It could also be due to quickplay traffic being split inbetween the beta quickplay system and the current quickplay system. They did say with the beta quickplay system if your server uses any type of normal connection method to the server for the first player it boots you out of the beta. They never did followup if that was ever fixed. I could imagine that a lot of people running both the beta quickplay/normal quickplay aren't getting the benefit of the beta quickplay traffic because of that bug. But I too have noticed this same issue about the dropoff in quickplay traffic seeding which started about a day before fletcher posted about the beta quickplay system being started. I assume the drop in traffic is because of that.
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:51 PM, ics <[email protected]> wrote: > Exactly this. It was once stated that quickplay is only about 30% of all > connects to servers. Many people may have found one, two or more servers > that they have on favorites. They will go to those servers first if there > are players as they will be asked if they want to add the server to their > favorites when they disconnect after 10 mins or longer session. > > This can be just a normal case, some of your regulars will be gone and there > will be quiet moments. Quickplay is only something that you may want to have > as an extra. It helps populate a server but on peak times, there's a lot of > servers with some empty slots so there will be also a lot more servers for > it to pick for and where to place a random player to. > > -ics > > 2.8.2012 5:44, Rob Liu kirjoitti: > > The reason can be there just less and less people are using quickplay. And > there are more quickplay servers out there. > > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Russell Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I've seen mine above 12 players and not getting fed a trickle of people >> from quickplay. Often what happens now is a swarm of players join around >> the same time. Then usually after a map change many players will leave, >> dropping the server to 14-15 or so where it will remain until the next swarm >> of players gets fed in. This can take a while sometimes, after which this >> cycle repeats. >> >> There seems to be less of a constant slow feed of players now and instead >> you get big spurts. >> >> On 01.08.2012 13:49, Dave Rosca wrote: >>> >>> Thats how it was before the quickplay changes, at least for my server. >>> >>> Only at around 12 players does quickplay kick in. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
