Does that (fake clients) even work anymore anyway? Regardless, we've always preferred to just reward our players for seeding low-population servers to help get them going every day - not as effective as it used to be, but it still encourages people to help get the servers going.
Having said that, I'm sure that Valve has received their fair share of false reports even from that, since we've had people accuse us in the past of trying to use fake players because we don't kick specs/AFK's until the servers reach at least 50% capacity (every body helps fill the servers these days). Of course, I don't think it matters much either way, since only a trickle of quickplay traffic ever goes to community servers anyway, and the only people who try the "black hat" stuff (i.e. fake clients, etc.) are the ones who plaster their servers with Pinion ads. On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Paul <ubyu....@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe their response to this was to just to nuke Quickplay. I've heard > nothing further about punishing servers which do things such as fake player > info, or Quickplay either for that matter :(. > > On 16 August 2015 at 10:27, Miika <miikalaak...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Didn’t Valve state that they were going to punish servers using fake >> players and other means of cheating to gain traffic? >> I remember reading about it a year or two ago. >> >> There are still many old servers out there that are still using fake >> players or fake player counts. I thought these servers >> were going to be removed from server browser or something along the line. >> But they are still there and gaining traffic >> every single day due to using these methods. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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