It does sound like a violation of the policy's intent. What is the
difference between a 32 slot server and one that allows people to join
until there are 32 players? I think people would expect the displayed
player limit to stay the same during the session. The only reason I can
think of for why you do that is to make your server appear to be
something that it isn't.
On 2/18/2013 8:06 AM, Essay Tew Phaun wrote:
It doesn't violate it. Whether it's "ideal" to do so is another thing
entirely. The tag is dependent upon sv_visiblemaxplayers which can be
changed at any time. If you're going to have some automated system going
around delisting servers then you should at least make sure the features
enabled/disabled set the flags *immediately*. Other features set those
flags immediately, such as bots. In my opinion, they should have linked
"increased_maxplayers" to maxplayers and not sv_visiblemaxplayers. Then if
you want to lower the visible players you can set sv_visiblemaxplayers to
something lower than 32 and remove the increased_maxplayers tag. It
shouldn't work in the opposite way, especially if they're going to delist
servers for it.
TL;DR: It doesn't violate any policy the way it currently works. When
sv_visiblemaxplayers is changed, the tag "increased_maxplayers" is added.
The problem is that it isn't changed immediately and if my guess is
correct, their automated tag checker has delisted some servers that didn't
have this tag set at the time of the check.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:34 AM, dan <[email protected]> wrote:
On 17/02/2013 21:32, Essay Tew Phaun wrote:
The servers are all started as 32 player servers, sv_visiblemaxplayers is
set to 24 players. Once 23 players join the sv_visiblemaxplayers is set to
32 players. The tag "increased_maxplayers" is then applied. This isn't a
violation of the tag rules, which is what it's showing we were delisted
for.
Why do you change sv_visiblemaxplayers?
I think, without some overwhelming answer to the above question
what you do definitely violates increased_maxplayers.
You have to think from the point of view of someone joining the server
thinking it's a 24 slot server
or someone using the tags to filter out servers with increased_maxplayers.
Even if strictly in the pedantic sense the tags are correct before and
after
you make the change, clearly in the intent of those tags you are breaking
the rules imo.
--
Dan.
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