What if we owned our own public 9v9 TF2 server?, what do you think?
Upon the next content update I'll be aiming to strike at the opportunity to bring more of the DXMP community into the game. If this is successful I'll be initiating a plan that I'd never thought to see come to fruition: renting a server. For an entire year I've been in love with a play condition unique to Team Fortress-esqe games named "Highlander", in short this is basically 9v9 and you can only have 1 of each 9 classes on each team. It's a forced form of balance and encourages the team to use the strengths and weaknesses of each class without multiple anomalies popping up; e.g, a team with 3 engineers, 3 snipers and 3 spies.
I'll be renting for a month/2 months to test activity when we get the next major class update, I will be promoting it to all highlander fanatics and affiliate it with DXMP and a certain community a few of us attend who will hopefully use it as an active server even if an alternative or "waiting server". In short my goal is a server that can be filling and full for a majority of the week's afternoon and evenings that will be backed up by regulars, if this goes well I'll keep renewing the contract with whatever server provider I'll choose. I'll be planing on how to manage the server in the coming months.
Also, if I were to pick this up, I'd need a name for the server; eg:
Deus Ex
Deus Ex Network (with Dae's permission)
DXMP
Arx Genus
Using "Deus Ex" as an example shown in the following concept style formats when shown on the serverlists:
Deus Ex: Highlander 24/7
Deus Ex - Highlander 24/7
Deus Ex | Highlander 24/7
DeusEx:ArxGenus:UK//HIGHLANDER
Deus Ex: Arx Genus | Highlander 24/7 | UK
And finally a small simple concept logo used for MOTD and promotion, similar to this:
http://www.imagocentre.com/images/40/ti ... ept_72.png
I'd like feedback whenever this is a good idea or not. Oh, and we're playing TF2 in at 7pm GMT.