You can't post stats if the facts you base them on are incomplete. Not sure what you're doing different, but I have many more than 132 servers in my Custom tab. As of 11:55AM EST, I have 630 servers in the Custom tab.
Maybe there's a problem with your Steam install or another issue on your end. We all know how to use the tab system, and as far as I can tell by the amount of full servers that I see right now, when I say we, I don't mean I. Honestly, just try to adhere by the guidelines set by Valve for a week and see how it goes. But it's going to take the effort of ALL the server admins, not just a few. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Yes, so let's get rid of the custom tab and just delist custom servers. > > That is, after all, what you are saying. Nobody wants to play custom > servers. I guess that's why I receive enough donations from players to > cover > 65-70% of my server costs each month. > > Because no one wants to play on my 'custom' server. > > Right. > > The fact of the matter is, people are interested in custom servers. > > 2. Perhaps custom servers are on the internet tab as a result of the > servers > dying due to being 90% less visible. > 3. It counts all queries, except if a player queries both servers at the > same exact time (out of game browser.) > > I'm in this game for the long haul, the two tabs system in my opinion is > setting things up for a long term failure. > > - voogru. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard L. > Church > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:10 AM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] Internet Tab VS Custom Tab > > Perhaps there is another possible reason. > > 1) Perhaps people are not interested in custom servers as much as you > may think. > 2) Perhaps people don't move to the custom tag because most all of the > custom servers are in the internet tab currently. > 3) Your test environment is flawed. When the game starts up and you > click on "find servers", it defaults to the internet tab. This means if > someone wants to go to the custom tab, they HAVE to go to the internet > tab as well. Please delete the total of the custom queries from the > internet total. Then, what about refreshes? Are you only allowing 1 hit > from a specific IP within a certain timeframe? What is that timeframe? > If not, why do you allow refreshes to count on either tab? > > Not trying to say it isn't revealing what your page shows... Just saying > that it may not be revealing what you expect. > > Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote: > > Yesterday I decided to do an experiment. > > > > I have made 2 experimental servers. These servers are brand new and > have > > never been played on. They will not be in anyone's favorites or HLSW > viewer. > > They are not real servers and will not accept incoming connections. > > > > One of the servers is on the Internet Tab. The other one is on the > Custom > > Tab. > > > > Since the out of game server browser does not have a Custom Tab, all > servers > > are displayed on that. Since I really only want to count the queries > made by > > the in-game browser so I am filtering out queries if someone queries > both > > servers at the same exact time, some can leak through but I don't > think that > > will affect the stats too much. > > > > http://www.voogru.com/server/queries.php > > > > This page is in real time and can be refreshed to receive instant > updates. > > > > At of the time of this writing, the custom tab servers receive about > a 90% > > reduction in queries, even after players have had the little message > > explaining the custom tab. > > > > I wish I would have started this experiment sooner. > > > > - voogru. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- -Richard Eid _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
