I remember the greatness that was discovering the humour and gameplay that is TF2 vanilla. It's not for everyone, but I think exposing newcomers to the baseline of TF2 (arguably of course) is perfectly acceptable, especially when they probably don't even realize that the quips their characters say are reactionary. Oh boy the laughs I've had.
My only concern with this quickplay situation is I run a server which is more competitively oriented using legitimate cvars; things like disable damage spread, crits off, static shotgun spread, etc. As such my server is disqualified, yet servers with plugins which could potentially do the same thing are not. I hope soon that my server can qualify for the quickplay feature, as it sounds really cool and would probably help our population. Is there any plans about this Fletch? -BloodyIron ----- Original Message ----- From: Fletcher Dunn <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:19 am Subject: [hlds] Valve TF2 servers no longer have quickplay advantage To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> > Hello all. > > An update earlier this week contained an adjustment to the > scoring bonus we give to Valve servers for quickplay > servers. There is still a bonus when inexperienced players > are searching. However, the bonus decreases as they gain > play hours, and it drops to zero at around 20 hours of play > time. (Don't take the specific numbers too literally, all > the details are subject to tweaking, of course.) > > Our goals with these changes are: > * Ensure that new players have the "vanilla" TF2 experience. > * Integrate experienced players into the regular community, help > them discover the diversity, and let them find the experience > they want. > > Your servers are competing with Valve servers on an equal > footing for quickplay customers. In fact, my guess --- > although I don't really have any data to back this up --- is > that directing the noobs towards the Valve servers actually > gives them a disadvantage. > > Your humble servant, > Fletch >
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