The square, the score: how to live happy and lift up AC

[Vanquish]

I don't think making a ladder will revive the competitive aspect of the game (I assume that's what you were talking about with the "noobs joining clans and spreading life in the desert" analogy), all it's going to do is just be an extra server on the serverlist. In my experience, the TyD ladder was usually very underpopulated and put a few bad maps into an otherwise good maprot, and the BoB ladder was laggy and had admin abusers. The biggest factor for me on which server to choose is/was always what map is running and how many players there are, not if it's a ladder or not. I remember I actually used to ritually avoid the BoB ladder servers because PERROS was an admin (EDIT: still is?)