raw gull
Many of us are near (or beyond) the point of not having populated servers which we can access (largely due to ping restrictions and diminishing player-count).
Please re-open server whitelisting, or give us the ability to create smaller, locally hosted games a la TCP/IP style multiplayer hosting.
Give us the means to inflate a life preserve for what little player-base there is left, and extend some bits to our OCE battlebuddy's - long since malinged by the locked-in server listings.
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hollow jasper
unfortunately i don't think they'll open the whitelist until the update cos oki is ver specific over who he wants to let have servers :(
raw gull
I know it's a long shot, but honestly... the alternative is letting the game die.
quietly give us the ability to put together some different servers and fix the things that can be fixed (like setting more map rotations for SMALLER LOBBY SIZES cough hint hint cough.
gusty sequoia
quietly give us the ability to put together some different servers and fix the t...
Wont happen. I already pushed for this in general and we have to stick to specific maps sizes per specific player cap sizes. Without going modded, wouldn’t be allowed.
So either they use auto scaling (rarely works in anyones favor with this player size) or you hope people queue the right size
Also you can’t just shift prio to community because prio will official first outside of when the official is down, so… 
raw gull
They did the backend work to fix session tokens or whatever misassignment was happening based on account IDs and weekly challenges...
They should be able to make back-end changes which allow their servers (and ours) to change settings.
I have no idea what all can be tweaked when hosting a server, but I bet there's a lot of pretty standard stuff already there based on the community server integrations to Discord, challenges, account metrics etc which we all see getting used.
And whether or not it was pushed for in the past, the player count is still trending down and we're nearing another major break-point which will exclude entire regions from accessing a playable game.
That alone merits re-opening the conversation.
keen bone
Two shmoll notes. This is for troubleshooting support, suggestions live over here https://discord.com/channels/303681520202285057/1170727258537865367 and I dont think any commentary, from anyone, at all, will impact the server whitelisting functions until atleast after 3.0.
raw gull
"Game is about to not be available to me" is a server issue as well.
keen bone
OCE players with no server over a year be like:
raw gull
yup. and I complained then too.
keen bone
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raw gull
If they aren't going to make any attempts to allow people to continue using the thing as it is (even if effectively abandoned from the player experience perspective), that's scummy.
gusty sequoia
And whether or not it was pushed for in the past, the player count is still tren...
I’ve been pushing upping ping limits for that reason. Bobs has a high ping limit that allows most people to play. E4gl sees people from OCE and Asia playing it
Within the regions though - most have given up. Those that remain don’t want to play conquest all the time (which is what the community Asia and OCE regions are outside of the private competitive server).
Opening a new community server wont fix how QM works either. It will always queue official first, and since most people on officials vote conquest.. you can guess why those not seeking conquest gameplay have no incentive to seed it.
You want people hopping to SEA/OCE you gotta give them a reason to, this includes those from outside those regions. Devs have made it clear they want an official at all costs