I have had my server running for about 4 hours now and I have noticed that not very many take interest into a new server and I was hoping that anyone here might know any ways of grabbing peoples attention?
Getting a server consistent population takes a lot of time and effort as there are so many "dead" servers out there. If you're a community server (non modified) listing the region of the country you're hosted out of can help. If you're a modified server then the mods you pick can help as well but you need to define what you're trying to accomplish with your server. For mine, it took some time to get it going and still takes endless effort. I've had this server for close to 20 months and still dedicate 4-5 hours a week to keep it going as well as having 2-3 admins on it consistently.
Websites and things like twitter to keep people updated can also help not only bring people but more importantly keep them around. I set this up for my server [url]www.uswest.info[/url] and it's proven to be a critical link to build and sustain the community I need to run a successful server.
[QUOTE=almosttactful;48919454]Getting a server consistent population takes a lot of time and effort as there are so many "dead" servers out there. If you're a community server (non modified) listing the region of the country you're hosted out of can help. If you're a modified server then the mods you pick can help as well but you need to define what you're trying to accomplish with your server. For mine, it took some time to get it going and still takes endless effort. I've had this server for close to 20 months and still dedicate 4-5 hours a week to keep it going as well as having 2-3 admins on it consistently.
Websites and things like twitter to keep people updated can also help not only bring people but more importantly keep them around. I set this up for my server [url]www.uswest.info[/url] and it's proven to be a critical link to build and sustain the community I need to run a successful server.[/QUOTE] Thank you for the tips, I guess I have a long way in getting a healthy running server with a good community
Yeah, I'm still trying. I've gone the modded route, and focused a fair amount of time on making it look nice (colour scheming mods, making the description not messy, custom images in server header, etc)
On a good day we can get like 9 people online at once. most days we get one or two players tops. it sucks. but thats the nature of having thousands of servers listed. people naturally go to ones that have other players already.
Only the truly adventurous will join a server with one or zero other players.
[QUOTE=N4;48919607]Yeah, I'm still trying. I've gone the modded route, and focused a fair amount of time on making it look nice (colour scheming mods, making the description not messy, custom images in server header, etc)
On a good day we can get like 9 people online at once. most days we get one or two players tops. it sucks. but thats the nature of having thousands of servers listed. people naturally go to ones that have other players already.
Only the truly adventurous will join a server with one or zero other players.[/QUOTE] That is very true, How long has your server been up for?
Thats really artistic to make an advert for your server.
1. Create an alt account and ask for help.
2. Answer with your main and add your server.
3. Vote the post friendly with your alt, to make others think that way.
Profit.
The best way is to play quite a while on other servers, make many friends then when you open yours invite them, when we had a server in legacy in the 3rd day it was at about 70-100/100 online. Half of the population was just people we met on other servers
[QUOTE=Myrothas;48922245]Thats really artistic to make an advert for your server.
1. Create an alt account and ask for help.
2. Answer with your main and add your server.
3. Vote the post friendly with your alt, to make others think that way.
Profit.[/QUOTE]
That's a really low way of berating someone that's just looking for some info.
1. You didn't consider their differing countries, join dates, # of posts.
2. You seem to think there is money in running a Rust server.
3. You're pretentious.
To OP, advertise where allowed ([url]https://www.reddit.com/r/playrustservers/[/url] for example). I would recommend getting several core players first. Meza and tactful had good suggestions for that. Then, after you've convinced a handful of players that your server is stable/fun, have them vote for your server on rust-servers.net
I've noticed that # of players and ping will affect your servers visibility the most. I think, atm, having 12+ players constantly on will greatly increase your visibility.
GL!
[QUOTE=FroggyofApex;48922598]That's a really low way of berating someone that's just looking for some info.
1. You didn't consider their differing countries, join dates, # of posts.
2. You seem to think there is money in running a Rust server.
3. You're pretentious.
To OP, advertise where allowed ([url]https://www.reddit.com/r/playrustservers/[/url] for example). I would recommend getting several core players first. Meza and tactful had good suggestions for that. Then, after you've convinced a handful of players that your server is stable/fun, have them vote for your server on rust-servers.net
I've noticed that # of players and ping will affect your servers visibility the most. I think, atm, having 12+ players constantly on will greatly increase your visibility.
GL![/QUOTE] Thanks for the advice, I am contacting some old friends of mine that use to play rust to get back in right now, I have got a couple which has increased the rate of people joining but I guess it will get there
[editline]17th October 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=Mezamorphis;48922351]The best way is to play quite a while on other servers, make many friends then when you open yours invite them, when we had a server in legacy in the 3rd day it was at about 70-100/100 online. Half of the population was just people we met on other servers[/QUOTE] That is also a good idea, one of my friends servers is doing that and they just hit 25 yesterday, I guess I should go and do that
naked chicks would help :)
I ran a legacy server for about a year. Most players never saw my thread here at the site and just jumped on because of the name of my server (or so many told me). I had plenty of months with hardly anyone ever playing and a handful of months with a pop that was almost too much for me to handle. Made many good friends that i still talk to and play with today.
One of the key things is to have a few firends playing during peak hours. For me my server always attracted new people when I had around 5-6 people playing during prime time. Some people love servers with loads of people, some people like servers with just a handful. I found that many of the people that played on my server liked it when there were 10-20 people max. And like I said as long as I had 5-6 people on during prime time hours then more followed fairly quickly.
The main issue I ran into were the big power groups that would get on my server and within a day or two they would just raid everything, kill everything and since no one really banded up against them, the big group would chase everyone off the server and then eventually leave themselves for another server to target.
I love modded servers myself so when I ran my own server I ran some basic mods at first and then would take suggestions from the players. I let them dictate the mods to an extent and that seemed to work really well.
Now I found I'd rather just play on someone elses server. When you own the server and you have a good amount of players, you can't play the game...you have to monitor the server, help others, enforce the rules etc. That is what being admin is all about. If you arent willing to step back and not play the game....then the server might not do as well as it could.
If you do get going then recruit some help so you can have some mods on while you can't be on. Also make sure to monitor the server even when you aren't playing. Nothing is worse than a server that claims active admin and you never see one on.
[QUOTE=FroggyofApex;48922598]
1. You didn't consider their differing countries, join dates, # of posts.[/QUOTE]
Ok, you're a better investigator than me.
Same problem. My server is running about two months and still there was no one. In the best case, two human online. I will try to implement your suggestions, thanks for the information.
Good luck everyone.
[QUOTE=Amish;48924054]I ran a legacy server for about a year. Most players never saw my thread here at the site and just jumped on because of the name of my server (or so many told me). I had plenty of months with hardly anyone ever playing and a handful of months with a pop that was almost too much for me to handle. Made many good friends that i still talk to and play with today.
One of the key things is to have a few firends playing during peak hours. For me my server always attracted new people when I had around 5-6 people playing during prime time. Some people love servers with loads of people, some people like servers with just a handful. I found that many of the people that played on my server liked it when there were 10-20 people max. And like I said as long as I had 5-6 people on during prime time hours then more followed fairly quickly.
The main issue I ran into were the big power groups that would get on my server and within a day or two they would just raid everything, kill everything and since no one really banded up against them, the big group would chase everyone off the server and then eventually leave themselves for another server to target.
I love modded servers myself so when I ran my own server I ran some basic mods at first and then would take suggestions from the players. I let them dictate the mods to an extent and that seemed to work really well.
Now I found I'd rather just play on someone elses server. When you own the server and you have a good amount of players, you can't play the game...you have to monitor the server, help others, enforce the rules etc. That is what being admin is all about. If you arent willing to step back and not play the game....then the server might not do as well as it could.
If you do get going then recruit some help so you can have some mods on while you can't be on. Also make sure to monitor the server even when you aren't playing. Nothing is worse than a server that claims active admin and you never see one on.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I have a couple friends who play rust almost constantly, so I have them try to play on my server for as long as possible but most of the time they get bored and leave. I would love to play on my server but I think if it were to get populated I would just monitor the server as well as make videos for the youtube channel I run.
Give me admin and I'll play.
[QUOTE=meatwad253;48933098]Give me admin and I'll play.[/QUOTE] uh ok!
You basically need ~10 people that would be willing to actually play on your server when it launches at 0 or you'll never get anywhere. My server (now run by someone else) started at 1/100 (me) for the first week or so. Occasionally you'd see someone pop in, start building, etc., but they wouldn't last long. People go where the players are.
If you have 5-10 friends, have them help you out. Coddle every single person that joins. Be attentive. Answer their questions. Invite them to a Steam group (every single person you see join). Make a website. Make a Twitter account. Use mods to run adverts that advertise your Twitter/Steam group/etc.
The bottom line is that it's a LOT of effort. It will seem fruitless and you'll want to pull the plug, but it only took my modded server ~3-4 months to get to the top of the modded tab, sorted by population. Run desirable mods. Implement playerbase input. Etc. etc. etc.
You'll need admins. Mature, preferably adult admins. The first time players see a "XxXHackerLeetFuckboiXxX banned for speedhacking", they will be endeared to your efforts and want to play there continuously.
At the end of the day, it's mostly common sense, but most people don't want to put in the effort. The days of opening a Legacy server in the first week of Rust's alpha launch and watching it explode are over. Gotta work at it.
Why a twitter account? Just to instantly inform the players about the events of the server? We have a website and a group VK.com (popular in Russia). Do I need to create a thread in forum Steam?
Twitter is useful if the server goes down, or to quickly tell people something like the server wipe just happened, or the update is out and loaded on the server.
why do you all want YOUR own server ? so when people actually comes and build base, you can raid them using your admin priviledge of having infinite ressource ? you want to film raid cam video using the free cam and no other server will give you admin rights ?
Admining a server sucks. The only reason you should do it, is if there is a demand for a server and no actual server to fill that need. Chances are, in your area, there are 4 other servers exactly like yours. Why trying to divide the players in 4 different small pop servers, instead of just playing in one server and actually have an active server pop?
The unwritten rule of admins is, if someone wants to be an admin, then he probably shouldnt be an admin. When i see someone refusing to play on already popular server and insisting on spending money to create his own server, identical, for the sole purpose of having power, that is suspicious.
Sure, there are legit reasons to open servers. Particulars mods (i dont really understand modded servers but whatever), lack of community servers (for example very few community servers in asia or australia, to the point of if you get banned from the only 1 or 2 active community servers, there is nowhere else to play). Or just tired of admin abuse from all the active community servers, which i understand.
But starting an identical server in the same location than another active server ? i know i would never play on it, and i simply recommend you to shut it down and play on the nearest active server. I met sooo many shitty admins that were simply in for the free ressources and power, i dont trust any server admin unless there are 100 players on, which indicate an healthy server.
You're entitled to your opinion, and I mine. My opinion is a little icon above this...
[QUOTE=louisclub;48941125]why do you all want YOUR own server ? so when people actually comes and build base, you can raid them using your admin priviledge of having infinite ressource ? you want to film raid cam video using the free cam and no other server will give you admin rights ?
Admining a server sucks. The only reason you should do it, is if there is a demand for a server and no actual server to fill that need. Chances are, in your area, there are 4 other servers exactly like yours. Why trying to divide the players in 4 different small pop servers, instead of just playing in one server and actually have an active server pop?
The unwritten rule of admins is, if someone wants to be an admin, then he probably shouldnt be an admin. When i see someone refusing to play on already popular server and insisting on spending money to create his own server, identical, for the sole purpose of having power, that is suspicious.
Sure, there are legit reasons to open servers. Particulars mods (i dont really understand modded servers but whatever), lack of community servers (for example very few community servers in asia or australia, to the point of if you get banned from the only 1 or 2 active community servers, there is nowhere else to play). Or just tired of admin abuse from all the active community servers, which i understand.
But starting an identical server in the same location than another active server ? i know i would never play on it, and i simply recommend you to shut it down and play on the nearest active server. I met sooo many shitty admins that were simply in for the free ressources and power, i dont trust any server admin unless there are 100 players on, which indicate an healthy server.[/QUOTE]
Gotta love blanket statements like this. While not untrue, it is grossly exaggerated. I played on a ton of different servers and yeah, the types of admins you describe here exist and there are lots of them, but there are at least just as many properly admin'ed servers both in community and modded. You never hear about them though because that's how the internet works, people feel the need to talk when they are frustrated about something, but rarely when things are going well.
This leads to the kind of post you just made driving players away from the modded and community tabs, sending them straight into the lion's mouth of Official servers with close to no moderation or control, where meeting hackers is normal.
I've played on a ton of different servers in my Rust career and most had good or excellent admins. I've also met all kinds of bad ones, but that's part of life.. You meet assholes at the restaurant, bar, local shops, politicians, neighbors, coworkers... They are everywhere but don't let them get to you. For every asshole out there, there's a nice reasonable person. It's the 50/50 rule that governs the world... 50% of people are assholes and each half thinks the other half are the assholes. This is valid for any and all subjects and things in life :)
Anyways... There are good admins out there in community and modded, some excellent ones also and it's saddening to see you totally ignore that and post your campaign of hate as reality when it clearly is not.
Try inviting your friends who play Rust to come onto your server.
At first, it will probably be just you and your friends, but after awhile, your friends might also tell other people causing more people to come.
It's not about the amount of people who come.
People go to servers that gives them the most enjoyable experience, if you advertise around and welcome them to a server that is enjoyable, they would be more likely to stay and become regulars.
All the best for your servers man.
- Sign up on rust-servers.net and toprustservers.com
- Bring friends, make them invite people
- Constitute how you want to play on your server. Some Admins remove badly placed walls on request, some don't, some raid, some don't even play at all to prevent people from getting angry with them. Being admin who tries to play the game is a hard task in rust.
People don't like if admins have big bases even if it's all legit there will be people claiming it was archieved by admin abuse.
- Constitute what kind of Rules you would like to implement. Some servers don't allow building in caves or try to punish KOS.
- Add a nice description. Low-pop servers are appreciated by solo players, "friendly" people and beginners.
- Call several airdrops at a certain time of day and make it an event.
- Make a steam group and invite everybody you know and ask them to invite their rust friends too. Also invite everybody joining the server.
Try making it a good server. If you leave it vanilla that's fine. But if you add mods:
- Don't add TP. I just hate TP it brings so many problems in gunfights.
- I recommend not using more than 5x gathering rate.
- Rust:IO clans is a nice plugin
- Try to get somebody with script / coding knowledge to make own plugins that no other server has. If your server is unique, people will notice after a while.
FowsT- i agree!
website helps too to attract players!
And top lists or Game trackers to website & ect ...
Out of all these posts... My advice to you is be [B][U]UNIQUE[/U][/B]!
If you use as admin one girl, with sexy voice... the population skyrocket :)
You simply put girl gamers only and the dickfest will begin.
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