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Reserved slots

If a game server is full, people who try to join will be placed in a queue. There are some options to control how people are added from the queue.

Priority order:

  1. VIP players (players added to the reservedSlotsList)

  2. Premium players (players who have bought Premium)

  3. Normal players.

Players on the reservedSlotsList are moved in ahead of normal and Premium players.

Manage the reserved slots list​

The easiest way is your PRoCon layer: connect with the PRoCon client and open the Lists tab. The layer is free with your server. Create it and find its login details on the PRoCon tab of your server in the Fragnet dashboard (if it's not in the tab row, look under More). If you can't connect, see Troubleshooting Procon layer.

You can also edit the list file on the Files tab:

  1. Go to My servers, select your server and stop it. See Power controls.
  2. On the Files tab, open the Instance/Admin folder.
  3. Open ReservedSlotsList.txt and add one player name per line. See Edit a file.
  4. Select Save file and start the server.

Stop the server before you edit the file, so that a change made from PRoCon while the server runs doesn't overwrite your edit.

Aggressive join​

If reservedSlotsList.aggressiveJoin is set to true and a VIP enters the queue, the server will kick a non-VIP from the game to make room for the queued VIP. The server will first try to kick a non-VIP player who is not in a group, and only if no such player could be found will it kick a grouped non-VIP. When kicking players, the server makes no distinction between Premium and Normal players. A normal or Premium player joining the queue will never trigger a kick.

To turn it on every time the server starts, add it to Startup.txt:

  1. Open the Configuration tab and select Startup.txt in the list on the left.

  2. Switch to Raw file and add this line:

    reservedSlotsList.aggressiveJoin true

  3. Select Save and restart, or Save to apply it at the next start. See Easy editor and raw file.

ReservedSlotsList.txt format​

Each line should have one player name. There can be a maximum of 500 entries in the list.

Spectator list​

If the game server is set to a server type lower than official, the spectator list can come in to use. On official, vars.alwaysAllowSpectators is set to true by default. If the server is hosted with another server type then this command can be set to false. If this is the case, then only players that are in the spectatorList.txt can join the server as a spectator.

In the dashboard, the server type is the Server type setting in the Server browser group of Startup.txt, and vars.alwaysAllowSpectators is the Spectators when full setting in the Players and teams group. See Change a setting.