You guys complained that servers broke quickplay rules. Valve put measures in place to prevent this from affecting a client's experience and then you complain that you don't get any traffic because Valve takes it all. You guys didn't care about the fact that servers were breaking the rules. You cared that the servers breaking the rules were taking your traffic. I'm not saying that the fact that Valve servers take so much traffic is a good thing. There are much better places those servers could go to use. The TF2 Vanilla experience is great, but the community experience can be as well. I agree there should be a better balance, but until you can propose a solution that makes every party involved happy, it probably wont happen. I hate to say it, but the player is more important than the host. If you can't provide an experience that is different enough to a Valve server that people wont seek you out, then you're not providing a different enough experience. The fact of the matter is, most community servers don't offer enough to the gameplay of TF2 to seek out. Those that do are probably breaking the quickplay rules anyways. Want to build a community? Build one. Don't complain that you aren't getting quickplay traffic. If your servers are worth playing on over other servers, advertise them a bit and build a community.
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Cats From Above <[email protected]> wrote: > Right now, various Valve games have protections in them that prevent > addons being loaded under set conditions. I am sure Valve would be more > than capable of distributing a similar mechanic within SRCDS. It is a > matter of will power. > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Asher Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Cats From Above < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> What would you need to do to be eligible for the Vanilla pool? Simple, >>> don't have *any* addons loaded on your server. This can be easily enforced >>> on a technical level. The ability to late load source addons would also be >>> removed under this scheme. >> >> >> This is a non-starter, there is no way to prevent server-side >> modifications from being made. >> >> >> ~~~~~ >> "Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, >> And they went to sea in a Sieve." - Edward Lear >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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