Server menu/joining extinction offical server needs rework

[Average mid]

The prompts to joining a server are a chore. The join last session button is no longer working at least for me so after you bring up the server list and join your server you are held up again by the mod prompt. There should of at least been a box you check for "do not show this again" because it serves almost no purpose and I do not want to see it again.

Also when you join a server only to have it load and kick you out saying server is full is something that needs to be addressed. The server should know who's getting in a who is not, it shouldn't a RNG lottery because multiple people tried to join around the same time. Don't even get me started with the auto join que, it doesn't work, why is the option still there? Could bet some newer players or people that just didn't know sat there for hours only for absolutely nothing to happen.

Also whats with the 70 player cap? Where is the progression? We had 100 player center servers almost 10 years ago! You mean to tell me in all that time hardware has regressed? Make it make sense!

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I agree. The mod UI is cumbersome when joining a server with mods. It should not show every single time unless the mods on that server have changed or you haven't installed all of the mods listed yet.

And yes, we could desperately do with a real connection queue - at least for PvE servers. Dollie replied earlier this year to this particular feature request on Discord basically about it being unfair to PvP players which is why we haven't had the feature at all unfortunately (even though there's no harm in doing it on PvE only at the very least). Each DLC launch runs into the same issues, with a combination of a lack of official servers and a high number of players wanting to play the new content.

For science, a little while ago I did try the "auto retry" feature where you accept and it apparently joins the server automatically when it can. I ran a packet sniffer to see what was actually happening and I could see my very initial request to join the server show in the packet log, but after running the auto retry for 5 minutes I never saw any other attempts. So I'm not sure if it works or how it works, but it doesn't seem particularly effective compared to just hitting the join button manually (albeit tedious if you do it manually).

[Dosters]

Same here. Mod UI is very annoying, I also get the message "server full" when I appear to be entering the official server. It's like someone else is stealing your queue.