Bokononist was exactly right, merely a suggestion, Tonester!
The admins at ATAG who design the missions and run the servers don't visit many forums, but they do try to monitor and respond to any server issues and concerns at, naturally enough, the little ATAG forum. I don't know all the technicals, but they've certainly run into their fair share of challenges over the months. In terms of player satisfaction, it's a "darned if you do, darned if you don't" situation. With ongoing glitches that continually arise even now (some of them Steam-related), plus the fact that Cliffs of Dover is (hopefully) about to be updated/changed/optimized at some point in the near/distant/unforeseeable future, the ATAG admins don't plan to make any significant changes to Server #1 any time soon.
The ATAG server is there for everyone to use, and every member here at SimHQ is warmly invited. There is no charge, no password, and we have a Teamspeak server set up likewise with no charge nor password. Squads are welcome and our TS admin, ATAG_Striker, is willing to set upU separare channel(s) for any squad that could benefit from it. No one at ATAG profits monetarily from this, the best way to say thanks is to simply fly on the server, interact on Teamspeak, and invite your friends and squadmates to join you. This gives us more players for a more fulfilling experience -- it IS a big map after all. If we fill Server #1 to capacity, we start another another server to handle the overflow. Hopefully this will induce more new players to purchase CoD, especially with the current offline feature issues.
We DO want to hear of concerns, problems, glitches, etc., but the ATAG Forum is the preferred place to work through specifics. We've recently had a spate of "Authentification Errors" preventing several regular players from logging in. Turns out it's actually a Steam glitch where Steam mistakenly thinks the player is already logged into another server. With the help of other forum members we have a quick procedure with Steam files on the player's PC to correct the situation --which seems to work.
So, far from remaining silent, we WANT to hear your concerns. As the old saying goes: "If you're happy with our service, tell your friends. If you aren't happy with our service, tell US!"
