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Title: Fool Player Count
Post by: n1K on August 01, 2010, 12:39:25 PM

Hey i was just wondering if we can fool the player count on our server?
Like it shows 20 players, maybe it can show 80 or 100?
I know it might sound stupid but it will surely attract a lot of new players!
And later on we might remove this trick!

And if it sounds really stupid then just dont insult me :p
It just banged in my head, and i posted!  ;D

Title: Re: Fool Player Count
Post by: Disco on August 01, 2010, 12:41:38 PM

Urg ....

Nik ...

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Title: Re: Fool Player Count
Post by: Simon on August 01, 2010, 12:42:40 PM

It's good trick but would go against the SA:MP server license agreement (http://sa-mp.com/service_agreement.txt). If you breach that then the server will be removed from the server list altogether.

Quote from: Service Agreement

(g) You may not artificially increase your player count or provide false info to the
SA-MP query mechanism.

Title: Re: Fool Player Count
Post by: n1K on August 01, 2010, 12:44:36 PM

hmm yea Disco sounded stupid but believe me it can work!

@Hazzard: Maybe we can add bots who can occupy player  slots or something like that which occupies slot, and not really fooling it?

Title: Re: Fool Player Count
Post by: Simon on August 01, 2010, 12:47:47 PM

Bots decrease the maximum amount of players. They do not increase the player count.

Title: Re: Fool Player Count
Post by: AJP on August 01, 2010, 04:46:50 PM

Think about it this way, if nobody has done something so simple (and cheap) up until now, it's either not possible or not allowed :]