Renton said:
Any news on this yet, I haven’t seen the server populated at all, at first I knew it was because of the settings. I’d love to start getting people in there. 45 min is too long for a map timer. I played an instant respawn (still about a 5-8 second delay) but it was good. The guy had some problems changing the settings to do so, he has a string of servers and sells them. I can try to get in contact with him if you guys can’t figure it out, IF you’d like to hit that road. Just wondering if maybe someone can devote some time to getting this server up to par with the other amazing wcu servers. Also is there anyway to make it at least 24 man? I think 8 v 8 is a lil small for some of these maps. Most of the better games i’ve played are 12v12 or at least 10v10. It’s just not very fun with 12 or 16 people. Not that it can’t be if they’re all wcu people, but if we can change it that might be nice. Of course I guess if it’s unpopulated there is no reason to change it yet.
*side note – the friends like these achievements is not updated in the In-Game achievements, the actual achievement is to play on a team of 8 comprised of only people from your friends list. You can see this by checking out tf2 stats in your steam community then looking at achievements. I think that’s why we’ve been having problems getting it. ex. – WTFZORS!!! THERE ARE OVER 7 PEOPLE ON MY FRIENDS LIST ON MY TEAM….!!!!!>?!?!?!
I would be more than happy to change the server to 30 minute maps when I get back to campus tonight/tomorrow. It will stay 16 maxplayers until the server situation is worked out. Hopefully this will be soon, and I plan to work on that all this week. Once the Virtual Servers are gone, we shouldn’t have any problems at all running a 24 player TF2. These things take time to work out, and we aren’t going to do any off campus hosting for the primary gaming server. We have a $12,000 box, there is no reason to go out paying for another one. Once we get all the IT stuff worked out, things should start running a lot better (registry and lag) on ALL the WCU servers.
Also, as a former MAJOR TFC player, I”d much rather see the respawn time at 3-5 seconds. TF2 is supposed to be fast paced and a 12 second respawn is anything but fast. FIND ME THE CVAR. I don’t have time to go digging until later this week.