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Proposed new Lobby Moderation Rule and Bot Optimization:

When all your Autohosts have players inside them, spawn a new autohost.

If number of autohosts with no players present >1 , kill an empty autohost and repeat.

At the moment this rule is not present, and we're stuck with TourneyBot1, TourneyBot2, TourneyBot3, TourneyBot4, TourneyBot5, TourneyBot6, TourneyBot7, TourneyBot8, etc..

These are all empty and serve no purpose beyond the initial empty autohost. Under the new rule, this should be considered spam. These instance increase the loading time of all clients, and the resources necessary to run the server.

Sure we could make an exception for different games, but the rule would still mean that we could remove about 80% of all the empty battles present.

While I agree there are a few too many hosts; in fact the main problem is that there are too few players on each host(too spread out). Still, filtering is an option as stated in the last thread, so no need to go crazy on killing hosts.

Tourney bots were kept after the last tourney because there was a discussion and everybody said said let's keep them in case we want to play 1v1(at that time only spads0/spads1 were 1v1 and spads0 is a newbie host).

you can do a relay host if you want 1v1. Can all lobbies not access the relay hosts?

Relay hosts are kinda shitty..

This is what springies are doing for the good past year or more..

There are several "lines" of them. Each line maintains at least 1 free autohost, closes extra and makes new ones. And can be asked to "spawn" private one with password etc.

Afaik all non-BA autohosts are cloning springies hosted by one process on springrts.com

You can still have just as many tourney bots, you just program to watch the ingame player counts of the other autohosts in their group with open battles. and make sure that there is always an open battle, but only 1 additional open battle. When people join that battle, open a new one.

This way there si always an empty autohost, but there isnt a whole lobbys worth of empty autohosts cluttering everything up.

No changes to the lobby or server necessary. Lobby autohosts should do this regardless of rules purely out of courtesy and efficiency

This is exactly what springie does..

But people jus tlike hosting their own autohost.

For considerate development practices, you have gained a cookie ^_^

These are bots me and Zydox setup for the couple tourneys that happened a while back. I guess he just decided to keep them running as they were of little drain to the server. I'll use them again for the next tourney I host. I was gonna host one for tomorrow but there doesn't seem to be many 1v1 fans around in BA atm....

where can you get these autohost things anyway?
(if you do not want to run your computer 24/7)
and what can they do?

Only because they're all in fucking france.

france would be good, i often get fucking kangaroo relays.
but hosts in different areas are needed i guess so some autohosts should be kept for that?

where can you get these autohost things [for your game] anyway?

Aegis offered up his server to be a US based relay host, but of course, anyone who can do anything about it hasn't told him what he needs to do to set it up.

don't make stuff up when you don't know
there IS a relayhost there, but it's currently unusable due to a spring-dedicated bug

What is needed to clear said roadblock?

I doubt you used all eight even during your tourney.

We used about six, only because a few players were late to arrive. They were setup with the correct tourney maps and settings so they proved useful.

I'm not making up stuff. Weeks went by. Apparently it was eventually set up.