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Like I said, it depends on the time of day. Sitting here currently at 3:15 PM EST on a Sunday, the server only has like 3 people playing, and that goes for the whole weekend as well. I've seen it populate VERY late at night (11 PM or later), but that's of course by the time I'm in bed since I work at 5-6 AM every day. Not saying that to be selfish, but I find many other servers populated well before that time, but none of them are strictly Deathmatch like we are. Plus, I have a family myself so I know a lot of people may not even game until later due to family commitments as well, totally get that. But when I see other places staying populated at all hours of the day, it just makes me wonder what more we could be doing to draw a crowd and keep them here. We had two Dust2 servers and an Office server up until last year when it was killed off. I do love some Dust2 myself, and I love the idea of a Pub server, but people seem to have mixed feelings about it. I know bhop has a dedicated group of people who love and enjoy it (same as surf), I personally never figured out bhopping and would never find myself playing on a dedicated bhop server.

I myself was very sad when we got rid of Dust2 and Office, and so was a good portion of our regulars. I agree also about a bhop server, I don't like that idea. Maybe we can talk about doing some reorganizing within CSS, but first I was to talk to Runfast, DetectiveYellNow and Eddiecam. But very good points Dapper, next time you see me in Ts3 please feel free to hit me up buddy.

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I'm glad you brought that up, I remember when I first joined HG it was so fun to see the "Top 10" list and have my name on it, hell I still have the crackhouse rank in my forum signature (RIP Dust2 Top 10 signature link). I for one am pretty competitive (hence my love of Pub servers versus just DM). I wish our GG server was more populated as that can be very fun and competitive when it's more than just bots. I also agree that the DM becomes stale and stagnant when nothing is there to work towards. It's just mindless gameplay.

the reason i stopped playing was because movement was severely nerfed/reset to default on the server a while ago (sv_maxspeed is set to 320? just why). part of the fun was bhopping around, trying out jumps or getting a good kill. now the server is filled with awp sweats that camp a roof and spawn kill. personally i can't play on the server for more than a few minutes because of how bland it is. there were also some servers that were actually good, but were deleted. office > everything else if the css division wants to increase pop, they should be actively adding things to the servers for players to stay on longer. the hg shop is either broken or disabled currently, you don't get vip for being in the top 20, and usually whenever i do join, most of the players are afk in spec, so its just fighting against bots. there is nothing to work towards, no reason to keep playing anymore.

For anyone lurking on my profile (stares at myes and DoZY who where here on the 14th, and the various other people since I went on leave), just wanted to say that I hope you're doing well, enjoying the holiday season and that you have a happy near year!