Instead of doing this whole mess, fiddling around with the player counts
and manipulating them here and there based on some conditional
statements, SourceTV, Replay and any other features like that shouldn't
be implemented as a bot in the first place, but as a backend feature
that does not take a player slot in any way. Make an interface to the
engine to attach these features in a good way instead of coding them as
bots.
But fighting the symptoms is (at least at first glance) always easier
than correcting the cause, I guess.
I'm not using any of these features just for that reason, besides all
the other annoying stuff that comes up when enabling replay - it wont
work from the first map on (at least not when putting the "exec
replay.cfg" outside of the starting line, into the server.cfg), it now
spams the logs with loads of diagnostic messages on startup, the cleanup
code is insufficient at best, and last but not least the slot issues.
On 2011/07/04 20:54, Fletcher Dunn wrote:
Hello all.
This email is about the inaccurate player counts showing up in the
server browser. There are have been three distinct problems that we know
about.
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ZERO PLAYER COUNT
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First, if your server always shows a ZERO player count, the most likely
cause is that your server is using some old Steam libraries. For
example, on Windows you may have a steam client installed that you have
not run in a while. The engine may be finding DLLs in that installation
and using them. Either delete the old DLL's, or run the steam client to
get them up-to-date. If you are confident that you are running with no
other steam DLL's on your server, and the player count is still always
zero, then we have a new problem.
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ZOMBIE SLOTS
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Second, we are aware of the problem with the "zombie" player slots. We
believe this happens when a player authenticates, and then when they
leave the server, their authentication record is not deleted. We had
hoped that the July 1st update would correct these issues, but
apparently it has not.
Of course, if somebody actually knows a method for reliably reproducing
the problem, then please post the precise steps, and we'll jump on it
immediately!
Otherwise, if you are experiencing this problem, you can help us
understand how to reproduce it so we can fix it. I could use some very
clear logs.
* First, please make sure you are running the July 1st update. (I think
that update was optional.)
* Attach logs of a server session where the problem occurred. Please
don't truncate or edit anything.
* Please try to narrow down the time when the zombied slot appeared, as
accurately as possible.
* Please indicate the name(s) or IPs or any other identifying
information for the players that caused the zombied slots, if possible.
* Please tell us your offset from GMT so we can match up your logs with
our own backend logs.
* Ideally, send the log as soon as the you notice the first zombie slot.
* Please post all replies this thread.
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SOURCE TV AND REPLAY
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Finally, there were some minor fixes to the way bots, replay, and source
TV were reported in the July 1st update. Previously, in a few situations
the player count would be of-by-one. If you don't have any zombied
players, your player count **should** always be correct in the server
browser. Neither Source TV nor replay should count as a "player" in the
server browser, either in the current player count, or the max number of
players. (They may show up as a player in the detailed player list.) For
example, if you set your max players to 24, and Source bumps up the
player count to 25 to make room the SourceTV, your server should show as
having 24 max players in the server browser. If this is not the case and
we still have issues, please post a description of the problem to this
thread.
Please help me understand the zombie player problem so I can fix it.
Thanks,
- Fletch
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