Pending EU Server Suggestions

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Back in the day, SGM used to have a thriving EU community, with lots of friendly faces joining our community as a result of it. We've had the EU server operational for over two months now in Giant's Lair, and we are quite frankly having a hard time attracting a consistent player base to have fun with us. Here a few suggestions I have based off observations over the last few weeks to help us capture some of our old friends:

1. Cull the map pool; bangers only all the time.
   • The few times I've seen EU pop itself over the last few weeks, the players are often hopping on to enjoy the OG maps everyone knows and loves such as minecraftcity, motel, dolls, and minecraft. Culling the map pool will help the consistency of attracting such faces. My suggested map pool is in the spoiler below:
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     • innomotel
     • minecraftcity
     • minecraft
     • dolls
     • teenroom
     • roy the ship
     • community pool
     • community bowling
     • portals
     • jondome
     • MC Haven
     • rooftops
     • lifetheroof
     • mc nuketown
     • richland
     • terrortrain
     • clue
     • island
     • nipperhouse
2. Incentivize our NA playerbase to play on EU with something greater than double points
   • Give our NA dedicated players a reason to hop on and kick start the server with us, helping us attract new faces easier.
   • Whether it's locking some event skins/weapons behind an EU focused playtime requirement or spontaneous contests like "starting tomorrow, whoever has the most playtime on EU for the week gets xyz special thing"
3. Use EU as test server / introduce silly special events to spice things up
   • We've talked about weapon changes a lot the last few weeks, might make sense to ease them into our servers while giving our players a reason to hop on over and check some fun stuff out
   • I've seen other servers do "purge-esque events" where only the community rules apply, could be a fun environment to test a silly idea like that.

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[[CK] Panda With a Gun]

I'd almost go as far and say to cut some of the maps we have on NA as well, seen one or two kill pop because they were straight dookie.

But starting that off with EU would be a good idea

 

[cooldude42]

sometimes around 6pm est when evrone gets one gmod people get on the eu server instead but i think its bc most players are est not eu.

 

[TakanoriRuki]

I like the idea of getting it repop'd, although I don't know how serious people are when people say this but, they just blame their ping as a reason they don't want to be there or because they just hate eu for x reason

I believe having it as a server where new things are tried out / tested before put to live (NA) would be a great idea. Whether that be the balancing, updates or events