custom room limited to 16 players

Why?

Can you please stop to tell us how we should play this game with what playerlimits?
Everytime you did so one player left ZeroK forever.

If you like small games join small games, there is a room for that.

I do not know? And I knew that someone will post this question to have the discussion back to the topic. We do not know yet.

Limiting players ( active community ) leads to more players?

Aquanim why don't you stay in small teams room and wait for the good small games with DeinFreund and Licho ( sadly I never see you guys there ). Apparently mumble clan made it just by easy open a own small teams room and they just play. Obviously they never complain about cluster games, why they should. If they want small games they just open a room for small games and do not yell at forums against clusters while not playing any small games by themselfes.

Let me guess because you have to stay in teams room ( cluster room ) to play police? How about adding a little break after auto rolling poll after poll after a game ends. There is no possibity to start a kick vote. The room would handle itself. Or allowe no limiting on custom rooms. Why not take the freedom to find out who makes the best room for the community, players go there where they like to play. On custom rooms, room owner can decide whom to kick, if noone is comfortable with that they can join the public rooms or just open own room. I would only see one risk, that there will newbies get kicked too fast. But hey, if we have good players they would not stay in such room because good players want new players to see the game growing.
Game will not grow by limiting a "custom room"...

Limiting custom rooms by maxplayers won't increase the community. Even there is no truth, but why limiting it then?

Is it a custom room...

No it is not a custom room. I cannot set any option I want there on my custom room.

any one know a good rts supporting big teams since zero-k is killing itself?

Since steam start I think the trend is to have fewer and fewer players (reference: https://steamdb.info/app/334920/graphs/). So, I would conclude that the current status is not retaining players but rather loosing player, so something should be done. What exactly is a complex discussion but just saying "leave things as they are" does not seem to result in more players.

the pros on zero-k for sure isnt its beautiful graphics and the engine.
guess there are more beautiful small teams rts around

quote: Why?

quote: April 4th, 2019 @ 6:13 AM Aquanim: allowing random users to be dictators in whatever clusterfuck room happened to fill today . . . is not in the best interests of making the zero-k community an enjoyable place to spend time

Yes, effectively they are when it comes to big teams. Being kicked from the singular large game is effectively a ban from zero-k for 5minutes (Due to the nature of 1 room culture). Having one random person with whatever grievances, grudges, etc from being able to bouncer people out of zero-k for an arbitrary reason is not a benefit, nor conductive to an enjoyable environment. Considering the amount of abusive, non explained kick votes, and rapid escalation of issues that is on frequent display in big team games, it is not surprising that custom rooms have been limited.

quote: wow. sounds like big team rooms are source of pure evil. did DeinFreund get kick voted again? you could apply same to lobby and some mod actions probably you should make zk singleplayer, no more use of kick polls or evil words like "lame"

These were cited examples of why it is not a good idea to have a singular room with a host that is exercising powers and not why the big teams host should go. If you don't like the reasoning behind the changes, then don't necessitate them to begin with.

Please make this conversation less personal.

theyve been changed to 16players in the past too.
annoying polls pop up you dont want to join matchmaker instead.
also they dont allow many maps.
id be happy if develobs would let them stay at 32players and stop adding new "features" to decrease big teams rooms
for matchmaker