The whole point is, the new way is not "random" at all. It is based on whatever the clients IP is. If your IP is 82.xx.xx.xx then the servers will listed as 81.xx.xx.xx then 83.xx.xx.xx then 80.xx.xx.xx then 84.xx.xx.xx.
Seeings as Steam loves to give up the ghost after only downloading about 300 servers sometimes, it means most people only see servers which have an IP practically the same as their own IP. Not very helpful if you are using a NAT router with a WAN address................... I have had people ask me for some IPs of decent servers because they can't get any good ones in their list. Strangely enough, I can't give them any because all I see is crappy servers hosted on domestic bandwidth connections. What have we done to solve this...........well we have started playing Americas Army instead. I agree that a "professional" server isn't anymore important than a "amateur" one run from home, but from a player experience point of view you just don't get the same ping / commection / quality of game as you do when you connect to a "pro" server. Bring back the old IP fourth octet system. The servers which will actually have gone to the trouble of obtaining a low fourth octet IP will be good quality, low ping, and well run and thus will give the player a good experience. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Robinett Sent: 03 September 2004 14:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hlds] Re: [hlds_linux] ServerBrowser Update Please look through the recent archives. They changed it up now to some arguably worse way. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] ServerBrowser Update > How will this affect the way servers are populated in the clients list? I > know before it was based on the 4th octet of the IP address being low. Will > this change? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alfred Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 3:47 AM > Subject: [hlds_linux] ServerBrowser Update > > > > We will be releasing an update to the ServerBrowser in the next couple > > of weeks. This update will add the ability to view both Source and HL1 > > games in the same server list. > > > > We released an update for HL1 game servers on August 11th to support > > this new serverbrowser (in particular we added a new query to the > > out-of-band protocol). If you have not updated your server with this > > engine update then your server will not show up in clients > > serverbrowsers once we release the new serverbrowser. To ensure you have > > this new engine run the hldsupdatetool with the update command. > > > > - Alfred > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
