Well I not so sure this is all setup to stop fake-clients... Seems like you just need to provide a good experience for the end user.. If you pass off a server as full when there is no one in the server this will kill your server over time (redirect servers also). If you use fake clients to add maybe a few players to your player count and have a system to turn off your fake clients when your server has a low population. So people are not so much thinking that they are joining a 'full' server you should still be ok from what it looks like.
-----Original Message----- From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of AnAkIn . Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 6:26 AM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 Blog Post: Server Scoring Nice to see that VALVe finally did something about fake client servers. I hope it'll work. 2009/3/13 Ronny Schedel <i...@ronny-schedel.de> > > TF2 is designed to have the best game experience with 24 players. So, the > game experience changes with more or less players. > > > > The maximum number of players in TF2 is 32 and it's the server admin's > > choice, how many slots he wants to have. > > If an admin starts his server with 24 slots, 20 slots, 10 slots or 2 > slots > > instead of 32, he accepts, that less players can score the server up. On > > the > > other side on 32 slot servers there are more connections which give minus > > points. > > > > The score is not a result of the server settings, it's a result of active > > connected players and when a server can make more people happy (in having > > the max slots available), it should get a better score than low slotted > > servers. > > > > I don't want to see 2 slot (or 24) TF2 servers which have the same score > > than my 32 slot server. > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
