Spoofing Server Pop?
In theory, lets assume you own a server and you're having problems getting player populace to grow. Lets assume that this is an Arma 3 Exile mod server.
One of the most commonly given reasons that you might hear from a player explaining why they've joined a server is "because there were other players on it". This mentality creates an obvious catch 22 for empty servers: no players join because there's no one on the server and no one is on the server because no players join.
So altering the perception of server populace would seem like an innocent and simple way to attract more players and make your server stand out.
Purely hypothetically: does such a solution already exist? Is there a script or something that can be modified on an Arma 3 Exile server that will make the server report to a3 launcher or arma's launcher as having more players than it actually has? Such that the server can be completely empty and yet reporting having oh...say 15 people as logged in?
I'd appreciate any thoughts on the matter.
One of the most commonly given reasons that you might hear from a player explaining why they've joined a server is "because there were other players on it". This mentality creates an obvious catch 22 for empty servers: no players join because there's no one on the server and no one is on the server because no players join.
So altering the perception of server populace would seem like an innocent and simple way to attract more players and make your server stand out.
Purely hypothetically: does such a solution already exist? Is there a script or something that can be modified on an Arma 3 Exile server that will make the server report to a3 launcher or arma's launcher as having more players than it actually has? Such that the server can be completely empty and yet reporting having oh...say 15 people as logged in?
I'd appreciate any thoughts on the matter.
Originally Posted by baranjudicial
