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Bunch of small updates:

* Added your personal statistics to the statistics page. http://i.imgur.com/SifVdLX.png
* Homepage is now limited to show 25 current/active reservations. When I started this project in October, I didn’t expect there to be 100 reservations per day at some point! :D http://i.imgur.com/4YYPWHo.png
* Pagination added to the list of ‘Your reservations’, it was starting to be too long of a list for those people with 70+ reservations. http://server.fakkelbrigade.eu/reservations
* Pagination added to the ‘Recent reservations’. http://server.fakkelbrigade.eu/pages/recent_reservations
* Maintenance screen during site upgrades. Deployments may only take a minute, but it’s kinda rude to have a non-sensical webserver error during that time ;) http://i.imgur.com/dwFdhgi.png
* Don’t show donation nag messages to people that have donated.

As you might have seen in the Reddit post http://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/1dqctw/free_server_reservation_system/ or the TF.tv thread http://teamfortress.tv/forum/thread/8053-free-server-reservation-system-na-edition, I’ve been working on a North American version. Probably not so interesting for most people here, but I think it’s cool :)

Seperate from that, there’s a bunch of changes in an attempt to get some more donations:

* Donations collected will be divided between the server providers based on the hours played on the servers.
* Maximum initial reservation time decreased to 2 hours for non-donators, increased to 5 hours for donators
* Inactive reservation timelimit decreased to 15 minutes for non-donators, increased to 45 minutes for donators
* Extension time decreased to 20 minutes at a time for non-donators, still 1 hour for donators
* Don’t show donation nag message to donators
* 4 servers moved to a donators-only group. FB #5, FB #6, slate #2, VanillaTV #5. Non-donators can still use 13 servers, donators have 17 to choose from.

Every server provider and donator should already be marked as a donator in the system, you can check that here: http://server.fakkelbrigade.eu/pages/statistics

After a rather dismal month in terms of donations (13 euros before paypal fees in the last 30 days)…I’m making some changes again. I was hoping to split the donations between the server providers, but considering paypal fees that’ll have to wait at least another month.

* Moved the donators-only servers to the general pool. So there’s 16 servers available for all users.
* Non-donators can make reservations with a start time up to 3 hours from now, donators can pick whatever date/time they like. This way donators can still get a guaranteed server if they pick it in advance, and at the same time it’s more likely all servers will be in use during the evening.
* Donators can have multiple future reservations, non-donators only one.

On the plus side….
* More reservations, 100 per day is now the average.
* Either snow, Maidos or fetter.holzfäller7 will be the first to possibly break the 100 personal reservations barrier this week.

Maidos is the first person to reach 100 reservations, gratz! :D http://server.fakkelbrigade.eu/pages/statistics

Quoted from Arie

Maidos is the first person to reach 100 reservations, gratz! :D http://server.fakkelbrigade.eu/pages/statistics

100 reservations 0 donations.

to be fair i donated 0.01 cent but arie refunded my generous donation

You should edit the launchoptions of the server. Since Steampipe is out it isn’t possible anymore to set sv_pure 2 with the configs. It is only possible with the launchoptions.

* All servers should now be in sv_pure 2 mode
* Increased idle time before reservation auto-ends to 60 minutes for donators
* Added a reminder message when you forgot to end your last reservation and it auto-ended

I also got a few donations since my last message about the lack of them :)