Hi there - new player question here

[slicksteezin]

Hello, I apologize in advance if I am posting this in the wrong sub-section. Anyways, I really enjoyed playing JKA multiplayer back in the day. Now that I've been looking into trying it again, I am having a difficult time finding any online servers with real players in them. I did a little research online, and downloaded the most recent version of OpenJK, but am still having difficulty :\ If there is something i am missing, or any other mods required, and help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

[Droidy365]

Welcome to the community! Have you downloaded the Jedi Academy 1.01 Patch? That may be your problem.

[Wolfeye]

Hi!

So, welcome to JKA. First off, if you're still running on default 1.00 (from a less-than-legal copy or original disk), yes you will likely have trouble finding people as there are very few on that version. However, if you're running 1.01, your server list will look something like this:
https://jkhubservers.appspot.com/

There are quite a few servers that do have bots in them, yes. I would suggest sorting by player count in the server list. There are still a fair amount of people that do play, but there are also a fair amount of ghost servers as well. Generally you're going to be looking for clan servers, because the TFFA and duel servers are only active at certain times of the day (it also depends if you're EU or US). If you have discord, I'd welcome you over to the JKC Discord (https://discord.gg/gFKwH85 or https://discord.me/jediknight) where you can keep up to date on what clans are around and about and the servers people are frequenting, as well as any events going on in JKA.

You might also consider getting a clientside mod for ease-of-access tools as well as a server list that auto-sorts out bots vs humans (my personal recommendation is ETJK, though the most common clientsides are JA+ and OpenJK).

[slicksteezin]

I appreciate the help! i downloaded the JK 1.01 patch and followed the directions to then try running the jkacademy1_01.exe program but am unfortunately getting the error screen saying the game could not be found and that I need to reinstall the game disc. but i no longer have the disc for the game and have the game via Steam. Any suggestions?

[Artemis]

Reinstall through Steam? The Steam version is already patched, so you don't need to do that.

[Circa]

Make sure to set the source of your server browser to "Internet"