I agree with RDDT TF2 completely. While it may take time and effort to get a
community going, the fact of the matter is now that Valve has set up hundreds
(I want to say thousands) of quick play servers, populating a TF2 server is as
hard as it was before the Uber update. Honestly, you guys over at Valve should
think twice before you try to screw over the community.
If you guys over at Valve think that matching random players into a TF2 server
will give them the best experience, then you're wrong. Servers that have
regulars are what gives players the best TF2 experience. Befriending each
other, making rivals, cooperating as a team. You can't do that with random
players on your quick play servers.
If you guys over at Valve insist on making all these quick play servers, then
fine. But here's a really awesome request that will benefit the both of us.
Make it so that players can only play on your quick play servers for a maximum
of x hours. After that, have them match up with community made servers.
> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:54:56 -0400
> From: invaderam...@gmail.com
> To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com
> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] TF2 servers staying empty
>
> Well, I think that is merely an effect of there being too few players and
> too many servers. Of course Valve is going to put their own servers on
> preference, because they're the ones controlling them. Server admins SHOULD
> be ditching their servers if they're going to sit empty. It takes time and
> effort to get a community going. These last few weeks have just been really
> easy on unpopular servers because of the huge influx of new players. I'm
> shutting down my server due to lack of use. I don't have the time or
> patience to try to get a community going, and quickplay isn't helping
> enough.
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:21 PM, RDDT TF2 <rddt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Fletcher,
> >
> > Your post reinforces the single complaint I have with regards to this
> > matchmaking system. What is the point of us server admins configuring our
> > servers to rank optimally in the matchmaking system, and adding them to the
> > system, for them to be beaten out by Valve servers? Ever since Valve's
> > servers came back online my server has remained dead - matchmaking will
> > throw one, maybe two players per day my way, and this isn't just me - this
> > is across the board. Once popular servers that I visited have nowhere near
> > the traffic they used to. A decent server isn't cheap to host and maintain,
> > and I could easily see server admins ditching their servers if they're just
> > going to sit empty. Just look at the TF2 Server Feedback forums.
> >
> > I realize that you would want new players to start out on Valve servers,
> > and
> > I respect that, but in my experience the TF2 community is a great one and
> > will help new players no matter where they play.
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