How about an ID and password feature? Soon enough people will be adding their servers as part of big groups whit out being related to the groups at all. It's not at all hard to get the Group ID. Might become annoying when random servers popup with horrible admins under respectable groups :/. Someone might even decide to do some odd scam attempts by assigning the server to the Valve group and convincing players that they are from Valve or something along those lines.
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:23 AM, David Kellaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can confirm that this is a problem - everyone sees the four servers I > linked to the group, but it takes 30 seconds or so for them to appear on the > menu, and only one person has ever actually got one of the servers to show > up in the "join group server" menu itself. I've tried manually running > heartbeat, adding more master servers, etc. to no effect. > > It also seems like opening certain menus then returning to the main menu > will stop the group servers list on the main menu from ever appearing. > > -Dave > > > Andrew Armstrong wrote: > >> Are you aware of any problems with this group feature not working right? >> >> I just tried to look again for servers in a group I am in. >> >> Someone else reported the same problem: If I waited 30 seconds or so at >> the >> main menu, I eventually see servers scrolling by for 'Steam group >> servers', >> but this takes a while, as they do not appear immediately like friends >> playing on servers does. >> >> However when I click on them to go to the 'find games' screen, there are >> never any results for games to join, Ive tried waiting at this screen for >> several minutes too. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Johnson >> Sent: Saturday, 15 November 2008 3:33 PM >> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> Cc: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> Subject: Re: [hlds] Steam community group features >> >> It will work in most cases, just not all yet. We'd like people to test >> it though. >> >> >> >> >> On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:51 PM, "Kitteny Berk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> They said it's not completely implemented, which to me reads like test >>> it, it might explode something amusingly. >>> >>> Was mostly just mentioning it doesn't work, and given the password >>> doesn't appear to work quite right, We could be stuck without private >>> servers, which is A Bad ThingT >>> >>> msleeper wrote: >>> >>> >>>> They said that the sv_steamgroup_exclusive is not functioning yet. >>>> >>>> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 03:41 +0000, Kitteny Berk wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Also seems that sv_steamgroup_exclusive 1 doesn't work at all, the 2 >>>>> servers I tried removing the password on filled immediately. >>>>> >>>>> sv_password "" seems to be buggered too (though it could be >>>>> openserverbrowser related), my remaining passworded server will >>>>> let me >>>>> connect from the server browser, puts me into a lobby that lasts >>>>> about 3 >>>>> seconds, loads a map and crashes my client. >>>>> >>>>> Andrew Armstrong wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Just another quick (bug?) report, if you click 'Create Lobby' >>>>>> from the 'Play >>>>>> on Steam Group Server' screen, it goes to a find lobby screen >>>>>> instead of one >>>>>> with the 'create lobby' button. >>>>>> >>>>>> - Andrew >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik >>>>>> Johnson >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, 15 November 2008 12:54 PM >>>>>> To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>> Subject: [hlds] Steam community group features >>>>>> >>>>>> Ok, we're getting ready to ship the first round of the group >>>>>> features we've >>>>>> been working on this week. >>>>>> >>>>>> There is a new cvar called sv_steamgroup, which takes the Steam >>>>>> group number >>>>>> (which is now visible on the group's administrative page). The >>>>>> server will >>>>>> still be part of matchmaking, but users that are in that group >>>>>> will be able >>>>>> to browse directly to it from the main menu. Also, if this value >>>>>> is set, >>>>>> there will be a button near the message of the day that allows >>>>>> users to go >>>>>> directly to that group's page. This allows them to join that >>>>>> group if they >>>>>> like, and then be able to browse back to it in the future. >>>>>> >>>>>> There is another convar in there called sv_steamgroup_exclusive, >>>>>> which isn't >>>>>> completely implemented yet. The goal if it will be to make a >>>>>> server only >>>>>> joinable by users within that group, but there are some edge >>>>>> cases where >>>>>> matchmaking could still potentially put users on there. People >>>>>> are welcome >>>>>> to play around with it for now, and we should have it fully >>>>>> implemented in >>>>>> the next few days or so. >>>>>> >>>>>> Hopefully this addresses some of the concerns server admins have >>>>>> brought up. >>>>>> >>>>>> Erik >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
