It would be easier to just add them to their favorites and have them use that tab, otherwise your best bet is to tunnel so it the server at the colo looks like the local lan.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cream > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 7:13 PM > To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com > Subject: Re: [hlds] Co-located server showing as lan server > > m0gely wrote: > > Yeah, it's called the favorites list. It's not a LAN server so why > > hack it to appear as such? You're going to all this > trouble for what? > > Thanks for your input, we have lots of reasons for wanting > them to show up as lan servers, > > 1. First of all you are right, its not a lan server anymore, > but its located 2 hops away at the upstream ISP, where we > have traffic free of bandwidth charges (and very low pings). > > 2. We want our players to play on our servers, where we can > best service them. > > 3. The players are used to finding their servers under Lan > servers, and we would prefer that they find our "official" > servers, rather than just the sporadic player hosted lan servers. > > 4. I would rather have them under "LAN" than "Favorites", but > putting them in "Favorites" in serverbrowser.vdf, and having > that file replaced each time before steam is launched, is an option. > > I just figured that i couldnt be the first to be in a > situation like this, so maybe someone has an idea. (we have > even shortly talked about tunneling port 27010-27025 > broadcasts to the colo). > > _______________________________________________ > 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
