thanks a ton for the clarifications Thank you, Alec Sanger P: 248.941.3813 F: 313.286.8945
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:31:56 -0700 > Subject: [hlds] TF2 Delisting Information > > Right now, we're not trying to provide a finely tuned quality difference > between servers to players looking for a server. Instead, we're focused on > finding and removing the very worst servers. This is why we're not showing > server scores in the serverbrowser. If we did that, we think it'd be very > hard for new servers to build communities, which a number of you have already > identified as a problem. Our first pass was a manual one, so we knew there > wouldn't be an exploitation issue. Going forward, we'll be making this into > an automatic process, with the following additions: > > > > - Each player will be able to negatively affect a server's score only once > per day. > > - We'll add a new message printed to the server console that tells the server > where it stands score-wise. It'll be focused on warning you if you're heading > towards being delisted. > > > > Some minor notes in response to questions being posed on the list: > > - Reserved slots won't result in any scoring implications if you're using > them correctly (i.e. have set sv_visiblemaxplayers properly, or are using a > SourceMod method) > > - Bots aren't counted in the scoring. > > - Delistings are temporary (1 month right now) > > - Level changes do not affect scoring (i.e. players are not considered as > having disconnected & reconnected over a level change) > > - Servers with low connection counts are not subject to being delisted. This > means if you're testing something on your new server you don't have much to > worry about. > > > At least for now, this isn't meant to be a method to tell us or the community > as a whole how good a server is. It is strictly for identifying servers that > are doing really bad things like lying about their player count or > redirecting. > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
