I have tried ending out on a US l4d server because no european were available. I know this because of the ping, and i have also tried to lookup the ip on infosniper and do some traceroutes.
I have really never understanded the idea of preferring their own servers instead of the other thousands of severs around the world, when they certainly doesn't have enough capacity to handle all the players.. And playing a l4d game with 150~ ping is a no-go.. /Chris Sent from my iPhone 4 Den 25/04/2011 kl. 14.47 skrev ics <i...@ics-base.net>: > The system (lobby server search) doesnt even work all the time as it should. > It searches from all servers out there close to one that started the search, > if they have certain campaign installed and give the first server that is > free and is a match (has campaign installed that is searched for). Or Should > give. Some Valve person can correct me if i am wrong but i remember someone > saying that the one who performs the lobby search, gets data (list of > available servers) from master server in fragments. > > Then the data shown in sv_showtags output is read (or the master server has > already that and it can be looked into on the fly) and if there is a match, > all head full. If the fragment of servers does not contain valid servers, > server searcher gets more of those fragments from master server (it was 50 > servers per fragment or so). This keeps going at what, 30 seconds? At this > time, usually 2 things happen. No servers are found from the ~200-300 it can > go through before the search timeouts and local host game is started > automatically or the search will never end and no free servers are found that > has particular campaign installed that the user wants to play. > > So, if there are only few servers around with particular custom map/campaign > that the players want to play and search server for it, it will never get to > that point and ends up being played localhost instead. Also the search fails > if the players are from US and the servers that has that addon installed, are > from Europe. I have a good example of this. I got many friends over US that > end up being playing on localhost because there are no free servers in their > continent and the search fails. I know for a fact that there are 11 servers > on Europe, some that were even free at that time when the server search was > initiated. > > -ics > > 25.4.2011 13:58, Eric Riemers kirjoitti: >> I know bullit 2 is true. It sends the addons map to the master server, so >> that public players wanting to play a certain custom map can also end up on >> your server (which is a good thing because customs hardly have enough >> servers sometimes) I have not seen that message of "too much" but I only >> have a few, there are some addon maps which crash and make your server 100% >> cpu or even give other characters strange habbits (like floating zoey) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com >> [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of realdreams >> Sent: maandag 25 april 2011 8:12 >> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >> Subject: [hlds_linux] L4D/L4D2 Lobby reservation >> >> Hi, >> I don't know how exactly lobby reservation works. Yesterday I saw a couple >> lines in console saying reservation failed because map doesn't exist. Can >> someone explain how lobby match making system works in l4d/l4d2? >> >> 1. How does master server pick server for lobby? When does it happen? >> I notice mm_dedicated_force_servers doesn't not reserve a server until the >> game starts. And no reservation information in console unless there is an >> error. >> >> 01:58:02 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: World triggered "Round_Start" >> 01:58:02 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: [META] Loaded 0 plugins (1 already loaded) >> 01:58:02 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: Preventing spawning >> 01:58:03 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: server_message: "quit" >> 01:58:03 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: Log file closed >> 01:58:03 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: server_message: "restart" >> 01:58:03 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: Log file started (file >> "logs/.................log") (game "left4dead2/left4dead2") (version >> "4490") >> 01:58:03 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: Loading map "c1m1_hotel" >> 01:58:03 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: server cvars start >> >> 2. I used to have a lot of addon maps and every time I restart the server >> console says something like too many addon maps, not advertising blahblah >> map. So servers actually send available map list to master server? And those >> maps not advertised normally never get used? What can explain that lobby >> reservation failure(map doesn't exist on server) >> >> 3. Does server have control over lobby reservation? I know lobby reservation >> can be removed with sm plugins. Can server modify lobby information like >> permission(friend only/ public), game mode( from what I remember if lobby >> reservation exists, forcing game mode change on server sends all players >> back to lobby) and full/ not-full. I am not sure if there is a flag for full >> or only number matters. If a server has more than 8 slots, can players join >> the server via quick search in game? l4dtoolz can patch match making and >> shows more available slots in steam group servers. Will master server send >> players to a server that already has 8 players(like 8/16)? >> >> Thanks. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
