Ok, pending any big disagreement from the two council members who haven't responded already, this is what is happening starting tomorrow morning.
Mixed Mode 32 Player (Official) will be going away. It's not expected that we can adequately ever have this server as Ranked and it pop properly.
Conquest 32 Player (Official) will be moving to Ranked. We actually already did this today, and it's already full.
With 16 slots from Mixed Mode coming to this, it will become Conquest 48 Player Ranked.
TDM 32 Player (Official) will be moving to ranked.
With 16 slots from Mixed Mode coming to this, it will become TDM 48 Player Ranked.
Both those servers will remain Base Maps, and this will mean we will have four ranked 48 player servers. Two Conquest, Two TDM each having a Base Maps and All Maps version. Many of our new members have come in not having premium, and ended up buying premium as a result of meeting us and playing with us. So we think it's important to keep each variety.
So the end result is we're going to have 8 servers instead of 9. We will have the same maximum player count as before though. 384 Max Players. As they are currently all will remain High Tickrate at either 40 or 60 Hz. 6-48 Player servers, 1-32 Player server and 1 64-Player server.
We may increase ticket counts on the new larger servers. TDM in particular I know other servers that go 400 tickets all maps have done well.
Far too many complaints of hackers/bigots in our official servers, going ranked on the remaining 2 officials means we'll finally have control over every server. Also we have been around 5 months now, we can succeed without the quick play traffic. With the StarWars beta being over, weather getting colder, having one less server to pop, I think we can kick butt. This weekend will be the first test, so I hope to see as many of you on as possible.
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