Fine, here are a few examples of people like you @holymond Gamename: improved hero empire Bot name: Ent.Hosting8 Owner: Duration: 07:54:07 <==== lobby duration Map: Hero_of_The_Empire_v1.235.w3x ------------------------------ Gamename: cbm all night baby Bot name: Ent.Europe4 Owner: Duration: 03:44...

> Some maps can only played after hours of waiting since people lack the patience to download medium to large maps and leave after 10 minutes. So hosts end up with cycles of people joining and leaving after 10-20minutes. It's impossible to not going to the bathroom or getting a drink or eating in t...

Only low end maps under 8mb are playable now. Quality maps over 100mb take 20 minutes to download for each player. So it creates problems for hosts who play high end maps. Or the limit can be increased to 60 minutes, it sounds fair. Any map dl exceeding 2-3 minutes should instead be googled and dle...

matdas wrote:Considering that holymond is guilty of afk lobby host himself, (i've had to close many a lobbies that are 3+ hours with just him and checking if he was not afk), 20 minutes is a generous offer for a host to type into chat.

I wasn't afk.

Jabba41 wrote:Why? @holymond why will the quality go down ?
And what's a quality map anyway?

A well made map.

The quality of maps will go down because high quality maps take a very long time to download, and by adding the limit high quality map lobbies will be forced to close.

@Holymond I think the 20 minutes time might be enough. After 15 minutes of no chat from the host, there will be 5 minutes of warnings every 5 seconds before the lobby is closed. I will see after a couple days how many legitimate lobbies actually go through the 20 minutes. Well, there'll be signific...

Only low end maps under 8mb are playable now. Quality maps over 100mb take 20 minutes to download for each player. So it creates problems for hosts who play high end maps.
Or the limit can be increased to 60 minutes, it sounds fair.

Many players has left ent due to lobby closing every time we host. Ent is unusable now.

Please remove this obstacle so we can host games again.

Thank you so much!

aRt)Y wrote:Thanks for the information you provided. We will take a look at it soon.

Thank you so much!

While you guys are at it, incorporate Japi(http://japi.sourceforge.net/) into ent would make tons of maps hostable since Ent uses java to host.

Any update?

Same thing has been happening to me for a long time.

I agree, there'are dozens of maps I can't host because the bot is outdated.

Unitil wrote:@Holymond

Do you have an external download link for this file?
Also, how old is this map? Couldn't find reference to it on google.

Yes, http://www.makemehost.com/ShareMaps/Kun ... efense.w3x

This map is 1 month old.

Ok, I just reuploaded the map, still unable to host it.