Dropping them down to 14 players in my opinion would be worse , means you would have to wait even longer to get into the Server , sometimes we get steam friend messaged or msn'd and sometimes even txt'd about a hacker or tosspot and we cant even get into the server to sort the problem out.
Go back to the 20 slot , the only reason why we dropped it down to 16 slot was for the stability of the server (better reg etc)
If we are going to ditch a Server or 2 then the Servers Reg would be a lot more stable etc.
I've been monitoring the GG Server and there's never anybody on it , just like Server 1,2,3, everybody seems to be on dust2 24/7 which is a 16 slot, so realistically there is only ever at 1 time 16 people playing CSS on Iconz, get rid of the dust2 24/7 and revert back to a popular and vanilla server and then put a vote out either a GG Deathmatch or a normal CSS Deathmatch.
One of the reasons we are needing to do this besides needing to attract players back to CSS is that Iconz needs to free up Server Box space , so if we can put our 2 or 3 servers on 1 box then we have contibuted to the cause , the other box can be used for some other game or what ever Iconz wants to do with it, just a thought to remember when we are discussing .
Use admin reserve slots? I.E server has 16 slots and a special 17th slot only for admins. The majority of Css servers have this feature. >.<
As for DD2 24/7 I'm all for a popular maps server. Just remove the dud maps that make people leave in mass numbers i.e havanna etc and add some beauties like De_season.
Keep the ranking system. Alot of people like to see their rank/kpd improve over time and this in turn creates alot of interest in the servers.