Declined Reduce Respawn Times

Joeman

Joeman

Gore-Spattered Heavy
When i say that, i don't mean instant respawn. I have been playing and dying for a while now, and quite often the respawn time is over 20 seconds. This stresses me out greatly, especially when i play engineer and cannot respawn in time to fix my buildings.

Please Help!
 
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A long time ago before quickplay was invented, faster respawn servers were the most popular. All our servers had faster respawn times.

However, people kept complaining about it on the Steam forums, so one day, Valve invented quickplay and blocked servers with faster respawn times from receiving traffic from it.

Since then many people have complained to me instead of Valve about slow respawn times. Having any server on fast respawn is a good way to kill off the population because a server can't compete with quickplay. People only join the fullest servers, and almost no one will willingly join an empty server unless they are forced to by quickplay.
 
Bottiger said:
A long time ago before quickplay was invented, faster respawn servers were the most popular. All our servers had faster respawn times.

However, people kept complaining about it on the Steam forums, so one day, Valve invented quickplay and blocked servers with faster respawn times from receiving traffic from it.

Since then many people have complained to me instead of Valve about slow respawn times. Having any server on fast respawn is a good way to kill off the population because a server can't compete with quickplay. People only join the fullest servers, and almost no one will willingly join an empty server unless they are forced to by quickplay.
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Lol who uses quickplay?
 
A Valve employee has stated that less than 50% use the quickplay button. However this is irrelevant and still a large percentage.

What is relevant is that people join fuller servers first and quickplay helps with that. It turns into a snowball effect. The servers that are fuller get even more fuller, and the servers that fill up slower may even empty out after seeing other servers filling up faster.

And almost no one will willingly join an empty server. Which means the quickplay advantage is even greater.

I have observed all these effects, I am not just making up excuses as to why I think it is impossible to compete against quickplay.
 
Ok thanks guys. i posted this in a moment of rage after all my buildings got wiped out. It would be nicer to have faster respawn but then again i understand that the servers need to be full so ill say no more.
 
Joeman said:
Ok thanks guys. i posted this in a moment of rage after all my buildings got wiped out. It would be nicer to have faster respawn but then again i understand that the servers need to be full so ill say no more.
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If you play on our plus(32 player) servers the respawn times are pretty fast once there are more than 24 people on the server.
 
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