I've been having this happen a lot lately, though admittedly, my schedule is sporadic and I never know when I'll have a slot to be able to get in and frag a bit.  I've noticed that fairly often, I'll come to The Tomb and find no one there, or maybe only one player who is not {pDs}.  When I've had the time, I'll try to hang in there to draw more people, but similarly to Dick's comments, it's tough when you only have a 1/2-hour to maybe an hour slot to play to come in and just sit, hoping to draw in not only {pDs} but outsiders as well, and not have anyone show up.

At the same time, I'll notice that the *cough* *cough* *other server* *cough* has enough players on it that I could at least get a little fragging in before my time slot is gone.  Typically, if I do such a thing, I do find that some discussion will come up about our clan and I can promote our server to everyone.  As such, I would not necessarily call time spent on the other server (a relatively rare event in my case) a total loss.

Call it demographic study and marketing opportunity for net Tomb growth.

Well, that's my two worthless copper discs anyway...

Also, I have to say, this week has had a very good showing a couple times at night, one of which was mentioned in another thread.  I've loved having all those people in there and, aside from leg handing my ass to me (I'm getting up my practice, dammit), had a great time with everyone.  I've seen some serious pushing by both sides, great evenness in the teams and wins that were not easily won.  I would love to play like that with everyone more often... like the days (that I remember) here on The Tomb of old.  I think the new Tomb easily has the potential to outrock the old Tomb.


-nb

its quite possible.  we ban others for advertising on our server.

We're definitely heading in the right direction - the number of times I load up HL2CTF and find the Tomb empty is decreasing noticeable, and the number of times it's more than just 3vs3 is increasing dramatically. Something else I've noticed, when you are on other servers and say "I'm heading to the Tomb now" other people tend to know what you are talking about and follow you there. I think if the trends hold we'll start hitting the 32 player limit fairly soon - I'm really excited to get some huge battles going, I miss that so much.

Amen, brother.  I, too, have seen the change and I think it is certainly indicative of the good times to come.  The few raucous nights I've seen occur relatively recently have certainly been increasing in frequency as well as population.

All I can say is, yummy.  Me likey! 


-nb