A user reports that some game servers have fake players on them to boost player counts, ruining in-game server browsers #1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/quake/comments/1n6bouk/comment/nbz732c/
"server admins spawn fakeplayers with fakeping to trick the server list position. For example fpsclasico has a unnamedplayer with a ping of 16ms and score of zero 24/7. If you join the server, its empty. "
"Same goes for A51" ... " because 10 fakeplayers speccing. Also most servers have double port entrys, but the A51 guy really cracks it by having 10-20 entries."
assuming these are for quake 3 servers. I assume the feature/improvement would be to detect servers where nothing ever changes with the "players" , however it'd probably be good to do so in a way that doesn't break interesting/art/whatever mods that may have different experiences. You'd also probably run into a cat and mouse game where bad server operators try and workaround whatever resolution we come up with to continue deceiving players.