Progress on Reserved Slots?

Any idea on when Reserved Slots may be available?

The new Standalone Ded Server package works great now. In fact...5 minutes after I stood it up it was full and I could not join myself. I can't get donations from group members to help pay the bill if they cannot join. I know there is a long "to do" list yet but I think this might be pretty important.

Same here. It would be nice to donate spots to regular players / supporters.

For now i need to cue on friends to get on my own server.

Ha, yeah. I had a buddy playing on my server the other night, and for some reason he couldn't get the adminkick working to clear me a spot. Had to wait an entire round for someone to leave.

Any official word on this?

More specifically, how are they going to implement it?

Actually locking slots seems a tad drastic, as 2 locked on a 12 person server is a but much, I would much prefer the last-in-last-out way of doing it, so if a reserved slotholder connects, the player with the least connectiontime is disconnected from the server.

The mod I run on my CS:S server gives you the option: last player or highest ping. Right now I'd settle for anything.

even remote admin tools to manually kick people would be better than nothing

^ This or autokicking the last joiner on connect would be greatly appreciated

Any plans for this you can let us in on Uber? Paying to run a server isn't as appealing when you can't play on it, or have to wait 15min to get on.

Yes, we need this !
Or just give us a remote admin command line

Does anybody from Uber even read these forums? Just a simple "We are are working on it" would be nice. They did a great job pushing the HLDS package but it has been dead silent since.