No one joining DOPE games

[Anigme]

During the late night there is hardly any people playing, but I still people crowding in to get into the other clan's game(Clan THR and DotAPub) However, there is usually no one in any of our games for some reason. No matter how I try to change the title, the result is always the same, but when the tag [DOPE] from the game name; massive amounts of people flood in. I know it isn't good practice to remove the tag out of the name, but it seems rather odd that people don't like joining DOPE games. Although I know it's not possible to remove the clan tag from the game name, I'd thought that I'd bring this issue to your attention.

Oh yeah, I think you should add -so back onto the game name because I've noticed more people joining the game than when it's not listed on the game title.

[wtfnown00b]

it seems a little more laggy late at night this could b y maybe its me tho idk

[wtfnown00b]

i think we need 2 reset bans again also

[Deege]

Only 200 people are on the banlist right now.

[Anigme]

It decreases everyday, not surprising ;(

[Travice]

I think it's just that THR has their own bot programmers and also host their bots off dedicated servers, plus the increasing amount of people using Garena opposed to Bnet. These are things we could never hope to compete with in our current state.

[Anigme]

It could also be the refresh rate. I've hosted by myself with banlist on, but the autorefresh system just doesn't quite cut it. Hardly anyone would join my game, and after I got the Wc3Autorefresher; the users just come pouring in after I've set the refresh rate to every 3-5 seconds. Furthermore, this autorefresher also refreshes by having fake users join in one by one instead of having them join in all at once. Perhaps this could be several of the reasons why not much people join DOPE games.

[beastly]

Well not to be rude to you all but I think there's some negative implications to your clan tag.
Dope can refer to drugs, idiocy, awesomeness, and such; causing people to not join depending on how they look at it.
A second thing I dislike is the name for your bot DopeHostNoobs. Its great that there's a bot for noobs but when I see that bot hosting an -AR game, I don't join purely because I assume noobs would come or I don't want to be a "noob"

Other than that, aside from maybe players having a bad first-time experience on your bot, I don't see why people aren't joining often...

It's something that's happened very recently, we've had the bot going for 8 months, and we've been running 3 bots for about 4 months, and up until about 2-3 weeks ago they've ALWAYS been full capacity(save for late nights, but still there would be 2 live games on each bot)

Also, anybody that isn't in the channel doesn't know the naming scheme for the bots, all they know is that it's a dope bot. The only people that know the difference between dopehost/dopehostnoobs/dopehostpros are the people in the clan and the people that lurk the forums.

[Deege]

True, I will change the names of the bots to reflect their game modes.