#Decrease min player count before game starting

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gentle axle
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Most servers are empty because players need to wait until min player count is given before game starts.
How should this game survive when the most time the players aren´t able to play it because they need to wait for their regional server to match the min player count?
Server would be much more visited if you could join or start a game from scratch...

livid gyro
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You see, this would require they update the game. Which is impossible

broken sonnet
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Even if the requirement is lowered, there are no people

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Look at steam charts

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There be no people to play with

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The 10 remaining people from each region have to play on NA or EU

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Simply no people

gentle axle
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wtf.. back in 1998 we created our own half-life servers on our own hardware and plugged them to the internet and played on them...
We had the possibility to modificate the servers to our needs and it was incredible fun.
Thoss bbr developers make things much more difficult... I bet: If they would take the start limit to zero the servers would fill up again...
Or let us host our own servers... Have a lot people in my near which would like to play with handfull people whenever they want...

gentle axle
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Whilst waiting on the servers you can see that people join and leave a lot just because they do not want to wait more then hours... until enough players stay quite until it starts...
I start and minimize the game and hope that sometime it starts because of enough players...

neon echo
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I can already tell you this likely won’t happen because oki is paranoid about xp farming

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Most servers that have it set to start at a lower number (especially suoer low like 2-4 people) are expected to watch out for it too.

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joe_shrug I hate the state of where things are in but this is solely a “dev has paranoia problem regarding xp gains”, and that probably wont change, meaning gl getting something like this to actually happen.

broken sonnet
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Also no people

gentle axle
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@broken sonnet na my friend, that´s not true - join a server and watch the queue and how many different people join and leave - those are many different players over time...
They would stay if they could play immediately

broken sonnet
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Idk man 600-ish people on average across the globe aint that many people

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Just saying with the current state of things, both with the devs (lack of update) the numerous problems the game itself has and the current playerbase it aint gonna help much