luanti-org / luanti-org/serverlist

80% gamer of max setting is nonsens - as admins don't know

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Description

`# Penalize highly loaded servers to improve player distribution.
# Note: This doesn't just make more than 80% of max players stop
# increasing your points, it can actually reduce your points
# if you have guests.
cap = int(server["clients_max"] * 0.80)
if server["clients"] > cap:
points -= server["clients"] - cap
`
this is a bit miss-leading,
as MOST server admins do NOT know this ... and the server owner might check out the real maximum,
but then is getting a penalty already at 80% of his still GOOD capacity ! without lag

cut it out ... (--)

for example my server could hold tested 64 gamer, but I have to set 80 to avoid this, but 80 is too much,
so the server build in join stop then is wrong ... NO, this penalty here is wrong.

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Locate the server-scoring code containing the shown `clients_max` and 80% `cap` calculation. Confirm how removing this penalty affects points for servers above that threshold, then verify that server join limits still behave as expected.

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Tech stack
python
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backend
Issue type
Bug
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2/5
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