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because I don't think they realize that they are unneeded and that they make it impossible for anyone except admins to get on the server. If you run busy servers, and have tons of regulars, obviously people are going to need to rely on auto-retry to get on the server. If you have reserved slots this is no longer possible, because your 18 player server with 2 reserved slots now has a 16/18 maximum and this appears to auto-retry to show 2 empty slots and it will try to connect. But unfortunately the server doesn't have an available slot for you, so your game will take all that time to connect and load and then finally tell you that there aren't any slots for your lame ass, only for l337 admins. Now go away, loser. Which means they have to retry over and over and over manually, with each attempt requiring a complete connection and loading and all the time it takes to do so. Real good way to treat your players.

You DO NOT need reserved slots to be able to get onto your server and admin it. You can kick someone without even connecting to it, thereby allowing yourself to connect anytime you please without SERIOUSLY HURTING all the other players that use your servers by making it beyond aggravating to connect to your servers.