Donations to servers: guarantee server entrance even if full

[OnkelDolan]

We all know the frustration when we have to refresh like mad to know if our favorite servers have free spaces, and at times we can't get there at all. This is even worse when you have a clan and only half of your team gets in there. I suggest that many servers out there accept donations so that donators can enter the game when there are no slots left.

This has been implemented in Team Fortress 2 servers

[Fluttershy]

so what, it boots people already in game?

[FaZe]

Not a bad idea, but randomly kicking people in game would clearly be annoying, and overflowing the server would cause lag. Maybe it would kick an afk player and replace him/her with you, but even better, implement a queue so you automatically get in a game when a spot opens up.

[EldredChandler]

implement a queue so you automatically get in a game when a spot opens up.

I like this idea. Combining this with auto kicking players who are AFK for too long would work well.

[OnkelDolan]

Not a bad idea, but randomly kicking people in game would clearly be annoying, and overflowing the server would cause lag. Maybe it would kick an afk player and replace him/her with you, but even better, implement a queue so you automatically get in a game when a spot opens up.

On the overflowing, an overflowing players limit should be implemented, for example: max players is 32 but 5 extra can join so the real limit is 37. of course, there can't technically be more than 32 players right now but later on when we might get 64 then it will work. I wonder what overflow limit popular tf2 servers have.

[FaZe]

Not a bad idea, but randomly kicking people in game would clearly be annoying, and overflowing the server would cause lag. Maybe it would kick an afk player and replace him/her with you, but even better, implement a queue so you automatically get in a game when a spot opens up.

On the overflowing, an overflowing players limit should be implemented, for example: max players is 32 but 5 extra can join so the real limit is 37. of course, there can't technically be more than 32 players right now but later on when we might get 64 then it will work. I wonder what overflow limit popular tf2 servers have.

Yeah, that would work actually. Ben is planning to add 64 players as a max population for each server, so 30-something should be no problem for now,

[Glitch]

Auto afk kicker sounds better to me, like when you do nothing for 60 seconds you get thrown out..

[OnkelDolan]

Auto afk kicker sounds better to me, like when you do nothing for 60 seconds you get thrown out..

Well, both could be implemented

[Gorman]

Please talk to individual server owners about this.

[PXYC]

AFK kicker is already implemented on a lot of servers, such as Minit US and aloha. On Minit, it kicks AFK people after they're inactive for 5 minutes, I'm not sure about aloha.