Comments on: An open letter to server admins

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:02:44 +0000

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By: Nightbox

Nightbox — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:54:25 +0000

@Anti-Bad Admins

Trying to do a community in a country that almost no one gives a fuck about the game is doing me a bad admin ? Hmm maybe if you could search my name on google or visit my community you could understand.

@TeaTime

My server is filling if there are min 10 players on it. Guess why ? Because TF2 players don’t give a fuck trying to help themselves to get a better country (that’s the target of my community). My community is based 99% of romanians in the server. They are joining the server if they see people on it.

I challenge you and Anti-Bad Admins to create a community for whole Africa without South Africa Republic and tell me if you do it better than mine.

By: Pad See Ew

Pad See Ew — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:16:07 +0000

It doesn’t work. Shobi is right though, the only dependable way to start up or seed a server is to have a dedicated core group.

The problem with a lot of regulars on our server is, they’re fickle and will skip on to another server because no one is on ours. I’m always the one saying, “No one is on the server, because YOU are not on the server” (Uncle Sam style).

By: Shobi

Shobi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:38:50 +0000

Faking playercounts sucks, but I do understand.. without at least 5 steam friends backing you up it’s just impossible to ‘’start up” a TF2 server, even if it has a fun map rotation, no quake sound faggotry, no insta respawn 32 players 2fort 24/7 and whatnot.

By: Teatime

Teatime — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:48:11 +0000

@Nightbox:
Not that this remark makes you look more intelligent than the players you call stupid, but at least you are honest about it.
But I wonder: Does it work?
If somebody joins a server expecting to find 10 people playing and realizes he’s alone, does that player stay?
Do you really manage to fill up your servers with that tactic? Pray tell …

By: noodleboy347

noodleboy347 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:15:41 +0000

These servers bother me to no end, and I’ve been forced into only visiting like the 1 last server that doesn’t use it in my favorites.

By: Anti-Bad Admins

Anti-Bad Admins — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:13:32 +0000

@Nightbox

lol lern2community, n00b.

By: Nightbox

Nightbox — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:37:07 +0000

I’m server administrator. I run 4 servers. I’m fed up with stupidy of TF2 players. They refuse to join a server if there are not 10 people on it. This is pure stupid. That’s why i’m working on putting bots on my servers, instead of fake slots.

Until TF2 Players will be intelligent, us (server administrators) we will use our weapons.

By: vic

vic — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:47:36 +0000

I fail to see what good this does to the servers since people will quit the second they realize they’ve been fooled, and possibly remember never to join the same server again. I know I do.

I personally think admins of servers using this trick should be VAC-banned.

By: Josh60502

Josh60502 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:55:00 +0000

I always thought that when I joined an empty server that said it had people in it, there was a problem on my end… like the list wouldn’t refresh right or something. But apparently I’ve been wrong.

By: Substance

Substance — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:09:27 +0000

@Drexer

“…scumbags and liars”

(Looks at the scumbags and liars)

Oh no she deedent!

By: LaZodiac

LaZodiac — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:38:38 +0000

Both this and Boomercharged have an “Open Letter To” post as the featured article.

Is Charged serious buisness now? (kidding)

By: Drexer

Drexer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:19:50 +0000

@AnLuckyFreak

I believe the other comments answered your question?

Bottom line is, if you’re a good clan, you wont use fake player counts. NEVER!

Take the Ubercharged.net servers, they might be empty at least half the day, but we see no reason to be scumbags and liars.

By: 2tone

2tone — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:57:13 +0000

@Sandman:

I haven’t laughed like that since I was a little girl, thank you.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:58:48 +0000

Probably the same thing that the one guy did with garry’s mod, where he hosted a crapton of dedicated servers from his own IP, making it appear as though they were hacked…

By: Sandman

Sandman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:49:56 +0000

A cop says: “I’m sorry to say this, but a lot of radar guns add to your speed. Plus, my radar gun is not like the others, I only add at max 5 mph/kph.”

Hey, this logic is fun! I love the argument of: “I lie, but I only lie a little bit compared to some other people, so it’s not really a lie”.

By: Phosphorus

Phosphorus — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:58:59 +0000

Lmao at the advertisers of their shitty clans.

By: Brian_Black

Brian_Black — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:18:20 +0000

I would agree. The “everyone else is doing it” line really doesn’t work, regardless of how different your deception is from everyone else’s. If you’ve got a great community going, you’ve got no reason to lie to people to get them to click join.

By: Comissar Cain

Comissar Cain — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:10:03 +0000

@AnLuckyFreak

If your ‘clan’s’ server was worth mentioning, you wouldn’t have to bother with it.

I don’t care if you’re a bunch of amazing MLG-league playing pros, you can’t be all that great if you have to try and trick people into clicking join.

By: AnUnluckyFreak

AnUnluckyFreak — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:26:14 +0000

@Drexer

so….. a good clan cant use fake player counts? im sorry to say this, but alot of servers use fake player counts. plus, our fake player count is not like the others. we only add at max 5 players. and if there is nobody in the server, there is no fake player count.