I didn't make it in time to vote for counterstrike source. 1.6 led me to a full house of friends and foes and I will never ever forget the smiles I felt or warmth of acceptance, so with that said I pray that whatever is chosen that the same joy is shared with others that I felt when I played there!
An excellent prayer and an encouraging post. Thanks, cc.slim.
I'm of the opinion that we don't really bother with another server right now. I would suggest that we wait until there's a game that comes out that we've got a lot of people really fired up about. That way when the game's fresh and everyone's playing, we've got a server we can go to and call our own.
One could argue that servers drive chapter activity; others would argue that a chapter must have a certain level of activity before a chapter can be established and persist for 6 or more months. Both perspectives would be based primarily on theories and anecdotal evidence.
In other words, there's no guarantee that firing up a server for a new game (new in the sense that we don't already have a server for it) would or would not bring more activity to Tribe of Judah; there's no way to know how much activity it would bring until we have the server online.
Ideally, in the near future, we will either purchase or rent dedicated server hardware and be able to switch game servers on and off with less hassle and, more importantly, no cost difference. This would allow us to experiment more freely, rather than requiring members to donate a set amount (say, enough to cover 3 months of hosting) before bringing the server online.
Now what that game is, I don't know.
Judging by the poll, it may be Battlefield Bad Company 2. It's a shame that EA restricts dedicated server hosts to "approved" companies, but the poll shows there's clearly interest in a ToJ BFBC2 server.
The only question now is: Are enough members willing to donate enough money to fund one? Interest is great, but it doesn't pay the bills. Thanks to EA's poor decision, we would need to rent a BC2 server separately even after we had dedicated server hardware installed and running several other game servers.
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