Server Size

[greekdragonkdl]

[quote author=greekdragonkdl link=topic=46995.msg241180#msg241180 date=1440874020]
I believe back in the good old days when VLKA was very populated and active, there were no caps for admin slots on public servers, and this led to servers sometimes having 20-25 people on them. Not only are the maps and areas kind of designed for 16 player teams and not nearly double that (think how crowded it would be), but having 20-25 players on a server at once started causing crashing issues, hence why there is only 1 admin slot on public servers now (4 slots during events). Increasing the player cap that high is not a good idea, and I seriously doubt the developers would increase it given that it would strain the servers more.

What about make the server cap 20, and don't give favoritism to admins to push the server over the limit?  They could join to kick afk's and ect, but shouldn't stay when they push the server over the limit.
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The server cap is fine where it is, there isn't any need to change it. An admin joining and taking the 17th slot does not push the server over the limit, but pushing to 20-21 slots would more likely push the server limits more. The admins are allowed and able to join full servers past the normal player limit so they can join to kick/ban troublemakers should they need to, as it would be silly for admins to have to refresh and wait for a slot to open up to do so. Being able to join full servers is also a perk to admins, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

Anyways, I am pretty positive an idea has been brought up as a suggestion before. There isn't much reason to change the player limit. If a server is full, you can simply get you and some friends together and start a run on a separate server (there's usually several open to choose from). Even if you have 4-5 friends who can join that server, random people will eventually join and soon enough it'll be a full server too.