I guess it wasn't clear that it was just speculation. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Shane Arnold <clontar...@iinet.net.au>wrote:
> Hey, your email address doesn't say tripwire, you sneaky tripwire > representatives... > > > On 14/12/2010 10:14 AM, AJ Collins wrote: > >> I'm going to say yes. I don't think it would be possible to get that >> amount >> of concurrent players unless there was a price drop or a free weekend. >> >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Violent Crimes< >> violentsmob...@convictgaming.com> wrote: >> >> Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: John Gibson<j...@tripwireinteractive.com> >>> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM >>> To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com >>> Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up >>> >>> To all server admins, >>> >>> >>> >>> For those of you that don't know Tripwire Interactive are running a >>> special >>> event starting tomorrow (December 14th) called the Killing Floor Twisted >>> Christmas - http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/xmas/. This event >>> replaces >>> all of the monsters in game with Christmas themed monsters, adds an all >>> new >>> level - Santa's Evil Lair, has a bunch of new achievements including some >>> specifically for the Twisted Christmas event, and features a tie-in with >>> TF2 >>> where TF2/KF owners/purchases get the Pyro as a playable character in KF >>> and >>> a special KF themed item in TF2. >>> >>> >>> >>> With all of the buzz and interest surrounding this time limited event ( >>> December 14th - January 4th ) we expect a massive influx of both >>> returning >>> Killing Floor players that wish to experience the special event, as well >>> as >>> new players wishing to experience the game for the first time. As such I >>> have a couple of requests for the server admin community: >>> >>> >>> >>> 1) If anyone is willing to put up some extra servers for the >>> duration >>> of this event that would be extremely helpful. There are currently about >>> 1100 Killing Floor servers, which will support about 6600 concurrent >>> players >>> ( 6 players is the max on standard KF servers). We expect the peak >>> concurrent players to be in the 10,000-20,000 range, which means it will >>> take another 1000-2000 servers to handle this demand. On the bright side, >>> we >>> expect a lot of these players will stick around after the event, which is >>> potential customers for you GSP's :-) >>> >>> 2) With the massive influx of new players, I would request that >>> anyone >>> adminning a group of KF servers to please set 35-50% of them to the >>> Normal >>> difficulty. This will help ensure that the new players will have a place >>> to >>> try the game where they won't get their face eaten off. >>> >>> 3) Please make sure the new Santa's Evil Lair map is in your map >>> rotation, as this is the map EVERYONE will be dieing to try. >>> >>> >>> >>> Additionally, we will be trying to make the server files available >>> through >>> HLDS a couple of hours prior to the start of the event (both Windows and >>> Linux). Thanks to everyone in advance for their help and cooperation. I >>> always say, you admins are the cornerstone that any multiplayer game >>> community is built on! >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> >>> John Gibson >>> >>> President >>> >>> Tripwire Interactive LLC >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
