Hi Guys, Hi Zero,

finally i made it to register (i'm a lazy dude). Most of you guys that play on the Zombie Server should know me as ᴮᵒᵇ.
I've been watching the changes this server went through in the last months and I wonder why it's so dead these days...
Since I'm from Europe, i know that you guys are still working/sleeping when it's day here, but like a year before, the Server used to be full of Players most of the time. I had a few months break in between so i may have missed something? What happened? Why did this server become so dead?

I had a couple of conversations with other players that are willing to do their best to help get this server popular again. As seen on other Servers, good and active admins do a lot to keep Players stick with the servers, maybe i will order admin myself one day, but where did all the good dudes go?

I tried some alternative Zombie Servers when Ibis was empty, but it's not the same. IBIS is unique and i've never seen a server with that kind of nice, sick and funny faggots Never had so much fun playing CSS.

@Zero: I was online when you made some changes a few days ago, and i see you're working on it But there are still a few things that have to be fixed:


- Ranking

still does not work (for me), i get errors when i type "rank" or "place"


- Poor Map Selection (We talked about that - You said the other Maps will show up when there are enough players)

However, i still can nominate them when i type "nominate map_name" into chat, but the maps won't show up in the vote then. Is there a way to change this? This would be helpful for people like me to change to a popular map when i'm alone on the server and this will attract more players then.
Also, most of the big maps are playable with 4 Guys, which often works better than with 20 noobs Especially in maps with boss fights (Boss' HP is multiplied with the total of Human PLayers - Hard to destroy when 30% are shooting the Zombies instead of the boss...) Maybe it would be good NOT to limit maps to a min. amount of players because i had so much fun in the past playing thru the epic maps with 2 or 3 really good guys!!!!
Your decision, but the availability of all maps never has been a problem to me...

I will do a list with new good maps (you told me to post them here) as soon as i find the time


- HP-Based speed:

What's the Idea behind this? I can say, i win 80% of rounds when i spawn as Mother Zombie, but it has become harder. And it's annoying when you almost break through the cade(zm)/defense line (ze) ,the guys have to reload and i'd be able to kill them, but i'm too slow now because i'm almost dead...


- Jetpack

Some like it - some don't. But i remember my favourite Server (long long time before ibis). They also had jetpacks, but it didn't reload and only lasted for 3 seconds. I like jetpacks, i don't need them so i don't care too much but i wanted to share the idea. 3 Seconds is enough to get to some special places without the possibility to glitch too much example: death star escape - get into secret weapons room, or get on some roofs in other maps, or just make an emergency jump to not get bitten by a zambi.

Just think about it. (maybe add a command like you did before with the !party mode)

Errors

There still is this problem with missing "props" (<- is that the right word?). The Error happens randomly and most of the time it does not directly affect gameplay. Most of the time, some destroyables just are not there (Doors in Shroomforest and stuff...) but sometimes the leafes (shroom) won't move, today there was no escape Butterfly at all (happened once only), the snail at the traffic light was missing once (so the map did not continue).... This are just a few examples, but there are many bugs like this in most of the maps.

To me, it looks like a problem with a plugin. But i'm not too experienced with server stuff at CSS.



These are my thoughts so far, i will add more if i got some...

Greetings!!!

Bob

(i hope my english skills are not that bad, sorry for any typos)