Server Full but Isnt

(spookify) #61

Saw a USA East SW server yesterday with 13/14 and only 4 people in the server! That was a first…

(Szakalot) #62

this bug is not going anywhere and its incredibly annoying.

Whole SW server becomes basically unplayable due to constant 6v7. Whats worse, the ghost player is still considered during the skill rating /balance ; completely screwing up any effort to make the game fair. In a 5v6 situation a new player joined the bigger team, making for 5v7; presumably cause the 6th player is still ‘seen’ by the server.

I had 4 SW games on one server with ghost player bug and all of them were one sided stomps, people leaving/joining/leaving while the losing team is closed in spawn, game balance swinging every half;

no fun

(poiuasd) #63

So I’ve been noticing a pattern here. Often times servers report having one available slot like 11/12 etc. but when you try to join them it says full and it doesn’t update to 12/12 after refreshing either. Then I look at the playerlist and every time there seems to be at least one player with weird ass characters in their name so that could be something. If I recall correctly there was some fixes put in place for these issues caused by weird characters.
Here’s an example of a server that wouldn’t let me join even after refreshing several times.

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(spookify) #64

Yeah did this problem start when SD allowed those funky names into the game? I remember that because I thought they were DIS-Allowing them instead of allowing them…

(Szakalot) #65

would be hilarious if people remained ghosts on the server cause the server can’t find the random characters that are need to identify and kick em XD

I’m not sure thats the case though, as I sometimes saw my own name on a server i just d/c from; and couldnt join back in.

(Demolama) #66

So the ghost on the server has something to do with when a client crashes. I’ve double checked now twice each time my client has crashed and the server still states I am on the server