And don't forget the experience of a valve servers getting a aimbot/speedhacker which can troll all he want because there are no admins..
Regardless of all that, when its around 6'ish you should join your own server with a few friends and normally it will fill itself up. I usually do that with mine and find my server full most of the time. -----Original Message----- From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Cameron Munroe Sent: woensdag 25 april 2012 23:13 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Suddenly very low server population Many players find a server that works and then stick with it. I even did it, I played on Lotusclan and didn't even care to explore, until of course lotusclan started going nuts that is, and many other players are the same. I also only found lotusclan servers because of a friend otherwise I would never have gone to them. People like to stick to what they know. On 2012-04-25 14:04, dan wrote: > On 25/04/2012 21:52, Tom Grant wrote: >> I do see Valve's reasoning for this. They want new players to play >> the game the way they designed it. Not with weird plugins, maps, or >> configs. >> I think >> they planned on having new players eventually grow out of the >> playpens that are the Valve servers, but as Cameron says, they >> aren't. Or at least it does not look like they are. I would love to >> see some data on this, if it could even be gathered. > > I don't think it's anything to do with new players per se. > > The figure in the cvar seems very low anyway. 8 hours? It's not worth > fretting about new players by that measure. > > They'll soon not be new, but they'll still be new in real terms > anyway. > > Perhaps there's a bug that puts quickplay players (with > 8 hours) on > Valve servers > > But how much that affects where people play is a bit of an unknown. > We don't really have the data. > As I explained at length, I'm not on Valve's servers because of some > bug in quickplay - and I see plenty of players have gold or beta > badges there. > > I think it's a bit of stretch to treat TF2 players like some kind of > large group of drooling halfwits incapable of exploring and finding > out about an FPS game or picking a server they want to play on. (And > if they are like this, why would you want them on your server > anyway?) > > If it's fixed (or tweaked assuming it's just a scoring issue rather > than an outright bug), perhaps some outlier servers, like mine and a > few others in here would see a bit more quickplay traffic. -- -- Cameron Munroe http://www.cameronmunroe.com/ http://www.munroenet.com/ http://www.gaming-servers.net/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
