What wrath? It was a joke. :) But now that you mention it, "Oh what a tangled web we weave..." :\
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Barnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 11:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [hlds] Number of players advertised on server. OK. You decide to start a clan. You have a 12 slot server. You find it becomes more popular. So you go back to your gameserver company and you order a 16 slot server. Is your band or merry men, going to complain about the upgrade to a 16 slot server? Have they been mislead? Save your wrath for people who fill their servers up with bots etc. A person joining a server advertised as a 64 slot monster, when it can only handle 16 people, half of them being bots, is one thing. But someone joining a 12 slot server in the early evening to find out 3 hours later that it can handle way more as the server becomes more popular later on in the evening, isn't exactly going to mark us down as being dishonest. Cheers! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Luna Sent: 26 January 2007 15:28 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [hlds] Number of players advertised on server. So you want to build a base of loyal regulars by misleading them? Sounds like your a politician. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Barnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 9:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [hlds] Number of players advertised on server. Well I kinda lied about that. I wanted an answer without derailing things, so here is what I'm really up to. I'm a person who has a large server, but hasn't built a large base of players yet. So....I have 64 slots. I don't want it packed with 64 players all the time - that would be boring and besides, I don't think it will happen. Here's the deal. If I advertise 50 players with the server having 4 bots, during the day, it looks like this URBAN75 UK CS:S SERVER 4/50 Now... The players who want to play a small amount of people, won't touch the server, because they are put off with the 50 slots thing. They will join a server that says something like 4/12 rather than 4/50. The players who want to play a large amount of people, will simply pick a server that has more than 4 players on. Then I'm left with the hardcore faithful. What I want to do, is run a script that dynamically changes the amount of players advertised, depending on how many are already connected. Why advertise that I have 50 slots, when I have only 5 people playing? I'm more likely to get another 5 players, if I declare that the server as 12 slots. Once I get my 10th player, I get the server to advertise 16 slots....and so on. It's defiantly worth a try. It's a little cunning against the people who wanted to play a 12 v 12 and don't want higher numbers but at least they got what they wanted for a while and it's not as dishonest as advertising more slots than I can cater or filling the server up with bots. Cheers! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Tuttle Sent: 26 January 2007 14:29 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [hlds] Number of players advertised on server. You really don't need 6 reserved slots. If you are using amxmodx the way it works is that someone with reserved slot allowed joins they uses a hidden slot to join the server and then someone is kicked from the server to open the reserved slot back up. You just configure with amxmodx it does everything you need to do with setting up reserved slots. If you are not using amxmodx then just ignore this message. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Barnett > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 9:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [hlds] Number of players advertised on server. > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > Hi, > > > > Not maxplayers - but another variable. There's another > variable that you can > set to help out with reserved slots. > > > > Does anyone know that command / variable? > > > > For instance, if I have 46 slots, but want to only have the > server advertise > 40 of them? > > > > Cheers! > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
