Re: [hlds] [hlds_announce] New SteamID format for TF2

2014-08-22 Thread CSGO Clan
Hi, what was the reason for this change and is this going to happen for other games also? From: Eric Smith er...@valvesoftware.com To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; 'hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com'

Re: [hlds] [hlds_announce] New SteamID format for TF2

2014-08-22 Thread Dominik Friedrichs
On 2014/08/22 17:59, CSGO Clan wrote: Hi, what was the reason for this change and is this going to happen for other games also? 1. Since the new format is already used for most other Steam games, its probable that they now converted TF to simplify maintenance on their side. 2. Sooner or

Re: [hlds] [hlds_announce] New SteamID format for TF2

2014-08-22 Thread Anthony James Duncan
I'd assume it is to a line with the new Steam gameserver accounts since they use A: for anonymous, G: for registered and the U: for steam clients. Make sense really just poorly implemented. -Original Message- From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com

Re: [hlds] [hlds_announce] New SteamID format for TF2

2014-08-22 Thread Paul
Any possibility Valve will fix the currently bugged HTML MOTD since the update? Links or anything else that opens a new window is now broken since it was changed to share with the Steam browser control :(. On 22 August 2014 18:37, Anthony James Duncan anth...@kinevonetwork.com wrote: I'd

Re: [hlds] [hlds_announce] New SteamID format for TF2

2014-08-22 Thread Weasels Lair
that opens a new window - that sounds like an intentional change to possibly prevent exploits and such. On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Paul ubyu@gmail.com wrote: Any possibility Valve will fix the currently bugged HTML MOTD since the update? Links or anything else that opens a new

Re: [hlds] [hlds_announce] New SteamID format for TF2

2014-08-22 Thread Paul
I highly doubt it was an intended change, as much as the Mac OS X and Linux HTML MOTD's being unstable as well (which I see Valve have just chosen to disable in a patch the Steam client downloaded just a moment ago). On 22 August 2014 19:51, Weasels Lair wea...@weaselslair.com wrote: that