Bottiger

Administrator
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It has come to our attention that there have been complaints about random server reloads

This is actually not because our servers are bad, it is because it automatically reloaded to prevent a crash due to a bug that Valve has not fixed.

The reason why this happens is because there is a limit on the number of unique items that can be used on each map change. Unfortunately Valve does not remove unused entries, so it is very easy to hit the limit, and when the server does, it crashes and kicks everyone from the server.

This bug has been around for years, but was rarely a problem before because people had fewer unique items, so this only happened about once a week instead of once a day.

In an attempt to make reloads more tolerable, the server will now make an announcement when approaching the item limit and attempt to reload on the next cap. However if the server gets too close to the limit, it will reload in 10 seconds. For trade and idle maps, it will reload in 10 seconds since there is no objective.

There has been a long history of people blaming us for having bad servers caused by Valve bugs. But we are able to fix most of them without large side-effects. Unfortunately people will never know when we've prevented a server crash that Valve does not fix, but it is one of the reasons why we have the most popular servers. This is just one of the many unfixed bugs we deal with at Skial.