Console friendly hardcore

@turtlebeached Good to hear you’re taking time to make your own servers. Not enough people take the time to do it, which is a shame because you can really get the game feeling as it should.
I’m on PS5.
I run my own servers too.
There isn’t a great deal you can do to “advertise” your servers.
But what I would suggest is to keep running your servers. It may take some time, but slowly your server will get noticed and remembered by players that like them.
Then you’ll slowly notice regulars that enter the servers, and it should start gathering pace.

I started my own servers purely for my own use, and then the above started happening.
Now I have a good following of regulars who have also become friends.

I have cross play off.
I hage no interest in putting any additional strain on the servers (they are already incredibly unreliable as it is - regular crashes).
I prefer having just other PS5 players in the server.
You could put cross play on to attract more people, but that’s up to you. I’m not keen on that.
Your servers will get less “exposure” with cross play off, but I do think you’ll have a better experience

@creepnpeep Thanks for the heads up about crashes but I'll keep cross play on for now to get it going. The server filled up rapidly after it reached double figures on XBox1 version, same settings for over a year and they'll never change. Instant vehicle and soldier spawn ( no waiting to get back to the fight ) No 1 shot kill, vehicles that are realistically balanced and fast soldier movement. use any gadget. Friendly fire off. Unlimited magazines. It's fast and furious!! If you had cross play on I could check yours out.

@turtlebeached Yo. Sounds like you prefer a different kind of server to me, which is all good - that’s the beauty of portal. You can make the servers how you want.

Mine are abit more hardcore.
I have servers for all game modes.
I have even made some new ones.
Like “Trust No One”, where you have to kill enemy and recruit them. If you are killed, you join the other team. It keeps going like that until one team has all the players.

I would turn cross play on, but I don’t want PC players.
If dice did console only cross play, I’d turn it on, but they don’t.

@creepnpeep I've played on servers with 90% PC players and still been top of the leader board. They aint that hard LOL

@creepnpeep I haven't investigated other game mode options yet. I'm an old school battlefield player, playing since Bad company 2. I only play battlefield and conquest is my preferred mode. Though if they made a Capture the flag as it was in BF3 I'd be on it like a rash.

@creepnpeep Good to know. That feature isn't available for the Xbox1 version.

@turtlebeached Yes, it will be available for Xbox. You need a PC to use the rules editor