I don't have a server, but if I did, what would be the best way to increase the amount of people that would want to play there? When browsing the server selector, I see many public servers that have almost no players online, if not none, which is an instant turn off when I'm looking for a new server to play on. Other servers have huge playerbases consistently throughout the day. How would one go about making their server appealing for new players if it doesn't have any already?
I would have keepd these tricks for myself if i would still be part of the ownerteam of that one server, but im not anymore. So i can share this now.
Give the servername something uniqe that makes it look different from the other servernames.
Play on it. Play with your whole team on it. No one joins a empty server. Players make players. For example i once playd on our EMPTY and NEW and UNKNOWN server on friday evening, i was alone. After some time we was 9. Play on the server on friday evening and during weekend. When many people have time to play, and probably look for servers. It works better in weekend because of that.
Having unique content is always a plus if you get one guy checking out servers if yours is different / new content they will more than likely invite their friends. it definitely does help if you and your friends all hop into a server yourselves to pump the numbers up so people see players on.
Here are some of my tips, which can go along with taking rekson's and Trackster's advice
Be Unique - Don't fill your server up with scriptfodder content as 90% of other server's probably do the exact same thing, plus most of them are pointless or annoying. Only use addons that will add to the experience
Invite Friends - This one is almost a must. It will be much harder to get people to play when you are the only one in there
Do not have any overpowered donation system that break your game, no "pay this and get everything" type stuff, that can be a major turn off to people
Do not have too many rules and run your server tighter than a prison camp
Do not have kid admins who abuse their powers
Have a decent server name along with the unique parts about it in the title to show people what your server is like
Try your best to keep download speeds to a minimum
These are just some general tips from my experience of being a server owner, and if you decide to run a server, good luck!
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