You pulled the words right out of my mouth. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy L Havener Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.
Paaahleeeease....I have plenty of regulars. You don't get two servers into the top 10 rankings without a lot of regulars. Two of my servers still get populated during peak gaming hours, but they empty out around 1-3 am and fill back up around lunchtime whereas they used to stay full 24/7. Not being listed on the internet tab really hurts in the morning hours when most of my regulars aren't on. And I posted to all my members about the customs tab and most didnt know what it was. I got a crap load of pm's on steam asking me why I took my servers down after the update. This stinks and I don't like it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cc2iscooL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > If you had enough regulars, your servers would stay full. > > For instance, on Friday Night, I like to run party mode on my servers, > which > places them on the custom tab. I can still keep them full from the time it > starts up until about dying gaming hours (around 4-5 AM CST) > > The custom tab is a deterrent to generic pubbers, but your regulars will > still see you on their favorites tab. > > I will agree though, pubbers generally won't even touch the custom tab. > Maybe if people started actually using the custom tab, though, people > would > generally shift over to it based on their desire for gameplay. With all > the > server operators exploiting the internet listing as it is right now, no > one > will ever use the custom listing because the servers like that are still > in > the internet list. > > If no server operators use the custom list, then neither will the players, > thus why you see such a lack of use on it. > > To be honest, I think if more server operators used it and educated the > players they play with on the use of it, I think there would be a lot more > people using the custom tab. > > Now, granted, it will never compare to the usage of the internet tab, but > all this "cheating" to get on the internet list isn't going to help the > custom list at all. No one is going to use it if there aren't any good > servers there. > > Just a thought. > > -Cc2iscooL > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Timothy L Havener < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >> -- >> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] >> I had 3 servers full pretty much 24/7 and since the implementation of the >> customs tab I have had trouble even getting them populated during peak >> gaming hours. I have received complaint after complaint from members >> about >> the new system. The majority of players did not even know there was a >> customs tab to find our servers. My Dustbowl server was ranked in the >> top 3 >> on game-monitor and has been dropping consistently since the last update. >> Just wanted to say thanks. Have a nice day. >> -- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > -- > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
