Any idea roughly how many games run per zone/server simultaineously? 1-10-or 100 ?

Yup right about 6. Destroy the zep, protect the zep, capture the carrier, bomb the carrier, bomb the hanger and dogfight. And that is 6 per map with 6 maps that's 36 games total.

Thanks for quick reply.
So how come if you exit and re-enter a server it nearly always puts you in the same game again?
Or conversely, how can you get it to give you different game type on the same server? (minimum lag for you)

Because the server is designed to do just that. So that people don't quit/comeback/quit/come back all the time just because they don't like the game. It is not fair to other players.

Also it has the added benefit that if you get disconnected for whatever reason, you can come back to where you left it.

Thanks.
That seems fair.

So if its set up to handle disconnections, presumably it is biased towards putting you back on the same side.
How do we get it to put us onto opposite side, to balance up very uneven games, as I have seen some players do successfully.
Or is it 50/50 chance as to which side you come back on?