How do i server redirect?

[MasterJedi]

Hey guys, I rent a 24 slot server, and i want to make it more popular, ecspecially late at night, so my question is, how would i fill up my home server w/ just bots like fake clients, and when someone joins thinking it's full, they get routed to my rented server? thx 4 any help i get

[skeletor]

lol, that seems cheap. but I know mani has a redirect if full feature. But I think thats only if someone gets kicked because someone joins that has a reserved slot. So it would be useless. The main way to get people on your server, is just have a good server, good maps, and good admins! Thats the way you will get more people in it, cuz if its an all around good server, people will come back. Main server killer is no, or bad admins. Also if you want your server to be popular, play on it yourself as often as you can, even if its empty, cuz if no one is in it.. no ones gonna join it.

[MasterJedi]

skeletor Wrote:lol, that seems cheap. but I know mani has a redirect if full feature. But I think thats only if someone gets kicked because someone joins that has a reserved slot. So it would be useless. The main way to get people on your server, is just have a good server, good maps, and good admins! Thats the way you will get more people in it, cuz if its an all around good server, people will come back. Main server killer is no, or bad admins. Also if you want your server to be popular, play on it yourself as often as you can, even if its empty, cuz if no one is in it.. no ones gonna join it.

thx 4 the advice man, it's not really cheap imo, cuz i run a 24/7 dust2 server, and there are so many popular dust2 servers out there so it's hard to get your foot in the door. I have a steady amount of clan members but late at night, it's a ghost town.

[Stealth]

MasterJedi Wrote:thx 4 the advice man, it's not really cheap imo, cuz i run a 24/7 dust2 server, and there are so many popular dust2 servers out there so it's hard to get your foot in the door. I have a steady amount of clan members but late at night, it's a ghost town.

You got to remember, when you sleep so do most others, you wont get people from other continents playing at night because of the high latency involved.

Night time is for sleeping, not gaming

[skeletor]

lol not for all people stealth! I know there would be some nights my server would be full until about 4 in the morning. Yea though, you do have to take that into consideration, its very unlikely that you will ever get a full server all day every day.
I wouldn't know why though, pfft, who needs sleep?!

[Tirppa]

Don't use the redirect. It pretty much sucks. Atleast it used to. This feature makes the game crash. I know many people who this is a reality, including me.

[Hollanda]

Redirect will make you crash if you are not in the server yet (still connecting..). If the player is in the server redirect works perfect.

Thanx for the bug VALVe