I've played on his servers, no Ads. Some of you can be so negative. He probably just wants to see how useful/efficient Quickplay is, or how many of his clients join from the Server Menu or Favorites
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Ross Bemrose <rbemr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Question: Why do you need to know that information? > Answer: You don't... unless you plan on doing things like blocking players > that can't view your ads or some other such nonsense. > > > On 6/16/2013 3:48 PM, N-Gon wrote: > > How is that annoying? What he wants to do doesn't affect the client in any > way, it just let's him know which join from Quickplay and which didn't... > > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Ross Bemrose <rbemr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So... you want them to fix a bug to stop annoying things... and in >> doing so allow you to do completely different annoying things? >> >> On 6/16/2013 3:41 PM, Doctor McKay wrote: >> >> The problem is, many players are apparently incapable of pressing the >> F7 button, which led Valve to cripple it in the first place. >> >> I mainly want Valve to prevent MOTDs from being loaded on Quickplay >> clients so that I can detect if the client joined from Quickplay or not >> (force the client to load a hidden page, then check if the page was >> loaded). If there was some way to detect this, then I wouldn't necessarily >> want this change to be made. >> >> As it stands, however, there is no way to determine whether or not a >> client is able to view an MOTD window. >> >> >> >> Doctor McKay >> http://www.doctormckay.com >> mc...@doctormckay.com >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Paul <ubyu....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> This idea would cripple functionality for radio on quickplay servers, >>> just being one example of something it would further ruin for TF2 if such a >>> restriction was imposed. I myself can't say I've come across servers like >>> this, and if there are any then I imagine it's a mere handful (minor >>> percentage of all QP servers). All players have to do in such instances of >>> finding a server is just blacklist it and/or report it in-game, case >>> closed. Alternatively if something is decided to be done in view of one >>> complaint then disabling window.open would eliminate any new windows that >>> you might be talking about even if that's the case. As I say, I haven't >>> found this when going on servers myself. >>> >>> >>> On 16 June 2013 20:19, Doctor McKay <mc...@doctormckay.com> wrote: >>> >>>> As I'm sure most are aware, a little while ago Valve changed the TF2 >>>> MOTD panel so that it can't be reopened by the server if the client joins >>>> via Quickplay (or using the matchmaking argument on the connect command). >>>> However, this just prevents the MOTD panel itself from redisplaying. The >>>> server can still open pages in the client's MOTD panel in the background. >>>> >>>> This means that the server can still spam traffic-to-cash URLs on >>>> clients, many of which have noise-making Flash embedded or which open popup >>>> windows using JavaScript. In order to maintain the "sterile bubble" in >>>> Quickplay, Valve might want to consider preventing servers from opening >>>> webpages on Quickplay-joining clients entirely, not just preventing the >>>> panel from being redisplayed. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Doctor McKay >>>> http://www.doctormckay.com >>>> mc...@doctormckay.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> please visit: >>>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit:https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit:https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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