No disprespect, but i disagree.
I think theres more going on in the back end than what you think.
I'm not going to name the server, but there is 1 i play on, and
has
that
crappy motd ad in it.
Even pressing the button to move on to the next window to enter
the
server,
the youtube video will still play in the back ground till it's
finished.
The only think i know to do is disable the HTML in the client
settings so
it will not render it.
Then the issue is fixed. Downside, it suxs to have to go to
setting
each
time i join a server that has a video in it.
Keep in mind, the video has to precache to play just as it does
when
looking at it threw IE or firefox.
This precache lags players when entering the server until the
video
ends.
Another thing that has to be considered is if the video at
youtube
is also
under a heavy load.
Have you ever gone to youtube and waited on a video to load, and
have to
reload it to play ?
I just hope the admin's really think about the clients, and not
bogging
them down as they join the server.
Before anyone jumps in and says well change servers, i like the
one
i play
on due to my ping.
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Frank <ad...@gamerscrib.net>
wrote:
Now this is ill informed post if I ever saw one - the ads in the
MOTD are
not causing this issue. There have been instances when they had
some bad
ads
but they were quick to fix it. It's not a bad thing to want to
recover
costs incurred for running well managed servers - people need to
stop
seeing
this as a bad thing. You only see the ads for maybe a moment
then
you can
click right by them but they do help support good managed
servers.
-----Original Message-----
From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com
[mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of
Carl
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:32 PM
To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HTML MOTDs not rendering?
I hope this isn't for one of those really annoying HTML ads that
some
degenerate servers have been abusing their players with.
On 9/12/2012 4:41 AM, Bjorn Wielens wrote:
Hi all,
This was touched on in a previous post - Does anyone know a
solution for
MOTDs not rendering (just a gray box, not even a
background/plain
text
shows).
I've had this happen to me with both HTML motds and plain text
contained
in the motd.txt file.
The weird things are that:
a) some people can see the MOTDs fine.
b) right clicking the box and hitting 'view source' shows the
HTML
content
of the correct MOTD page
c) I've gotten it to show up for me exactly once.
Running our servers on Linux, there's no flash content or ads
in
the
motd,
and they render fine in a webkit-based browser.
I've tried both just the MOTD url in motd.txt as well as a META
refresh
to
redirect. both have the same result.
If anyone knows of a fix, I'm all ears as we're in a situation
where most
of our traffic is passthru Quickplay, and I'd like to at least
inform them
about server rules and the existence of our other
servers/extended/non-tf2
community
Thanks!
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