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[suggestion] Add few slots for spectators without allowing more than 8 players alive #1315

Closed Lunreth closed 2 years ago

Lunreth commented 2 years ago

As the title says, this would be nice for some users that want to go AFK without having to leave the server, maybe increase MaxPlayers variable to 12 and only allow 8 players in team Unassigned 0 and max 4 at team 1 spectator, currently spectator team is functional only with a spamming message (waiting for spawn point)

MAGISTER-PD2OR commented 2 years ago

Will be awesome see up to 32 maxplayers. For new game modes very cool for example 16 vs 16. :)

felis-catus commented 2 years ago

We're not planning on extending maxplayers for variety of reasons:

  1. NMRiH is designed for 8 players only, higher player counts are not supported (servers with 9 players are using a trick which involves enabling SourceTV and kicking it to free a slot).
  2. Server providers will likely default to highest possible value thinking it's supported, or to offer more slots.
  3. Limiting extended maxplayers to a specific gamemode (e.g. PvP) is not possible, as player limit can be modified to work with other gamemodes via server plugins or by other means.
  4. Track record with other Source mods that have increased player counts over maximum, it has permanently affected their server climate due to servers defaulting to highest possible values, even when unsupported.

We've tried to come up with a solution to allow more players as a server option, but due to reasons listed above we won't be increasing maxplayers at this time.

Closing as rejected, this thread remains open for discussion.