Idle kick 300?

[Sorry]

So now it takes 4 people to start a match. The idle kick is locked at 300 seconds. You are frozen so you can't even move to stop being idle kicked at 5 minutes... EA couldn't turn the points off till 4 or more?

[Edge100x]

I've been a booster for allowing player movement without stats reporting since the BF3 beta days (in the form of repetitive feedback to DICE), but we haven't seen it implemented yet. BC2 allowed this and it was much more satisfying than being locked in place.

I also recommended to DICE that they continue to allow admins to adjust vars.idleTimeout, after I learned that it would be removed in R9. I felt that taking it out was a step back, since this setting was *added* in BC2 in response to demand from players.

On the good news front, DICE has taken a lot of the advice I've given them on other changes they proposed in R9.

[RadicalMode]

More empty servers...

[RexKramer]

Yea its got me concerned as I run a small slot server that always filled up because you could start with 1 or more, I suspect this will kill my server off, we shall see, just started to get a community going too.

rex
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[deadandy]

This is a huge step back. Many server owners depend on leaving seeds online until everything is going, without babysitting every 5 min.

[woowoo]

It is very stupid. Just don't make us frozen and I'm happy - as Edge said - make it like BC2.

[TacTicToe]

Yea if I cant idle in my server, and need 4 just to start, there is no point in having the server. I couldn't get it filled before, this just made things even more difficult. Its ridiculous. If they want a 4 person start that's one things, but telling me as a server owner I cant idle is quite another.

[woowoo]

Yea if I cant idle in my server, and need 4 just to start, there is no point in having the server. I couldn't get it filled before, this just made things even more difficult. Its ridiculous. If they want a 4 person start that's one things, but telling me as a server owner I cant idle is quite another.

Its being frozen is what kills me. At least in BC2 you could practice flying or explore the map. Or launch vehicles.

[MyOdessa]

This will lead to more canceled servers.

[Dr.Tek]

This is definitely going to put a hurt on my servers. It's like the devs at DICE have never tried to run and or populate a server before...

[globel]

This is definitely going to put a hurt on my servers. It's like the devs at DICE have never tried to run and or populate a server before...

yea they just put there servers on the quickmatch bandwagen. Some servers get it.. some servers fill from empty in seconds... from quick match... others don't

[globel]

it seems like the battlelog only shows the same servers now like it use too. I am using the list and I see the same servers every time.

[MyOdessa]

With idle set at 300, it will be incredibly hard to populate servers, especially for small clans.

[wyseguy79]

With idle set at 300, it will be incredibly hard to populate servers, especially for small clans.

Why can't small clans get together and start / share servers together. Might help getting enough people together. Especially if one clan has more then enough resources to support a few.

[globel]

i would imagine it would be hard to advertise recruiting in a server you share with another clan.