Paggos

hi Paggos_ and i will torment you for eternity. Do you understand?

mhm. This is the biggest thing that stood out to me. There's points I'll just be chilling on the TTT waiting for someone to join, typing shoutbox, asking people to get on, etc. (although I know there are more effective methods to get people on) and I just can't wait there for 15 minutes. I know people look at the community server lists and see that ZE or TTT have 0 players on and immediately join a different server with pop, or just don't play community servers. The game is obviously thriving rn, but Daft's focus here is getting rid of the toxic and abhorrent players who make the servers unenjoyable. I think this is more popular in JB than the other servers because of the toxic nature of power-holding on CT, but the same thing can be said on the other two big ones. Maybe something in around the lines of rule skirting is what kills it for people. Throwing a molly on TTT and getting killed because someone purposely walked into it. Most people are not going to want to make a big deal out of it, so they just kind of sigh and brush it off. But then they're just out for an entire round, waiting 4+ minutes for the next round to start. If that happens 2 rounds in a row, how many people are going to stay in a server, watching other people play for 10 minutes straight? They're going to leave because some obnoxious players ruin the fun for everyone. I notice a similar thing happens when the server pop gets really high. It'll get up to like 20-25 people, and then suddenly drop because one person isn't having fun, then their friends leave because their friend left, etc. The problem absolutely has roots with the players, but more specifically players trying to get around rules. I think that, yes, branching out to other games is a big thing you guys should strive to do. It's a little difficult since not a lot of new games that people go to have support for community servers, but yeah you can still make a community around them. But while you guys are having members of your community branching out to new games and expanding the community further, you still have a very healthy amount of people still interested in CS:GO, just not interested in the servers because they know as soon as they get on, they're going to get bored again.