This is just a theory though, but what if server admins disabled the OBVIOUS player count spoofing cr*p for a while just to see if MAYBE that has something to do with the crashes, huh? Just my 2 cents.
Had the same idea. Disabling player seeders. No one does it for some reason. 🤔
But nowadays I think it is a multitude of different problems.
The first being a Battlelog to bf3 miscommunication. (Also Battlelog has gotten suuuuuper slow.)
The second seems to be fake players on the server. They fill the server to the brim. Even the que of 10 Players is constantly full so that no new players can join and the server slowly dies out as some people leave and no one can join the server.
And third, is an active DDoS freak who keeps extorting money from the admins. If they pay they get a free month without crashes and if they don't they get constant crashes. Which is completely stupid because this one person basically kills the whole game for a few bucks.
Yet again all those issues were known since 2017. U can look up the previous reports and discussions. There was always one EA staff member saying: We will look into this! ---- and of course what they meant was... they send an email to some other staff members.... those emails then got into the trashbin of the other ea members and case closed.
I've tested it also without server seeders and several servers are still disappearing in Battlelog. So that's not the solution atm :-(
Correct, Wiemi. Seeding is not the issue. It could play a part in some servers depending on the join and leave rates, but overall it's not the issue. I know you've tested it, and I know TBG Matt has tested seeding versus no seeding. I still feel as if this was a direct target to decline the bf3 player base. I don't know why they even put the game on sale when players cannot even play unless a single map only server. Then on top of that, they are dealing with this group who's intentionally taking down the servers that are populated.
Well, the seeders are surely filling the queue tough. Because the queue is always full. Or are these actual people who just cannot join and then block everyone else by waiting for 1 hour?
Recently I was playing on Banana and for more than half an hour the people just got fewer and fewer. In the end it was just 5 vs 3 players, me included, and a full queue of 10 people. I can not check if it were real people waiting in the queue or just "seeders" tough. So there might still be a connection no one sees yet.
As I said. I don't think it is just one problem.... I think I listed my experience of Issues quite well. The seeder deactivating idea is just a possible thought which noone has tried before. But it seems it has been tried now. Or at least to some extent.
IT'S NOT THE CASE AT ALL
NEVER KNEW OR USED SPOFFING OM MY SERVER
THIS PROBLEM IS NOT RELATED
THX
