How to populate your server faster

**Derek** · 09-19-11, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by Bunni

you do not have to type anything in console, just join.

As for the hidden slots, heres how they work: they act as a buffer. We cannot determine if a player is a reservist until they have connected and damn near fully loaded; which yes i know sucks but thats how the source engine works. Subsequently, those 2 hidden slots can be temporarily occupied during the time it takes for two non-reservists are connecting to a full server 22/24.

Now if you join in on one of those hidden slots (as a reservist) when the server is 22/24 or 23/24, as soon as you fully connect the server will be able to finally verify that you are a reservist and kick a non reservist.

For all intensive purposes the server should be considered a 22 player server, the ONLY time you will ever get more than 22 players playing, is if the server is occupied by 24 reservists (in which there are no more non-reservists left that the server can kick)

Actually it's 24/26 ; )

**Bunni** · 09-20-11, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by Derek

Actually it's 24/26 ; )

You still get the point though...

Biz-nitch plizzz, dont make me start correcting your posts too

I blame css for getting that mixed up.... though our gamemonitors seem to think tf2 has 27 slots... so we are both wrong... DODS is apperently the only source game we host which has 24/26...