Hi, Dago Red here.
Most of you know probably know me from the past 9 years of Forgotten Hope, and such popular hits as
Lobo's little lub nubs,
My night with Yossarian, and
Professor Anthrax, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Smacktard.
There is a funny thing going on with FH2 these days, with these 96 player, 130 player, 196 player whatever servers. It's great people are experimenting and there is certainly no harm done with increasing the max cap on servers a bit.
But official words from the developers talking about adjusting the mod for these, if the experiments work? Guys, have you checked the player numbers lately?
I just looked at the server browser.....
Yep, that's 2 players right now.....and they are both bots.
What we need, and have needed for about 2 years now, are
well designed smaller maps for the player numbers. Not larger servers. We can't even keep 1 single server capped out,
globally. And in North and South America there are only a few nights a week we can count on 30+ players ... the old Wolf Thursday, now at WaW, for one.
If this mod is going to retain players, we need the same kind of amazing quality we see in the 64 size maps, put into the 16 and 32 size maps. With the latest release -- featuring some awesome new maps, by the way -- we have lost just as many small maps as we gained. Several of the old 16's including one of the most played and requested FH maps of all time (old Giarabub 16) are just ruined piles of junk at the moment:
http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=17553.0Several other 16's and 32's are just mindless spam fests and don't play well for long. I have been admining FH for 8 years now. I've never seen a sustained lull go on for this long, even with a release just weeks ago.
The most common complaint about FH2, on an FH2 server, is the lack of players.
The second most common complaint is that the map is too big.
The third most common is that there are no tanks or kits or toys to play with on the smaller map the server switched to, because there aren't enough people to play a 64 size map.