If Mr. Loveless is correct, the sort of adverts you are/were running do scare away people very easily, and can be very detrimental to your server traffic. People get bothered by adverts very easily, and it's incredibly simple for them to see your server name and say "No, I dont want to go back on that server, it makes my ears bleed from adverts every 5 minutes".
That being said, there might be a legitimate issue with your traffic, but the adverts may impact your server traffic more than you may think. P.S. You should remove the knife and ws plugins before *all* your servers get blacklisted for *3 months*. On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, don’t get me wrong, we also have a lot of new players each day. > > Fact is that our servers don’t get past 20 players anymore. > > I just spent 6 hours looking at the servers and checking the traffic. > > I disabled unneeded plugins and reinstalled csgo without admin rights to > test out myself. > > Everything is fine, all good, however something is very wrong with how > players reach my server: > > They all join at the same time, often from the same country, sort of like > this: > > http://scrn.storni.info/2015-10-22_21-02-15.png > > And then, after not even a minute, they often leave. > > Sometimes they get replaced as soon as they leave, most of the times > nothing happens. > > > > Servers bounce from having 10 players to having 20, perhaps even spiking > randomly at 22, then back to 15 and so on, in a matter of minutes. > > What is valve doing? > > > > The sv_tags of that specific server are: > > > "bhop,gofree,kitsune,practice,rank,skills,stats,surf,surf,surf_5,surf_kitsune,surfing,timer" > > > > This situation is driving me crazy, it makes me want to close down all my > servers and get the hell out of this business because I don’t seem to be > able to have control over who joins my server and how (like it happens on > CS:S). Perhaps Valve is sending me quickplay traffic without matching > players preferences? > > > > However how do huge (64 slots) servers still have full servers? What am I > doing different? I mean, look at the top surf servers, 1 out of 2 of these > servers have the knife and ws plugins still but I refuse to accept the fact > that this little detail influences the playercount that much. > > > > > > Sorry if I look pissed, it’s just the frustration of working that many > hours on servers and seeing them dying for no apparent reasons. > > > > Best regards, > > Niko > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ejziponken - > *Sent:* Thursday, October 22, 2015 20:10 > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Csgo_servers] Extreme Falling Trend > > > > Compared to last Wednesday we went up 1000 players. > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:01:21 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Csgo_servers] Extreme Falling Trend > > I haven't, but I only run two popular servers. They're both 20 slot > servers, and they're both showing typical patterns of activity. > > On Oct 22, 2015 1:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Thank you for your input. It’s actually a very important matter and I’ll > be checking that as well. > > I in fact have set up a flag for donors and admins (such as myself) to be > immune to advertisements. > > It might actually be true that it’s interfering with the gameplay. > > > > Aside from this and my servers, has anybody else in this mailing list > experienced a drop in players this week? > > > > BR, > > Niko > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Michael > Loveless > *Sent:* Thursday, October 22, 2015 19:08 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Csgo_servers] Extreme Falling Trend > > > > This probably isn't the answer you want to hear but I used to surf on your > servers a lot until there was an advertisement playing in the background of > my game every few minutes. I have a considerably high end machine and > trying to surf when those adverts load in the background caused lag spikes > and undesirable play, so I stopped going there. I understand that CSGO's > motd is known to open in the background and never display. Sadly, plugins > like Pinion's and MOTDgd's that have the re-play feature cause the MOTD to > open in the background of CSGO and it has negative affects on gameplay from > my experience. > > > > That may or may not be the only reason but from someone who used to > frequent your servers on a daily basis, that is my input on the matter. > > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:24 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Additionally to the services I provide, I host a surfing community and > I’ve noticed a sudden drop in players starting from last update. > > Is anybody else reporting this? What could it be? > > I spent many hours trying to tweak every little cvar and check for errors, > however I really can’t find what could be wrong. The servers are just fine! > > Out of 32 slots, only 15-20 are generally used at peak hours, while in the > past all servers used to be full anytime. > > It feels like if the servers are being served players ONLY when there are > less than 20 players. > > > > Here are some graphs you can check: > > > > http://scrn.storni.info/2015-10-22_17-18-43.png > > http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/167.114.32.249:25175/ > > > > http://scrn.storni.info/2015-10-22_17-19-11.png > > http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/167.114.32.249:25165/ > > > > http://scrn.storni.info/2015-10-22_17-19-44.png > > http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/167.114.32.249:25115/ > > > > http://scrn.storni.info/2015-10-22_17-20-03.png > > http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/188.165.233.48:25155/ > > > > http://scrn.storni.info/2015-10-22_17-20-25.png > > http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/167.114.32.249:25145/ > > > > http://scrn.storni.info/2015-10-22_17-20-47.png > > http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/188.165.233.48:25125/ > > > > http://scrn.storni.info/2015-10-22_17-21-11.png > > http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/192.99.41.233:25155/ > > > > http://scrn.storni.info/2015-10-22_17-21-31.png > > http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/167.114.32.249:25125/ > > > > It is very worrying because these here are just a fraction of the servers > and this is happening across ALL of them. I really do not understand what > could be wrong. > > Servers are both in Europe and America. > > > > Any clue? > > > > Best regards, > > Niko > > > > > ------------------------------ > > [image: Avast logo] <http://www.avast.com/> > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Csgo_servers mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/csgo_servers > > > > > ------------------------------ > > [image: Avast logo] <http://www.avast.com/> > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Csgo_servers mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/csgo_servers > > > _______________________________________________ Csgo_servers mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/csgo_servers > > > ------------------------------ > [image: Avast logo] <http://www.avast.com/> > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Csgo_servers mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/csgo_servers >
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