If I remember correctly, item drops are handled almost entirely on the Steam cloud servers. Your actual game server has no control over it (so that, for example, people can't spawn items constantly) and really doesn't play any direct part in the item drop. So I would assume that any correlation you may see between the two is anecdotal at best.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:17 AM, m33crob <ad...@m33crob.com> wrote: > I've been wondering about this for a very long time. It has always seemed > like servers lag, some more so than others, when cloud services such as item > drops happen. > > As a weird conspiracy theorist pov, is it possible that Valve is already > aware of this and maybe the reason item drops don't display in chat anymore? > My guess is that Valve has attempted to reduce the number of connections or > bandwidth by suppressing these messages due to the influx from F2P players. > I'm just guessing here but something on the back end, seems very logical. > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Saint K. <sai...@specialattack.net> wrote: > >> Last night we had massive lag spikes, timeouts and servers crashing. This >> was TF2 only, because our other gameservers on the same machine >> (Killing-floor for example) were not affected. >> >> Now I am getting really curious where this is coming from. Are there >> certain connections being build up to the steam backend, and if they fail or >> take a long time, can completely stall a server? >> >> anyone else noticed this? (last night being some 12 hours ago-ish) >> >> Saint K. >> ________________________________________ >> From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [ >> hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Valentin G. [ >> nextra...@googlemail.com] >> Sent: 29 July 2011 00:50 >> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Unstable steam backend >> >> Yeah the item server seems to be unavailable for a huge part of the >> day. Really annoying. >> >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Saint K. <sai...@specialattack.net> >> wrote: >> > Well, I was more referring to the login queue system, I don't have much >> problems with the entire file downloading off steam. My client does a good >> 6-7MBps, servers just tend to take a long time when an update hits, but with >> everything on autoupdate I can't really be bothered by that. >> > >> > Was is annoying however is that you can't play your game properly without >> being kicked, without loadout etc. >> > >> > Saint K. >> > ________________________________________ >> > From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [ >> hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Drogen Viech [ >> drogenvi...@googlemail.com] >> > Sent: 28 July 2011 13:32 >> > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >> > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Unstable steam backend >> > >> > Leage of legends uses p2p to distribute game content, and the game >> > servers are directly hosted by them - no comparison to what valve >> > does (having their own content servers, using no p2p at all, just >> > providing a serverlist and some additional servers) >> > >> > 2011/7/28 Saint K. <sai...@specialattack.net>: >> >> Maybe an interesting thing to think about. People who know the game >> League of Legends know what a free2play system can mean to your network >> load. Now I imagine VALVe's/steams network being massively larger, but still >> the influx of people seems to have a very negative effect on the steam >> backend stability. I am uncertain of course what's causing this, but perhaps >> this can be a tip. On LoL (afaik) paying players are being prioritized. >> Perhaps this is something to think of for TF2 as well - cause from what it >> looks like (specifically for loadsouts in peak hours) we're either getting >> queued or some general connection limit is set to prevent it from >> overloading. >> >> >> >> Saint K. >> >> ________________________________________ >> >> From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [ >> hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Peter Reinhold [ >> peter_va...@reinhold.dk] >> >> Sent: 28 July 2011 12:55 >> >> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >> >> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Unstable steam backend >> >> >> >> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:07:20 +0200, Saint K. wrote: >> >>> From last night on the steam network has been incredibly unstable. >> >>> Servers dropping off quickplay, clients getting booted because either >> >>> no steam logon or VAC connection possible, load outs either not >> >>> available or taking ages to load. >> >>> >> >>> Anything up? >> >> >> >> I could post hundreds of lines of chatlog from users complaining, it >> >> would be nice to get an official statement of some sort. >> >> >> >> >> >> /Peter >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
