Question for devs regarding player size

Jack BonerJack Boner Join Date: 2009-09-07 Member: 68714Members
in NS2 General Discussion
If a similar topic exist then someone please link me to the tread.
I just bought the game and when I was creating a server, I noticed the default player size was 16. I remember reading a while back that Flayra wanted to make the maps smaller because he wanted ns2 to be a little more noob friendly. But I had no idea this meant cutting the maximum player size in half too. So my question is the final product aimed at 16 vs 16 or 8 vs 8?
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  • zexzex Join Date: 2009-10-07 Member: 68978Members
    I hope its aimed at 16 v 16 (32 players) personally. The RTS side of the game really needs a large player count.
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  • SN.WolfSN.Wolf Join Date: 2010-03-29 Member: 71115Members
    Mappers must place 16 player spawns on each teams start locations so all maps will support up to 32 players. I do believe the default 16 player is only there as a base player for beta testing as server stability won't handle much more than 12-14 in the current build.
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  • SilverwingSilverwing bulletsponge Join Date: 2003-11-23 Member: 23395Members, Constellation
    Player size is around 72, check the mapping guidelines. Team size is whatever the fog UWE wants it to be. Atm, it seems to be aimed at roughly 16 per team. Ns1 was a lot smaller so this might change as well.
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  • SafetyHelmetSafetyHelmet Join Date: 2010-11-26 Member: 75298Members, Constellation
    I agree with the above- I'm betting we'll see the max # of players increase as server performance improves in later builds.
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  • Squeal_Like_A_PigSqueal_Like_A_Pig Janitor Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 66Members, Super Administrators, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Reinforced - Supporter, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer
    We are aiming to support 32 players on release, but at the moment we are in the middle of heavily optimizing the game in order to handle that many players, so for the time being the max player count is set to 16.

    --Cory
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