Mar 08, 2013, 01:41 AM
Agreed, community is needed. Admin powers aren't needed to build that though. On the Valvemaps server, Enforcer {EMC} fills the server almost daily. All the regulars follow him. He doesn't have admin powers though (the argument can be made that he should have them), and not having them doesn't prevent the server from functioning because he knows how to resolve issues within the tools available (votekick, contact admin and knowing admins play on the server regularly, like Butane has begun doing with NoMods).
As you mentioned, other 2Fort servers have no problem getting populated. There are almost 900 2fort servers out there of varying shapes and sizes. A good number are wacky bullcrap (mods, donate for admin power, pinion ads, etc), more are highly regionalized (west coast, east coast, EU, etc). In this pool of 2Fort servers it's difficult to do anything short of spamming old regulars and bugging them to play. If anyone (BBQ, Butane or no) wants to do this, populate the server, and get it populated, cool. That would be awesome. The point is no administrative power is needed to do this. Just a sense of community, which as you said yourself, you don't have (as you don't care).
In any event, trying a new server mode would at least spice things up. Not competing with 900 servers doing the same thing.
tl;dr - Play there, it's a good server (performance-wise). If people do, admins would be needed. If they don't, they aren't. If they aren't, might as well change what the server is so we can have players who need admin'ing (my opinion).
As you mentioned, other 2Fort servers have no problem getting populated. There are almost 900 2fort servers out there of varying shapes and sizes. A good number are wacky bullcrap (mods, donate for admin power, pinion ads, etc), more are highly regionalized (west coast, east coast, EU, etc). In this pool of 2Fort servers it's difficult to do anything short of spamming old regulars and bugging them to play. If anyone (BBQ, Butane or no) wants to do this, populate the server, and get it populated, cool. That would be awesome. The point is no administrative power is needed to do this. Just a sense of community, which as you said yourself, you don't have (as you don't care).
In any event, trying a new server mode would at least spice things up. Not competing with 900 servers doing the same thing.
tl;dr - Play there, it's a good server (performance-wise). If people do, admins would be needed. If they don't, they aren't. If they aren't, might as well change what the server is so we can have players who need admin'ing (my opinion).