Voogru, You rock with your data whoring boredness. Much respect and you make an excellent point regarding artificial penalizing. I'm interested to see what kind of results you come up with as I'm sure many other are as well. It will give a potential benchmark against what Valve decided to share with everyone. I say that carefully, b/c I think it's fair to say that Valve has more behinds the scenes that what is publicly put out there. :D
I think I'd like to offer, w/o proof, that the disconnects are purely going to be those determined by client action and not by admin action or the others you set forth. Not that they are not valid ones to be concerned about from the SA PoV. The data being used is purely from the client, as they say, and I'm sure their experimental studies have shown them it works (said loosely with optimism). Meaning this also takes into account the Scout update player behavior which throws some the _normalised_ data into a horeshoe, I'd suspect. Aside from the data, probably the piece of info we should be looking for is: what score will constitute the delisting??? I don't think that can be derived from the blog post pictorial... :P My 2 cents at this point. [FLASH] MjrNuT Arise from Flames and Ash, Behold Immortality www.flamesandash.com ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:30:56 -0400 > From: "Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 Blog Post: Server Scoring > To: "'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <002601c9a3f0$b5b86950$21293b...@com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I can actually figure out my score based on what valve said on the blog > post, I keep track of all sessions on my servers. > > I was bored, so I ran some queries on my player data and looked at all > player sessions, and came up with this for the past 30 days or so. > > Total sessions: > > 2,007 2009-03-11 > 1,666 2009-03-10 > 2,576 2009-03-09 > 1,589 2009-03-08 > 1,803 2009-03-07 > 1,854 2009-03-06 > 1,959 2009-03-05 > 2,060 2009-03-04 > 3,695 2009-03-03 > 3,485 2009-03-02 > 3,331 2009-03-01 > 3,932 2009-02-28 > 4,115 2009-02-27 > 3,765 2009-02-26 > 4,524 2009-02-25 > 3,873 2009-02-24 > 2,712 2009-02-23 > 3,018 2009-02-22 > 2,607 2009-02-21 > 2,207 2009-02-20 > 2,271 2009-02-19 > 2,251 2009-02-18 > 2,254 2009-02-18 > 1,846 2009-02-16 > 2,447 2009-02-15 > 1,932 2009-02-14 > 1,919 2009-02-13 > 1,876 2009-02-12 > 2,212 2009-02-11 > > Sessions over 15 minutes: > > 956 2009-03-11 > 887 2009-03-10 > 1,241 2009-03-09 > 819 2009-03-08 > 831 2009-03-07 > 682 2009-03-06 > 1,000 2009-03-05 > 932 2009-03-04 > 1,566 2009-03-03 > 1,682 2009-03-02 > 1,486 2009-03-01 > 1,720 2009-02-28 > 1,877 2009-02-27 > 1,569 2009-02-26 > 1,841 2009-02-25 > 1,578 2009-02-24 > 1,386 2009-02-23 > 1,561 2009-02-22 > 1,392 2009-02-21 > 1,033 2009-02-20 > 1,217 2009-02-19 > 1,137 2009-02-18 > 1,217 2009-02-18 > 920 2009-02-16 > 1,264 2009-02-15 > 955 2009-02-14 > 1,036 2009-02-13 > 949 2009-02-12 > 1,178 2009-02-11 > > Sessions less than 15 minutes: > > 1,050 2009-03-11 > 793 2009-03-10 > 1,349 2009-03-09 > 742 2009-03-08 > 1,016 2009-03-07 > 1,141 2009-03-06 > 950 2009-03-05 > 1,139 2009-03-04 > 2,159 2009-03-03 > 1,784 2009-03-02 > 1,836 2009-03-01 > 2,213 2009-02-28 > 2,258 2009-02-27 > 2,179 2009-02-26 > 2,694 2009-02-25 > 2,284 2009-02-24 > 1,304 2009-02-23 > 1,508 2009-02-22 > 1,177 2009-02-21 > 1,151 2009-02-20 > 1,063 2009-02-19 > 1,114 2009-02-18 > 1,078 2009-02-18 > 904 2009-02-16 > 1,182 2009-02-15 > 960 2009-02-14 > 876 2009-02-13 > 935 2009-02-12 > 1,030 2009-02-11 > > Sessions less than a minute, notice the massive increase over the scout > update. > > 257 2009-03-11 > 200 2009-03-10 > 314 2009-03-09 > 172 2009-03-08 > 244 2009-03-07 > 338 2009-03-06 > 220 2009-03-05 > 267 2009-03-04 > 596 2009-03-03 > 414 2009-03-02 > 566 2009-03-01 > 690 2009-02-28 > 568 2009-02-27 > 583 2009-02-26 > 761 2009-02-25 > 708 2009-02-24 - Scout update > 295 2009-02-23 > 273 2009-02-22 > 221 2009-02-21 > 209 2009-02-20 > 220 2009-02-19 > 234 2009-02-18 > 190 2009-02-18 > 158 2009-02-16 > 167 2009-02-15 > 164 2009-02-14 > 153 2009-02-13 > 165 2009-02-12 > 187 2009-02-11 > > I have exactly one year of player session data to work with, and 1.2 > million > sessions for a grand total of around 425,000 hours. > > I'm probably going to throw in stats for how often the server is queried > (with or without a connection) in order to determine if I'm delisted or > not. > I don't do anything malicious on my servers but if we've all learned > anything we are valves quality assurance. > > There is bound to be some flaw somewhere that really only someone that > knows > what they are doing will be able to figure out. > > The main issue with me is the penalizing servers if a player is > disconnected > due to something beyond his control. Basically, I only want to be penalized > if a player comes on my server, and leaves on his own cause he thinks it > sucks. > > Not because of a vote kick. > Not because an admin banned him. > Not because he got an invalid steam userid ticket because steam went down > and everyone is getting disconnected from servers really fast. > Not because of a map change and the player has to go download the map. > > - voogru. > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
