info_player_teamspawn in a forward spawn.

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Belli

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I noticed in a couple of maps that the forward spawns are usually more compact and often only have a small amount of info_player_teamspawn entities.

My question is, if there's more players waiting to respawn than available spawn points during the same wave, what's going to happen? And what's the minimum of spawn points for a full server?
 

Fruity Snacks

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Usually, we map for 16 people per side, to accommodate the servers that run the 32man mod (stock tf2 is 24).

For forward spawns, if you don't have enough spots, it will just stack players up on top of each other. So if you have 8 spawn points, but 9 people respawning, one will double up (the players will appear inside each other, but this is fine).
 

Belli

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Usually, we map for 16 people per side, to accommodate the servers that run the 32man mod (stock tf2 is 24).

For forward spawns, if you don't have enough spots, it will just stack players up on top of each other. So if you have 8 spawn points, but 9 people respawning, one will double up (the players will appear inside each other, but this is fine).

So, it's not the best solution, but not really detrimental to the gameplay either?

Thanks.
 

tyler

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I think most forward spawns probably only have 4-6 player spawns in them. It's not a big ideal. Initial spawn rooms should have at least 16, though.
 

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So, it's not the best solution, but not really detrimental to the gameplay either?

Thanks.

Your primary spawns, the one where players spawn for the start of the map should have 16 (maybe a little more) spawns. Forward spawns can have less, because usually you don't have all 16 people spawning at the exact same time.
 

henke37

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Of course, it is never wrong to have more spawn positions.