Hey, I'd like to request or suggest that someone develop a plugin so that TF2 servers with it installed can automatically host new games after a set period of time passes from their last game concluding.
For instance, I have a server that has four powerful cores that I would happily like to donate to the TF2Center community, and have it running four separate server instances 24/7, having it automatically host new lobbies once previous ones close. It would be optimal if the plugin could check to see what kinds of lobbies are open and determine what to host from that; for example, it should host HL (configurable) if there are mostly 6s lobbies open, and it shouldn't host duplicates of the same map. Slot requirements should also be configurable.
I'm not overestimating the power of my hardware and setup here - this dedicated server has already hosted multiple TF2Center lobbies at once before. The hardware can handle it and the network can handle it. It's just a shame to have to host these manually.
I recognize that this could be taken advantage of - people would be able to spam really terrible servers and clog up the list with something like this. Perhaps the plugin should require an API key and those keys should only be given to trusted members of the community? Not sure, you guys can figure that one out.