Alfred Reynolds wrote:
If you have written a plugin/addon for the Source engine that implements
reserved slots (i.e making some positions on your server not available
to the public at large) then you MUST set the sv_visiblemaxplayers to
the number of actual PUBLIC slots on the server. We have had numerous
complaints from users about seeing a seemly free slot and then being
kicked after connecting.
- Alfred
I'm surprised people aren't used to this from 1.6 since that is the way
the slot reservation I saw in 1.6 worked. You would join and then get
immediately kicked with a message about slot reservation.
The one problem, from 1.6 at least, with setting sv_visiblemaxplayers is
for the person trying to join the reserved slot. Once public slots are
full, the server looks full and launchers want to wait until a slot
frees up before connecting. I can understand the problem but I think
pretty much by definition server operators are going to be more
concerned about making the lives of people with reserved slots easier
than they are about the general public. So they are going to prefer the
current method. Maybe a standard public cvar that said how many reserved
slots there are would be a good compromise so people would have a
warning before joining.
Janzert
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