It's worth noting that even BEFORE quickplay, being fast off the mark with a server update was a good way to get a busy server... quickplay or not, when there's only a small number of valid servers, they will be busy.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hlds- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Tharp > Sent: 08 August 2011 15:11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 Quickplay System Question - August Steam Update > - Windows > > On 08/06/2011 09:38 PM, Jay Singh wrote: > > It's Valve's fault for setting up all these blasted quick play > servers. > > I can put money on the fact that if Valve would shut down at least > half > > of their servers, there would be less complaints about people and > their > > servers being empty all the time. > > They were necessary when free-to-play first came out due to the absurd > number of players added to the system. Now there aren't as many, and > eventually Valve will wind down some of their servers to compensate. > There is presently more supply than demand, and some servers sit empty > as a result. As I understand it the player count factors into the > quickplay equation so servers that are populated tend to stay populated > while those that are empty stay empty. Frankly this is better for the > players, but ideally there would be fewer servers so all of them could > stay populated. > > For what it's worth, I initially saw a huge drop in traffic right after > one update (on the 28th maybe?), perhaps because my update notifier > failed and it sat empty for 40 minutes before I noticed and updated it. > But since then it's built back up and is usually full in the evenings. > I > don't know what percentage of traffic is coming from quickplay because > it isn't logged. Normally right after an update, within 5 minutes of > restarting the server it will be full again, often within 1 minute. I > assume this is because there are fewer servers operating with the new > update. > > As for the reputation messages ("downward fast" trend), Valve has > already stated that it is normal once you've hit the upper range of > reputation and that perhaps the messages are scarier than they need to > be. > > -- m. tharp > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
