Ok....I'm not getting anything new, but I think I need to understand a bit
more the use of each of these cvars. 

With just sv_steamgroup....that should automatically put a member of that
steamgroup into one of our servers, correct? Or no?

With sv_search_key...that is just another way of doing it? Either one,
should put a member of our steam group, or someone putting in our search
key, into one of our servers, if it's open. 



Aaron Rapp


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of chris bernard
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 5:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [hlds] Quick question about sv_search_key


I use sv_search_key "yourkeyhere" (with quotes) in the sever.cfg.  I do not
use sv_steamgroup.  Then on my end(client side) I have a autoexec.cfg in
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead\left4dead\cfg folder
with sv_search_key "yourkeyhere" (with quotes).  Not sure if this matters or
not but I also have sv_allow_lobby_connect_only 0 in the server.cfg.  When I
start a game from the lobby it finds my server and connects with in a few
seconds.  IMHO it finds and connects to the server faster after the latest
patch.  I hope that helps.

> From: [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 04:52:03 -0700
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [hlds] Quick question about sv_search_key
> 
> That works fine for me too, except for getting random people.
> 
> It might be an issue with the server since I removed the searchkey and the
> steamgroup (just to be safe. It's not exclusive), and left it that way for
a
> few hours, and nobody connected...
> This is probably a question for a different conversation, but what could
> cause that? I can see the server fine through the server browser (in
> favorites), and myself and everyone I play with are able to connect to it
> just fine. Could something in sourcemod be doing this?
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Mike Zimmermann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > It works fine for me though. I have the exact thing set on my server's
> > server.cfg:
> > *sv_search_key 1013,key:KEYHERE*
> >
> > And in my client's autoexec.cfg:
> > *sv_search_key KEYHERE*
> >
> > And I gets tons of random people and I can connect fine using just the
> > search key. It's full 90% of the time; I usually have to kick people off
so
> > I can get on. What do you get when you run sv_showtags? My server shows:
> >
> > Tags:
> >   Public :  empty,key:KEYHERE1013,coop,versus,survival
> >   Private:  empty,key:1013,key:KEYHERE1013,coop,versus,survival
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Jonah Hirsch <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Here's a quick update...
> > >
> > > I have sv_search_key is this:
> > >
> > > sv_search key "1013,key:MYKEYGOESHERE"
> > >
> > > both in the server *AND* in my client.
> > >
> > > I can connect to my server just fine (~80% of the time?) doing this.
> > >
> > > HOWEVER:
> > > I have only had a few (one or two) instances in the past week in which
> > > random people joined my server. Not even during the free couple of
days
> > > did I have people in my server except for people I knew.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > So, it seems that sv_search key "1013,key:MYKEYGOESHERE" does not work
> > > like intended. You will mostly get your server, but you will never
find
> > > another server if you're in a lobby when your server is being used,
and
> > > you will barely ever get other people in your server.
> > >
> > > Jonah Hirsch wrote:
> > > > I know this has been answered before, but it's a bit too specific to
> > > > read through all the sv_search_key messages for.
> > > >
> > > > True or false: When you have sv_search_key set, people who do NOT
have
> > > > it set can still connect to your server through a lobby.
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> 
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