>with the beta quickplay system if your server uses any type of normal 
>connection
>method to the server for the first player it boots you out of the beta

It will be fixed really soon.  As in, today (hopefully).  We're planning an 
update later today, and it will have the necessary fixes on the server side.  
I'm hopeful to get it fixed on the backend, too.

There is also a problem where a "game over" condition can cause the server to 
switch into a mode where it stops receiving traffic.  That bug will also be 
fixed today.

Sorry for the bugs.  That's why it's called beta!

-----Original Message-----
From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com 
[mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Shizzle Nizzle
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 6:16 AM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] Quickplay broken?

It could also be due to quickplay traffic being split inbetween the beta 
quickplay system and the current quickplay system. They did say with the beta 
quickplay system if your server uses any type of normal connection method to 
the server for the first player it boots you out of the beta. They never did 
followup if that was ever fixed. I could imagine that a lot of people running 
both the beta quickplay/normal quickplay aren't getting the benefit of the beta 
quickplay traffic because of that bug. But I too have noticed this same issue 
about the dropoff in quickplay traffic seeding which started about a day before 
fletcher posted about the beta quickplay system being started. I assume the 
drop in traffic is because of that.

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:51 PM, ics <i...@ics-base.net> wrote:
> Exactly this. It was once stated that quickplay is only about 30% of 
> all connects to servers. Many people may have found one, two or more 
> servers that they have on favorites. They will go to those servers 
> first if there are players as they will be asked if they want to add 
> the server to their favorites when they disconnect after 10 mins or longer 
> session.
>
> This can be just a normal case, some of your regulars will be gone and 
> there will be quiet moments. Quickplay is only something that you may 
> want to have as an extra. It helps populate a server but on peak 
> times, there's a lot of servers with some empty slots so there will be 
> also a lot more servers for it to pick for and where to place a random player 
> to.
>
> -ics
>
> 2.8.2012 5:44, Rob Liu kirjoitti:
>
> The reason can be there just less and less people are using quickplay.  
> And there are more quickplay servers out there.
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Russell Smith 
> <ve...@tinylittlerobots.us>
> wrote:
>>
>> I've seen mine above 12 players and not getting fed a trickle of 
>> people from quickplay.  Often what happens now is a swarm of players 
>> join around the same time.  Then usually after a map change many 
>> players will leave, dropping the server to 14-15 or so where it will 
>> remain until the next swarm of players gets fed in.  This can take a 
>> while sometimes, after which this cycle repeats.
>>
>> There seems to be less of a constant slow feed of players now and 
>> instead you get big spurts.
>>
>> On 01.08.2012 13:49, Dave Rosca wrote:
>>>
>>> Thats how it was before the quickplay changes, at least for my server.
>>>
>>> Only at around 12 players does quickplay kick in.
>>
>>
>>
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