1.6 Reserve Slots

I think if ppl want to play in the server bad enough they will click and wait for that slot to open. If you want to run away for your love of autojoin then go marry your autojoin and ill marry WCU when she decides she is ready for me kthx

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.

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! :rolleyes:

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.

Liam said:

What if we were to let you make donations for a reserved slot?

Can you do that? well if you can then hellz yea. capitalism ftw

We need approval from the rest of the exec committee for this.

torankusu said:

Doh, didn’t even see that, lol. Sorry. I was going to point out that we’d have to come up with some sort of criteria if we’re going to let certain people get slots, but nm! I like Nu Rayz’s and Liam’s ideas. I think the donation one might be better, though, cuz 1) rupees for the server and 2) we don’t have to come up with a contest every week or change everyone’s privileges every week (I know the week can be changed to something else, but I think it could still be a hassle for those who maintain the server. I dunno, maybe it won’t, but just throwing it out there).

Yeah it doesn’t need to be a contest literally. Nor does it have to be a week, maybe a couple weeks or a month? You guys could also decide it at your live events, you could do a raffle and one of the prizes be a slot reservation lol. Or have some kind of monthly problem/task like a treasure hunt for a slot reservation. brain stormin is silly

*edited* you major you know this is not possible

Bump.