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I also noticed that option. Guess we gotta try it out. Are there any 'official' maps that have 30 playerstarts set? It'd be a pain to open them up each and count lol.

Back in time i remember of a couple 28/30 slot servers. The thing is you need a lot of bandwidth to fully cover 30 players on any map (it's also quite of a bit of server load)

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BTW, if you hover over the class images, there is like a master sergeant and some other class above the squad leader position. Anyway you know how to add those guys as a selectable class? If there's an image and text for them, you should be able to choose them. It'd be kind of a fun thing.

I wish we had enough people to say "hey, stop in on server x and xx:xx GMT so we can test load". I guess we can try increasing slowly and see when users complain?

i will test it.

there were last night 26 players on my server - and the cpu was almost idle (10%).
and - sorry jonny :-) - its win7 64b with a intel i7 quadcore with 2. GHz each (virtual 8 cores), 8 GB ram and SS-Device and internet bandwith 2/20mb.

so this could not be the problem. i guess it will work

until tomorrow then.
Merl.

No need to fiddle with it... the maximum slots are there for a reason and the maps are professionally fine-tuned for them. And it's a rare sight to see even 20 players on a server.

I could run quite comfortably 26 slots on our server while other server that ran 20 or 22 started have big problems.

It depends on a few things, hardware, connection location, and bw of the connection.  We were in the data centre in Australia that linked directly into the pipes that serviced USA, Europe, Japan and New Zealand.  Japan in particular was a hugh pipe.  We had a 40Mbps connection minimum QoS and running quad core xeon's with hugh ram.  15 servers was not a challenge on this combination.

No need to fiddle with it... the maximum slots are there for a reason and the maps are professionally fine-tuned for them. And it's a rare sight to see even 20 players on a server.

Maps aren't tuned for player slots unless you're talking about one map being better for 8-10 players than 26? Even then, I don't think the devs had player slots on the mind when they built maps. The maximum slots are there for a reason because of hardware and engine limitations 6+ years ago. CPU's are faster now. We can't work past engine limitations but the AA developers themselves coded the 4 fireteams, they must have wanted to use them at some point. We can make the maps have 100 playerstarts but if it becomes a problem, the server hoster can set the maximum limit. For now, the obvious bottleneck for pushing past 26 slots are the maps not having any more slots.