It's one of the many irritating qualities of the average FH2 player. If you look at only players who join after 8pm one night, and forced every single one to stay until 11pm three hours later, we would have more than enough to run any 32 and some of the 64s. Instead, players leave. That's if they even join the first place. A lot of the trends seem to suggest there's a sizeable chunk of players that check the FH2 server browser every night, see "WaW FH2.45 #1" in the server browser, look at "5/64" online and don't bother joining up.
FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING CHRIST, JOIN UP!
The only way we can get a good game going is if YOU join! You don't have to play with 3 vs. 3 if you don't want to, just join and alt-tab, go watch porn or download a CD or something, so that the next guy that looks at the server list sees 6/64, then 7/64, and so on.
None of this is even mentioning the fact that only a fool considers a less than full server to be incapable of a good time. This is the same bullshit that makes choosing maps for 762 #4 so ridiculous, since so many tools refuse to play with 50 people and the server goes from 110 to 30 in 2 maps because everyone thinks everyone else is leaving. Knife fights, tank drag races, dogfights only, jeep races, there is a ton of genuinely enjoyable things to do on sparsely-populated servers even before just playing normally and having a fun time chatting with people. How many times do you see newbs moaning about how often they die in-game? Guess when you don't die every five seconds? When there's 4 people on each team. Guess how I got good at pistol shooting? Using 6 vs. 6 rounds that didn't matter to test out weapons. To explore maps. Half the pick-up kits I run to every time I play FH2 I only discovered through adventuring when only a few people were online. Pretty generally, you can get players to agree to whatever you want - knives only, bayonettes only, planes only, anything - if you just join up and ask. Since the chat doesn't disappear in less than half a second, most players actually read it.
I'm going to give it one more week to see if the bleed bug can be fixed before I make a thread on here about it and bump it every hour until a solution is found. It's absolute horse shit that in a market of 500 million people we can't even get 10 dudes to play FH2 on Thursday and Friday nights dedicated to that exact same mod. The bleed bug has been reported on here several times already, and there is a thread about it in the help section. It is completely raping every attempt to get a decent night going for American/Canadian/Mexican etc. players, and it doesn't matter how awesome Sidi Bou Zid is when every time a new American player joins the only server with anyone on it at 9pm his time, all it is is 5 people saying "Fucking bleed bug again, hopefully the next map is good".