Message and Poll to NA

[Nindur]

Ignore anything ecko says on the forums, I am the official voice of ATS on the forums, endoresed by dominus.

[Hibachi]

Of course people don't want to see a server go away, one that is already stable and has a lot of people joining, but I have a hard time understand what you are trying to get at. The only reason for a possible removal is because people think admins abuse their powers? otherwise, you say you get donations, so really, I have no clue what the problem is.

[Hirlok]

nahhh guys, - please keep them running, wtf.

I know how expensive and time consuming it can be to run a server, and how annoying a whining community can be.
But it would be a pity if the NA servers went down. Community is much more enjoyable there, and I have a slightly less shitty ping on NA... lol

One suggestion (at least I did not find anything specific on the forums):
would be interesting how/where exactly those servers are hosted. One of the constant complaints has been a noticeable server side lag that happens a lot on NA siege - seems like either the server itself or its internet connection are close to their limit...
If we know what the  issues are and how they could be improved, I'm sure there would be a lot of folks willing to chip in a few bucks per month to get those servers flying....

[Sphinxer]

I don't see any reason for people to not be given multiple chances or the ability to fight a ban. Because the admin system is as simple as it is, it's necessary that an admin's initial decision never becomes the final one. I think the "ATS"(excluding devilize's server) servers are ran exceptionally well and I would question anyone's ability to run them better, especially considering how many people play on the servers.

People don't know but most of the bans, are always backed up by a different admin. Now with the nice Admin Chat, you can't know what's going on behind the scene but we often consult each other and rarely an important ban isn't discussed afterwards.

If you,re banned in EU , you can't play ANY EU servers, while if you get banned in NA, you still have other options if you wanna still play on a server with less than 100 ping. People are lucky and don't realize it

[trebeck]

dont shut down

[Hearst]

Though there seem to be new servers popping up every day, like ours, I would say no.

The more the merrier.  The NA community seems to be growing, so why stifle it with a limited selection.

And nobody wants to play with a big ping, EU and NA players alike.

[Sergee]

Ecko your a legit admin!! keep them up!

[gallemore]

Nindur you need to take control of this situation, this dude is a joke and he is just looking for sympathy.

[Digglez]

this is very confusing topic.

Siege does a pretty good job of keeping griefers inline, its ALWAYS the highest pop.  Why would anyone want it shut down?

I havent co-located a server in many many years but $200 sounds pretty outrageous.  You could have built your own $1k server and just pay for bandwidth only and it would have paid for it self in 5 months.

[KrojinKin]

Modified.s

[Jeade]

Ya I know you don't control it, but you take advantage of the fact that you have the most servers... and then you make bullshit forum threads like this one crying about how you "might" shut down the server.... stop fucking around and just do it already.

Is that your wife in your photo right there? She's hot.

[Cheesecake]

EVERY SERVER should have 2 admins FROM EACH MAJOR CLAN and thats it

thats my opinion

[gallemore]

haha ya thats my wife

[dynamike]

You will always have issues with people complaining about admins, even with the best admins in the world. The people on the servers doing wrong are the ones to complain most.

Do not let the whole NA community suffer because of that. You are doing a great job at managing the servers and I am sure if need be, the community will help out.

Let me know if money is an issue and I do what I can.

[Man_Bear_Pig]

NO!