"Server is full."

Pocket

Half a Lambert is better than one.
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Why is it that, whereas every other server I've ever played on will pop up the list of current players and an option to auto-join when they're full, this one actually attempts to join and then pops up a simple "Server is full." message? Is there some kind of bug that makes it think there's a slot when there isn't? (I did notice that it always shows 22/23 instead of 23/23 — I'm assuming the 23rd is the demo recorder — but it used to show 25/25 and this wasn't a problem).

This is especially frustrating on gameday, when the 22 slots (that's another thing; why come only 22?) get filled up quickly and I have no option but to mash Refresh every few seconds waiting for someone to leave the server.
 

Ravidge

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Thanks. I've set the visible max players to 23 instead of the previous 24. This will be rolled out on both servers once they restart.

This is a mismatch that is caused by our frequent change server/service provider. While we did have 25 slots on our previous server and we could keep the replay/STV bot hidden. The new server is 24 slots and the config files were not updated to suit.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
 

grazr

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I think that's because we turned replay off. The replay and STV are different "bots" and need to be hidden by different methods. Will talk with Rav on the matter.
 

Pocket

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Well, the latest update did have this:

Fixed bug with SourceTV and Replay causing player count to be off by one.

So this may have already been remedied for us.
 

PMAvers

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One of the updates last week made it so the replay bot doesn't show up in the server browser's player count listings. (Which is a good thing, kind of annoying to have the server show 1/25 when it's empty of players.)

I know that my server was showing up as 24/25 when it was fully full (24 players + 1 replay bot). The server browser would let you connect, since it sure as hell looks like there's a slot open. But once the game goes to try to connect, the server would tell you nope.avi, we be full.

Had to change sv_visiblemaxplayers to 24, and now it seems to work fine.