This X1000 - I just changed IP#'s of two of my servers and the player count has dropped by 70% and is slowly going back up cause its taking players a while to find the change. I had no choice but to change the IP#'s or location of those two servers but now its hurting and its time Valve done something with regards to having it save in the server browser.
Instead of taking things away like the MOTD changes that so many if not the majority of server owners are against how about adding something like this to help us. -----Original Message----- From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ruben Lopes Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013 5:27 PM To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds_linux] More reliable support for server IP changes I would like to leave my opinion here for Valve to consider.Probably all of us server admins know the frustration with having to change our servers IP's either because of a migration, changing from a unreliable hosting, datacenter change, etc...We also know that even though we can connect and add a hostname to favorites ir doesn't update if the IP changes (at least the last time I checked) and it should, for the obvious reasons mentioned above. So that change I think it's been overdue and I can see no good reason for it not being like that since day one. That way, players who connect through the hostname wouldn't even notice that the IP changed. But even with that, the people who added "Current server to favorites" only added the current IP of the server. So, even better than that would be to have a aditional server id system that could be used to keep track of servers, so that a specific serverID would always point to the server IP:Port of the server that has that specific tf_server_identity_account_id in the config. Then, players could connect to that serverID that would also be automatically be updated in the favorites if the IP:Port changed. With that, when a server has to change IP, no player would lose track of that great server that mysteriously disapeared from their favorites and server administrators wouldn't have to flood every of their players that they can reach telling that the IP of their server(s) changed while seeing that effort in vain while losing part of the players that never came back.I've been through that, and other probably have too. So this would be a favorable update for everyone. Hope I can see something done about this soon. _______________________________________________ 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
