[Trooth]

I don't know if anything can be done to fix this, but I need to bring it up anyway. On the "valve maps, no mods" server, I'll often use the auto-retry function to get into that server, then go play in some other server for a while as I wait. Though half the time that I can supposedly join the game, I'm yanked out of my current game only to be met with a little box saying "server is full."

I'm just saying "NO DUH IT'S FULL!" and I have to once again start up the auto-retrying to get in again and once again find a different game to join.

Why does this kind of thing happen, and is there really anything that can be done about it? I've never had this happen when trying to auto-retry on any other server, so I figure it must be that there are many people auto-retrying simultaneously so all that the server can do is rudely boot me back to the title screen, thinking for a moment that a spot had opened up for me when really one hadn't.

I came close to paying for a reserved slot, but I got to reading some things around here that led me to believe that any day now a reserved slot will no longer be any good, what with so many people having them that even the people who paid can't immediately get in, and also this talk of starting a monthly payment system... No way I'd go for that.......