09 Sep 17, 03:18PM
Server maintenance is a lot of work. You have to regularly check, if it is still working properly - and if some players can't behave and have to be excluded for a while. For example, you have to read the logfiles to check for attacks on your servers.
Checking a few new maps from time to time is not a real burden, compared to the day-to-day work that a server causes the owner.
Simply allowing all players, to upload what they want, is risky: if there are offensive maps regularly played on a server, the server will be removed from the official list, no matter, who uploaded the map.
Iguana, it would be really nice, if you'd try not to deliberately misquote me. "allow map uploading" was no mistake, but it was no feature for general game servers. It was a mapping server feature. If you enable it for general purpose servers, you will have a hard time to keep up server maintenance. So, it is most probably a mistake for server owners to enable the feature - not for the server to have it.
Let me explain it with an example: the server has an option to require a password to play on it. The feature is there on every server - and yet, it would be a mistake, to enable it for general purpose servers, because no one could play on it. Instead, the feature is used for match and clan servers.
Is it really too much to ask, that a server owner checks the documentation on how to run a server - and then checks, if it makes sense first, before he just enables all features the server provides? Do you just press all the buttons, whenever you get into a car? Or do you only switch on the radio if you actually want to hear the radio?
Checking a few new maps from time to time is not a real burden, compared to the day-to-day work that a server causes the owner.
Simply allowing all players, to upload what they want, is risky: if there are offensive maps regularly played on a server, the server will be removed from the official list, no matter, who uploaded the map.
Iguana, it would be really nice, if you'd try not to deliberately misquote me. "allow map uploading" was no mistake, but it was no feature for general game servers. It was a mapping server feature. If you enable it for general purpose servers, you will have a hard time to keep up server maintenance. So, it is most probably a mistake for server owners to enable the feature - not for the server to have it.
Let me explain it with an example: the server has an option to require a password to play on it. The feature is there on every server - and yet, it would be a mistake, to enable it for general purpose servers, because no one could play on it. Instead, the feature is used for match and clan servers.
Is it really too much to ask, that a server owner checks the documentation on how to run a server - and then checks, if it makes sense first, before he just enables all features the server provides? Do you just press all the buttons, whenever you get into a car? Or do you only switch on the radio if you actually want to hear the radio?