Ol' West

[Vima]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

I guess you should be asking the same thing about the other hosted servers too. Ol' West is the most original hosted server and the purpose of the hosted servers is to attract new developers to the server. Nobody wants to help Ol' West on a developer-standpoint, and it's not our fault. Why shouldn't it stay on the list? It still meets the requirements of the hosted list.

I find it strange that you're specifically targeting Ol' West when the other hosted servers aren't much better, if not worse.

I don't agree with that.
AEON is not worse than Ol West. I haven't seen your server with players in atleast a half year and obviously its not like you're making progress.

But however, Ol West meets the requirements for Hosted Tab, so why should it be taken down? Because of inactivity? They still pay for the server.
If Ol West should be taken down, so should Delteria and Atlantis... but thats another issue.

[Vima]

Originally Posted by Unkownsoldier

Or it could mean there is only two hosted servers on the hosted tab, one is has staff one does not. The difference from being on the hosted tab and not is the staff and server quality. I do not own a server, and I have a life. If hosted servers are about attracting developers look out there could be around seventy servers on the hosted list instead of 2, would that make you happy?

Well then finish some stuff on your server, apply for hosted inspection... the requirements are low so if you got enough content, you'll be on hosted tab.
Purpose of Hosted tab (imo) is just to get more attention from the players, show our work so far... get new staff.
It's harder than it might sound, as Ol West having struggle to get new developers, so are we on AEON.
That's why our servers have been there very long. Staff comes, Staff goes.

Why people aren't bothering applying on Hosted Tab's server, I don't know. Eeeeveryone wants to make their own server, who probably will die before they are going to apply to either hosted tab or classic tab.

[Pimmeh]

Actually I believe a Hosted server had to be 1 to 2 hours of playability without it getting repetative.
Right?

[Rufus]

You're all talking a load of crap to be honest. The purpose of the hosted tab as I understand it was to integrate your server into a "live" and "open" setting, to make sure your systems and such were well received, create a server buzz, and to ensure it works well when there's actual players online. While this may have initially stood for Ol' West, it is one of the worst servers visually and as "charming" as it may be, the ironic desolation of the server just isn't made up for. There is little to do and I know this I've logged on quite a few times and with 0 players, and such little content, you can hardly entertain yourself. I have seen Ol' Wests new tileset, and things are looking up to be quite fair, but it still shouldn't be on the Hosted tab.

Both Hosted playerworlds have kind of faded into the background for me. I never ever notice Ol' West and I never notice Aeon, and keeping them both on the Hosted list is not within their best interests, server staff or not. What exactly do you think is achieved when keeping those servers up while no one notices or plays them up? Longativity? Easier access when they are eventually updated? Well guess what guys, there's a less chance that people will notice or care you've updated the servers saying as they're kind of "always there" and always doing nothing -- it brings the server down.

If you aren't working on these servers themselves then remove them from the hosted tab as yes, they are detrimental up there with 0 players and 0 updates. Delteria is exactly the same and I've said this to Sandz a lot, you just are not going to have the same *umph* releasing content onto a dead server as you would with a "new server" release. I personally think the Hosted tab itself should be removed completely, but that's a different story altogether and as for the suckups of Tig that voted yes, why the hell aren't you on Ol' West playing if you feel so passionately about it? Grow up idiots and look at the bigger picture.

[Luigi203]

Originally Posted by Rufus

stuff

Most of what you said actually makes sense, although I don't particularly care to agree with you, I have to give you the fact that you're making sense which is a departure from what I've seen on this thread.

I've been making every effort up until late to get this server going. Unfortunately, the lack of a steady flow of images is what's holding me back. I'm trying to work something out with Tom at the moment, so what plans I have are totally at his mercy.

I don't think I've ever seen a hosted server go back to UC status because of globals. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was always by the owner's design, or the server ran out of servertime and dissappeared completely. Hopefully sometime in the near future things will start to happen.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Luigi203

I don't think I've ever seen a hosted server go back to UC status because of globals. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was always by the owner's design, or the server ran out of servertime and dissappeared completely. Hopefully sometime in the near future things will start to happen.

It's because these servers don't even get noticed. You want your server to be successful, stand out from the crowd and be noticed so the way it's going on right now is not suitable for you IMO.

[Unkownsoldier]

Well than Rufus I assume you are on my side then.

[CharlieM]

There are no sides, this argument doesn't matter what you think isn't going to change if it qualifies to be on the hosted tab.

[Luigi203]

Something more must be wrong with him if after all that he still says something like that.

[Unkownsoldier]

Luigi there are other problems at hand, Ol' West is an inactive server while others are active and are getting better everyday like Maloria, Azure Skies, maybe even babylon.

[CharlieM]

and if olwest is getting a thread made about it, it is obviously standing out from the crowd ALSO. The scripts are pretty much in place last time I checked, you don't have to idle on RC to do the rest of the dev work. You unknown are judging by player activity not development activity

[Unkownsoldier]

Well lets settle this like civilized people, give us proof that they are working at least Maloria is working show me one updated thing from the past 2 months. I dare you to find something that was not there two months ago.

[Unkownsoldier]

Newest update:

11/27/07 by Mag<br>Bullets have been slowed down. Votes to slow bullets = 36, votes to keep them fast = 2. The Rusty Pistol has been restored to its last backed up state. Sorry if it isn't recent and for any losses. Also, there's a 35% fee of the downpayment to stock an item for every two hours that item is out of stock. So, if the downpayment was $100 to produce, your shop will be fined $35 every two hours it's out of stoc



or go to the server and try their website.

[CharlieM]

They don't have to post current things on the site, the updater hasn't been active for a very long time even when they did updates they didn't post it there. I don't think Mag can even get RC to work right

[Soala]

It's not by making a thread/poll like this one about Ol'West that it will actually get kicked from the hosted tab. You're not the one to decide if Ol'West is actually any good or bad, nor to decide what to do with it.