Mike, what region are you in? We are in sv_region 3 (Europe) and, while our servers were empty just after the last update (all of Friday) they picked up again on Saturday morning as normal:
http://www.127001.org/mrtg/graph_93.html (The decrease in peak usage in the past couple of weeks is because we decreased the number of servers from 12 to 8 because of other activity on the box) Also, to reply to Richard Eid: "Left 4 Dead players are now going to official servers by default." What do you mean, "now"? They always _did_ choose to go to official servers first, there's a thread in the forums about it. There's just the ability to turn this off now. > -----Original Message----- > From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds- > boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Mike Stiehm > Sent: 15 March 2009 19:28 > To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list' > Subject: Re: [hlds] L4D Client Update > > Good now I can dump the piece of crap L4D servers and just add more > variety > to what I have now... (I had some of the most popular L4D servers > before > this.. Now I get 0 players... Not even one player at all..) > > -----Original Message----- > From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Richard Eid > Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 12:02 PM > 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? The > search > > works > > >> > now and will actually fall back to non-official servers thanks > to a > > >> > longer search timeout. > > >> > > > >> > _______________________________________________ > > >> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
