[Asai]

There is no perfect solution to this situation, people like myself who donate pretty regular should be given priority to play over folks who just server hop. In my situation if i want to play TF2 i play on source op if not there then i go play SOMETHING else, i have had a difficult time getting on lately and have been noticing alot of new players to the server, on. I do not want to discourage new players to the server but i want to be able to play as well, i am not sure how the "reserved slots" are determined, but i do feel that if you are donating and want to play and there is someone on who does not donate then donators should be given first priority. I am not sure how difficult it would be to do this but maybe instead of a number of reserved slots per server, assign donating users priority over everybody else, so that when a patron of the server wants to play it bumps someone else to make room for them. Something like this maybe, "joeshmoe" not a patron, has been playing for 2 hours and the server is full, "Asai", a patron logs on to play, the server determines that "joeshmoe" is not a patron and drops joe to allow asai to play. I can understand that there be some hard feelings about that setup but no more than say from my perspective of donating but not being able to play because the server is full of new people.

This is a difficult situation and trying to keep all sides happy is not in all probability a possibility, but IMHO people who donate should be given reserved slot status or priority.

Just a thought
Asai