Why so many empty servers?

[Nimbot2506]

Everytime I play I only encounter 3 - 4 servers with players. I've saved about 29 GON servers and most of them are empty.

Is the browser lying to me? I sure hope so...

Because the reason you guys have ads is to help keep servers up the scratch but having 20 servers empty all the time seems like a BIG waste of money. (Don't mean to bash the ads)

[Jez]

Everytime I play I only encounter 3 - 4 servers with players. I've saved about 29 GON servers and most of them are empty.

Is the browser lying to me? I sure hope so...

Because the reason you guys have ads is to help keep servers up the scratch but having 20 servers empty all the time seems like a BIG waste of money. (Don't mean to bash the ads)

Yeah, GON's servers for this don't seem overly popular. It's hard to tell exactly since they're not compatible with the site's monitoring software. Btw, the favourites limit for this game is 30 servers, FYI. Yet another piece of Treyarch stupidity.

[Auld]

Basically I simply don't see many, if any, of them in server browser. That means other people out there who may not have added them all to favs also don't see them, there fore they won't fill up.

Hopefully the upcoming patch sorts this out.

[Jez]

Basically I simply don't see many, if any, of them in server browser. That means other people out there who may not have added them all to favs also don't see them, there fore they won't fill up.

Hopefully the upcoming patch sorts this out.

Adding location filtering to the server browser would be a huge help. I don't know if they're planning to do that though. Methinks not.

[Maxpayne5th]

Too many people like Nuketown. I personally hate it, but it seems like half the community love it.

You want your servers to become full? Change them to Nuketown 24/7 servers.

[Auld]

I laughed so hard when Treyarch's fix for the lag was to limit the server browser to loading 2k odd servers instead of adding a country filter which would have achieved the same goal and provided useful results. Why on earth would anyone want to see server with more than 200 ping?

[Fireslide]

I think part of the problem for this is that a LOT of people have purchased their own private servers from gameservers.com

Since it's all hosted on Internode hardware anyway, it winds up being fairly similar in terms of performance. I haven't noticed any difference between a GON server and some other hosted clan server.

Difficulty finding the servers doesn't help either. Hopefully with the new patch enabling the connect command, some external third party software might allow one to connect to the servers easily.

[Jez]

I laughed so hard when Treyarch's fix for the lag was to limit the server browser to loading 2k odd servers instead of adding a country filter which would have achieved the same goal and provided useful results. Why on earth would anyone want to see server with more than 200 ping?

Yeah. I mean you can sort by country, you just can't filter by country. Maybe it has something to do with pre-query info about country not being available, but I think laziness is more the answer.

Also, how the hell do they leave the connect command in, but not functional. I mean it autocompletes in the console when you type it in...

I'm no techie, but surely connecting to a server via the console would be actually easier to code than doing it through a GUI?

[JonDogg]

Adding location filtering to the server browser would be a huge help.

You know how when you start browsing for servers only Australian servers come up first, then there's a pause, then every other server comes up. As soon as the Australian servers finish popping up I quickly double click a random server then cancel it, so it stops more appearing so I can look at only Australian servers. Does that make sense?

[Jez]

Adding location filtering to the server browser would be a huge help.

You know how when you start browsing for servers only Australian servers come up first, then there's a pause, then every other server comes up. As soon as the Australian servers finish popping up I quickly double click a random server then cancel it, so it stops more appearing so I can look at only Australian servers. Does that make sense?

Yeah. I'm capped at the moment so there tends to be a pretty big gap between australian servers appaering and others. I filter by game mode and non-HC/empty so not that many servers come up anyway.

[unkillable2]

Servers are cheap for blackops compared to other games making it easier for everyone to have there own. But with some clan servers they put up stupid rules because they have the power to remove anyone, any player that may challenges them and spam there clans website every 30secs. Give it time and people may go back to GON servers.

NUKETOWN 24-7 is very popular due to being a small easy spam guns/nades and run around knifing.

[Jez]

But with some clan servers they put up stupid rules because they have the power to remove anyone, any player that may challenges them and spam there clans website every 30secs. Give it time and people may go back to GON servers.

Yeah. To me it kind of screws up the point of having a ranked system if some servers are going to have arbitary restrictions on weapon/perk choice that aren't reflected in the actual stats.

[Serval]

The Nuketown craze should die down when a majority of people have used its fast-paced nature to rank up as far as they want to go (or if they decide it being Nuketown constantly is no longer worth the extra xp ie. when their enthusiasm fades a bit).

[ashman1991]

For me, I have only ever seen 2 or 3 games.on.net servers ever show up in the list. I saw 'games.on.net 69' the other day though and I was wondering why I had never seen any of the other 68...

[tranquil]

For me, I have only ever seen 2 or 3 games.on.net servers ever show up in the list. I saw 'games.on.net 69' the other day though and I was wondering why I had never seen any of the other 68...

yeah same here mate, i rarely ever see a GON server at all. pretty disappointing, the majority of my time in multiplayer has been on a whole bunch of random clan servers.