The story so far: A couple of weeks ago I rented a Killing Floor server from GameServers.com. I configured the server to my liking and then waited for some people to join to play with (most of my friends don't play KF). However, hours and then days went by and almost noone connected to my server, I think one or two people dropped by a few times but they left again before others joined.
I was quite disappointed by this, as I had rented another KF server a year or two ago and I remember it was quite popular, with groups playing there often in the afternoon and evening. I thought maybe GameServers.com servers suck (last time I got the server from Multiplay.co.uk) or that maybe Killing Floor just has a lot less players now than it did back then. But then after a week or so I suddenly started to see a rise in activity on my server. People were joining more often, and a couple of days later it was beginning to get pretty active and full quite often.
So I got to enjoy my server for a few days, but then the KF Halloween event started. I wanted to play the new map so I switched my server to it. I figured I wouldn't have to wait long for players to join because everyone would want to try the new map and it was a free weekend, but nope, server stayed empty again. I quickly switched it back to the map it was on (WestLondon) hoping that that would somehow fix it but of course that didn't help.
So now my server is deserted again, and here I am waiting and hoping that in a few days people will actually start joining again.
So my question of course is, does anyone know what could explain this strange behavior? I have noticed that it takes a long time for my server to show up in the server browser (like a minute after I hit refresh), maybe the server browser displays servers that have been up longer first or something? Is there some way my server can get higher priority for the Master Server? Kind of a waste to have a perfectly fine server that almost noone ever joins. :/
TL;DR: It seems that whenever I reconfigure my server after that almost nobody joins it for like a week, what gives?
I was quite disappointed by this, as I had rented another KF server a year or two ago and I remember it was quite popular, with groups playing there often in the afternoon and evening. I thought maybe GameServers.com servers suck (last time I got the server from Multiplay.co.uk) or that maybe Killing Floor just has a lot less players now than it did back then. But then after a week or so I suddenly started to see a rise in activity on my server. People were joining more often, and a couple of days later it was beginning to get pretty active and full quite often.
So I got to enjoy my server for a few days, but then the KF Halloween event started. I wanted to play the new map so I switched my server to it. I figured I wouldn't have to wait long for players to join because everyone would want to try the new map and it was a free weekend, but nope, server stayed empty again. I quickly switched it back to the map it was on (WestLondon) hoping that that would somehow fix it but of course that didn't help.
So now my server is deserted again, and here I am waiting and hoping that in a few days people will actually start joining again.
So my question of course is, does anyone know what could explain this strange behavior? I have noticed that it takes a long time for my server to show up in the server browser (like a minute after I hit refresh), maybe the server browser displays servers that have been up longer first or something? Is there some way my server can get higher priority for the Master Server? Kind of a waste to have a perfectly fine server that almost noone ever joins. :/
TL;DR: It seems that whenever I reconfigure my server after that almost nobody joins it for like a week, what gives?
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