Adogg's CoD4 recommendations

The point of this thread is to start a discussion on how we should run CoD4 at UAN. As everyone knows, Butzie is doing a great job and I think we all trust his leadership as we go through this transition from CoD2 to CoD4. I was particularly impressed with the recent membership drive he initiated.

Here are my thoughts/suggestions:
1. Being cracked AND ranked! That’s a major selling point we need to keep in the front of everything we do until good mods start to show up.
2. Currently the number of cracked servers is small but it’s growing at a very fast rate. We are going to need to differentiate ourselves very quickly to “win” a share of the players.
3. There are only a few items we can change and remain ranked (unless you guys can find a “workaround” – so get working!)
4. It is almost impossible to find servers running the two “overlays” – Hardcore & Oldschool. We need to use this as an advantage now, by setting up servers dedicated to either one or both of these overlays. (They are almost like a total mod conversion from what I hear. You run the same gametypes but the overlay changes things like the HUD, guns available, etc).

To keep it quick, here are my recommendations for changes:
1. Crack the 49 server too. Make this server dedicated to the “Oldschool” overlay for now. Say Oldschool in the server name so people searching can find it.
2. Make sure both servers say they are ranked.
3. Add sabotage (SAB), domination (DOM ?) and headquarters (KOTH – stands for king of the hill) gametypes to both servers.
4. Re-evaluate this strategy once good mods come out. I’d probably say to drop the less successful server and replace it with a mod server.

Again, great job everyone. It’s been a ton of fun playing CoD4 with you all and I can see myself already becoming addicted.

Make sure the word - Ranked - is included in the title too.

why 48? why not like 60 something?

Also, does going over 32 = not ranked?

cuz it was only able to go up to 48..
techinically, there is only allowed 32, but somehow we managed to end up with 48 (not seen anywhere else)

If it's still ranked then we are the ONLY server over 32 players .... how'd we do it?!

gotta be carefull with different gametype ,it seems to kill the amount of players at this time .Last nigth we were playing tdm , and when we started to play different gametypes, everyone bailed except for the uan people..

and on top at game-monitor.com so all the searching players find us :cool2:

Agreed. We ran them off to the hills ...

Well do it again on the Oldschool and a new Hardcore server, please!

i was only really concerned with having ranked and cracked in the server name when we were the only ones running it...
now that gamecopyworld and others have cracked servers too, it doesnt matter so much...

i do still worry a little, since ive yet to see another cracked ranked 48 man server...

I told you how to do that butz, what me to try ti raise the other one??

Well, since we've now become the top three CoD4 servers out there ... my recommnedations have changed.
Look here at our servers - the top three right now: http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=cod4

We have three servers with basically the same names and gametype (TDM only). Why not make each one unique in someway. My thoughts are having one be TDM only, one be SAB only and one be TDM with the Oldschool mode working (if it can't work then go with S&D for Van and the other S&D fans).

I was playing this morning on the 48 server and it apears that the speed is faster - Great! I love it! Let's make all the servers at like 125-150% of normal speed.

Can the server handle having all three servers at 64 slots?

UAN members aer having trouble getting into a server. Can we add like 10 private slots per server and give all of our members the password?

That's it. Great servers!