I was about to say, I thought zps town was only reachable via nomination.
Even if it's a good map the server is empty on, if the server is empty, nobody will join. It sits at the bottom of the list among all the other empty servers, and no one will go to it unless a couple of regulars decided they want to play some ZPS..
It's all up to the admins and faithful regulars to keep a player or three in the server at any given time. That's what our plan was at some point, maybe that was SKG? We were looking for admins in different time zones so we could always have someone on.. so when I was asleep for eight hours, someone across seas was keeping the server alive.
And wholegrain, didn't you say you were going to cut back on a lot of the maps for ZPS?