We have a server farm in Frankfurt. So I am surprised why you would be getting US servers. If you can send me (off list) a sample of your IP's and the IP's you are being connecting to so we can take a look at our geo-ip database to see if we need to make some adjustments. This should have improved when we rolled out the new master servers a few months back. Any game using the new master servers uses a new geo-ip system to locate the nearest server. This mostly obsoletes the requirement for sv_region from what I understand.
________________________________________ From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of ics [...@ics-base.net] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 6:30 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D2 updates Lots of people play on best available ones, atleast that is the case in Europe. This is due to no free Valve servers being available close and they always end up to US servers with 150ms pings or just cannot get any servers to play on. Besides, if the players use mm_dedicated_force_servers list or use the option play on a steamgroup server, it will overwrite the option official dedicated on lobby. I've had lots of players on my own servers and considering the game's age, the drop since the days when they were always full after the release is also taking it's toll. Infact my L4D servers have been more full lately than the L4D2 ones. I guess people have suddenly started playing the older one again more than before. They were sitting most time of the day empty before. -ics 31.7.2010 4:15, tom nikitopoulos kirjoitti: > Adam- > > So we,admins on this list are best available and only Valve is Official? If > this is true (which it probably is) why run your own server? > I mean you dont play on best avail servers right? > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Adam Smith<absmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
