Argh! My Server Is Always Busy!

Tweedle · February 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">A lighter note from serious admin stuff</div> I've been wanting to mess with a few new administrative amx plugins and test some other plugins I've tweaked, but my server is never empty! Starting several days ago, the server is busy from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed. Under the "a good server is a reliable server" mantra, I can't bring it down while people are on it. I would have never thought this would be a problem, but it is actually starting to irritate me. I'll have to get up at 5AM one of these days to work on it. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'> I love the fact that I always have a place to play where I can control the amount of llamaness around me, but a little "down time" would be nice.

I'm not joking.

My agitation is of such an odd nature I thought I'd post it here. Anyone else having similar "problems" ?

(For those of you who are trying to get traffic on your server, play on it as much as you can for as many consecutive days as you can. People attract people. Active admins attract even more people. Have a reliable server and people will come back every time they want to play.)

voogru · February 2003

You think thats bad?

I have 3 servers which are never ever empty.

I remember making the code for reserved slots, if it wasnt for the slots I would _NEVER_ get in.

<a href='http://www.gametiger.net/search?game=all&server=voogru&count=100' target='_blank'>http://www.gametiger.net/search?game=all&s...oogru&count=100</a>

Tweedle · February 2003

Argh! I feel one third of your pain.

Luckily my server is still semi noobish so a lot of people come and go.. there are usually a few free slots. On the busy times though, I've had to wait 10+ minutes for a free slot. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

Duck · February 2003

People ping well to mine, but I can't seem to get a group of regular customers. It seems that two or three days a week it will fill up for the evening, but the rest of the time it's empty. I try to make sure it isn't crashed (windows system, not linux) since I don't (yet) know of a way to force it to restart if it crashes (or if it has the fatal read error it did two days ago), and I find it runs for about a week with no problem... I guess if I played NS more often (I basically set the server up for my clan, and noone wants to join an empty server and wait) then maybe I could entice people... I dunno. Be happy that yours are full.

(Goddess I use a lot of parenthesis)

Brutus · February 2003

Mine is full except from 4 - 5am PST.

SuicideDog · February 2003

Same here.. full all the time.. in the last 7 days there has been approximately 30 Min's. total when the server was completely empty. (watch now that I say that the server will empty out.)

I put up a second server that I use as my Guinea pig/scrim server. Thats the only way I can test out my new mods and plugins.

cracker_jackmac · February 2003

i dunno what the problem is. I have 2 servers....12 and 14 players (could be the problem there).....usually full after school for the kiddies until about 12am.

ggrrr....didn't have this problem before....it was full 24/7.......took off my "multikill" and now it seems to be empty. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

Smithboy · February 2003

Ya suicide, when Jedah locked the pub because of some scrim recently and left it locked for a bit, it was quite empty for a long time. I joined and doodled around exploring the maps again, just waiting for someone to join, and only 1 person did, but he didn't say anything and he left right when i killed him. hehe

Then the SiD guys joined and it started to get full again.

KingKahuna[KKG]™ · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SuicideDog @ Feb 20 2003, 01:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Same here.. full all the time.. in the last 7 days there has been approximately 30 Min's. total when the server was completely empty. (watch now that I say that the server will empty out.)

I put up a second server that I use as my Guinea pig/scrim server. Thats the only way I can test out my new mods and plugins. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

Yes, we had same problem about servers being full. So the link below explains how we tried to correct it.

<a href='http://forums.voogru.com/showthread.php?threadid=1665' target='_blank'>http://forums.voogru.com/showthread.php?threadid=1665</a>

Zdrone · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Duck @ Feb 20 2003, 06:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> People ping well to mine, but I can't seem to get a group of regular customers.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
I think the one thing that really brought the regulars in was our forums. Prior to the implementation of our forums, we had transients for the most part.

Make sure you have a link that pops up in game every 10 minutes or so.

cracker_jackmac · February 2003

i have alot of regulars...but no loyalists...if i get onto my server they join like crazy....but i don't always get tiem to idle on my server for 10 minutes..

i still don't have any forums.

Grimm_Spector · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Duck @ Feb 20 2003, 06:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> People ping well to mine, but I can't seem to get a group of regular customers. It seems that two or three days a week it will fill up for the evening, but the rest of the time it's empty. I try to make sure it isn't crashed (windows system, not linux) since I don't (yet) know of a way to force it to restart if it crashes (or if it has the fatal read error it did two days ago), and I find it runs for about a week with no problem... I guess if I played NS more often (I basically set the server up for my clan, and noone wants to join an empty server and wait) then maybe I could entice people... I dunno. Be happy that yours are full.

(Goddess I use a lot of parenthesis)  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
For windows, just make a batchfile that calls itself after calling the hlds
then when the exe ends, it'll call again...

Zdrone · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Grimm Spector @ Feb 26 2003, 09:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Duck @ Feb 20 2003, 06:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I try to make sure it isn't crashed (windows system, not linux) since I don't (yet) know of a way to force it to restart if it crashes (or if it has the fatal read error it did two days ago) </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
For windows, just make a batchfile that calls itself after calling the hlds
then when the exe ends, it'll call again...  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Serverdoc
<a href='http://www.serverdoc.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.serverdoc.com/</a>

Works wonders for restarting. If you need a hand setting it up, let me know...

Zdrone@hotmail.com or better yet, Gamesnet IRC on #h2ocs (or <a href='http://www.h2ocs.com/chat.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.h2ocs.com/chat.asp</a> if you dont use know how to use IRC)

bigb · February 2003

I admin a private server(tacticalgamer.com), i dont understand it, we have over 150 registered users, but no one ever plays.. i have 15 guys that are always on....where are the other 135???

Anyone else run a private server?

Arkaine · February 2003

If you want to take your server down, you can just tell them it'll be down for 30 seconds while you restart it. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Oh, and I was under the impression that if you make changes in the plugin ini files that it takes effect the next map change. I know it does in AdminMod, but does that not apply for AMX Mod?

SuicideDog · February 2003

for most changes you have to reload the map for amx.. but I do recall something about being able to pause or maybe reload plugins.. I haven't looked into it.

Arkaine · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SuicideDog @ Feb 27 2003, 12:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> for most changes you have to reload the map for amx.. but I do recall something about being able to pause or maybe reload plugins.. I haven't looked into it. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Yeah, I just do what I have to do, then wait for a mapchange. (I'm Using AdminMod, of course...AMX can't be that different, can it?)

Argh! My Server Is Always Busy!

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