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It's been a while but if I remember correctly, a player with a reserved slot would trump a player without one, right?

So, you have 55 players, 5 of those places reserved and already taken. For me to get in wouldn't 6 players have to leave, leaving one slot unreserved?

Also, wouldn't I need to be hoping that none of the other guys waiting to get in had a reserved slot? If they did, they would reoccupy any slots from 51-55 that became available. Spamming enter would only become viable when player count dropped to 50, right?

At the time Dayzero was king, and this particular server was full, and had no shortage of people reoccupying reserved slots 51-55 as and when they became available.

Without the reserved slots I would have had an equal chance of getting that newly available slot as the rest of the guys Spamming enter.

 

Theoretically yes, realistically no. It's rare for even 1 reserved slot to be in use, go check the stats on gametracker.

 

On top of this is the fact that servers simply cap out, we don't want to fracture the community through multiple servers if we can avoid it. We'd rather have a few hours of playercap and then 20 on in offpeak than not hit server cap during peak and have 3 people on during offpeak.

 

Does the first scenario lead to more reserved slots being sold? Yes. But the main motivation is to keep a consistently okay playercount throughout the day.

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I would politely like to interject as I see a lot of misinformation in this thread.

 

This is the current EULA, there is no specific terms of service for ArmA 3 available.

 

http://www.bistudio.com/community/licenses/arma-3-end-user-license-agreement

 

This is the specific part that discusses monetization:

 

 

1. End User's Obligations
   1. As a Subject to the Grant of License herein above, you may not, in whole or in part, copy, duplicate, reproduce, translate, reverse-engineer, modify, disassemble, decompile, derive source code, create derivative works based on the Program, remove any proprietary notices or labels from the Program or otherwise modify the Program without the prior written consent of the Licensor.
   2. You are entitled to use the Program for your own use, but you are not entitled to:
      1. Sell or transfer reproductions of the Program to other parties in any way, nor to rent, lease or license the Program to others
      2. Publish and/or distribute the computer Program or any of its parts
      3. Exploit the Program or any of its parts for any commercial purpose including, but not limited to, use at a cybercafe, computer gaming centre, computer aided training center or any other location-based site where multiple users may access the Program

 

In legal terms this means selling in-game items is a grey area, selling reserved slots or other services that do not actually sell parts of the game (a server transfer for instance) however is 100% allowed.