Al Basrah and the pooling of server resources.

Hello guys,

First time poster on your forum but I've played with a few of you on your server. Now, I have a proposal that is either genius or will be shot down immediately. I was playing on the battlearena Al Basrah server the other day with Royal Andy McNab (of the Royal clan, obviously) I'm pretty sure some of you know him. Anyway, we were lamenting over VOIP about the fact that the Royal's Al Basrah 24/7 server had to be shut down (a few months ago now) and the current lack of a 24/7 Basrah server that is consistently well populated. It's clear that this map is a firm favourite among Royal, NWA, and TBA as well as a few other people i've spoken with in game. From reading some of the threads on this forum it's clear that sustaining a good server population is proving difficult, and it's the same with the Royal's server (ProGaming) and the same can also be said about the battlearena. This is generally a symptom of there being way too many PR servers in general and all but a handful of servers are regularly poorly populated. This over abundance of servers was also brought up recently in a thread on the official PR forum.

It's clear that there is a solid 'Al Basrah community' out there, and it's a shame that we don't get to play our beloved map as often as we could. Instead I often find myself server hopping between your server, TBA and T&T when they run the map. What I'm suggesting is that you guys might consider forming a partnership of sorts with other like minded clans, in short, with the Royals and the battlearena, to pool your resources and get a single server between you. McNab has already expressed his enthusiasm for this, however I am yet to mention this idea to the battlearena guys. The fact that most of their players are from the US is doubly advantageous as this means that there is potential for a high server population 24 hours a day.

To conclude, this idea pretty much speaks for itself. It would mean less spending on server rental and more playing, instead of idling around seeding your own servers. The downsides: I realise that it's nice for a clan to have it's own server, so you may be unwilling to share a server with one or two other clans, this is of course understandable. Also some of you may be less enthusiastic about the Basrah map than others. The map rotation is obviously not set in stone, you could maybe run some of the other urban insurgency maps a couple of times a week for example. However I think it's the Basrah map that unites these three clans, and I think there is the potential to set up a f*****g excellent server between the three of you.

Hey biscuit.

I am on me way out the door as I write this.

However we will give some consideration to your suggestion and get back to you.

With Al Basrah being my fravourite map aswell, I do think this will be a geat idea. Aswell as for money wise.
But soon PR 0.9 will be out and there will be more maps and people will want to go on the new maps for sure, especially of what ive seen.
I would wait for a month or two till we check the new pr 0.9 maps out ey?

although im not around much i agree with mike, with a new patch comes a whole host of new stuff that people will want to try out and there may even be a better map (probably not but maybe)

however, in principle i think its a really good idea, only problems i can see are adminning and agreeing on rules etc but other than that sounds good after people have tried out the new patch (or until the new patch and then waiting a month or so for people to discover the new stuff)

Simples: ALL INS MAPS ON WEEKDAYS, WEEKENDS 24/7 BAS

devilhawk presents a good idea, quite simpl Al Basrah on weekends would be mint. Karbala/Fallujah West/Al Basrah does makes one hell of a rotation (I dont like Ramiel ). That's my personal thoughts, Cheers for coming here and posting this suggestion. I'd also like to say your an awesome player to play with biscuit.

Interesting idea. Devil's idea isn't bad either.

No worries, thanks sniperhid. I completely forgot about the new patch, Mike you're right about probably needing to wait until the hype has died down a bit afterwards. To be honest I don't think the upcoming or any subsequent patches will kill the hardcore group of Al Basrah players, as this core group has been around at least since I started playing PR (about two years now).

Good idea from the last couple of posts, personally I can't say I've ever had an excellent round on either Karbala or Fallujah West, but I appreciate there will always be the need to compromise.

I wanted to get McNab to chime in on this but I haven't seen him in game recently, and I tried and failed to find their website (if they even have one). Also I can never seem to be able to login on the battlearena website. If anyone has an account on there could you possibly post my original post on their forum?

Hey biscuit.

I hate typing man so I have sent you a PM with our TS 3 details.

Drop by and we can have a chat. You're also welcome anytime ur playing in our server.

Royals dont have a website m8, Ive asked before but I have got Andys xfire if you want that?

Im a member on battlearena aswell, what is it exactly you want me to say?

Thanks Vandal... I've never used TS before (I'm a bit of a luddite when it comes to the web, I like to keep things simple) but I'll install and have a fiddle around with it later.

Mike - you could either just rehash my proposal for them, or simply copy and paste my OP with a little explanation/context. Basically just suggest to them what I've suggested to you, that we form a three way alliance for an al basrah/urban insurgency server. If you have the time/will to do that then that would be fantastic. I've mentioned the idea in passing to a couple of the members but not to the actual admins.

Right ill get posting to battlearena asap m8

Ok sent them a commment ill keep an update to tell u wt they say etc..
or heres the link Battlearena
nt sure if you can see that if your not a member


Hopefully a Battlearena admin will post

Thanks a lot Mike, yeah I can read the topic. I am registered on the site but I can't seem to work their website, I tried multiple times to login to no avail. Anyway, we'll see how the idea goes down over there, and hopefully one of the Royals will be pointed towards this thread soon.

This is under review in the senior admin section so pls be patient as we might not go for it yet, Thanks

Of course mate.

Sure, I'm just trying to spread the idea out there, as if it's not something you'd go for other clans might be interested.