  lyicx What about running some TF2 events (like the miniSMP)? Less effort than making GMOD server 2: Electric Boogaloo.

I'm open to more feedback on this one.

In the short - medium term my thought is I'd like to see @"lyicx"#21 running some events around TF2 and actually seeing if there is a demand for this sort of thing in any way shape or form, if there is a genuine demand it's something I'm happy to look at in the future though.

i do think i need to see more interest in this as an event first before anything. im not going to fuck around with shit i have no clue about for the sake of hitting a maximum of 4 people. and thats a strong unignorable gut feeling i have

↩  ThePyroManActualAccount its not the events im worried about. i dont think there'd be enough interest for it to even be hosted