CBA reading everything today, up to my tits in wiring. <rant>
I miss just running servers, Y'know, stick a server up, if people play on it and have fun, they come back, maybe check out your website. I don't want to have to deal with all kinds of random crap that'll make my servers (even when busy) less easy to find, because the community I host for doesn't generally fill our servers all day every day, but when we do fill them, people generally have a good experience. Just seems to me that stuff like this does little for most players who'll generally find a good server and play on it as long as it exists, and unconveniences admins with unnecessary bullshit. </rant> Andrew Armstrong wrote: > Check out http://teamfortress.com/ > > > > "One of the things we've been thinking about for a while now is how to > improve the player experience around finding a server to play on" > > > > . > > > > "After kicking around some proposals, we came up with a simple system built > around the theory that player time on a server is a useful metric for how > happy the player is with that server." > > > > "The very worst servers attract a large number of connections, mostly > because they're lying in ways that make them look like a very attractive > server at all times." > > > > "Our first step in improving this part of the player experience has been to > delist all the really bad servers. The master server will simply stop giving > these to you when you fire up the serverbrowser. After that, we're going to > keep improving our ability to measure this kind of problem." > > > > This sounds very cool, and I look forward to see what Valve can come up with > in using these stats. > > > > - Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > 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
