Shouldn't be hard to have a "score" script running... - On player connect: penalty of 15 - On every minute of the player being connected: add 1 point unless they're there over 45 minutes. - Start over on map change/reload (= reconnect)
and no cheating there :P >________________________________ > From: ics <i...@ics-base.net> >To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list ><hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com> >Sent: Friday, 15 November 2013, 7:30 >Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Where is my traffic coming from? > > >I believe in some post within 2 years someone at Valve said that the >quickplay is affected only by small part by server reputation score. But >even if it is, the server that i had 7 million score vs the one that had >less than a million, the one with less score got more traffic through >quickplay than the other. So having big server score doesn't mean >anything. It only means that a lot of people spent 45mins or more on >that server over the years. > >Still, i'd like to monitor that server reputation score also. It gave me >a rough estimate how all my TF2 servers are doing. Which server the >players spent more time and what server i should look into that isn't >getting score like the others due to lack of players of they spending >less time there. Dig in for reason and fix it. > >-ics > > >ElitePowered . kirjoitti: >> Chill there amigo. No need to be but hurt. I'm just trying to find out why >> the backend score isn't available for us to see anymore. >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Doctor McKay <mc...@doctormckay.com>wrote: >> >>> I never said that Quickplay doesn't have a score. Quickplay does in fact >>> have a score, and that score is not publicly visible. The score that was >>> recently removed was completely separate and unused. >>> >>> Please stop talking about things you don't know. >>> >>> >>> Dr. McKay >>> www.doctormckay.com >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:56 PM, ElitePowered . <elitepowe...@gmail.com >>>> wrote: >>>> Steam3Server()->GetServerReputation(); >>>> >>>> So how come Lotus doesn't fill up all it's servers when it has close to >>> the >>>> same network performance as you do? >>>> Player latency does in fact play a roll in determining where they are >>> sent >>>> but there has to be an outside factor in play. There are thousands of >>>> servers for TF2, not each one is filled completely. So your point is >>>> invalid. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Doctor McKay <mc...@doctormckay.com >>>>> wrote: >>>>> Right, that old scoring system that was removed is the one talked about >>>> in >>>>> this blog post: http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2338 >>>>> >>>>> It was only used for a short time. In more recent years, that score was >>>>> tracked but used for absolutely nothing. It was completely separate >>> from >>>>> the Quickplay score. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Dr. McKay >>>>> www.doctormckay.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Bottiger <bottige...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>>>> That old scoring system was only used to automatically delist >>> servers. >>>> It >>>>>> does not get you more players from quickplay. Valve has said that >>> many >>>>>> times already. >>>>>> >>>>>> It doesn't take much effort to figure out that the quickplay scoring >>>>> system >>>>>> is dominated by ping. There is a server quality score aside from this >>>>> that >>>>>> is scored by the backend, but it only accounts for ~8% of the >>> quickplay >>>>>> score. It looks arbitrary to me and even our most popular servers >>> don't >>>>>> have a high score there. >>>>>> >>>>>> Also I think the past couple of days when Steam went down and dropped >>>>>> players for "Invalid Steam UserID Ticket" has negatively impacted >>>> server >>>>>> scores. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:59 PM, ElitePowered . < >>>> elitepowe...@gmail.com >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> Yea, it was. The performance of the server is determined by the >>>> score. >>>>>> For >>>>>>> example, Skial may have a score of 500k while your 2Fort may have >>>> 20k. >>>>>>> Hence why Bottiger always has his servers full. The score was >>> visible >>>>>> and i >>>>>>> can show you the code the gets it from Valve. This feature was cut >>>> off >>>>> a >>>>>>> few weeks ago. Does this mean a new version of quick play is in the >>>>>> works? >>>>>>> (Fletcher Dunn question) >>>>>>> On Nov 14, 2013 8:03 PM, "Doctor McKay" <mc...@doctormckay.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> That score was not your Quickplay score. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Dr. McKay >>>>>>>> www.doctormckay.com >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:25 PM, ElitePowered . < >>>>>> elitepowe...@gmail.com >>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> Why was the feature that allows viewing your quick play score >>>>>> removed? >>>>>>> It >>>>>>>>> was a great way to see how well your server was doing. >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> 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 >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > >_______________________________________________ >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
