On 14/02/2013 06:20, Robert Paulson wrote:
Fletcher has the data on servers that used fast respawn without displaying
tags (at least one of them here), and he should know that stay populated
long into the night.
No they didn't. They added bots and used mods that made it look like
they were
real players.
Plenty of admins are next to scumbags and act like it all the time in the
way they run servers.
I've joined servers recently that mod the game so you can't click
'continue' to get past the HTML adverts for 30 seconds.
Or do other annoying popups if you don't have the html option enabled.
They're wankers.
So yeah, these server owners are mostly money grabbing buffoons who
really couldn't care about the game experience at all. They just want
to run a ton of servers and use whatever means they can to grab players (
whether honest or not) and whatever dumb idea de jour comes along to try
and make money from those players no matter how ridiculous it makes
the experience. Indeed, they want it to annoy so they can charge
money to remove it and make it not annoying.
Of course not all server owners are like this, but enough are that I
think the only way to play TF2 is to either use Valve's
servers or to play organised matches in comp. (Not the least because so
many of the other server
owners do such dipsy things with their config they break the game.
Changes which valve don't report via the browser
so you can't filter them out)
But that's moot. My opinion there doesn't matter. The issue is, and
always has been with servers
lying that they aren't changing things when they are, to try and get
players to join (either via the browser or via quickplay)
in light of the ever shrinking TF2 player-base.
Don't over-egg your pudding. The player base is just fine.
And finally I'd like to say that changing your slots is not against the
"Policy of Truth". The moment your maximum slots are increased, your server
will properly reflect the settings on your tags. Even if this is automatic,
this isn't something that can't be done manually.
Of course it is. Any buffoon can see if someone joins a server that says
it has 23/24 players and after they've joined 25, 26, 27 or more people
can join, the policy of the admin is the policy of complete and utter
bullshit.
--
Dan
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