Re: [hlds_linux] Quickplay not activating?

2012-10-14 Thread Daniel .
I've noticed a heavy drop in quickplay traffic even before the new MvM content update. My servers fill up very late and empty out early always around the same time. It's like at 20:00 (08 pm) the servers get kicked out of the quickplay pool and they just empty out, they still show as registered

Re: [hlds_linux] Quickplay not activating?

2012-10-14 Thread Robert Paulson
This is just a guess. I think Valve made quickplay changes to value ping more than the number of players on a server. This means that popular servers that used to be filled all day began to empty out sooner as the people that logged in later became further from with the server's time zone. So at

Re: [hlds_linux] Quickplay not activating?

2012-10-14 Thread Erik-jan Riemers
Dont forget that when it goes towards the end of the year, player count drops. Don't ask me why, but if you have hlxce or something with a couple of years, it usually becomes less at the end of the year. For instance summer ended and I noticed a decrease of about 30% pretty normal since all the

Re: [hlds_linux] Quickplay not activating?

2012-10-14 Thread Robert Paulson
I don't think school can explain it all. Our most popular server is emptier than last school year. And our less popular servers are filling up more than usual. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Erik-jan Riemers riem...@binkey.nl wrote: Dont forget that when it goes towards the end of the year,

Re: [hlds_linux] Quickplay not activating?

2012-10-14 Thread ics
It could be also that the free to play players and other players who started with matchmaking have found a favorite servers to play on and it isn't the server you run that they have on their favorites. After all, they get asked after disconnecting do they want to favorite the server where they

Re: [hlds_linux] Quickplay not activating?

2012-10-14 Thread dan
On 14/10/2012 08:21, Erik-jan Riemers wrote: Dont forget that when it goes towards the end of the year, player count drops. It's around 77k peak at the moment. Which would be (pre-MvM) very high. In the past it's dropped to around 30-50k in the lulls between updates. Obviously the initial F2P

Re: [hlds_linux] Quickplay not activating?

2012-10-14 Thread doc
Hats. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:30 AM, dan needa...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 14/10/2012 08:21, Erik-jan Riemers wrote: Dont forget that when it goes towards the end of the year, player count drops. Dota 2 is huge now too, although I doubt there are significant numbers of TF2 players that

Re: [hlds_linux] Quickplay not activating?

2012-10-14 Thread Lambda
I've been seeing something really funny in my servers. I run both EU and US servers, im myself located in EU and all of them are registered at my personal steam account which i've been running always on EU. All of my EU servers do fine all days, they get steady quickplay traffic thought the