Thread: If TPG had a Bad Company 2 server and a public TS instance

Originally Posted by Tenrou

If TPG uses TS/Vent will it really keep the server full? Before the close of the server it was 95% of the time a ghost town hence why they pulled it. I don't see it changing anything the people who liked this game were playing before the shut down, and obviously there wasn't enough of you to keep a server active.

In my opinion, why the server became a ghost town was because of a few things.

First: Lack of VOIP and this is probably the major cause of it.

Second: People bitching and bitching in the forums making everything negative about the game, making the game look so bad to the point that some people didn't want to buy the game... even evilblackjack posted a thread about "positive". (If you project negativity, you will have negativity.)

Third: Yes some people had lag problems but not everybody. So is it because their computers can't play the game? is their video settings too high and they didn't re-arrange their settings? Was there something overlooked server side? This can be numerous of reasons why.

Originally Posted by Coyote Warlady

In my opinion, why the server became a ghost town was because of a few things.

First: Lack of VOIP and this is probably the major cause of it.

The VOIP is the one reason i kinda stop playing the game. I need to talk to my squad/ teammates to help each other out. Besides that i love the game, the graphics, the maps and the real life shot lead as a sniper.

Originally Posted by BigHub

The only problem I'm seeing, is how the hell are random connections going to know to join our TS channel? Most are going to connect, and then be told to download/install/open TS and join our channel, then will probably just disconnect.

Well I do believe that a lot of gamers do have TS. And the way to have people know to join TS is having a message in the server from time to time saying that "We have TS, ip is ....... Come join us!"
The random connections wont disconnect because the server is using TS. If they do disconnect there's a good chance that they are downloading TS and will join it and the server.

The good thing though, it's an easy way to weed out the non-teamplayers who don't want to communicate with their team.

Yes the good thing is it's an easy way to weed out the non-teamplayers.

I'm kind of stupid when it came to those things.. All the games I have ever played (online multiplayer) has had built in VOIP. Ya, I've used TS for admin purposes... but never for actual communication within game.

Well i don't have TS but have ventrillo but if you would get TS i would DL it and join because this would want to make me play and a big improvment to the game.

Originally Posted by Coyote Warlady

Third: Yes some people had lag problems but not everybody. So is it because their computers can't play the game? is their video settings too high and they didn't re-arrange their settings? Was there something overlooked server side? This can be numerous of reasons why.

Me and Enu stopped playing in the TPG server due to the lag for us there. It was one of the only servers we had lag. So, we played else where. It ran smooth as silk for us in 90% of the other servers.

Originally Posted by Partyball

Me and Enu stopped playing in the TPG server due to the lag for us there. It was one of the only servers we had lag. So, we played else where. It ran smooth as silk for us in 90% of the other servers.

So possibly something was overlooked server side or connection side.

PS: By saying this, is no way to insult anybody.

Originally Posted by moving-target

another thing to do i dunno if its possible or dificult since PR seems to be dead alot also maybe run pr server 3 days a week and bc2 3 days a week? or switch them to 1 week on 1 week off

I don't want to be rude but this is to me not a good idea and we are not talking about PR... This is about BC2. Let's not start mixing them when it's not necessary.

What's not broken, don't fix it.