Just got a ghost player in my server.

<sigh>

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Jeff Sugar <jeffsu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I forgot to mention earlier today that, since no one else did, I can
> confirm
> that it all works as it should as far as this stuff goes, now. Hopefully
> this confirmation helps someone else who is in the position I was before :P
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Jeff Sugar <jeffsu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Can anyone confirm that, as long as sv_visiblemaxplayers set to 24, it
> > displays both the player count and max players properly in both the Steam
> > browser and TF2's? If so, does it require the replays to be enabled in
> the
> > command line, or can you do so in your server.cfg and it still works?
> >
> > Given the track record on these kinds of fixes, I'm wary of just jumping
> in
> > and hoping it's fixed, especially considering it requires a restart each
> > time it's enabled/disabled if you do it the command line way. These bugs
> > were the only thing keeping us from enabling them, so I'm crossing my
> > fingers here.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Ross Bemrose <rbemr...@vgmusic.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> The in-game server browser was never the problem for me... it was
> showing
> >> properly the last time I checked it (24/24 players).
> >>
> >> It's the Steam browser that has been wrong, since roughly 2009, whenever
> >> SourceTV (or now replay) is enabled, showing 24/25 players for a full
> >> 24-player server.
> >>
> >> We know why this is: The Steam server browser doesn't display bots.
> >>  However, this naive decision doesn't take into account bots that are
> always
> >> present and increase maxplayers, such as SourceTV or replay.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/1/2011 4:08 PM, Jonah Hirsch wrote:
> >>
> >>> My server with replays no longer acts as if replay is a bot, and the
> >>> in-game
> >>> server browser is no longer out of 23, so something was fixed in this
> >>> update
> >>> related to the replay bot and player count.
> >>> -----------------------
> >>> Jonah Hirsch
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Flubber<flub...@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  My server with replay still report 24/25, i have to change
> >>>> sv_visiblemaxplayers to 24 in order to correct it.
> >>>>
> >>>> 2011/7/1 Claudio Beretta<beretta.claudio@gmail.**com<
> beretta.clau...@gmail.com>
> >>>> >
> >>>>
> >>>>  HLDS updater has this feature too:
> >>>>> Steam.cfg
> >>>>> PreferredContentServerIDs = "id1 id2 id3"
> >>>>> where idX should be the valve content server ID as seen on
> >>>>> http://store.steampowered.com/**stats/content/<
> http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In my experience, clients almost always download much faster than the
> >>>>>
> >>>> HLDS
> >>>>
> >>>>> download tool, it even looks like they download multiple files in
> >>>>>
> >>>> parallel.
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Ian R. Justman<i...@ian-justman.com>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  On 07/01/2011 10:57, Claudio Beretta wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  the funny thing is that clients ALWAYS download stuff faster than
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> servers
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Probably because the clients have their own download servers, and
> you
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> can
> >>>>
> >>>>> tell your client where to pick up upates, which for me is either San
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Jose,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> CA (when I'm at my current place of residence, Fresno, CA) or
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Sacramento,
> >>>>
> >>>>> CA
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> (when I'm at my hometown of North Highlands, which is near
> >>>>>> Sacramento).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>  I
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> don't know whether the HLDS updater has a similar ability to be so
> >>>>>> configured.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --Ian.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Ian R. Justman
> >>>>>> UNIX hacker.  Anime fan.  Any questions?
> >>>>>> ianj (at) ian-justman.com
> >>>>>>
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