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Some interesting posts in this thread. The game is now 21 years old and dying even faster, so all remaining communities are doing their very best to try to hang onto players who are rapidly moving on to newer games. (Myself included - I am still a semi-active admin but I don't really play the game anymore)

Funny to read that some players find hit regs are better on Moon. We get the exact opposite complaint from players who say their ping/hitreg is ass on Moon but very good on Simple. I guess there is no such thing as a perfect network connection.

Now it is just down to 2 "24/7" servers. Just 3 years ago, there were 4-5 of them. That said, TGE is still chugging along fine with a regular crowd of 10-15 players most nights, the Simple RTR/SW and Aberdeen servers seem populated, and the US based DC server (EA117) still gets peaks of 15 players or so during US evenings.

And finally, trolls/disrupters aren't welcome on Moon just as they aren't welcome on Simple. Someone said it's the same people getting banned in both servers and this is 100% true. They bounce between servers as soon as they're banned on one they go to the other. Permanent bans just aren't handed out as easily as they used to be these days due to the huge reduction in player numbers.

Bocage is unpopular???

Bots are a necessary evil for servers outside of the Simple main server simply due to population. Moon for example simply doesn’t have the population to remove bots entirely. Same with TGE. I imagine similar story at Simple RTR, there are periods of 2-8 population which makes it difficult to sustain without bots.

The compromise we have made is to use a script to automatically turn off the bots once the server reaches a certain population (this threshold is map dependent and configurable). This allows the server to have bots when population is low-medium and not have them get in the way of players when there is a good population. Similarly, we increase the number of bots during the US overnight hours when the server normally sits at below 10 players.

Most new players these days seem to love team killing, stealing vehicles and wounding teammates, TK for planes and general disruptive behavior.

It was not just the death bubbles; trolls and teamkillers (not to mention hackers) have free rein there and there are no admins to deal with them.

Omaha is an art. Naval artillery with scout support is critical for the Allies. Use it to take out the defguns and the tanks - then infantry can push up. If the tanks are too hard to kill then you need Engineers and Anti-Tank making suicide runs up the ramps to overwhelm them while they repair. If there's only one tank, the infantry can just ignore it and push up the other ramp (obviously it relies on the Defguns being dead)

FHSW on Kabu.server is very popular, their server fills up to 70+ players during weekend evenings.  I don't live in Japan though so I don't really play there.

Don't see that many vanilla players anymore.

Can anyone tell me how the 1-nade mod is done? I'd love to do that on some of our maps but I've always had the map crash when I try.

We have baserape autokill/autokick and taxi autokill on MoonGamers and indeed it helps a lot. There are some downsides like false positives and players rage-quitting when they get killed (because they don't know / care about the rules) but the positives massively outweigh the negatives.

The server is normally empty. It'll go up to 20-30 players during events

There is something satisfying about getting a headshot with the No4 / K98.

I'll usually switch to the losing side in any game. A stomp is a boring for both sides. Does anyone else do this?

Late 2003

People who prioritize score over anything else and have zero teamwork or sense of fun / fairness. Team stacking for one.