I went back and reread some of these emails including the one from Lucas which I've included an excerpt of. I can't help but feel that you're talking about the Day Care 2fort community server cause I ran into that very same issue just a few days ago. These are the kinds of server that lowered the quality of the quickplay pool back when it was community oriented, These are the kinds of servers I would never want back in quickplay.
If they (Valve) ever does decide to make a quickplay system for community servers in the future I would sincerly hope they disallow servers from participating that are running sourcemod plugins that have NOT been whitelisted, if such a thing is even possible. ________ Lucas Wagner via <https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1311182?hl=en> list.valvesoftware.com 3:25 PM (3 hours ago) to Half-Life >>my friends and I know of a few servers in which mods are abusing critical chance plugins, and SM plugins in general On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Lucas Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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