Here is my advice based on previous free weekends. 1. Ideal maxplayers for Hunt is about 10-12. Otherwise it is becoming too crowded and result in bans for too many innocent kills which confuses new players and annoys more experienced ones.
2. Ideal maxplayer for Elimination is about 6-8. Otherwise it takes too much time for round to complete - new players do not know how to track their quarry and do not know ship well enough. 3. I would strongly recommend to remove large maps from mapcycle - cyclops and rubicon for sure, huronian and andrea_doria to your preference. The problem is with new players again - it takes too much time for them to get used to these maps which are really big ones. 4. Since none of existing admin mods are supported on The Ship dedicated server here is simple trick you can use to enable something like reserved slots on your servers - put sv_visiblemaxplayers with value less than maxplayers into your server.cfg and instruct your community to use connect command from console to connect to your server.
From theship.ru with love! :)
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