Sometimes I’ve gotten gifts immediately and sometimes there’s been a 5 minute delay. It might be a problem on Valve’s end?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ics Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 10:16 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 Halloween gift drop system buggy? Definitely not 5min delay as i've seen and heard people saying they got a gift and immediately as it was collected, another said the same thing. Sometimes the system is buggy and no one will not get any gifts. I had to restart one of my servers yesterday and it fixed the case. -ics ----- Alkuperäinen viesti ----- > The gift is given to a random person in the server with what seems to > be a 5 minute delay, and they dont start dropping until you are 10 > people in the server - that also means that in a 24-man server your > chance of getting a gift is 1/24, while in a 10-man server the chance > is 1/10. > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:41 PM, ics <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gift drops are personal, no longer others can collect any of your > > gifts in any of the maps, not even in the old ones manor and viaduct > > event maps. > > > > As for gift drops, i personally have gotten 2 in a 5min period, 3 in a > > row in 10 minute period and then like 4-5 hours without any gift > > drops. The other players were getting those but there seems to be > > awful delay and it's quite random if you get one or don't. It seems > > that going to visit mann co store and exiting will renew the > > connection to Steam somehow that might help getting gifts more sooner > > but it doesn't seem to always work. > > > > The gift will stay in a map as long as you get 3 notes about it. With > > 4th, it says "mysteriously disappeared". It doesn't stay forever and i > > already had a case where i could not find the gift from anywhere. > > > > -ics > > > > 29.10.2012 19:03, Anime Siege kirjoitti: > > > > This is what I know. Others can correct me if I am wrong. The Halloween > > drops/gifts are in the form of presents on the Lakeside Event map. The > > announcement box will state when a gift has appeared. It will be your > > job to find and collect it. > > > > On Oct 29, 2012 9:39 AM, "Andreas Grimm" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > > > could anyone tell me how that current gift drop system works? > > > > > > > > > > > > A lot of my players complain, that they don't get any gifts. > > > > > > But for a few people it seems to work - I see at least the chat > > > message, that they found something. > > > > > > > > > > > > I tested that for myself and I get only 3-4 gift drop announcements > > > with two computers over nearly the whole weekend. > > > > > > Is that really a designed feature? > > > > > > > > > > > > Am I the only one who got problems with the git drops? > > > > > > > > > > > > - Andreas > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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
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