Do you think using facade will always keep your server popular? With facade it ‘always’ gives players option, do you want to get redirect and if player selects “No”, facade is of no use at all.
I like when few admins here compare us with them with half baked things… It’s going off topic but I don’t understand few things:
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How many clans here actually use Facebook ‘paid advertising’ or Google ad sense to promote their community? I am sure 99% don’t.
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I have seen many clans using things like auto promotion admin LUA aka promote or give XP based on admin. Do you think it’s good for long run? Clan ends up having immature admins…It will work for small duration but it doesn’t in long run.
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Some server admins just don’t care for cheaters. They don’t ban them to have that one player but soon other players realize that cheaters are always welcome here and players start leaving. We have one admin in this topic who himself uses ETBot and then complains why his server is empty… why would someone play on cheaters servers? As as a player yourself, would you? I wouldn’t and same goes for other players.
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How many clan here uses commercial forums? I mean give some good place to talk around? Most of them use free hosting where they end up with tons of add banners or forums going down every now and then and tons of other issue.
There is no facades in COD4. Do you really think facade help to make my COD4 server popular?
http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/178.63.72.133:28930/
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How many clans here provide servers at various location? We have servers on Chicago, Dallas, Germany, France and NewYork. and members choose where they want to play.
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Point to understand… How many clans here use name “NoDownload” in their server name but still make players download menus, pk3s, etc? At one point u are saying “NoDownload” and still making players to download pk3s? Isn’t that wrong too?
I could go on … but I will make it short… nice server environment, good forums and members and non cheat environment makes server popular.
There where no facades or multi patch servers in 2007-09 or 2010 but even that time my servers where popular. 20$ game server with free website hosting doesn’t make server popular in one month. I wonder where others clan would be if they would spend money in paid advertising on popular social networks, run commercial forums and cheat free game server, wouldn’t promote admins based on XP, etc etc.
My post is in general and I am just participating in discussion and nothing else. I could care less what others are doing and what they don’t and what cheaters have to say about us.
Some people here are like thief’s… and complaining about cops not doing anything… Well being a thief you (in general) lost right to complain about same things. Now this is just metaphor, I hope someone doesn’t take it in literal sense and comes down quoting me that we are not thief’s or I would have nothing to say 
All i wish is like patriot, one day i hope SD/ID decides to put 2.55 master list to end and then no more issue since all will be on 2.6b.