Do you still play this game?

Yes, although not as much these days.

Because of the server browser not showing people in servers that haven't started (ie it wont show 1/16,2/16,3/16 if the server hasn't started), its difficult to start new servers. Try too add everyone you do see with <100ping in aus servers to your friends list. Once you get 4 people in a server, it will fill before that round has ended guaranteed. Otherwise you'll be stuck playing some IA pro server.

Also press info on all empty servers you see, sometimes you'll find one or two people waiting in servers hoping to start them. Join, add them, and talk to them too see if they have anyone else online, or want to join another server with 1/2 people in it. (Just tell them to wait a minute or so while you go looking for more stragglers, and to invite you if someone else joins their server.)

Some sorta out of game chat system will help you find other players and start them (like xfire).

Basically most players are waiting at the server browser screen for a game to show up with players in it. On a hunch me and 3 others spent a night just starting servers up, letting them fill, then leaving and doing it again. We ended the night with 5 TIA, 6 crash site and a 16p assault server all full. Aus players are out there, just too lazy to start servers themselves.

Yep

Still playing a lot on US servers but with 200-250 ping which is way too high! Would love to play on the Ozzzie servers but not enough players. Generally 16-32 players at most. It's a real shame, there used to be a helluva lot more players in the Crysis Wars dayz

Yep still playing and enjoying it. Wish there were more AUS/NZ players on so I can join low ping servers.

Add me , Fat007, i log in and see no servers up and become a sad panda...

Well thank god some people out in the old aussie land still play :) playing with > 200 ping is lamers.

Pudgeinasuit, thanks for your advice, I found a ranked server with one player where the game was running, admin says it's very simple to start. You should use Crysis 2 Pro External Admin Interface 0.5 and send gl_startgame command to server from "Send command" tab. I check this way on my server and it works, we can start ranked servers with one player on it. Now my server is full.

...don't tell about this to crytek

You poor souls. :C

This really makes it look like Crysis 2 needs a built-in IRC browser, with it's own IRC server.
Just so that you could ask random people to join X server, while waiting.

Organizing stuff would also be easier.. Oh wait, what?

Some of you have added me to friends apparently but after accepting your names dissappeared. Not sure what thats about but I have added you all too so hopefully it worked.

Pudgeinasuit, thanks for your advice, I found a ranked server with one player where the game was running, admin says it's very simple to start. You should use Crysis 2 Pro External Admin Interface 0.5 and send gl_startgame command to server from "Send command" tab. I check this way on my server and it works, we can start ranked servers with one player on it. Now my server is full.

...don't tell about this to crytek

Cheers for this, i'll see if i can get it (or get access to) to some of the larger server hosters. The aus server scene is dominated by gamearena and gamesonnet, with a few 3fl ones kicking around.

Didnt bother purchasing my own server, I'm waiting to see if purchased servers will be able to run custom made maps and mods (here's hoping), then i might go out and spend a bit more on the game.

I try and get on a every night, but servers are either full, or they look empty. Hard trying to find players with my bad skills too

i have a server up which i admin but i can rarely get it stated because every one is in a US or other servers but not aussie

The server browser wont display a population of less than 4 players. Click the INFO tab to manually check the server for players. I keep finding one Australian server full and the rest empty.
If you find a player on a server, tell them to hang around while you check for players elsewhere, or invite them to a server with <4 players waiting.

Whats your server name Reaper-117?

Yep still playing and enjoying it. Wish there were more AUS/NZ players on so I can join low ping servers.
Even better, get the Aus/NZ players who are currently playing on foreign servers and make them join the Aus servers

The eventual arrival of a fix for the server browser (and probably some other fixes) should boost the population (or at least make it visible).

Yes, although not as much these days.

Because of the server browser not showing people in servers that haven't started (ie it wont show 1/16,2/16,3/16 if the server hasn't started), its difficult to start new servers. Try too add everyone you do see with <100ping in aus servers to your friends list. Once you get 4 people in a server, it will fill before that round has ended guaranteed. Otherwise you'll be stuck playing some IA pro server.

Also press info on all empty servers you see, sometimes you'll find one or two people waiting in servers hoping to start them. Join, add them, and talk to them too see if they have anyone else online, or want to join another server with 1/2 people in it. (Just tell them to wait a minute or so while you go looking for more stragglers, and to invite you if someone else joins their server.)

Some sorta out of game chat system will help you find other players and start them (like xfire).

Basically most players are waiting at the server browser screen for a game to show up with players in it. On a hunch me and 3 others spent a night just starting servers up, letting them fill, then leaving and doing it again. We ended the night with 5 TIA, 6 crash site and a 16p assault server all full. Aus players are out there, just too lazy to start servers themselves.

PUDGE!! GET BACK IN THE GOD DAMN GAME!!

I still play, try to play daily.

my servers name is Aus Mercs Crysis 2 Server its IP is 173.199.80.23