I don't want to waste my time arguing with needaxeo who always asserts his agenda that a completely default experience is superior and third party server owners are useless.
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. That is why anyone bothers to report them. If they were unpopular, no one would be reporting them. Now I'm not saying we support people hiding their tags (we would never risk being banned) but it is obvious what players want It is up to him whether or not to continue over-promoting a plain experience by shrinking the browse button to half the size of the Play Multiplayer button and in light of the ever shrinking TF2 player-base. 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. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:04 PM, dan <needa...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 13/02/2013 09:05, ics wrote: > >> I don't think anyone dynamically does this >> > > You think stuff and it happens like in this film? > http://www.imdb.com/title/**tt0078158/<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078158/> > Wow. > > > Valve's recommendation is 24, so simple solution would be that if server >> cvar sv_visiblemaxplayers is changed, Valve will check if it's over 24 >> slots or below and adds increased_maxplayers immediately, thus alerting >> quickplay system and everyone should be happy, except the people who try to >> avoid that tag.This also works two ways, if you have 27/24 players, >> increased_maxplayers is added during mapchange, making the server 27/27 and >> then the server loses 8 players, you will be left with 19/27 (or possibly >> 19/24) with increased_maxplayers tag, thus giving quickplay penalty. >> > > How are we happy if we join a server via quickplay or the server browser, > after reading 24 slots, expecting and wanting a vanilla 24-slot server and > then the player count goes up mid round? > > Messing with the slot count mid-game has to be a no-no as far as quickplay > and the server browser goes. > Your server has to be either 32 slot or 24 (or something else). You can't > say "it's 24 slots until we get 24 people and then we change it to 32" in > any reasonable, honest way. > > It's clear the only reason someone says "it's 24 slots...oh no, it's > actually 32" is to trick either quickplay or TF2 players into joining the > server. > > It would need a tag if there were any valid reason(s) for it other than > gaming the quickplay system (but I doubt there are) > -- > Dan > > > ______________________________**_________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds_linux<https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
