[Tamer]

Making my server white-listed through registration would cripple my player base down because most of my players were players who could not speak English and they casually played.

My server peaked 80-90 players during sundays and had a stable average of 50-60 during midweek. Around 1/3 of the server were regular players and the other ones were newcomers, newcomers don't bother registering for a TDM server where they want to play casually, they would visit and go then come back a few days later to play.

Adding such registration system wouldn't bring new players to my server, because my server attracted players who would casually join and decide to stick around. Infact that's what made all servers popular, isn't it? Who bothers going through a registration process which can take a couple of hours until you're approved, just to find the server isn't of your taste? It's naive to think that such system would successfully attract players.

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Originally Posted by Kalcor The technique is called heuristics. You get samples of normal player data by collecting statistics during normal play, then you flag players who go outside normal statistical boundries.

Now I do agree on this one I am capable of doing this today. However when I started my server I was 15. Now I am 23. I didn't know anything about data interpretation.