nah you don't !!! give me

A little note about the empty servers though.

Way back ago when i was helping out admining of r0 1v1 servers (i wasnt drt even then), and then later all r0 servers, i spent quite some of my gaming time animating the r0 servers.

I looked on browser, saw wich r0 server was empty, and joined it.

Usualy on 1v1 it took about 2 minutes for someone else to join. During next 4 minutes (unless the first person disconnected) server had additional 2 - 3 players. Then i left the server and joined the next one.

On TDM and FREEZE/CTF it was a bit harder.

It took about 7-10 minutes for second person to join. Then about 10 more for the third and fourth player. After 4 people were there, additional 6 join within 5 minutes!

As a test, i also left servers ocasionaly empty and observed people joining. Most of days, if a group didnt join TDM server (usualy some DRT to train or play together for fun) server was empty AND REMAINED EMPTY. Regardless of pure or pb (r0 servers didnt have that, only one 1v1 server hd pb).

Obviosly server population is based on wether someone joins first.

Why count on n00bs joining first and then good players following?

Its hard for one person to animate server, but 4 working together can skip the first 20 minutes of waiting just like that...

Actualy i checked and 2!S freeze is probably the bussiest server arround, always loaded with skilled people. And i cant remember when i joined it without FIREFOX being there, at least as spec.

People dont join empty servers. They are lazy and want quick fun.

My suggestion: instead of making a server patrol team, make a server animating team, wich would work together, and work on filling up those server that show up highest in q3 browser. Then you can easily put pure and pb. Servers would be full anyway...

@foks :salute:

i'm a ctf player

i play every day a lot on capture the tiffs server, sometimes also on capture the doener

pb + pure server do NOT save this situation, trust me.......

yes, about cheating is right, they clean QUITE all: but they decrease traffic, and some owner don't like it.........

as a ctf player, i can assure that more admin are needed for one simple reason: LAMERS

on tiffs server we play a lot q3ctf4....... if u are owning, cause u are in a good day, and someone of other team get pissed off, he change team and start shooting to their team players and push them out of map: that suck!

and the sad thing is not that he push out only the owning player, but ALL players: this put bad eyes on server, cause then it's remembered as a lamer server, and traffic move away......

another thing: fucking spam!

i mean, granade are good, usefull for jump and move faster.... but when someone put his finger in the glue, click forever attack key, and use only granade spamming like a noob..... that's crap!

same for every weapon: i mean, all weapon are good, but when u start abusing a weapon it's noobish.......

in conclusion: it's very hard to speak about this here on forum, cause everyone has to complain about something, or agree with something that some other disagree.......

plus, choosing a admin team here is useless: trusted easy going player must be find ON server, not on forum....... there are plenty of people that are not registered here but that play every day more than us all togheter, and that they know all traffic and all players that play with them.....

and voting suck!

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pb does make just a few kb extra.

yes, but how many resources of windows does he steal? too many

i run sof2 servers for years, i have a server located in ny, 4 p4 ht 3 ghz (4 virtual), 32 gb mirrored ram, oc-48 connection, cisco routers....

if i run more than 20 server with pb, all lag..... it's not question of "how many physical" resorces he steal, it's not question of "how many bandwidth" he steal, pb work on system resources, server and client side, and slow down all.......

pb is a pain in the ass, plus it's not so "secure" as people think....

PS

on my sof2 servers i run pb.