Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
by pathseeker on Friday February 09, 2018 @01:45PM
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>It also hurts the game's image if many servers spam players with "Donate $20/mo for the INVINCIBILITY rank!"
That's a problem with the client design. Don't allow the server to send banners or any map tiles and that problem goes away.
Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
by Flammy on Friday February 09, 2018 @01:52PM
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That isn't really a realistic solution if you also want to support the mod ecosystem (which IMO is much more valuable to a game's community than the potential downsides)
Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
by pathseeker on Friday February 09, 2018 @01:55PM
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Ok, but the mod ecosystem is a separate discussion. And even if you do want the mod ecosystem, you can distribute mods as client add-ons so the mods can be evaluated independently of the host server.
Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
by chipperyman573 on Friday February 09, 2018 @02:03PM
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Which is exactly what Gmod did, and they have this problem.
Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
by robotresearcher on Friday February 09, 2018 @02:05PM
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Just make mods opt-in. Vanilla servers by default.
It also hurts the game's image if many servers spam players with "Donate $20/mo for the MASTER rank and get exclusive weapons that deal twice the damage of normal weapons!"
I haven't played in a while but I remember playing Minecraft when I was still in school and servers were filled with this- many would let you donate hundreds for admin/OP/whatever, many would restrict core parts of the game to "donating" members (such as mining certain ores, going into certain areas, etc). Eventually it got so bad that Mojang actually had to step in and (vaguely) threaten to sue any server owner who does this - http://andrewtian.com/mojang-threatens-lawyers-against-pay-t...
Also, admins that can ban players for any reason, who are picked by the server owners (and not the devs), can result in backlash if someone influential is banned.