I don't think your servers will be delisted for having real players sitting in spec.
On 22 May 2013 03:51, Chad Cummings <[email protected]> wrote: > It was brought to my attention by one of our community members the > following post from back in March: > > "SkepticalGaming has been using idles to gain quickplay score and > thus...players. Not just any idles. Idles using idle scripts. We have seen > the players who joined the server at the same time and we have a full list > of IP and Steam ID. All the "players" that were used to pouplate only had > one game and were not premium accounts. We also have many screen shots of > such fake clients." > > First I will say that I am not affiliated with or associated with > Skeptical Gaming in any way. But this does concern me, because our > community does something similar and I do not want us targeted for similar > behavior. During the day we have some of our what we call "seeders" hop on > our servers and idle in spectator for the day, since they're off to work or > school, this helps give us a boost in the QP pool when our other community > members who can actively play join the server. > > First I'll clarify that: > > We are not modifying any data streams. > These are normal TF2 accounts of community members. > We're not using some fake clients that pose as bots. > We play on the servers as well, we don't just sit idle specs on them all > day and hope that they fill up. > > As far as I've read, as long as we're not modifying the data streams or > tricking the steam servers, we're in the clear, but this post above still > concerns me. Can and will Valve seriously punish a server for having > spectators? A lot of communities have what they refer to as their > population teams or seeder groups who aim to help get their servers full. I > am wanting some clarifications here. I do not want to wake up and find our > servers delisted. > > TLDR: Can your servers be delisted for having several spectators sit to > help with seeding. > > Thanks for your time, > Chad > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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