That's the great thing about this. Valve hated seeing players on 32 player, no crit servers, instant respawn, custom map, etc servers. So they added Quickplay to filter this out. Then they said if you run your server close to vanilla you'll be able to get this traffic as well. The traffic that those who run modified servers will be excluded from.
And now they took it all away. So that's what you get for doing what they ask. Now I hope I'm wrong with this and they do something about it. But who knows. It's been building up towards this anyway. Starting with the custom tab years back. Goodjob to those that were able to run customized servers and populate them without quickplay. Those kind of servers are needed to keep people interested and playing this game longer. Even those of us with mostly stock servers appreciate the service provided by these custom servers. On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Martin V <velt...@gmail.com> wrote: > "And my servers are in the top 50 on Gametracker." > My server is in top20-15 and I don't see any player drops/decreasing. > Probably because my server is 'banned' (or has really LOW priority > in quickplay) from quickplay system for my tags: > increased_maxplayers,nocrits,nodmgspread,respawntimes > > Maybe you should try not to depend on quickplay so much? Try expending your > community and put some life into servers. Make some events. Prizes for > players etc. > Try using your steam group to fill the server with loyal players. Throw > some secret saxtoners like we do :) > USE YOUR IMAGINATION AND ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE! :D > > Try using this plugin: > https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=2060588 <-- it show you > where your traffic is comming from (what connection method). > > > 2014-02-05 Chris Oryschak <ch...@oryschak.com>: > > > ics, > > > > You're not the only one; i'm seeing the exact same trend on my servers. > > Traffic is 50-58% decreased and I heavily rely on my community of 5 yrs > to > > get the servers going come mid/late afternoon when they get home from > > school & work. > > > > If it wasn't for having my community built up for so long my servers > would > > be on the brink of death, give it a few months and without being able to > > attract more players to replenish the community base i can see my servers > > dwindling down to nothing. > > > > And my servers are in the top 50 on Gametracker. > > > > Fletcher - Can you chime in on this, it would be really nice to get a > Valve > > response on the mailing list instead of having to rely on 3rd party > sources > > of email exchanges. I know why Valve has done what they have done but it > > would be really nice to get some feedback and/or maybe collectively come > up > > with some solutions that favor both the community servers and valves > strict > > 'vanilla' experience. > > > > We (community operators) would just like to regain some comfort knowing > > this isn't the death of us. > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:53 PM, ics <i...@ics-base.net> wrote: > > > > > Some time has now passed since Valve defaulted quickplay to Valve > servers > > > only on TF2 and we are taking the hit. Roughly half of our servers it > now > > > empty. Changes daily which servers have players and which have not so > > it's > > > not really a lack of people not knowing them are there but lack of > > players > > > one and nobody enters. They switch to fuller servers and since there > > isn't > > > much new players entering automatically and regulars are hesitant to > > enter > > > empty ones, this is where we are. > > > > > > So after running servers for TF2 since the game came out, this is what > i > > > get, go away message? You don't want me to run servers anylonger? I > don't > > > run crap on servers or advertisements or any mods, except for > > > administration between servers. Thanks a lot, Valve. > > > > > > -ics > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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
