>From my experience when using best available you end up on some crappy highly modded server no one in the lobby wants to play on and its either back to lobby or rage quits.
One thing that I would like to see is a change so that if you can't find a server you don't automatically go into localhost mode. So many people end up on a localhost and don't even know it. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:17 PM, John <j883...@gmail.com> wrote: > The main reason you saw such a big drop in players is because Valve decided > to change the default lobby setting from "Best Available Dedicated" to > "Official Dedicated", so the majority of the players are playing on Valve's > official servers and only a minority of people actually change that to Best > Available. > > > On 07/30/2010 08:03 PM, tom nikitopoulos wrote: >> >> Before the major update like maybe 2 months ago I was high on the horse. >> I >> am small time (I run 10 boxes off of 5 ip's) I had a couple of decent >> ranked stock l4d2 servers. I was thinking "oh yeah baby!!!!"- I was like a >> little kid checking game-monitor.com every two days. Then after the update >> monsoon (and maybe college kids leaving for summer) my decent ranked >> servers >> went to crap.I thought I had done something wrong,but I wasnt sure. After >> this I went on game-monitor.com and checked top ranked l4d2 servers and >> they >> were all Valve servers. I was like wth? I realize that sv_region may have >> needed some fixin but I dunno. >> >> Steven, >> " but work with us here to help provide a quality service to your >> customers >> please!" >> >> Who are the customers here? I don't charge for my servers. I not really >> prepared to do so. >> Does anybody here pay Valve for the right to run gameservers for Valve? Or >> the downloads of files and updates? >> >> My point is this- there is no leverage for Valve or Activision to do >> anything but the way they wanna do it >> >> /off soapbox >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
