Cream wrote:
1. .. 2 hops away at the upstream ISP 2. We want our players to play on our servers 3. The players are used to finding their servers under Lan servers .,. rather than just the sporadic player hosted lan servers.
It seems the primary reason here is for ease of players finding the new IP's. So the obvious choice to me is, send out an email so people can add the new IP to their fav's. What you want to do is something far more complex and may involve ongoing maintenance. I sorta see the drive here in thinking this would be cool, but in the end your users could care less. As long as they can easily get to your servers they will be happy. Clicking on the Fav's tab instead of LAN to me is a non-issue.
Your #3 lost me. Are we talking about LAN vs. Fav's or sorting order in the LAN tab? If you want your server(s) to stick out, put your official tag preceding the server name, for me this is [adi].
4. I would rather have them under "LAN" than "Favorites", but putting them in "Favorites" in serverbrowser.vdf, and having that file replaced each time before steam is launched, is an option.
This way would overwrite people Fav's each time they log in. Personally I would not be very happy about this.
I just figured that i couldnt be the first to be in a situation like this, so maybe someone has an idea. (we have even shortly talked about tunneling port 27010-27025 broadcasts to the colo).
What some people do is run a fake server in place of the original with a forwarding plugin installed on it. Not a great fix though as lazy people still may not notice the new IP. An obnoxious MOTD may solve that though.
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