Why would I buy a server that could, conceivably, fill up and not let me play on it? Sure, I could kick someone, but I wouldn’t want to do that.
If I could reserve a few slots for me and my friends, and have the rest be open to the public, I’d buy a server in a heartbeat.
Please consider adding this kind of functionality to the game.
This is fairly critical. I rent a private server for my GF and I to play on. It supports 15 players but I have made it private only for the reason that I don’t want us to be prevented from logging on when we have time to play. If I had a way of reserving two spots for us I wouldn’t have a problem with renting even a larger server and making it public.