I think the thing that worries me the most is that, at least with Valve servers, there is a nice assortment of different maps, etc. I can find a game on most maps with little or no effort. Communities largely serve the interests of the server owners and operators. I know right before QP died that it was very difficult to find anything but 24/7 servers focused on a small handful of maps, mostly 2Fort, Dustbowl, Turbine, Harvest, etc. If you wanted to play something like Frontier, for example, it wasn't easy to find a community server offering that.
Perhaps Valve can provide some bonus referrals to servers hosting maps that are not being played currently, and an interface for server operators to queue what the community needs (Hey it'd be really great if you host upward next) and set the next map to it within 2-3 minutes of a map ending. Or it can just give more referrals to maps that aren't very well supported, thus giving some incentive for operators to branch out. I'm all for community servers provided the plugin set is clean (I don't need to download all of your special files just to play a map), is unobtrusive or interferes with my gaming experience (i hate plugins that make me acknowledge the open menu before I can do anything), are fair (my friends and I know of a few servers in which mods are abusing critical chance plugins, and SM plugins in general), and perform well. Running custom plugins is great and all, but it was definitely out of hand. I've come to appreciate the vanilla playstyle on Valve pubs and quite frankly, I will miss them if the community cannot provide a reasonable replacement for that system. I played on some last night and some were fun, some had god awful performance, and some were unnecessarily encumbered with plugins. Quite frankly, I wouldn't mind requiring sv_pure 1 or sv_pure 2 even for QP servers receiving referrals. On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Robert Paulson <[email protected]> wrote: > People said the same thing about quickpick at the time and we all know how > that turned out. Everyone was claiming higher player counts at first and > now they are dead. > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 11:52 AM, E. Olsen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Frankly, it's a win just by shining light on the fact that there ARE >> community servers at all. For years now, they've been effectively hidden to >> the point that a large portion of the F2P playerbase didn't even know they >> existed. At least with this UI change we've got the chance for players to >> find us. >> >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Lucas Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I would imagine a big reason why things were so great last night was >>> people just wanted to play TF2 and the only servers they could connect to >>> were community servers. Not trying to rain on the parade, bu I think Robert >>> is right. It'll be a few weeks before we have any clue how this will all >>> play out. >>> >>> Lucas >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Robert Paulson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I am not sure why everyone is celebrating so early. >>>> >>>> Population is only high likely because of a new patch, summer time, and >>>> reportedly many Valve servers being temporarily down. >>>> >>>> Maybe casual mode is bringing in more players, but it is just as likely >>>> that matchmaking is yet another drain players that community servers will >>>> never be allowed to participate in, while some of you are excited about >>>> fighting for scraps from other community servers. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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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