Today we bring all you admins and clan leaders out there the first in a series of webcasts focusing on how to populate your servers.

In this series we scour the community for tips and tricks to create a popular, vibrant, exciting place to play FPS games.

While we have posted all these ideas on BASHandSlash.com article:

Ten Tips to Populate Your CoD4 Server

…we thought that to augment our article, we would go out and get the straight scoop on how to create a super server from folks who have excellent track records at building clans and rocking servers.

In today’s first installment, we have asked Jazz, admin extraordinaire from the 509th tactical community to share his knowledge and experience with us.

Show Notes:

1. Jazz's intro and his work on the 509th at 509th.net
2. Why did you want to become an Admin?
3. Describe the servers you are helping to run.
4. What in your opinion are the reasons people are attracted to your servers?
What advice would you give others to make a start-up server popular?
5. What do you do to keep things fresh?
6. You run a modded server(s) ...is that a detriment or a plus?
7. What are the biggest headaches.
8. What are the best things about admin-ing?

You can check out the 509th servers here:

The 509th tactical community has a new COD4 Sniper Server (4.3). So get out your scope, keep your head down, and let battle commence!

Also their COD4 Tactical (4.2) Server has a new IP address, check out these IP's

Tactical (4.1): 205.234.159.44:28960

Tactical (4.2): 75.126.40.40:28960

Sniper (4.3): 69.12.25.13:28960