[petetheplumber]

I assume that DF's assessment about Goldrush emptying because it's a hive of scum and villainy is accurate just based on the posting members around here

o really?

As far as I can tell the goldrushers posts are actually constructive to the discussion of pitching ideas to improve the servers, while all the unproductive negative comments are coming from the all mappers.

Your first point is invalid, because you are a butthurt medic with a massive ego.

and don't know why I'd want to spend that small amount of free time playing on servers full of stackers and angry drunks who rarely use their mics for anything other than shit-talking or complaining.

Regulars who stack onto the rape train are the reason nobody else becomes a regular. You can only get rolled so many times before you find a new home.

That and the regulars who establish some false hierarchy based upon who's been here the longest and therefore has the biggest dick will be the downfall of SourceOP.

As far as I can tell none of the above comments helps the discussion. I understand that you all mappers don't like playing on goldrush whatever your reason. However, people in this post are offering advice on how to make the server better. You will also notice that they are discussing what will benefit their server, not bashing other peoples ideas on how to change a server that they rarely, if ever, play on. People don't like the autoscramble on goldrush, so unless you have played their don't comment on whether or not this will help. The scramble actually makes a huge difference (for better or worse) on the goldrush server, as opposed to the all maps server where the map changes roughly every 45 minutes, and there is on average about 1 scramble per map. Plus because all of you all mappers auto assign to a team it doesn't make a difference if it scrambles.

In my personal opinion the autoscramble stacks teams more often than it balances them, so all it does is prevent me from playing with my friends (waits for comment regarding me being an egotistical stacking prick).

Regarding the other points:

Of course reducing the lag would be beneficial, no argument against that.

Community growth would help bring in more donations for the servers, but I don't think adding subforums for each server would necessarily help. Especially given the negative attitude towards non all map players.

While having more admins could very well be a pain in the ass. I do know that I have rarely seen an admin on (although most of my time has been on the goldrush server).