First step: Change that domain name, we are 2021, cyber war have never been so big, peoples are scare of hacking and scare of having there personal informations stolen... When they com on my stream and the told me, oh its the greatest game of my life but they also tell me, what do you think about war2ru '' is that safe '' it mean everything..
Alot of peoples refuse to download this game just because its relate to RU ( Russia ) im not racist, im just saying a true fact!
Second step: Make sure when peoples download this game, they dont have ALERT from all those antivirus! Thats would help alot !
Why after 20 years this probleme is not solve yet?
Third step: Get more administration, and by admisnistration i mean all kind of administration... Desinger, programmers, moderators, peoples who keep things update everydays... Everyone got his own role!
There no way 3 admins whos show themself once per week can stand those kind of dreams we have.... You guys want to see that server grow up but there no administration at all, we need administration at everytime of the days, 24/24, 7/7.... Choose them wisely take somme russian for some part of the day, some american for some other part of the days, but make sure there always enouphs moderators and admins at all time.
Fourth step: Before thinking making team game ladder and league, try to just make a 1v1 relevant... Here again it's just about some oldschool players who want to please themself, because they dont like to do 1v1 they want to do teams games, thats ok... You can do that, as an individual league or ladder, make a personal league or ladder, make something for urself... But for the main server himself, we need a good 1v1 ladder ranking systeme, then when its gonna be done and active and updates and respected, we can start to think about implementing a true team game ladder on the main server.
The goal here, is not to please old school cats, but make sure everyone can play at all time, ur ladder will be good for some peoples whos always log at same time and play togheter, then they gonna log off and let the server empty with five random players whos cant do shit at all..... Make sure everyone can play at any moment and being competitive and any moment, and when server grow up and we have more actives player we can think about team ranking.
If you can do these 4 steps, then maybe it grow up, other then that, its gonna be same pattern, always gonna role between 20 and 80 players for eternity.
PS: You can hate me now.