How do I increase the Origin Engine limit
 

Hi, I'm running the TF2 server. He's a jail model. I want to increase the number of people the server can host, instead of being limited to 32 people, say I want to increase to 64,128 and more. Is there anyone who can help me?

Re: How do I increase the Origin Engine limit
 

You can't. You used to be able to go up to 64 max but it was fixed.

Its probably technically possible to do some very weird magic with transmitting players as regular entities like a prop_dynamic or some stuff but I don't think anyone has done that yet and maybe there is still some limitation I am not aware of.

Re: How do I increase the Origin Engine limit
 

Only VSP can do that.

Re: How do I increase the Origin Engine limit
 

You can do this by sharding multiple servers together, and creating fake clients that receive the data transmitted from other servers in real-time, using a database to communicate between 2 or more servers. The more servers you shard, the more intensive the data transmitted across the database to other servers will be.

One of my lfd2 servers runs 64 players, when the version of source used for the game supports 32 max.
I accomplish this by sharding 4 16-player servers together.

Sharding isn't hard, but it can be complex, but it can also be straight-forward.
However, I would be surprised if anyone here was willing to do it even if you offered to pay them, because it's very time-intensive to develop and would require a lot of testing.

Seeing as I don't have a programming degree and self-taught myself, I am sure others would be willing to do it, but not cheap.

Re: How do I increase the Origin Engine limit
 

Thanks to everyone, in the latest TF2 update, servers are now allowed to host up to 100 people. Thanks to all the friends who are willing to answer