2015-10-26 04:33 , edited 2015-10-26 04:47 by Tsunemori-PASS

I've been away from the game for many months now (I'll start playing again in a week or two) and was not aware of the death of IceHouse, not too much of a loss though since I was constantly being votebanned off the server and having to then get unbanned. Despite it being frustrating it was always preferable to playing on international servers, even in southern Asia where you can often expect to be getting 150ms. And their servers are hardly any better anyway and mostly consist of 64-player nade fests on Metro.



Personally I'd prefer to see a 32-player rush and 32-player conquest small server with good rotations. I strongly dislike the idea of a 64-player conquest large server since the playerbase is so low I'd prefer to have 2x 32-player servers that both offer a different game mode and/or maps. Conquest small on 32-player is almost as good as 64-player conquest large anyway.



Anyway Goose, it's unlikely you're going to achieve much with a forum/Reddit thread. Simply because very few players check the forums on any decent regularity. What I'd suggest is creating a platoon based around this. Getting people to join that platoon is going to give them more of a sense of purpose and community. It will allow them to see how many other people are interested in keeping this game alive and pursuing a common goal. A platoon where you propose there what you are proposing here. I believe that you'd get more attention that way.



The truth is that this game (in Australia) probably would have reached this point of teetering on the brink of death a year ago if it hadn't been for a few communities/clans that sprung into existence in 2014 like MON, rAGE, ICG, RBL. Admittedly I think RBL existed long before 2014 but they were one of the communities that stuck around and continued to generate interest among their members.



Having been a member of MON and rAGE, I can tell you that when I was playing 4+ hours a day every day for months it was solely because of the people I was playing with. I'd still have played even if it was just myself but I'd have put in considerably less time. Not to mention the sheer amount of servers we were instrumental in populating was incredible. If we wanted to play Damavand Peak rush (I always did) we'd get 10+ of us to jump onto an empty one and in half and hour it would be fully populated. Even the MON server would often go unpopulated until we decided to go ahead and begin populating it by ourselves first. The rest of the playerbase will often jump on board once they think the server is going to get some decent numbers.



If you want to keep this game alive in Australia and avoid a divided community. if you want to be able to put your idea into action then you need to create a community like the ones above. A community where players get to know each other well and are eager to play every night not just because they love Battlefield 3 but because they love gaming with each other.