I'd like to consider it, but I'm not sure you know the answer to it either.
So, the question still remains. How many servers are ran out of the somebody's basement on a shitty connection? Wouldn't it be smarter to give the user the ability to select their region? I've been assigned to many servers that were nowhere near where I'm playing and that was the reason behind the bad connections. There has to be a better way to do this, besides making our servers second rate. Because EA is in charge of this (and you know that's how they're getting their own "official servers"), the rest of us don't get to take part in it? Sounds fubar'd to me. Aaron Rapp -----Original Message----- From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Robert Whelan Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 11:24 AM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] L4D Client Update Quote: "Yea...it's not official but it's definitely the same as the officials." Consider how many servers are vanilla yet are ran out of somebodies basement on a shitty connection though... ________________________________ From: Aaron Rapp <r...@iz3d.com> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 12:13:32 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] L4D Client Update Well....as if this game couldn't get any worse, at least in terms of community building. Yes, we can have servers that our own community members can use, but now we can't attract new members. There's already a vote on our forums on taking down the L4D servers. Shouldn't there be a way to, like TF2 servers, to be seen as a vanilla server, if, in fact, you are a vanilla server? Yea...it's not official but it's definitely the same as the officials. Valve, it would be nice if you never work with EA again please. Somehow, I've always had this feeling that the reason this game is the way it is...comes from some low IQ people over there at EA. You guys are smarter than that. Aaron Rapp -----Original Message----- From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Richard Eid Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:02 AM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] L4D Client Update http://store.steampowered.com/news/2349/ That's what is going on. Left 4 Dead players are now going to official servers by default. Since the nature of the lobby system would allow for people to end up on any random server out there, the Left 4 Dead experience was being ruined by modded servers. If you create a lobby and look under Game Settings, you now have the options of Official Dedicated(default), Best Available Dedicated and Local Server. It's now up to the player to decide which type of server he or she wants to end up on. My guess, which can't be all that far off just by noticing what's been mentioned here on HLDS, is that players are using the default of Official Dedicated because it guarantees them the cleanest experience possible. -Richard Eid On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Mark Edwards <sixtysixno...@hotmail.com>wrote: > Zero players on our three L4D servers in the 48 hours or so since the > second > update. What is going on? > > >> > From: Admin Bob <admin_...@cox.net> > >> > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > >> > <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> > >> > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:48:41 AM > >> > Subject: Re: [hlds] L4D Client Update > >> > > >> > Still empty. Still getting errors: > >> > A2C_print from 68.142.72.250:2701 > >> > Bad challenge > >> > > >> > -----Original Message----- > >> > From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > >> > [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Adam > Nowacki > >> > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 2:09 AM > >> > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > >> > Subject: Re: [hlds] L4D Client Update > >> > > >> > Blood Letter wrote: > >> > > So did this update fix the empty server issue for anyone? > >> > > Mine is still bone dry. > >> > > >> > Maybe because people want to play on official servers? 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