Well I can see your point on the wall, but it get so frustrating looking for
answers when a single question has 15 different answers none of which are in
any way the same. So you spend hours testing which one is correct to find out
that cvar isn't valid for your server. Like one small issue I am having right
now is that I seen with the DLC you could add greetings to the server when
people enter and exit, kind of dumb but when they tell us of a new function but
have no official docs to even give you a cvar listing of these new functions it
ends up taking hours to search the net and find it.
So does anyone know how to set this item? Is it a cvar or a txt doc like the
motd or what?
And in closing I would like to say this "I guess you can always hope for a
manual though..." this seams to be the theme song for running an HLDS because
in the end 90% of the time we can only guess on how to fix or run a service
correctly.
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 00:00:49 +0800
From: "Dr Stinglock" <ad...@hellrazor.net.au>
Subject: Re: [hlds] Any official HLDS Material?
To: "'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'"
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Put your servers on that wall of text, it looks really stable.
What problems are you actually having though? Most of the cvars have
explanations and it's the same deal if you want to setup a cs or cs:s server. I
guess you can always hope for a manual though, start a facebook group or
something, I'm sure you can find plenty of people that want one.
-----Original Message-----
From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com
[mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Sharpe
Sent: Wednesday, 6 May 2009 11:37 PM
To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
Subject: [hlds] Any official HLDS Material?
I have 5 servers right now with Left4Dead running 2 threads each. On each
server I have one virgin and one with sourcemod. Now I am a traditional server
admin, I work with a group managing a farm of about 200 servers and the one
thing that really drives me insane is the lack of official documentation for
the HLDS server or more specifically the Left4Dead variant. Now before you jump
at the reply button I know that l4d runs off HLDS I guess what I want is a
document or some sort by valve that list out what vars work with this server
and which are ignored. beyond that even the simple things like when the DLC was
release the news post stated info about a lobby message when entering or
leaving a server but i can't find any info on this. Besides the 100px X 100px
link on the about section of the store.steamgames.com page and the 200 line
bare minimum read me in the DL folder nothing else official can be found. Now I
know that there are a zillion webpages and other resource out there and most
are good but the thing is that I know that the server is free and all but if I
don't run public servers and neither does anyone else besides steam l4d would
die for lack of places for players to go. now maybe that is dramatic but you
know all i am asking is show us some love valve get one of your guys to set up
a page off the sdk wiki and show us how it is ment to be run because I know I
can optimize my servers a lot better than this and i have errors all over the
place from unknown cvars and such and that is on the virgin servers nothing but
updates. Now this is the one time that I would love to see a response saying
that I am a dumb@&& n00b with a link to an entire library of official resources
for running HLDS. thanks for reading my ramble and yes I know I am too anal
about just a gmae server but it is now in my DNA I can't stop it years of
reaching for that perfect server can do that to you.
have a good day.
thanks again
Brandon
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