Much better clarification. Thanks! On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Erik Johnson <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > -- Kris _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
