Declined Please remove the spawn timer

[MilleNX]

The timer when population drops is obscene. It just discourages from playing on servers below 24. I do believe a few seconds is fine, but if you must increase please consider putting up to 8 seconds max.

 

[Bottiger]

The timer is the default that is required for quickplay. I tried removing it on Sunday and the servers emptied out 4 hours earlier than they normally do.

If you want some real change I would complain to Valve loudly and frequently.

Faster respawn servers are dying out because of quickplay. They can't be filled 24/7 like before anymore because most people use quickplay and the rest that don't, sort servers by number of players, which means non-quickplay servers show up at the very bottom of the list.

 

[MilleNX]

Thank you for responding. I used to remember skial 2fort being instant before, and I actually welcomed the change of having about 4-8 secs of respawn timer, but having to wait 15-20 seconds really just urges to quit.

Just wondering, is the increased timer upon a reduced populations part of "Vanilla"? if modded in any way, does it exclude you from QuickPlay? Seems complaining to Valve might be a good idea.

 

[Sharkey]

It's likely a plugin that monitors player count to modify respawn time. When the player count dips under a certain number the respawn time is set to normal so the server will qualify for quickplay, once it's back over this number it will set to a lower respawn time because it doesn't need to qualify for quickplay.

 

[Bottiger]

Just wondering, is the increased timer upon a reduced populations part of "Vanilla"? if modded in any way, does it exclude you from QuickPlay? Seems complaining to Valve might be a good idea.

No it is something we do so the server doesn't die out.