I think that screenshot looks a bit off?? The few times ive played TF2 (at around 11pm GMT) there have been a good few more full servers on the custom tab.
TBH I quite like the custom tab: it could be a bit more obvious but meh.. Tom -------------------------------------------------- From: "Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:36 PM To: "'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'" <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> Subject: Re: [hlds] Internet Tab VS Custom Tab > "I know of a few great servers that continue to stay packed 24/7 > despite being on the Custom tab. " > > http://www.voogru.com/images/customtab.jpg > > The only full server is an illegal nosteam server. This screenshot was > taken > yesterday. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Eid > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:31 AM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] Internet Tab VS Custom Tab > > I wonder what the stats would look like if server admins played by the > rules? I know of a few great servers that continue to stay packed 24/7 > despite being on the Custom tab. I'm sure people have added them into > their > Favorites as I have, but I play them constantly and see new players all > the > time. They have to be getting in somehow and I think that somehow is the > Custom tab. > > So while everyone is forcing themselves to the overcrowded Internet tab, > these couple of servers are getting the prime spotlight being the few that > are atop the Custom list full with players. > > You all should try a "Custom tab week" whereby you all move your Custom > servers to the correct place for a week and see how it goes. > > Once everyone plays by the rules, I think the system would work much > better. > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Leonard L. Church > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Perhaps there is another possible reason. >> >> 1) Perhaps people are not interested in custom servers as much as you >> may think. >> 2) Perhaps people don't move to the custom tag because most all of the >> custom servers are in the internet tab currently. >> 3) Your test environment is flawed. When the game starts up and you >> click on "find servers", it defaults to the internet tab. This means if >> someone wants to go to the custom tab, they HAVE to go to the internet >> tab as well. Please delete the total of the custom queries from the >> internet total. Then, what about refreshes? Are you only allowing 1 hit >> from a specific IP within a certain timeframe? What is that timeframe? >> If not, why do you allow refreshes to count on either tab? >> >> Not trying to say it isn't revealing what your page shows... Just saying >> that it may not be revealing what you expect. >> >> Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote: >> > Yesterday I decided to do an experiment. >> > >> > I have made 2 experimental servers. These servers are brand new and >> have >> > never been played on. They will not be in anyone's favorites or HLSW >> viewer. >> > They are not real servers and will not accept incoming connections. >> > >> > One of the servers is on the Internet Tab. The other one is on the >> Custom >> > Tab. >> > >> > Since the out of game server browser does not have a Custom Tab, all >> servers >> > are displayed on that. Since I really only want to count the queries >> made by >> > the in-game browser so I am filtering out queries if someone queries >> both >> > servers at the same exact time, some can leak through but I don't >> think that >> > will affect the stats too much. >> > >> > http://www.voogru.com/server/queries.php >> > >> > This page is in real time and can be refreshed to receive instant >> updates. >> > >> > At of the time of this writing, the custom tab servers receive about >> a 90% >> > reduction in queries, even after players have had the little message >> > explaining the custom tab. >> > >> > I wish I would have started this experiment sooner. >> > >> > - voogru. >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > > > -- > -Richard Eid > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
