Are there already servers with fake playercounts?
CrushaK
Join Date: 2012-11-05 Member: 167195Members, NS2 Playtester
Join Date: 2012-11-05 Member: 167195Members, NS2 Playtester
I saw a modded server in the server list today. Said it had 17/18 players on it, so it would seem like one of those that are desirable to play on in that very moment.
When I joined it, there were actually only two guys on the map, so I left immediately.
It reminded me in a bad way of TF2 where certain server owners would use some mods to make their servers always show 23/24 players, regardless of the actual count, just because they know that this will attract most players (players attract more players - always been like that in games) and thus get a somewhat unfair advantage over other servers and of course also fool players into false expectations that get disappointed then.
Maybe I was just seeing things, but maybe someone else already encountered something similar here.
When I joined it, there were actually only two guys on the map, so I left immediately.
It reminded me in a bad way of TF2 where certain server owners would use some mods to make their servers always show 23/24 players, regardless of the actual count, just because they know that this will attract most players (players attract more players - always been like that in games) and thus get a somewhat unfair advantage over other servers and of course also fool players into false expectations that get disappointed then.
Maybe I was just seeing things, but maybe someone else already encountered something similar here.
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There needs to be a client side blacklist, like what they have for TF2.