I have two vanilla tf2 servers running, each registered, logged-in, vac
enabled, with positive reputation. Some administrative sourcemod plugins
are installed, settings/cvars and mapcycle are according to Valve's
quickplay requirements.
Starting somewhere in February, lots of players joined
25 апреля 2012 г. 12:18 пользователь speaker spea...@phutility.de написал:
I have two vanilla tf2 servers running, each registered, logged-in, vac
enabled, with positive reputation. Some administrative sourcemod plugins
are installed, settings/cvars and mapcycle are according to Valve's
Basically, what Valve gaveth, Valve taketh away.
This sounds like an expectation problem. I doubt you have done anything
wrong.
Quickplayers are like friends on Facebook. You can have hundreds of
them but not one of them will come to your funeral, or maybe even notice
you stopped
Some time ago I noticed that quickplay started to send me to valve servers
in a different state instead of community servers run in the same state as
I reside in.
In some cases it evens prefers empty valve servers over populated community
servers. The only times I see it considering other servers
I don't expect to get a highly populated server just by making it
quickplay-ready. I just asked because there was a significant
population drop which happened like from one day to another. Before, I
had full servers for at least 6 hours a day.
Am 25.04.2012 12:58, schrieb Jesse Molina:
Only drop i've seen is on the server which i run custom maps on. It's
very hard to get populated these days due to quickplay penalty (30
slots) and no players will be joining whenever custom map is on. The
other 24 slotters are seem to be doing just fine. Large updates and even
small ones
I did a simple test using an account with more than 1500 hours in TF2 and
the result was:
1. Quickplay connecting to 146.66.153.20:27023 (Valve)
2. Quickplay connecting to 146.66.153.12:27023 (Valve)
3. Quickplay connecting to 146.66.153.17:27015 (Valve)
4. Quickplay connecting to
According to this post,
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=30458682postcount=413,
there was supposed to some maintenance on some servers today, which
could affect lobbies and games.
The post now says that the update is done, but, I can't connect to any
of my L4D/L4D2
So pretty much valve is sending traffic to valve instead of the server
community, great! This might explain why my server went from 24/7 full
to nearly empty.
Any Idea on how to improve the score so that our servers can get on the
list more often?
On 2012-04-25 08:56, hlds wrote:
I did a
Cameron,
I know your pain. When the quickplay system was first introduced my server
was full 24/7 for a solid month. Gametracker ranked my server in the top
150, felt good man. But, just like you, one day, all traffic
dropped. Nothing changed on my end, so I was at a loss as to why, just as
you
Thankfully I do have a community, but the fact still stands that the
below results are a far from equal standing against valve. As well as
the fact that I am in the guidelines for quickplay and they still pass
over my ctf_2fort servers. Guess valve wants to kill the tf2 community.
On
How is scoring done? Maybe Valve has really good servers?
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Cameron Munroe
cmun...@cameronmunroe.com wrote:
Thankfully I do have a community, but the fact still stands that the below
results are a far from equal standing against valve. As well as the fact
that I
On 25/04/2012 16:56, hlds wrote:
I did a simple test using an account with more than 1500 hours in TF2 and
the result was:
1. Quickplay connecting to 146.66.153.20:27023 (Valve)
2. Quickplay connecting to 146.66.153.12:27023 (Valve)
3. Quickplay connecting to 146.66.153.17:27015 (Valve)
4.
Certain plugins are frankly needed due to the fact of hacking. i.e.
smac, but still valve servers are going to be more full as you state
simply because of the fact that they are funneling traffic to their
servers.
On 2012-04-25 12:48, dan wrote:
On 25/04/2012 16:56, hlds wrote:
I did a
It's sad to hear something like this. I run my server how I'd want every
server to be run - I don't join any server EXCEPT for my server, it's the
best run server out there. 24 slots, vanilla, no stupid mods, I think the
biggest deal breaker might be all-talk is turned on.
If you're not having
I'm sure many here would understand the pain of server population dying...
what is annoying to those like myself that run many Trade servers that
relied on that In-game trading system for things we did has now caused such
as headache to fall back on a system that either doesn't work not even 50%
Valve servers still have a bonus when it comes to all new players.
That means regardless of how good or bad a Valve server is it gets priority
when it comes to noobs, so those noobs in turn will then further boost the
server's score by playing.
But the thing is... Quickplay has sent me (multiple
On 25/04/2012 20:57, Cameron Munroe wrote:
Certain plugins are frankly needed due to the fact of hacking. i.e.
smac, but still valve servers are going to be more full as you state
simply because of the fact that they are funneling traffic to their
servers.
Perhaps, but in general a plugin
That maintenance was completed yesterday. Perhaps they broke L4D
unintentionally in the process.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Peter Reinhold peter_va...@reinhold.dkwrote:
According to this post, http://forums.steampowered.**
No duh... lots of people are joining Valve servers directly. Practically
all the new players that is
They click the first button that says Start Playing and they are
sent directly to a valve server.
tf_matchmaking_noob_hours_played = 8.0
tf_matchmaking_noob_map_score_boost = 0.75
On Wed, Apr 25,
On 25/04/2012 20:59, doc wrote:
It's sad to hear something like this. I run my server how I'd want every
server to be run - I don't join any server EXCEPT for my server, it's the
best run server out there. 24 slots, vanilla, no stupid mods, I think the
biggest deal breaker might be all-talk is
I agree with you on the fact that people are complaining about my
server not being full and that they don't like the server anyways, but
what Valve has done is still like handing all young children a smoke and
lighting it for them, once they are addicted to it they never leave or
leave that
I do see Valve's reasoning for this. They want new players to play the game
the way they designed it. Not with weird plugins, maps, or configs. I think
they planned on having new players eventually grow out of the playpens that
are the Valve servers, but as Cameron says, they aren't. Or at least
On 25/04/2012 21:52, Tom Grant wrote:
I do see Valve's reasoning for this. They want new players to play the game
the way they designed it. Not with weird plugins, maps, or configs. I think
they planned on having new players eventually grow out of the playpens that
are the Valve servers, but as
Many players find a server that works and then stick with it. I even
did it, I played on Lotusclan and didn't even care to explore, until of
course lotusclan started going nuts that is, and many other players are
the same. I also only found lotusclan servers because of a friend
otherwise I
And don't forget the experience of a valve servers getting a
aimbot/speedhacker which can troll all he want because there are no
admins..
Regardless of all that, when its around 6'ish you should join your own
server with a few friends and normally it will fill itself up. I usually
do that with
People do stick to what they know. And they will learn to use quickplay
first and they will keep using it.
Instead of the server browser.
But valve servers don't use all of the official maps, or even all of the
official game modes. They play the same thing over and over and this gets
boring. Then
On 25/04/2012 22:12, Cameron Munroe wrote:
Many players find a server that works and then stick with it. I even
did it, I played on Lotusclan and didn't even care to explore, until
of course lotusclan started going nuts that is, and many other players
are the same. I also only found lotusclan
Don't think that the new players are capable of using such advanced
functions as favorites or history. Most of them are un-aware of this or are
lazy or would rather spend the time playing than wading through their
server histories.
It's also similar for existing players. Regardless of what you
On 25/04/2012 22:29, Erik-jan Riemers wrote:
And don't forget the experience of a valve servers getting a
aimbot/speedhacker which can troll all he want because there are no
admins..
It's not that bad. Generally you find people who want to troll need an
admin / group to feed off and / or they
The fact is dan that I played tf2 before quickplay was here. It was
already stress full enough on learning all the nicks and nacks of tf2.
Lotusclan was the few places which I knew had people on it.
However, new players use the first and simplest thing, i.e. quickplay,
as it is already a new
I have noticed a somewhat similar trend on my servers. But I have regulars
and admins that connect day in and day out. I find that before, my servers
were always full for months at a time with no break in player numbers
unless an update was released.
Now, since quickplay has dropped or something
On 25/04/2012 22:35, 1nsane wrote:
People do stick to what they know. And they will learn to use quickplay
first and they will keep using it.
Instead of the server browser.
But valve servers don't use all of the official maps, or even all of the
official game modes. They play the same thing
On 25/04/2012 22:56, 1nsane wrote:
Don't think that the new players are capable of using such advanced
functions as favorites or history.
Oh please. FFS, you two get a grip.
If you can use a computer game then anyone can.
If you can't use it, if you think it's all too complicated...do
Then stop replying to it... I'm enjoying the conversation.
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Both, obviously. You don't expect someone to keep playing the same
maps/game modes over and over and over again and not get bored eventually?
So then when you get bored of the same old and quickplay has the same thing
over and over again you move on.
Unaware of even other valve maps like hydro or
I don't seem to have that problem - quick play sends players to my
server pretty much 24/7 and it's a 30 slot server. 3-5am it's even
getting players with 300+ms ping.
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