Server Limit

[ChimpBoy]

I just use All-Seeing Eye about 8:30 in the evening and keep refreshing it until I see a slot on either.

If its full on MH and i see someone idling on Baldric then I'd be more than happy to make up a one-on-one.  Saves checking every 15m minutes for a slot on MH.  There's always others in that position looking for a game and we know it'd snowball so there'd be enough on both quite soon.

If I was on MH it'd have to be someone in authority though (not necessarily an admin, but a regular DMW / PCS player) to get enough people to change.  Otherwise I think there'll be resistance to get people to leave a game in full swing, especially if they don't play a great deal and are au fait with the two server set up.

[sheepy]

or get a few ppl to swap at the end of a map i think this is what TL did the other night but all but 3 ppl swaped!!!!!!

[TeaLeaf]

The idea is that whenever MH is full that we transfer some people to Baldric so that we get another game going, leaving both with sufficient players.  It was a little unfortunate the other night when slightly more than requested swapped over  :oops:

TL.  

[smilodon]

But the principle is still sound  

[sheepy]

:stupid:

[DarkAngel]

AS for most maps there needs to be an extra player is it ok to surgest that the server limit be incresed to 17? That way we can make teams much fairer by just moving one player around instead of 3 or 4??

[TeaLeaf]

I think we are getting our threads confused here as there are 2 issues:

1 - Having an odd number of slots on the server would in theory give you the ability to better balance the teams.  Unfortunately we rarely adjust team sizes by as little as one, so in reality, changing he server limit to 17 would not real have any effect on the balance of teams.

2 - The above talk of changing 3-4 players was I believe to do with starting an0other game on Baldric.  We have 2 PCS servers, but people are naturally a little reluctant to idle in an empty server.  The sugegstion was that when MeatHook becomes full (or approaches full), that a seed group of players transfer to Baldric to start a game over there.  This will mean that 32 slots in total are available to PCS players.  This will have far more impact than increasing MH's maxplayers to 17.

TL.  

[FrEnZy]

I'm with the guy with the funny hat  

[Benny]

What he said :stupid:
Are we still keeping tabs on number of spawn points? Especially with the new maps..

[Dr Sadako]

What he said :stupid:
Are we still keeping tabs on number of spawn points? Especially with the new maps..

If we stay below 20 there is no problem.

[DarkAngel]

its ok saving that if the servers full certain people will flow over but as like today couldnt get on the server for 20 mins and no one was on other server while the mh was full.

[TeaLeaf]

That's unfortunate and I know this from experience as I have been there too.  However, increasing the server slots on Homer does not solve all problems, it just creates a different problem.   The trick is for the PCS community to move a seed group to Baldric as it approaches capacity.  

Otherwise, idling in Baldric is the way forward.........someone has to do first.

TL.  

[Dr Sadako]

Last night after the match MH was full and there were 4 or 5 on Baldric. Get on Baldric and you will get a game going.

[Benny]

Yep, 4 people went across from a full Meathook.....and no more joined, so we came back.......b@stards!!

Meanwhile there were 13 on Meathook...I'm quite happy to go across, but an even split would be nice until the habit of joining a smaller server kicks in.

[TeaLeaf]

If you seed 6 to Baldric then 10 remain on MH....

TL.