Due to the latests CS:S gay update, seems that server lags more when it's full. IMO - it's because it has to process and the transfer all the achievements and the player stats bullshit. More player - more data to process. Switching back to the 32 slots might help.

Other thing - looks like the n00bfest server is more and more popular and sometimes it's hard to get in. Can we deploy reserved slots for n00bs?

If I am correct, (and higher ups correct me if I am wrong) If you suck an admins dick enough and have them on steam friends you might be able to get him to kick someone to let you in since n00bs do in fact have priority.

Yeah I played yesterday when it was full and couldn't lower my lerp below 100 without dropping packets. Earlier today at like 24ish players I got it to 20-33 with no problems.

I already wrapped my sweet lips around admins' sausages few times to get into server.

Right or wrong Taz I'll always make room for you sweetheart!

I think all these slots might be too much until they fix their issues -- we can work on tweaking things on the server side like priorities, etc, etc -- but I'm not sure how much that will help.

Last night with a full server it was pretty much unplayable

yah agreed.

Than a push for back to a 32 man than?

Sounds good! Reserved slots are always nice

Reserved slots will always be taken, as most of the time we've got a ton of high-level admins in the server. I think the solution is to bump the slot number down some and get a second server up and running as a backup.

fomenta and I will also consider a hardware upgrade on the box, but we've got to look at what our utilization is like and trend some of that information out to see if it's justified.

wait... i thought you guys sucked admins dicks just because they were dicks, like me... I'm all confuseded inside now... could be all the love mayo in my tum tum


yuck... i made myself gag...

servers over 20 slots suck for people like me that are stuck with shitty internet... I put up with it to play with you guys cus it's more for the social enjoyment... but it sucks when i actually wanna kill people and my rates aren't even worth F*CKING with...

isnt there a way to disable the achievements on the server side? or disable some of the other "new features"? if not, maybe our server needs a new power supply? or faster internet?

or vavle can stop F*CKING up and we can get a second server in here, and have that an overflow server.

that isnt gonna happen. lol

valve breaks cs more each update worse then microsoft breaks windows everytime it updates it. It's all due to poor testing and jumping the gun, which is clearly what these fuckups do on a day-day basis.

i've never had an issue with windows updates.

the only issue i have ever had with windows updates was either caused by me or some1 else shutting off the computer improperly during an update (or the computer crashing due to other things) and when installing the video card drivers through windows update, which i dont do any more. i really have never had an issue i could see. doesnt mean there arent actual problems, like a new exploit or something caused by an update, but nothing i can notice.