Why you don't lock the slots developers ?

I see this moment someone trying to host a 100 slots server... I mean wtf... even at kag's main page you clearly state that "32 player realtime multiplayer". Do you want really people to join such servers ? I know that server owners will finally understand that it is not possible to host a kag server with so many slots but why you don't save people from trouble and just hard lock the slots ?

 

I don't speak for the dev team, but I believe that the reason they don't do that is because the number of slots you can host depends on the power of the server and client machines, as well as the network connections of each.

I think of it as similar to the way that many AAA games allow you to set your graphics settings in excess of what any modern PC is capable of, so that it can still improve after development is stopped, but newer hardware becomes available.

Sure, there's a point after which even a co-located mainframe couldn't host, but I think just putting a recommendation against hosting a huge server into the appropriate comment line in the autoconfig file is adequate warning.

It is quite common for dedicated server software to be less user-friendly and polished, leaving the onus on the hoster to figure out what parameters to set.

 

Nah, there is absolutely no way to host a lag-free 100 slots kag game. Slots

KAG server is not multi-thread currently. No machine can handle so many players. If I am a new player and join a server with 50 players the amount of lag will make me quit and never look back.

 

What about the other way? There are servers that can host 32 players, which some people like. There are also servers that can only host 20, 16, or even only 8 slots. A compromise could be to set the max to 32, which I probably wouldn't mind. Still, if people want to host/play on huge servers with lag, they have that option right now.

As a sidenote, I'm fairly sure that auto-join (where you hit a gamemode in the menu, rather than browse servers) automatically balances people across servers such that servers that are laggy don't get more people, making the extra slots near-useless anyway. Devs can correct me on that - that's based on empirical evidence.

 

What about the massive alpha non gold servers that had 50+ players?

 

Its player freedom, that is a good thing.

 

As far as I know, they were referring to the official servers with that line.

 

They were talking about what is officially supported.
ie if servers with 100 players keep crashing the vps so you need to restart it, the devs won't do anything because it's unsupported because it may give problems.

 

My point is that currently it's not possible to host more than 32 slots with no lag. Maps are small and it's chaotic and laggy. I think that games much older than KAG, let's say TF2, and with a huge player base have the slots locked up. Probably they know what they're doing. Anyway, that's only my humble opinion. The developers decide.

 

We have a different approach in the matter. I think giving too much freedom to people will make them do stupid things, you think that they'll do the right one. I don't have anything else to say about that.

 

Actually, the slots aren't locked, TF2 is just really shit and won't display or let anyone join anything above 32 players.

 

Wtf ? I didn't call you names did I ? I only talk about slots, where the fuck you saw me talking about mods or anything else ? If you don't like my idea fine but don't call me dumb, kid.

 

TF2 still lets you join, they just warn you that its a server going over the usual capacity of slots/players.

 

I do not like flame wars really, the moderators can lock this if they feel so. Thanks and sorry for the trouble.