Is it possible to uncap the Player limit?

[Jayconius]

I think this is limited to 8 players? If sv_maxplayers works, I would to push 20-30 people.. :)

[まりさ]

It now supports up to 32 players.

[Jayconius]

Ohh! :O

[Pie_flvrd]

There are unofficial, unsupported, dedicated server mods to uncap the player limit, but these can affect gameplay as the server can potentially hit the edict limit or other engine limits, causing the server to crash, npcs not to spawn, maps breaking, etc. This is why the player limit exists. In source engine, the server creates placeholder entities that are replaced with the player upon connection. The number of these placeholders is determined by the max players. If too many placeholders are created the server may not be able to load the map correctly or spawn new NPCs due to running out of entities.

[Jayconius]

Originally posted by ILOVEPIE:

There are unofficial, unsupported, dedicated server mods to uncap the player limit, but these can affect gameplay as the server can potentially hit the edict limit or other engine limits, causing the server to crash, npcs not to spawn, maps breaking, etc. This is why the player limit exists. In source engine, the server creates placeholder entities that are replaced with the player upon connection. The number of these placeholders is determined by the max players. If too many placeholders are created the server may not be able to load the map correctly or spawn new NPCs due to running out of entities.

How many would you say you can reliability host with the default game?
We are planning to do Sven coop first and then Synergy a week or two after and we are expecting around 20+ people who want to attend. Nothing set in stone yet.

[Balim]

The current default limit is 32 as of the newer versions of Synergy. The last Rebel Rush was 118 max players and was running its most stable event yet. It did crash, but only 3 or 4 times throughout the entirety of playing through HL2, Ep1, Ep2.
A large amount of entities were made logical, which does not count towards edict usage, which has alleviated a lot of these cases of edict limits (in the base games).