This would mean if you haven't had a single player in an 8 hour period, the server will need to be manually started again. Rather inconvenient. However DICE have responded on the EA UK forums saying "this is inaccurate", followed by this explanation...
the basics are that we have asked Multiplay to help us reduce load on EA Servers caused by large numbers of servers (the reason we took down public servers) by turning off servers that have no players for 8 hours or more. As you know we tried to reduce our server count while we work on the fix in the client but even though we put a freeze on new servers we have doubled our server count since Thursday of last week.
This is totally up to the people/clans renting the servers from Multiplay but we hope most will opt in to help and help. If they don't opt in then the server will not be taken down at all even if left empty for days/weeks/months etc.
This is totally up to the people/clans renting the servers from Multiplay but we hope most will opt in to help and help. If they don't opt in then the server will not be taken down at all even if left empty for days/weeks/months etc.
Idle servers now to be shut down? [EA UK]
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