torankusu said:
I agree with Nu Rayz (kinda). I have the patience to wait for a slot to open, so even if I don’t get a reserved slot, it’s not a huge problem for me. But I hate being redirected to another server, especially if it’s a completely different kind of server. For example, a lot of our regulars played in one of PGN’s 1.6 servers, but a few times when it was full, I would get redirected to their zombie server. I like zombie mod, but I wanna play regular 1.6, dammit. I can wait for a slot to open up, but some people might not want to. If we do get a custom server, I’d hate to be redirected there. :[
I think both ideas are good — to redirect them to keep them on our network or have reserved slots — but both of them make autojoin disappear (I can deal with it, but still… huge sadface!). If we go with reserved slots, personally, I think they should go to admins only cuz then non-admins would be whining about why one non-admin gets a reserved slot, but he didn’t. Also, I got booted from the server a bunch of times yesterday due to several different steam errors (I’ve never seen these before) and I couldn’t rejoin once because the server was full. There weren’t any other admins in there, so I couldn’t even ask someone to kick any afks to let me in. I think the admins should be able to get in. If we give reserved slot privileges to regulars, well… we have a lot of regulars.
zomg toran said my name! 
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lol she’s awesome but back to the topic at hand, here is another idea that can be tossed around. Okay so it is a given admins will be on the reserve slot list. How about we encourage regulars to participate on the forums or in a forum contest, and have say the top (meaningful) posters win a reserve slot for a week. I know Admins are very important to the vitality of the server, but so are regulars, there has to be some way everyone can gain from this, not just admins.