Unfortunately, not a lot of people regularly play this fantastic total conversion for Crysis and Crysis Wars. Whenever they release an update, a bunch of people flood to the servers to try it out, then drop off. This is especially bothersome in Australia, because you can't get a decent number of people (> 5) going on a local server. Thankfully the lag compensation is quite good because I am able to play on US and EU servers with ~230ms ping.
That said, you usually have to drop into the game just to see if anyone, anywhere, is playing. I found a simple way to find out how many people were playing: GameTracker. That might seem obvious, but it doesn't allow searching by mod. But it turns out that all the maps in MWLL start with TC_ or TSA_, and you can search by that.
2011-06-27 Update: As of the 0.5 release, there are now also Arena maps, which all start with SA_. So in GameTracker, you can find them *and* the TSA maps with the same search string. URLs below are updated.
This results in the following two URLs to find all the servers in Crysis Wars:
http://www.gametracker.com/search/warhead/?search_by=map&query=TC_&sort=c_numplayers&order=DESC
http://www.gametracker.com/search/warhead/?search_by=map&query=SA_&sort=c_numplayers&order=DESC
There are almost no hits for Crysis, but here they are anyway:
http://www.gametracker.com/search/crysis/?search_by=map&query=TC_
http://www.gametracker.com/search/crysis/?search_by=map&query=SA_
Next step: extract this data from the website and re-present it. Or do a Javascript hack over the results. Write a script to monitor favourite servers for players and notify. Or any number of things. But this will allow me to poll the servers and jump in when I have a moment :)
