SG dedicated bhop server?

[Hiza]

I'm sure this suggestion has been thrown out there multiple times though I'm curious as to why SG doesn't have a bhop only server. I know a fair argument would be money, though the few bhop servers I do play on have quit the crowd. Plus every here and there I'll here individuals in the minigame server ask "why don't we have a bhop server?".

Well again comes the money. If you did by chance decide to take the risk of deploying a bhop server I would recommend in-game ads for HTML MOTD before they join in, which in turn gives a bit of revenue for the server and SG as a whole. I'd like to hear what the community advisers, administrative officers as well as the whole SG communities opinion on this.

Thanks for reading this suggestion!

[Jake]

We don't have the player base to sustain a populated bhop server, without a populated bhop server whats the point? If you look there are hundreds of empty bhop servers that nobody ever plays on. There just isn't enough demand/interest from our community for one, I don't think we will ever get one.

[XeNo]

To give a more elaborated post on this:

 

We try to avoid gimmick servers. We currently have the course server which in my opinion is a very gimmicky server in itself, but that's the only one we have. Bhop/climb servers are 'gimmick' servers in the sense that no one really actively plays them day after day, they just play it whenever they feel like doing it for maybe an hour every few days then never play it again. We don't want to support those servers when we could have more populated servers people will play in and enjoy everyday.

[FLuiD]

To give a more elaborated post on this:

 

We try to avoid gimmick servers. We currently have the course server which in my opinion is a very gimmicky server in itself, but that's the only one we have. Bhop/climb servers are 'gimmick' servers in the sense that no one really actively plays them day after day, they just play it whenever they feel like doing it for maybe an hour every few days then never play it again. We don't want to support those servers when we could have more populated servers people will play in and enjoy everyday.

 

Change the course server to a bhop server? I'm pretty sure it would be more populated. I know I have definitely wanted one more than a few times as well as others

[Kippe]

Bhop/climb servers are 'gimmick' servers in the sense that no one really actively plays them day after day, they just play it whenever they feel like doing it for maybe an hour every few days then never play it again.

 

I don't really agree here. Bhop (and to a lesser extent kz) has a VERY dedicated fanbase, quite like surf but smaller. I think it would definitely take a lot of time and effort to get an "above average" server though.

[Stunningjam]

Change the course server to a bhop server? I'm pretty sure it would be more populated. I know I have definitely wanted one more than a few times as well as others

 

I agree with this, I would prefer bhop over course, and it would certainly do better as more people play bhop than course.

[FLuiD]

I agree with this, I would prefer bhop over course, and it would certainly do better as more people play bhop than course.

 

yes, it would do A LOT better.

[zacha1011]

I have yet to play the course server but the bhop server does sound a bit 'gimmicky' this would be server I would play when there is no one on the jb or ttt servers.

[XeNo]

@Vick

 

Thoughts on changing Course to a Bhop server?

 

In my opinion, it's just a matter of which is the better 'gimmick' server. Proven by past attempts, SG simply doesn't have a group of motivated enough players to make a Bhop/Climb/Course server ever be actually 'populated' and it ultimately draws down to what the minority of players who are interested in these types of servers prefers to play most. I believe in the past we always left up a Bhop server but it was replaced with the Course server since that was in higher demand at the time. We often go back to Bhop and I don't have a problem changing the Course server back to Bhop, I just don't want anyone to be under the impression it will be steadily populated. History has told us that when we re-open a bhop server it gets super active for a couple weeks, but then it dies down to the sort of numbers the Course server bring in nowadays (Couple players every other day or so).

[Vick]

I definitely won't mind changing the Course server to Bhop. But as others have stated, I don't see it getting anymore population than Course currently has.

 

What do you guys think of integrating some bhop maps in the course server? I could get rid of some course maps and add some of the better bhop maps. Only concern is again, it won't be very well populated, but I don't think it would hurt.