I think Ronny is combining this kind of player count correction with
reserved slots and auto-kicking, so when people connect to the server
manually, they are given a reserved slot and one of the ghost players is
auto-kicked to make room for it. That was my understanding of his
explanation.
- Dave
1nsane wrote:
> Not really. I can already adjust the shown player counts and that was the
> first thing I tried.
> Setting it to 26/33 when there's 7 ghosts led to people getting "Server is
> full" message.
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Ronny Schedel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You can always join into the ghost player slots. We have two servers, TF2
>> and DOD:S. The TF2 server has much more players, because DOD:S is nearly
>> dead right now. On both servers we have the ghost player issue, but we have
>> also reserved slots. Many players connect manually to the reserved slot and
>> take the ghost player slots, so we don't see many ghost players on the TF2
>> server. On the DOD:S we have alot of ghost slots, because we don't have
>> players who connect to the reserved slot.
>> If your daemon shows a correct server info, players can connect and take
>> the
>> ghost player slots.
>>
>>
>>> And how would changing query responses prevent the ghost players from
>>> taking
>>> up REAL slots?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Ronny Schedel <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The only solution is to use an own server info daemon which responds
>> only
>>>> to
>>>> server info queries.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Happy eastern! :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for sending this to wind and linux list, but sometimes someone
>>>>> has
>>>> a
>>>>> solution for a
>>>>> problem in the one list for a problem in the other list.
>>>>>
>>>>> We running 3 DODS and 2 CSS Server's (on linux) and (yes, I know it's
>>>>> an
>>>>> global problem)
>>>>> we are hit by the ghostplayer issue
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone a hint or a solution to the ghostplayer problem, excluding
>>>>> restarting the server?
>>>>>
>>>>> A sourcemod or server plugin something that helps me...
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>> Hyphon
>>>>>
>>>>>
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