My units are broken

[blue banana]

RIP Battlezone 2.

[Red Spot]

Also, BZ1 has more active players then BZ2 does.

Do you have any sort of source to back that statement up?
Online != active

[Ded10c]

First-hand experience, one would assume. In BZ1 one can get a game every night with relative ease if one so desires.

[MrTwosheds]

The desire for large team games does cause Bz2'ers to hang about waiting for enough players, this becomes a big disincentive to playing bz2 at all, as the prospect of a long wait while having players talk sh*t at you eventually becomes very boring.

[Ded10c]

And that it's a problem that BZ1 doesn't have is without doubt a contributing factor. There's less gamemode stigma too.