PSA: Understanding "Spool-Up"

[The Resonte!]

This isn't true about any server I've hosted before. Mine usually grow fairly quick.

one time i was hosting a wario-ware server
it only got around 6 people maximum

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[Racerboy]

this only proves more that we should be able to rate servers 1/5

You'd still need a way to prevent people from voting "1/5" because they got banned or something and are butthurt.

Maybe just a thumbs up that you can check off, nothing negative. Or after a player disconnects, a message can pop up asking them if they enjoyed the server.

[*FacePalm*]

i was actually thinking about this earlier

...y'know, bc me and my friend had 4 multiclients on a server and were messing with people using them.

[The Resonte!]

Or after a player disconnects, a message can pop up asking them if they enjoyed the server.

that'd just be annoying
just put it on the side, next to the gamemodes.

[SgtDaemon]

Team service announcement?

[Slammer1337]

you didn't have enough people

lol irony

i chuckled

[Port]

this only proves more that we should be able to rate servers 1/5

rating doesn't work because you can't separate "servers"

what if somebody hosts a terrible server which everyone rates badly, then hosts something really fun later?
you can't just use the host name, and server names can change often too even with the same content

[Cookiez664]

Someone needs to make a Blockhead slave rental place, servers would be populated easily 

[KickFlow]

Someone needs to make a Blockhead slave rental place, servers would be populated easily  

I don't think you understand the concept of slaves

[Paradon]

Why not instead of a rating, you can write a small review of the server?
Or you could make it so that only people who have played for more than at least 30min can rate.

[firestorm]

For some reason I never truly leave the Spool Up period. I get 18+ players, and then all of sudden it's 6.  I just don't understand. But nobody ever get's tired of Tezuni's Prison stuff. :/

[Plastiware]

Why not instead of a rating, you can write a small review of the server?
Or you could make it so that only people who have played for more than at least 30min can rate.

Think about it.  Would you really force yourself to play on a terrible server for 30 whole minutes just so you can give it a bad rating?  Without bad ratings every server would be in the 4-5 stars range.

[Georges]

so in other words, yes- spool-up is a real pain in the ass, but you can in fact kill it with the power of friendship

Friendship is magic!

[Sleven]

If I join a server it's because I either want to participate in the server's collaborative events (tdm or whatever, thus I need people on the server) or build (which needs no people really, I often go single.. but if I have something interesting to build on the server, like syl's, I can defo solo).

In short, I join popular servers or go single.

[TristanLuigi]

Server rating is needed so much. Maybe you need to stay for at least 5 (10?) minutes, or there could be a trust system that you apply for to become a server rater. Alternatively, you could sort based off of ID's, but there can be mature people with a high ID and immature people with a low ID.

As for different kinds of server, maybe you can optionally reset your ratings once a week or something.