It's a tough cookie. Valve shouldn't be expected to support/consider 3rd party mods, but the pub server provider community (i.e. "us") have grown to rely heavily on them.
In our instance, the reserve slot incentive provides our sole source of funding for our public servers. In one form or another, our not-for-profit operation has been doing this since 1.x days. Without public servers, where would new CS:S owners play their multi-player game? If you're in the good fortune to own your own hardware on a high speed network, great, but most of us aren't. The current mattie eventscript work around does get us around it, but it's costing us pub traffic (the interface is NOT noob friendly). At some point, the bottom line is going to hit us, and we're going to have to yank our aggregate 92 public slots offline. Valve, unless you're planning on getting into the public server market (soon), I'm confident you're going to see the above trend, which ultimately will affect your bottom line. "Help us help you." Implement some sort of redirect functionality, or allow us, the good honest server admins, the ability to disconnect and connect clients. Kind Regards, [Mmmm]stuttering.john .gc "Together we spawn." [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gamerscoalition.com On 12/4/06, Andreas Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
agree > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag > von David Syers > Gesendet: Montag, 4. Dezember 2006 18:36 > An: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com > Betreff: Re: [hlds_linux] Redirect - is it going to work anymore ? > > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Some class > it as abuse, others class it as a very handy and helpful > function of a server. > > Can valve not allow an option of redirects whereby the user > is given a message something like: > > "This server is currently full, or has reserved slots in action. > > If you would like to connect to an alternate server > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx then click OK, otherwise click Disconnect" > > Graham Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think > they thought exactly like this when blocking client execs. > They presumably thought that sending a client somewhere they > didn't ask to go was an abuse of your powers as an admin. > > On 04/12/06, Svensk Ljud & Ljus Produktion wrote: > > Since nov. 16 the redirect havent worked, and Mani have > said thet he > > dont think its possible to make it work again. > > > > Is Valve thinking about this.. ? > > > > This is the main issue that is up on our admin meetings ! > > > > will it be solved or not ? > > > > Peter Lindblom / [ACCUsers] source server admin > > _______________________________________________ > 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_linux
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