In this installment of our series on populating your server, we have on Oliver, aka Taco, from the 420th.

The 420th is run by map-modder Fritz (fritzmods.com) and his good friend Taco who serves as the “face” of the 420th.

I talk to Taco and ask him what sets his server apart from all the other CoD servers in the world.

What makes the 420th servers so popular? It all comes down to knowing what people want and giving it to them - as simple as that. What people want from the 420th is:

a) Capture the Flag, and

b) Fun, off-the-beaten path, maps, such as:

The hysterical Octagon for CoD4

 The Ultimate spawn-rape map: Yuko for CoD4 and CoD2

And of course Fritzkrieg (an homage to Yuko).

As well, a huge advantage for the 420th besides all the very unique and fun maps is the cool and relaxed experience you get on the servers. To enhance the “fun”, the server admin policies are quite loose and this promotes a very relaxed gaming experience.

Listen to the webcast here:

By the way: I lead off the program with my singing debut. Yes I said "singing". Lol.

Show Notes:

Welcome to another in a series of webcasts we are doing on popularizing your gaming servers.


Well..I made you suffer through my singing in that intro to prove a point. Sometimes you have to come up with new ideas to keep things fresh and keep people coming to your server. At times you don't succeed...like my intro, and sometimes you do.

Coming on to talk about what it takes to develop a successful and popular gaming community, is a sysadmin who knows all about keeping this fresh. He is a gentleman we've had on before, he was a contestant on the 2nd Kill or Be Killed gameshow...its

Oliver, aka Taco, from the 420th at fritzmods.com

the 420th is all about fresh and being innovative. They play some of the most off the wall and innovative gamestyles and maps in CoD4. Without further ado then, here's Oliver.


1. Oliver, give us a quick intro into the 420th - how many servers/types of players...etc.
2. Describe your servers - what type of gaming do you and your players enjoy.
3. You used to be with United Noobs ...what made United Noobs so popular?
4. Why did you break away from UN ...what were you and Fritz trying to create with Fritzmods?

5. What attracts people to a server?

- in your opinion are the reasons people are attracted to your servers?
- you guys run a lot of unique maps...do you think that's why people come to the server?

Yuko
Under Yuko
Fritzkrieg
Fahkre


6. What do you do to keep things fresh?
7. You run a modded server(s) ...is that a detriment or a plus?
8. What advice would you give others to make a start-up server popular?
9. How do you attract people to a server?

10. Is it important to have a clan when starting a server? There's been a trend lately away from clans.
11. What are the biggest headaches?.

 

Remember, you can find even more tips on populating your servers here:

Top 10 Tips on Populating your Server