http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=6679
It was more than just one or two people. Community servers broke the rules (another example is cheating the tabs fiasco). If I were Valve, I would limit the community servers as well when it comes to drops and such. On Oct 21, 2016 14:52, "N-Gon" <ngongamedes...@gmail.com> wrote: > In all honesty ElitePowered were really the MAIN culprit on that one > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Phillip Vector <t...@mostdeadlygame.com> > wrote: > >> Set up bots that looked like players on maps where they "killed" more >> than 1 solider a second per person for days straight without stopping. >> >> There was a blog post about it I think. >> >> On Oct 21, 2016 14:22, "ED-E" <ed-e_fo...@wobre.com> wrote: >> >>> The "WAR!" update? Oi, I get memories from a different TF2 time (where i >>> actually played the game ^^) cause I started my servers in late 2011 so I >>> don't know what happend. So how did these server owners cheat? >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Phillip Vector <t...@mostdeadlygame.com> >>> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list < >>> hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> >>> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:11:56 -0700 >>> Subject: Re: [hlds] Mandatory Team Fortress 2 update released >>> >>> > Because community servers used to cheat the system (like the war >>> update). >>> > So best not to include them. >>> > >>> > On Oct 21, 2016 14:05, "ED-E" <ed-e_fo...@wobre.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > > Based on the stats of sourcemod, current sourcemod tf2 servers did >>> go from >>> > > ~10.000 community servers in 2013 down do ~5.000. I guess one of the >>> > > reasons may be how Valve handles these kinds of things nowadays. >>> > > >>> > > Why are we actually excluded from these events in recent years? I >>> never >>> > > really understood that, does anyone have an idea what it might be? >>> > > >>> > > ----- Original Message ----- >>> > > From: Robert Paulson <thepauls...@gmail.com> >>> > > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list < >>> > > hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> >>> > > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:49:02 -0700 >>> > > Subject: Re: [hlds] Mandatory Team Fortress 2 update released >>> > > >>> > > > I found it really funny that people were celebrating on the meet >>> your >>> > > match >>> > > > update when they segregated community servers into their own ghetto >>> > > again. >>> > > > >>> > > > It was the custom server tab version 2, except they were >>> successful this >>> > > > time because you were all being irrational Valve fanboys and >>> claiming >>> > > that >>> > > > community servers were saved again. >>> > > > >>> > > > Now community servers are 100% blocked from "quickplay" (casual >>> mode), >>> > > and >>> > > > they chucked to the bottom of the GUI. Community servers have >>> never been >>> > > > deader. >>> > > > >>> > > > Why would you expect Valve to give community servers anything >>> given what >>> > > > they've been doing for the past 3-4 years? >>> > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > _______________________________________________ >>> > > > 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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